Rebooting Old Shows

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How do people feel about rebooting old shows?

I'm in favour of it if its done well.

The new Charmed show looks awful.

The reimagining of battlestar galactica was amazing.

There are plenty of great shows that never got to finish off their story, I would love a Dark Angel remake.

Netflix's Lost In Space is junk. Visually, it's beautiful, but story-wise it's ridiculous. And no one's fooled by the forced political correctness of the show. And Dr. Smith has the personality of a mushroom.

I like the reboots of SWAT and Hawaii Five-O along with looking forward to the pilot episode of the reboot of Magnum PI.

I never watched any of them except for the Nickelodeon reboot of Land Of The Lost. I didn't even know it was a reboot at the time. There may be one exception thou it depends if Star Trek The Next Generation & the other Star Trek series made since count as reboots.

I don't know if this is true or not, but it's been rumored as of recent that CBS has plans to reboot Bewitched.

As for other old shows my family and I like, it would be interesting to see Good Times or Hogan's Heroes get a reboot as long as they're done right.

Hollywood has no creative talent; thus they resort to rebooting old stories.

I wish there was something new to watch ... something that did not have plot that can be figured out before the opening credits stop rolling. When I can sit there and announce which character is going to die and who the murderer is before the crime has even been committed, that is a clear indication that the plot is simply a remake of an old story.

Deja Moo: The sudden realization that you've seen all of this bull before.

There's reimagining a show, and then there's stretching its hollowed out corpse over a robotic moneymaking framework.

You mean that rolling-disaster style that everyone is doing, except this show excessively so?



Something new:

The last surviving Neanderthals from a fairly advanced offshoot sequester themselves and develop time travel. They go forward and the machine breaks down (due to a loose screw) in the 50's. They have to adapt quickly and survive amidst brainless humans, lest they be discovered and experimented upon. They become network executives that create really bad TV to depress people with brains and keep the population from becoming smart enough to detect them. A ragtag group of humans uses book-reading to fight back against the tyrannical takeover as everything moves to video.

I call it "Fahrenheit 10,000 BC"

It's not that hard. Send me to Hollywood


Or like, reboot Little House on the Prairie, it might get me to watch an episode.

I don’t want them to remake Bewitched. I read that Hollywood want to reboot All In The Family, The Jeffersons, Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Coach. They already made Murray Brown.

I think Hollywood no longer wants to come up with original ideas. This said I might want to watch a reboot of FireFly.

Actually, the new Murphy Brown is not a reboot, but a sequel to the original show.

As for the others, how would they even work given the current political and social atmospheres?

The Red Dwarf reboot was fairly good. Futurama, when it returned, was fairly good. The films were especially good.

Hollywood is in the business of making money. Movies help them do that.
If I want to "appreciate the art of storytelling", I'm looking in the wrong place. Yes, there may be a few gems buried in the mass produced rubbish, but independent media makers is where "new" stuff happens.

Rebooting is good if done right.

But there does come a point when one would like to see something OTHER than the teen witch-vampire-super hero-dark occult loop they have been caught in. They market all this to youth because the rest of have already seen it done 10 different ways.

But as I said, it's a business. Star Wars sells LOTS of toys. LOTS!

art? yeah, ok whatever, if it boosts sales.

Unfortunately, theBewitched reboot will still happen through NBC or Netflix.

As for other shows that could have interesting reboots (as long as they are done right), IMO,
Hogan's Heroes and Good Times.

IMO, the way a Good Times reboot could work is to not have it be a reboot, but a sequel to the original series with JJ, Thelma, and Michael of course being different people than what they were like in the original series in terms of adapting to how the world has changed since the end of the original show.

As for a Hogan's Heroes reboot, obviously set it during Vietnam or the Gulf War and have a descendant of the Col. Hogan character pick up where Col. Hogan left off.

IMO, I think Hollywood should just give up doing a Hogan's Heroes movie set during World War II.

LOL!! !! !

Let's reboot M.A.S.H. as well.

Then, IMO, there would be no point. Anything else would be such a loose stretch and only share the name "Hogan".