TV Squad

• Could The Muppet Show really return to TV?
  

  Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free

  Are Kermit, Fozzie and Miss Piggy poised for a comeback? Jason wrote about it in June, and now there's more news if you believe this item from the UK Telegraph. Citing an unnamed source, the newspaper reported that How I Met Your Mother's star Jason Segel has written a script that brings Jim Henson's Muppets to the big screen, setting up a return to television. It sounds like a great idea, but without confirmed sources, I'd take the whole thing with a grain of salt.
  
  Disney owns the rights to the Muppets and they would...
  



• The Office to be made into a movie...but not the version you think
  

  Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, The Office, Reality-Free

  You read it correctly. The Office is headed to the big screen. Except that it's not the American version. Nor is it the original British version. The German version, called Stromberg, is getting the movie treatment.
  
  It will be an interesting experiment. If it is successful, I wonder if we'll see other franchises of The Office hit the big screen? Gervais and Merchant wrapped up the storylines of the British version quite nicely in the final special, so I don't see that version hitting the theaters (but since no story ever truly ends, I could be proven...
  



• Doctor Who to be a movie?
  

  Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Doctor Who, Reality-Free

  Steven Moffat, the upcoming showrunner for the hit Brit sci-fi television series, has hinted at a big-screen version of Doctor Who. Upon review of the article, I can only conclude that someone took an offhand statement made by Mr. Moffat and ran with it. Perhaps they're just mentioning it to gauge fan interest in such a project.
  
  Rumors will fly, of course. Doctor Who movies have been attempted since the days of Tom Baker as the lead role. Two out-of-continuity movies were made in the 1960s (based on William Hartnell episodes of the program) in which the...
  



• Coming to the big screen: Magnum, Wonder Woman ... and V?
  

  Filed under: Programming, TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free

  We all know that studios go ga-ga for big screen movies based on TV shows. Even if they tank, there seems to be an unending appetite to bring a beloved (or even semi-beloved) TV show to a theater near you: The Fugitive, Charlie's Angels, Transformers, The Beverly Hillbillies, Serenity (Firefly), The Simpsons, South Park, The Flintstones, The Jetsons...the list is endless. Now Den of Geek has a list of 23 shows that studios are planning to bring to...
  



• Marvin The Martian coming to a theater near you
  

  Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Animation, Reality-Free

  Why do I think this is going to be really bad?
  
  Warner Brothers has decided to make a big screen feature based on the Martin The Martin character, the little black and green guy who wanted to destroy Earth and/or Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in several cartoons. Now, a feature film based on the character wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but here's the sentence that sends a shiver down my spine:
  
  Project will blend live action and CGI.*
  
  Ugh. They can't just do a straight animated movie, they have to have some sort...
  



• Why I'm nervous about the new X-Files movie
  

  Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Retro Squad, The X-Files, Reality-Free

  Oh, I'll be there, probably on opening weekend, but something about the new X-Files flick makes me nervous as hell.

  Maybe it's the fact that it has been ten years since the last movie, and I wonder if people are still interested in it enough to make it a hit (and push another movie into production). I also worry about the plot, since nothing much has been leaked about what the film is about, other than it involves snow, mysterious happenings, and Billy Connolly bleeding from the eyes.

  No, the...
  




• Some new teaser posters for the Star Trek movie
  

  Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series

  Since it's Star Trek Week here at TV Squad (the original series, that is), I thought I'd post the first official teaser poster ads for the movie that show what Chris Pine and Zachery Quinto look like as James. T. Kirk and Spock.

  Now, it's wrong to judge a book by its cover, or in this case a movie from a teaser poster. But if we can judge the movie on the casting of one of the major parts and/or the makeup used on that actor, then this movie looks awesome. Quinto (Sylar...
  




• Straczynski: It's a Babylon 5 feature film or nothing
  

  Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Reality-Free

  I've never interviewed Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski and don't know him personally, but he sure seems like one classy guy. He recently posted a note on his web site, giving readers his thoughts on more Babylon 5 DVDs.
  
  In short, he's against it. He feels that offerings like the TV movie, Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, and the straight-to-DVD story, Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, take away from the strength of the original TV series....
  



• Universal to adapt Second Sight
  

  Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Reality-Free

  Yet another BBC series is being adapted to American audiences. Only this time, it sounds like it's going to be a movie.
  
  Universal Pictures will be adapting the 1999 BBC series Second Sightwhich launched the career of Clive Owen. It will be produced by Angry Film's Don Murphy and Susan Montford. The story is about a homicide detective named Ross Tanner who suffers from a degenerative eye illness that leads to blindness and hallucinations. As a result, he must rely more on his intuition to solve crimes.
  
  There have certainly been any number of American adaptations of...
  



• Batman TV show writer opines on the movies
  

  Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free

  Lorenzo Semple Jr., the pilot writer of the Batman television show of the 1960's (and writer of such movies as Three Days of the Condor), has written an article for Variety sharing his opinion of the Batman movie franchise. In it, he discusses the origins of the Batman TV show.
  
  Semple has a very enjoyable, erudite writing style. Here's an example: "...I am often asked what I think of the string of Batman features which has followed. My answer disappoints. Truth is, I think only rarely about Warner's big-screen charades, for they are related...