There have been a lot of TV shows based on movies. Some go into development soon after the movie becomes a success. Some, like Eastwick, come out nearly 20 years later. But in the case of 2012, the upcoming John Cusack disaster movie, work has already begun on a follow-up TV series called 2013 -- and the film's not even out yet! Wanting to get on the bandwagon early, we looked at the upcoming slate and found ten movies that would make for entertaining TV series. Feel free to take these ideas and run with them, Hollywood!

We had fun last Halloween spotlighting the scariest people on TV, but it's a whole new season, and there's a whole new crop of people who send chills up our spine. So in our new annual tradition, we've found the scariest people on television this fall. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Since baseball will soon be handing out their coveted MVP awards, we thought it was an appropriate time in the fall season to hand out our own accolades to the players (read: performers) on teams (read: shows) who often don't get enough recognition. They are not only team players, but they are usually the best part of their given series -- and in some cases the only reason to bother tuning in at all.

While TV is supposed to be escapism, some shows completely escape reality on a regular basis. We expect craziness on Heroes, Fringe and Lost since they're fantasy shows, but with series that pretend to take place in our world, we hope for a modicum of plausibility -- if only for the sake of internal logic. It's not that we don't like most of these shows, but it is hard to buy into some of the plots that they've been selling lately.

Some days, it seems like they're running out of ideas for reality shows, since there are multiple fashion, cooking and weight-loss competitions clogging the airwaves. But Survivor and Apprentice creator Mark Burnett just opened up a whole new can of reality show idea-beans with the news that he's developing a reality series based on the 1970s TV show Fantasy Island. This sort of re-jiggering has been tried once before, with the Survivor clone The Real Gilligan's Island, but it certainly seems like old, familiar TV shows are about to become the new hunting grounds for new, familiar and above all cheap reality programming. Here are some classic '60s and '70s TV shows we think would make great '10s reality.

We're not sure that the world really needs a spinoff to Criminal Minds, but then again, we didn't think sub-divisions of Law & Order were necessary and SVU and Criminal Intent proved us wrong by being far more enjoyable than their mothership. And while spinoffs may not always grab us right off the bat (like NCIS: Los Angeles), sometimes a new series just needs a little time before it starts improving upon its predecessor. Case in point: The City returned this week with new characters and a compelling new focus that made it far more watchable than the now totally contrived LC-less The Hills. But these aren't the only shows that have been better than their originals. Here's our look back at the best spinoffs from the past two decades:

As expected, Heather Locklear has agreed to appear on the new version of Melrose Place as bitch queen Amanda Woodward. And while she's the best thing that could happen to that mediocre, at best, rehash of a series, this "show saver" could do so much better. We've got some ideas on shows she could improve just by being in their general vicinity.

Fall is usually a time of excitement for TV junkies like us, with so many new shows, returning favorites resolving last season's cliffhangers and the promise of a fresh start for stale plotlines. However, this year we're dreading some potential developments, which has put a damper on our enthusiasm. Some of these may not happen, while some are already in the works, but all of them make us more than a little bit wary.

With the CW's new pseudo fashion industry exposé series The Beautiful Life: TBL premiering in just a few short days, it got us thinking about our favorite fictional models in TV history, particularly those of the bitchy variety. I think we can all agree that they are the best kind. Here are the all-time prize winners.

Katherine Heigl (who still thinks she can be a big movie star after The Ugly Truth) is taking a five-episode break from Grey's Anatomy in order to film the new Greg Berlanti movie Life As We Know It. Five episodes without any Izzie drama? That's like a dream come true. We'd love it if some of these supporting characters from other shows would also just give it a rest for five, ten or 15 episodes. Maybe when they return we'll realize how much we've missed them... or not.