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Kristy Swanson originated the role of the teenage vampire slayer with the 1992 debut ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer.
Gellar stepped into the role, starring alongside Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, and Anthony Head.
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Bill Paxton leads the CBS adaptation, starring alongside Justin Cornwell, Katrina Law, and Julie Benz.
The flick, which helped make its leading actors stars, quickly became a rom-com classic.
Parenthood
One of the most successful movie-to-TV adaptations took place thanks to 1989’sParenthood.
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The well-received series ran for five years, earning Golden Globe and Emmy nominations during that time.
The adaptation ran for about one year before it was canceled.
The show made it just one season, seeing cancellation a few months later.
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While the TV adaptation was hardly a success, the story is set to get new life on ABC.
‘Teen Wolf’
Long before Tyler Posey became a teen wolf thanks to MTV, Michael J.
Fox originated the furry role on the big screen.
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Posey stepped into Fox’s footsteps as Scott McCall with the June 2011 debut ofMTV’sTeen Wolf.
The spooky series is in the midst of its sixth and final season.
Charlie Schlatter played the title character for a short time inFerris Bueller, a 1990 TV series from NBC.
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‘Working Girl’
Under direction from Mike Nichols, Melanie Griffith became Tess McGill in 1988’sWorking Girl.
For a short time soon after, another working girl emerged.
Then an unknown young actress, Sandra Bullock signed on to play Tess in a TV adaptation ofWorking Girl.
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The NBC sitcom only aired for a few months, seeing cancellation in 1990 after low ratings.
in the vernacular of valley girls everywhere.
It was little surprise, then, whenCluelessthe TV series debuted on ABC soon after.
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The action flick brought in $161.8 million worldwide, and inspired a subsequent small screen adaptation.
In August 2005, Showtime introducedBarbershop, recruiting Omar Gooding for the role of Calvin.
‘Minority Report’
Tom Cruise found himself in the future for Steven Spielberg’sMinority Reportin 2002.
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The thriller earned an Oscar nomination and made a impressive $358.4 million worldwide.
More than a decade later, the story found its way to the small screen.
Just two years later, in 1982, aFameTV seriesaired its first episode on NBC.
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A few years after the film’s bow,Alicearrived on CBS.
The Oscar-nominated flick famously inspired decades of adaptations and spin-offs, including two major TV shows.
Running for about a decade,The Pink Panther Showwas followed years later byThe Pink Panther.
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The second small screen series debuted in 1993, following the panther in animated form once more.
The adaptation wrapped a few years later, airing its final episode in December 1993.
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