The #2 opening for Bewitched may not seem impressive. But when you consider the elaborately complicated plot -- TV producers are remaking the real-life classic sitcom Bewitched, about a witch who marries a mortal, but they unwittingly cast a real witch, who falls in love with the man who plays her husband -- it's amazing that so many ticket-buyers were willing to commit to the film and its complex premise.

In fact, the relative success of Bewitched has encouraged other producers of films based on sitcoms to get a little more ambitious with the framing devices for their remakes. With that in mind, Fametracker presents a sampling of the high-concept TV-to-movie projects currently in the development pipeline:

Who's The Boss?; Release date: July 2006

High-powered ad executive Angela Bower (Diane Lane) has an adorable son (Freddie Highmore), an overbearing mother (Debbie Reynolds), a household to run, and no time to do it herself! Or does she? In fact, Angela is a relentless Type-A perfectionist who wakes up every morning at 3:30 to clean the house from stem to stern and prepare a day's worth of healthy, delicious meals before heading into Manhattan to work. But! She has an ad campaign to direct, for Lysol, and has determined that what will really sell it is if she can give the brand its own Betty Crocker -- or rather, its own Teddy Crocker! Therefore, she has to undo all her carefully perfect housekeeping in order to make it believable when she starts interviewing (male!) housekeeper candidates...with an eye on cultivating the one she hires to be the face of Lysol's ad campaign. Enter Tony Micelli (Matt LeBlanc): former boxer, single father to adolescent Samantha (Hayden Panettiere), and photogenic would-be Lysol endorser. Angela knows she can't rush Tony's transformation from mook to model; she has to butter him up first, while still maintaining her authority as head of the household. Only a funny thing happens on the way to the studio: they actually fall in love! But will it all fall apart when Tony discovers his employment was a ruse all along?!

The White Stripees; Release date: September 2006

In the spirit of the hit '60s sitcom The Monkees comes The White Stripees, a comically fictionalized look at the private lives of Jack and Meg White. Onstage, they're all business, rocking out to audiences of thousands of screaming fans every night. But offstage, it's a different story: Jack and Meg go home to their pop art pad, bicker amiably over who forgot to pay the phone bill, and are constantly beset by strange visitors ringing their doorbells and getting drawn into wacky adventures with them. That girl who needs to use the phone to call AAA isn't just a cute betty who immediately gives Jack the eye -- she's an exiled Russian princess (Ivana Milicevic) on the run from very incompetent kidnappers! That door-to-door salesman who tries to sell Meg a vacuum cleaner is actually a con man (Sam Rockwell) trying to bilk her out of $300 -- her whole month's share of the rent! But that's not all: madcap slapstick chaos is on the menu when The White Stripees get challenged to a battle of the bands by their arch-enemies, The Strokees!

Bosom Buddies; Release date: February 2006

Kip (Adam Brody) and Henry (Ryan Gosling) have a big problem: when you have no references and next to no money, it's nigh impossible to rent an apartment in Manhattan! Fortunately, Kip remembers that his older sister Beth (Gwyneth Paltrow) cut costs when she was first starting out on her job by living at a residence for women: if Kip and Henry were women, they could live there too! But they're not, so what is there to do but file a lawsuit against the residence on the grounds that its no-men policy is discriminatory. A renowned conservative law firm is happy to take the guys' case, but assigns it to junior partner Elizabeth (Amy Adams), a staunch liberal who is disgusted by Kip and Henry's anti-feminist opportunism. However, the longer she works with Henry, the more he melts her lefty objections, and she resolves to give the case her all. Meanwhile, Kip's response to the whole situation is to take a hard look at himself and realize that when he suggested he and Henry live at the residence in the first place, it was because his soul was crying out to be admitted into the sisterhood of women, and he resolves to undergo gender reassignment surgery.

Full House; Release date: May 2006

Danny Tanner (Bob Saget), well into his well-earned comfortable middle age, gets the shock of his life when a bedraggled, emaciated homeless girl shows up on his doorstep. She's the spitting image of his beloved youngest daughter Michelle (Ashley Olsen), but it's not -- it's Michelle's twin sister Mia (Mary-Kate Olsen), who in all the confusion of labour was delivered without the knowledge of either Danny or his late wife, and was scooped up by a psychotic OB nurse (Harriet Sansom Harris). Discovering the truth of her paternity upon her foster mother's dying breath, Mia has hitchhiked to San Francisco from Vermont to be reunited with her real family. There's only one problem: she has an extremely severe eating disorder, but she won't admit it, and refuses to accept help from anyone in the family -- not even aunt Becky (Lori Loughlin), who had suffered with anorexia and bulimia herself. The entire extended Tanner family bands together to have an emotional -- but still hilarious! -- intervention to preserve Mia's help, but just as she's finally admitting that she has a problem, she suffers a heart attack and dies in her family's arms. This crisis reminds the Tanners of how very precious life is, and what a Very Special gift it was for them to have Mia in their lives, if only for a moment.

The Real Facts of Life; Release date: November 2005

Currently being fast-tracked for a winter release, The Real Facts of Life is the second "reality movie" (after The Real Cancun) for famed TV hitmakers Bunim/Murray Productions. Starting from the same basic premise as the beloved sitcom -- four disparate students of an elite private girls' school engage in illicit activity, get put on permanent academic probation, and are forced to work at a campus job -- only this time, it's all real! The film's producers have already identified a clique of four discipline cases -- confused bisexual Gina, likely class salutatorian Viv, blue-collar scholarship student Jennifer, and spoiled pineapple heiress Lelaina -- but of course in the rough '00s, it takes more than merely sneaking out of the dorm and breaking curfew to ruffle any feathers at a private school: these girls get caught running a live "naughty schoolgirls" site out of their dorm room, many of which scenes are captured by our camera crew! And instead of putting them to work in the drudgery of a cafeteria, the producers have negotiated with the school's administration to make the girls peer counselors, and to waive any privilege so that we can be privy to the salacious secrets harbored by private-school girls. And in their off hours, the girls are still wild -- sending X-rated digital photos from their phones to their boyfriends at a school in the neighbouring town, experimenting with lesbianism, and, of course, shortening their uniform skirts an eighth of an inch each day so as to avoid detection!