{"id":1570,"date":"2007-07-09T08:07:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T08:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/09\/remake-poll-1-tv-to-film\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T08:07:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T08:07:22","slug":"remake-poll-1-tv-to-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/09\/remake-poll-1-tv-to-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Remake Poll 1: TV to Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete Vonder Haar at Blog 9 from Outer Space is not enthusiastic about a Sex and the City<\/cite> movie<\/a>. Neither am I, really, and this wouldn’t rate a post except for a passing mention:<\/p>\n

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At any rate, I’m sure a movie about a quartet of promiscuous 40- and 50-somethings will be much better than that Magnum P.I.<\/cite> adaptation Hollywood seems unable to make.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That made me stop for a second. I’m aware that Hollywood is utterly unable to come up with any good original ideas these days, but so far, they’ve mostly remade tv shows that I either had never seen, or didn’t much like when they were on (I hated<\/strong> The Dukes of Hazzard<\/cite> when I was a kid, which made me tremendously popular in the fifth grade…). I was unaware of any attempt to make a Magnum, P.I. <\/cite><\/a> movie, which would be the first time they picked up a show from my childhood that I actually liked.<\/p>\n

I’m still not wild about the idea, mind, but it’s an interesting question to throw out there for a fuzzy-headed Monday morning:<\/p>\n

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If someone came to you and asked you to pick a tv show from your childhood to make into a movie, what show would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For bonus points, suggest somebody to star in it.<\/p>\n

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(Nathan, we’ll just mark your vote for Airwolf<\/cite> down. Actually, that’s not a terrible idea…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pete Vonder Haar at Blog 9 from Outer Space is not enthusiastic about a Sex and the City movie. Neither am I, really, and this wouldn’t rate a post except for a passing mention: At any rate, I’m sure a movie about a quartet of promiscuous 40- and 50-somethings will be much better than that… Continue reading Remake Poll 1: TV to Film<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-pop_culture","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}