“You need to stop thinking of yourself as a gunfighter and decide that you’re a man with a family,” Amelia Lawson (Sigrid Thornton)tells her sometimes boyfriend Ethan Cord (Lee Horsley)in an episode of Paradise (a.k.a. Guns of Paradise).
Movies have been adapted for TV for as long as the medium has existed. But, for every enduring success, there are hundreds of short-lived failures. M*A*S*H may be a timeless classic, but when was the last time you watched the TV version of Casablanca? Dirty Dancing? Ferris Bueller? Did you even know they existed?
The temperature may be cooling down, but getTV is heating up with Hot In Cleveland every weeknight at 6p ET. The Emmy-nominated sitcom is still new to our schedule, but viewers have told us it’s already one of their favorites. And you can see why as getTV presents a seven-hour Hot In Cleveland marathon on Saturday, October 12 starting at 1p ET!
“There are so many amazing guest stars!” Valerie Bertinelli told the getTV blogwhen we asked her about memorable moments from Hot In Cleveland — now on getTV every weeknight.
Burt Reynolds was an iconic movie star for decades, but he spent most of the 1960s as a TV actor. Three seasons on Gunsmoke were bookended by lead roles on the short-lived Riverboat and Hawk, with tons of guest spots sprinkled in between. By 1970, after a handful of Spaghetti Westerns and low-budget action films sputtered, Reynolds was at a career crossroads.
