The highly successful ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ film franchise is coming to the tube.
“The idea is that we focus on a much younger Jack Sparrow and show fans how he became a famous pirate,” says an exec.
“The film has been such a success with spin-offs such as toys and video games and books it seems only right to do a TV show.”
The series will feature Jack as a teenage stowaway who day-dreams of becoming
The only tv spinoff of a movie I can think of that did well was "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." I think it was the exception, because I remember they tried to spinoff "Clueless" and and it sucked hard.