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The best (and worst) TV shows based on movies: Just before the debut of ''Blade,'' we look back at why ''Buffy'' worked and ''Uncle Buck'' didn't
By Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW
| Jun 23, 2006
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Uncle Buck: CBS Photo Archive

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Uncle Buck (1990)

Kevin Meaney was the sour John Candy substitute. (From EW's original review: ''John Candy in the movie was allowed to be a bit more dissolute than Kevin Meaney is in the TV show [Candy was free to curse and drink]. Meaney's version of the character is softer; while he can still be witheringly sarcastic, he's basically a nice guy.'')

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