TV shows that generate a movie have always been very popular and usually do pretty well, for instance, Sex & The City, X Files and so on, but which shows would you like to see on the big screen?

The possibility of a Friends film keeps cropping up as a rumour but is then quickly denied. I think it would be a huge box office hit and speaking as someone who never, but never, goes to a cinema, I would go and queue up and sit in sticky seats trying to see around someone with a huge head for a Friends film. I may well do for a Frasier film too and I’d actually set up camp outside a cinema for a front row seat to see a Lost film.

There have already been lots of UK comedy series that have parlayed well into films of course, such as the Monty Python films which were made following the success of the TV shows as well as On The Buses films and more recently, Mr Bean went effortlessly from small screen to big screen. But which of our home-grown dramas would make good films?

A recent Radio Times survey suggested that loads of people would love to see Doctor Who and Red Dwarf on the big screen. I reckon though that a big screen Eastenders could do pretty well. For instance, if the plot of the film was some big gangster thing using Walford as a base and incorporating the Square’s residents in a big siege or something… it could work.

I can’t quite see the same being true of Corrie though; the big screen tends to call for more dramatic action than Blanche haggling over the price of a bun or Roy debating the relative merits of steam trains.

However, I think there’s great potential for resurrecting long gone shows – drama and comedy – in the medium of film, such as Men Behaving Badly or Peak Practice. Prime Suspect and similar dramas would probably do well and actually, there’s a film remake of The Sweeney due for release next year with the gorgeous Ray Winstone in a starring role.

Likewise, Hustle, the BBC’s hit con artist drama is heading to America courtesy of the Fox network. The big screen version has director Deon Taylor at the helm and should be filming this year.

I’d also like to see Upstairs Downstairs as a film and Spooks could well be a good film.

So what TV shows would you like to see remade into films and why?