No Thanks Required: 20 Worst Film and TV Turkeys of the Year

By Thanksgiving weekend, we've had our fill of turkey. But why not get a festive jump on end-of-the-year "Worst of" lists with a dash of holiday vitriol? Slamming the bottom 20 genre turkeys of 2008, we use the numbering system pioneered by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

20. Doctor Who, season 4: Russell T. Davies will be remembered as the man who not only brought the doctor out of retirement, he'll be the man who made the show more popular than ever. But season 4, with its lame stunt titling ("The Doctor's Daughter") and yet another return of the retread Dalek, proved it was a good idea for Davies to move on and hand the show over to a superior sci-fi writer: Steven Moffat.

19. Movie remakes: One after another. Halloween? Sleuth? Really? Don't re-make good movies. Sure, it saves studios money on development costs and intellectual property acquisitions, but when there's nowhere to go but down, that's usually where these flicks go.

18. Heroes: When even die-hard fans say a TV show is struggling, you know your superheroes have super problems. But even if it runs out of ideas, a series needs to do whatever it can to reach that 100-episode mark so it make a little scratch off syndication.

17. The Fox/Warner Bros. Watchmen legal war: It's a long way from over.  Even though fans promise to punish Twentieth Century Fox, we may not see this eagerly awaited graphic novel adaptation until the judges rule.

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