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THE BEST AND WORST TV SHOWS MADE INTO MOVIES

By | December 2002

BEST OF 2002! FROM THE MOUTH OF THE OFFICIAL TV GEEK! Sometime back in the 80s, it seems that Hollywood ran out of original ideas for movies. Since television had been borrowing ideas from movies and making successful TV series out of them for years, the movie studios decided what was good for the tube was good for the moviehouse…

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