Spielberg plans Baywatch movie
Steven Spielberg is behind moves to bring back Baywatch - this time to the big screen.
The director has secured the movie rights to the show from its co-creator Greg Bonann and plans to make the movie in 2006.
Baywatch debuted in 1989 as a weekly series starring David Hasselhoff as the lifeguard who patrolled the beaches of Malibu surrounded by a group of scantily clad lifesavers.
In its 11 years it made sex symbols of stars like Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, Carmen Electra and Gena Lee Nolan.
The show aired in more than 140 countries and even spawned a spinoff, Baywatch Nights. In 2001 it was cancelled when viewing figures in the US fell to just 1.9 million a week.
