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  • Posted at 9:13pm
  • 24 August 2008
  • by HelenHackworthy-RT
  • 19 comments

With Sex and the City and The X-Files recently having enjoyed big-screen outings, we asked you which TV series you think has made the best transition to the cinema, and which other show you'd most like to see follow it.

Over 2,200 of you gave us your opinion during August, voting Star Trek as the greatest TV-to-movie success.

The new series of Doctor Who was the show you said you'd most like to see at a cinema near you - and following the release of our survey results, the show's new executive producer Stephen Moffat said he would not be averse to a big-screen version.

Speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival at the weekend, Moffat said of Doctor Who, "It would be good to see it in the cinema so long as it's great and fantastic, yeah."

Here are the full results of the survey:

Which TV show would you most like to see turned into a movie?

1. Doctor Who (new) (11%)
2. Friends (10%)
2. Red Dwarf (10%)
4. Heroes (9%)
5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (7%)
6. Spooks (6%)
7. 24 (5%)
7. Lost (5%)
7. Torchwood (5%)
7. The Prisoner (5%)
11. Battlestar Galactica (4%)
12. Other (4%)
13. Desperate Housewives (3%)
13. Primeval (3%)
13. Top Gear (3%)
13. Ugly Betty (3%)
17. House (2%)
17. Prison Break (2%)
19. ER (1%)
19. Grey's Anatomy (1%)
19. Scrubs (1%)

Other suggestions included Shameless, a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, The Mighty Boosh, Dempsey and Makepeace and Alan Partridge…

Which TV series do you think has made the most successful transition to the big screen?

1. Star Trek (17%)
2. Mission: Impossible (16%)
3. Sex and the City (13%)
4. The Fugitive (8%)
5. The Simpsons (7%)
6. Transformers (6%)
7. Charlie's Angels (5%)
7. Firefly (Serenity) (5%)
7. The X-Files (5%)
10. Wayne's World (4%)
11. Doctor Who (original series) (3%)
11. South Park (3%)
13. Scooby-Doo (2%)
14. Bewitched (1%)
14. The League of Gentlemen (1%)
14. Starsky and Hutch (1%)
17. The Avengers (<1%)
17. Beavis and Butthead (<1%)
17. The Dukes of Hazzard (<1%)
17. Miami Vice (<1%)
17. Twin Peaks (<1%)
17. Other (<1%)

Other suggestions included Batman, Dad's Army, the Monty Python movies, The Addams Family and the Wallace and Gromit films.

What do you think of the results? Do you agree? Post a comment now.

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  • Posted on 19 September 2009
  • at 9:52pm
  • by Jean

Please bring Geraldine McKewan back as Miss Marple. the other two give me the creeps. I'd hate to live near Joan Hickson (as Miss Marple of course) and Julia McKenzie's Miss Marple is dead pan. Geraldine breathed a life into the old lady. Please bring her back.

  • Posted on 16 September 2009
  • at 4:30pm
  • by RHYS

I love Doctor WhoIts the best.

  • Posted on 23 June 2009
  • at 12:02pm
  • by davros

how cool would it be to watch the best show in the world on the big screen, the doctor who movie

  • Posted on 03 January 2009
  • at 11:28pm
  • by Sparky Essex

I think there should be a Dr Who movie, showing what happened during the time war. Surely they have been saving this for the big screen???

  • Posted on 19 December 2008
  • at 6:01pm
  • by tom

simpsons movie was good

  • Posted on 09 December 2008
  • at 6:27pm
  • by andy

erm, have we forgot merlin peeps, tht would make the best movie! XD

  • Posted on 26 October 2008
  • at 5:06am
  • by Chrissie

I've been waiting many years for the Red Dwarf Movie to happen! Please hurry up & just do it already! Series 9 would be awesome too! Its got to have the original cast though.. otherwise it wouldn't work.

  • Posted on 03 October 2008
  • at 2:51pm
  • by Magsimoo

I think afew of these votes have not been carefully considered,South park and monty python were fantastically transitioned from tv to film. Red Dwarf sadly has waited too long now and it is constant discussion that Rob Grant wants nothing to do with it.Its a shame but unless the brilliant writer(s) that originally created the gems are present, The film will always be missing that certain "something".

  • Posted on 24 September 2008
  • at 2:20am
  • by DavidfromDublin

Red Dwarf Movie all the way! Yes Please

  • Posted on 05 September 2008
  • at 2:38am
  • by willy

red dwarf we been wait too long

  • Posted on 04 September 2008
  • at 7:05pm
  • by Mike Foster

The Firefly TV series in America was superb, with similar cult/happy charm to Doctor Who. The recent-ish movie version (Serenity) was great fun too, showing that a TV series can keep that TV 'feel' without necessarily making the viewer feel short-changed. Fingers crossed for a Doctor Who The Movie.

  • Posted on 04 September 2008
  • at 1:27pm
  • by John

Isn't this proof enough that a Red Dwarf movie would make a mint?

  • Posted on 01 September 2008
  • at 2:28pm
  • by Lilzy

I am DYING to see "Red Dwarf- the movie" they teased me years ago by saying they were looking at making one. COME ON!!! I need a Red Dwarf fix!!! I guess funding is an issue.

  • Posted on 31 August 2008
  • at 12:59pm
  • by michael

i think that doctor who should be made into a movie

  • Posted on 29 August 2008
  • at 8:57am
  • by Fletch

How did Monty Python get less than 1% of the votes for TV to film? Holy Grail and Life of Brian are repeatedly voted as some of the best/funniest films made

  • Posted on 28 August 2008
  • at 12:58pm
  • by DalekClock

For those of you who voted The Mighty Boosh to make the jump to film next, they are currently writing the first draft, although the probably won't finish it until after their next tour.

  • Posted on 28 August 2008
  • at 12:36pm
  • by Gill

I'd love to see 'Top Gear - The Movie'. Who voted for that?!

  • Posted on 26 August 2008
  • at 4:32pm
  • by Ionaclio

I think that Spooks would transfer to the film screen well provided that Rupert Penry Jones would star and not weedy Matthew MacFadyen. I think probably The Fugitive and The Simpsons for me have made the best big screen transition.

  • Posted on 26 August 2008
  • at 3:23pm
  • by towny

I suspect many of those who voted for Mission Impossible did so because they enjoy the movies in their own right, and not because they are familiar with the original series. The big screen version is unrecogniseable to anyone who remembers Jim Phelps as the good guy.

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