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The Librarian cover Warehouse 13 cover Burn Notice cover The Librarians cover

Whenever I’m away from home on contract for months on end, I seem to get lucky and during at least one of my weekends off, TNT will run the original trilogy for “The Librarian.” No, this trilogy hasn’t yet made it into the soon to be overflowing China hutch housing my DVD collection. At some point it probably will. The 2006 episode sub-titled “Return to King Solomon’s Mines” featured Gabrielle Anwar. Don’t worry if you do not recognize the name. You most likely know her as Fiona Glenanne from “Blowing Sh*t Up in Miami” or it’s official title “Burn Notice.”

Why not a series?

For years after this first came out I wondered why it hadn’t been turned into a series. Thankfully, back then the Syfy Channel had coherent management. They ripped it off and did it up right, riding a massive steampunk subculture wave. The series they came up with was, of course, the much loved “Warehouse 13.” Teaching history, myth and legend while standing it on it’s head and spinning it sideways, “Warehouse 13” took both the cheesy and the cool factors to 11.

I watched the first couple of seasons of “The Librarians” without a lot of enthusiasm. It had little to do with the scripts or the acting. Like most “Warehouse 13” fans, I watched it because it was the closest you could get to “Warehouse 13” without watching DVDs. Honestly, since I gave up on DirectTV, I don’t even know if “The Librarians” are on anymore.

What I do know is if upper management at TNT had gotten off their lead filled back sides and spun out this series immediately after filming finished on the third movie in the trilogy it would have had a lot bigger fan base. Hopefully Syfy would have still spun out “Warehouse 13” when it did as well because we could have had some really awesome television.

I highly recommend you put all of the above in your rental queue and binge baby binge.

For more movie rental ideas please see list one and list two.