10 TV Shows That Deserve Feature Films
4. Angel
The Premise: Centuries old vampire Angel, cursed with a soul by gypsies, and one-time lover of Buffy, Vampire Slayer extraordinaire, gets his own spin-off show seeing him move to Los Angeles and open a detective agency - pretty much just a front for him to continue fighting the forces of darkness.
Why It Deserves The Feature Film Treatment: Angel never got a proper ending on screen - instead, it ended on a cliffhanger that could have led to something huge. Such a shame.
The even bigger shame is that the show still had a lot of stories to tell. By its fifth season, it had already surpassed, in terms of creativity, the show that gave birth to it, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Browncoats may turn up their nose at this statement, but Angel remains Joss Whedon's best television series. Season five breathed new life into the show by adding the death of Fred and introduction of Illyria, the addition of Spike, and the reintroduction of Harmony - not to mention a final (maybe) farewell from Charisma Carpenter's Cordelia Chase.
There were just so many more stories to tell, but a deal for a sixth season wasn't worked out in time for the key players, many of whom signed on to other projects. It was a terrible move by the then WB, and though there were talks of a televised film for a while, and various Buffy/Angel spin-offs, they never panned out.
Joss, we hear you have some spare time these days - how bout it?