KXLI, not KLXI.
I’ll Fly Away had a TV movie that tied up loose ends.
Same for Homicide: Life on the Street.
Both movies brought back their original casts.
I don’t know, there were quite a few times I wanted to beat him.
I didn’t think Veronica Mars was all that great*, but it was good to see the old gang back together again. (*people liked it enough to give it a 6.8 rating on IMDB)
They dumbed the whole thing down, flandersized the characters, and turned it into Generic Action Movie With Generic Kick-Ass Chick #5783. And they killed Book and Wash.
(Also, I haven’t given my pick for the best TV-to-movie transition because I can’t think of one that I think much of.)
Really? They all seemed significantly darker to me, Mal in particular.
Commercial for the movies: “Did you love The Inbetweeners, but really wish you could see the cast-members members? Well, good news!”
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
I thought that. Then I saw this:
Good point. But a number of other movies mentioned above (like The Muppet Movie and The Simpsons Movie) also premiered while the show was still on.
Leave it to Beaver: The Rise of Larry Mundello.
The Brady Bunch Movie
I was waiting for this! ;).
No votes yet for Rescue from Gilligan’s Island?
I’d forgotten about it, but Still the Beaver was a great movie.
Pitch to the network for a sequel. “I know Rescue was a disappointment but hear me out. What if we throw in the Harlem Globetrotters and maybe some robots? Bob really needs the paycheck.”
Yes! I rewatched Alpha Papa just the other day.
Python’s life of Brian. George Harrison funded a lot of it because he liked the script. Pretty much everyone else did not want to fund it because they said it made fun of Jesus/Christians. .
Life of Brian and The Holy Grail were both very good Python movies, although they did not repeat the sketch show format of the TV series. Note that the TV series sometimes had a single narrative lasting for the whole program, notably in the ‘Cycling Tour of North Cornwall’ episode.
A highly satisfactory movie from the Hammer House of Horror stable was a remake of the 1958 Quatermass and The Pit TV series. This was known as Five Million Years to Earth (1967) in the US.