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21 Jump Street, and How to Turn a TV Show into a Movie

Jump Street is a textbook example of the best way to adapt a TV show for the big screen: by using the source material as a jumping-off point to make an entirely new, and at least somewhat original, movie that works not the way TV shows do but the way movies do.

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HBO's Next (I Hope) Great Drama

I didn’t end up watching a tremendous amount of TV on vacation, owing to (1) staying in a beach house without a DVD player, (2) it being the last week of June / first week of July (no Top Chef Masters? What gives?), (3) only being able to take so many Michael Jackson thanatopses, and [...]