Why are there no TV sitcoms made into films nowadays?
Simon Rodgers
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In the past, there were several TV sitcoms which had films made of them, sometimes a show had more than one film but it is not something you hear much of today. Why is that?
I don't really see many TV sitcoms of today worth making films of but that's just my personal opinion. If people like a show so much why not make a film for their benefit?
With the old decent sitcoms, a film expansion is quite interesting and the atmosphere is totally different but still watchable. What does everyone else think?
I don't really see many TV sitcoms of today worth making films of but that's just my personal opinion. If people like a show so much why not make a film for their benefit?
With the old decent sitcoms, a film expansion is quite interesting and the atmosphere is totally different but still watchable. What does everyone else think?
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Look at the filmography of elvis...
When this sort of thing was the norm, the domestic UK film industry was on its post MGM knees, they were very cheap and bar one or two (Up Pompeii/Porridge) pretty much unwatchable. No one would put up with that standard of presentation now while spending decent money on something designed for the small screen makes no sense really.
With a couple of exceptions (mentioned by other posters), cinema has largely avoided TV sitcom adaptations since the end of the 1970's, but feature-length versions of sitcoms have remained popular, they're just made for TV now rather than the cinema, like 'To Hull and Back' (OFAH) and 'One Foot in the Algarve' which, had it been a decade or so earlier, would surely have been made for the big screen.
'Dad's Army', 'Porridge', the two 'Steptoe' movies, and 'The Likely Lads' were all fairly decent, but they were, in general, the best of a pretty bad bunch. The 'On The Buses' trilogy weren't up to much, despite their popularity (especially the first), and there's little going for any of the countless others that were churned out.
films in the '80s
Sex and the City
League Of Gentlemen
The Inbetweeners
Also, on the way are Arrested Development and Kath and Kim.
That was a sketch of a kind of sitcom situation
that 70s show
the cast is still young I know the last episode left it ending at the 70s but jesus season 8 was so bad IM sure 99% of the fans would not give a crap wish I could erase that season from my mind LOL just set it in a random summer from the late 70s and give a good script.
Never gonna happen though I know LOL