Series that should be rebooted

Speaking of William Katt - Models Inc. It was ahead of its time.

Quantum Leap would be fun to reboot. Don’t let the networks touch it though, give it to something like Netflix.

Scott Bakula should play Al in the reboot.

They just tried that OP and it didn't get picked up.

I said this in the other various tv show threads:

the oblongs

rockstar: (supernova), (inxs)

An Indian-American female as The Greatest American Hero? On a channel whose main audience is deplorables? I can't imagine why it failed.

They've tried twice to remake Greatest American Hero with a female lead, and twice it has failed.

It's because the whole concept is to poke holes in the uber-masculine superhero ideal — here is a guy who's cute but ordinary and is gifted with superhuman powers, but he lost the instruction manual and can't use them properly.

It doesn't work with a woman, because women haven't been portrayed as all-powerful in pop culture, so the irony is lost.

When I was a kid, this was one of the shows my dad liked and we would watch together, just us guys. That, WKRP and MASH.

Fantasy Island, with a morally ambivalent Mr. Rourke allowing guests to engage in their darkest fantasies (within legal limits, of course!). There is a separate section where habitués are kept as they are addicted to fantasy and are going mad, if not already. Rourke's conflicted young apprentice questions the integrity of making profit from madness, but he is stuck on this island and is forced, out of financial necessity, to remain in Rourke's employment.

Hannah Montana

They already did a Fantasy Island reboot

Soap the television series that launched Billy Crystal's career.

It was a very strange television show, even for the 1970's. Especially the part where the devil possessed the newborn baby.

That was pretty fucked up.

Bosom Buddies.

The trannies would be in an uproar!

Rofl.

Who's The Boss? would fit today

R13 is probably in an uproar over "cancel culture" but wanted to cancel the election when Trump lost

You take yourself way too seriously, R15.

Get a life.

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Soap should absolutely be rebooted, but not "reinvented" or "reimagined."

I want to see a rich white family and a poor white family acting like buffoons and enacting outlandish storylines in front of a studio audience.

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The Marsha P. Johnson Comedy Hour

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The Brady Bunch Variety Hour

Isn't FOX rebooting Fantasy Island with Roselyn Sánchez as the lead.

Believe it or not, George isn't at home...

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How about a re-make of Julia.

About a black lady who isn't a judge, a doctor, or a politician.

But rather, just a normal well-adjusted middle class widow trying to make it in the city while raising a young son.

I think that would be an amazing show.

But no "woke" shit, please. Just make her a normal lady, without all the preachiness.

Forget color, and just focus on the character.

Looking, with an all female cast.

Every single one of these reboot suggestions is TERRIBLE.

There's a reason the female lead reboot of Greatest American Hero can't get picked up. And SOAP wouldn't work in 2021. Various reboots of Fantasy Island have already been done.

You're all morons. TERRIBLE.

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[quote]There's a reason the female lead reboot of Greatest American Hero can't get picked up.

I said it SHOULDN'T BE a female — but a male lead would work perfectly now.

[quote]And SOAP wouldn't work in 2021.

And yes, it would - Soap was brilliant because it always focused on the truth about human relationships - parent/child, spouse/spouse, sibling/sibling, dating couples - it wasn't about soap operas as much as it was about crazy shit that happened in a big family. You bitches KNOW there's plenty of material there.

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Soap wasn't about soaps - it was about families.

Arrested Development was as much about soaps as Soap was.

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[quote]A baby getting possessed by the devil? A man getting kidnapped by aliens? An insurrection in South America?

All would work equally well incorporating today's Republican conspiracy theories.

[quote] Soap is an American sitcom television series that originally ran on ABC from September 13, 1977, until April 20, 1981. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format, and featured melodramatic plotlines including alien abduction, demonic possession, extramarital affairs, murder, kidnapping, unknown diseases, amnesia, cults, organised crime warfare, a communist revolution and teacher-student relationships. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME", and in 2010, the Tates and the Campbells ranked at number 17 in TV Guide's list of "TV's Top Families".

[quote] The show was created, written, and executive produced by Susan Harris, and also executive produced by Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas. Each returning season was preceded by a 90-minute retrospective of the previous season. Two of these retrospectives were made available on VHS in 1994, but were not included on any DVD collections.

[quote] The show aired 85 episodes over the course of four seasons. Eight of these (including the final four) aired as one-hour episodes during the original run on ABC. These hour-long episodes were later split in two, yielding 93 half-hour episodes for syndication. Like most sitcoms of the era, Soap was videotaped rather than filmed, but this coincidentally helped further its emulation of the daytime soap opera format, as most such productions were also videotaped. All episodes are available on region 1 DVD in four box sets. There is a box set of season 1 on region 2 DVD. The series has rerun in syndication on local channels as well as on cable.

[quote] The show starred Katherine Helmond and Cathryn Damon as sisters/matriarchs of their own families. The cast also included three former soap opera actors. Robert Mandan (Chester Tate) had previously appeared on Search for Tomorrow as a leading man for Mary Stuart, and Donnelly Rhodes (Dutch Leitner) had played the first husband of Katherine Chancellor on The Young and the Restless. Arthur Peterson Jr. ("The Major") played Rev. John Ruthledge in the radio version of Guiding Light.

It sounds very complicated.

Today's audiences wouldn't get it.

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I wonder if anyone could successfully reboot a classic like Gilligan's Island?

That would be fun.

What would the cast look like in 2021?

Has a single reboot been successful?

[quote] Has a single reboot been successful?

The most recent re-boot of Hawaii 5-O lasted about eight years.

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Soap is one of my all-time favorite shows, but even by it's fourth season is was gasping for air. I know a fifth season was planned out, but honestly it had run its course by then. A reboot would be terrible since we no longer have Susan Harris, Katherine Helmond, or Robert Mulligan. There's just so much Chuck & Bob can do. It is funny to think that a primetime show that parodied soap opera led a to massive renaissance of primetime soap operas in the early-mid 80s. Did we not get the joke?

Dark Shadows (the original series, not that awful movie)

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Dark Shadows is another one of those shows of its time. I can't see it working now, and in fact every attempt to raise it from the dead fails miserably. I think the CW was most recently trying to do so and it never got past pilot script. I did enjoy the 90s version for what it was, but that was already 30 years ago. There was a resurgence of spooky/creepy TV shows during the last decade or so, but genre has pretty much expired now.

Off hand I would like to see reboots of Action (1999), Profit (1997), American Gothic (1995), The PJs (1999), Carnivale (2003), and while it was trashy I did like Dirty Sexy Money (2007) which would do better now in this us against the 1% era.

Twin Peaks could have been a good re-boot, but for whatever reason, the new version sucked.

How about creating some new content, for a change?

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Who owns the intellectual property and name of Hitchcock? He strikes me as someone who would be childless?

Good Times............ please.

I suggest an all-white version of Good Times. Oh wait, that was Roseanne.

They should have rebooted Dynasty II - The Colbys. Somebody famous, forgot who, said: Why reboot what worked well? Rather reboot something that didn't work, and do it better now. (may have been David Jacobs) The Colby name would still have some cachet, so people can associate it with Dynasty from the 80s. And since it was only on for two years, they could just pick anyone from that family and either film in LA or transplant them anywhere you want. Georgia? Fine by me. And who wouldn't want to see Sable Colby doing what Angela Channing cannot do anymore?

I think the Dynasty remake from 2017 is not just really, really bad. It's also a missed opportunity. Oh well...

Dead Last, a WB show that started in August 2001. About a rock trio who discover an amulet that makes them able to communicate with the dead. The dead are very needy, as they usually are. Didn't make it past September 2001, obviously. It could have been a lot of fun.

I second [italic]Profit[/italic] and [italic]American Gothic[/italic].

Scott Bakula should play Alf in the reboot.

They should reboot Law & Order. Oh. Never mind.

Actually, I wouldn't mind a limited mini-series run of L & O Criminal Intent with Goren and Eames, maybe for four or six episodes.

"My Favorite Martian" with updated special effects.

R39 Battlestar Gallactica

Hawaii 5-0

The Flash

The Office

I'd love a miniseries of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Loved the book but hated the movie, and they could justify it by being truer to the real events (gay Joe Odom and author, multiple trials, no silly het romance at the center) and also attempting to further cancel Kevin Spacey.

All in the family with meathead as ftm transsexual.

Knots Landing...elderly Gary and Val still live on the cul-de-sac among younger couples (including a gay one).

In his Television Academy interview, Tony Thomas (producer of Golden Girls, Soap, Benson, Empty Nest, It's a Living, etc. etc.) said the one show he'd like to see rebooted is It's a Living, because the premise would be a big hit in the hands of today's edgier writers.

I just see the trans community getting it shut down if Laverne Cox weren't cast in the Ann Jillian role.

Nip Tuck could use a reboot

Spencer - with Chad Lowe

Oz - with even MORE male nudity and full-on sex. Chris Meloni could return as the prison warden who has sex with the inmates. "This is MY prison and you'll obey MY rules. Now drop those pants and bend over my desk!"

A new cheers

Just for completeness

Search from 1972 with Hugh O'Brien Doug McClure Tony Franciosa and Burgess Meredith would work this time around.

All My Goddamned Children.

Evening Shade

Fraggle Rock

Solid Gold

I’d love to see a TV, not movie, reboot of the original Star Trek with Kirk, Spock, Sulu and all of them. If in the right hands, not Jj Abrahams, it could be really good.

The Thick of It should continue with the Boris Johnson years.

Crossover between Six Feet Under and Fantasy Island with the Mr. Rourke role played by Hannah Montana.

R72, I don't see how "Solid Gold" could work in 2022 and still retain the cheesy fun of the original show. Music & Dance have changed so much since then. Can you imagine "The Solid Gold Dancers" shimmying behind Future, Kodak Black or whatever the most popular gangsta rappers/hits are at the moment? Nah.

But what I've envisioned is "Solid Gold" brought back as a cool Jukebox Musical. Embracing all the gaudiness of the Reagan Era 80s & the character that is a chainsmoking Dionne Warwick. Complete with all backstage bitchiness, backstabbing, diva antics, gayness & drugs that were probably going on. They could even give small nods to more serious subjects like AIDS, Drug Addiction & Racism but do it in a way that doesn't completely bring down the mood. I think it would be fun.

Candid camera

Hannah Montana.

The long-talked-about but never-materialized gay reboot of "Hart to Hart."

I'd love to see a proper reboot of "Bewitched." They could make it 10 times gayer than the original (which was already gay as fuck) and with today's special effects, it could be really fun. But that's only if someone wanted to do it right and not fuck it up with a bunch of modern "twists" (like Ephron's shitty movie version) that would just make it unwatchable.

It’s a corny show but I really liked Monk and there hasn’t been a good lighthearted detective procedural in a long time as far as I know. Tony Shaloub is a really good comedic actor.

The vampire diaries, but on HBO where they can do nudity. Keep Julie Plec far from it, but they can have cameos from some of the old actors.

Cover Up!

Karen

Someone in development was reading this thread. Quantum Leap and Fantasy Island have both premiered since it started.

I think Disney+ should reboot Buffy. Pay Sarah Michelle Gellar a shitload of money. Hire Alyson Hannigan and Charisma Carpenter. Have them be the Watchers who run a school of slayers that pretends to be an elite cheerleading squad as a cover. Introduce lots of interesting new slayers for a new generation and continue the stories of the original cast. Hire Marni Noxon and several of the original writers. Keep Joss Whedon far away from it.

I don’t know why Disney has seemingly zero interest in the Twilight market. Everything they program for young women is basically Marvel’s Lil Sister. They should develop the Buffy universe and even do short miniseries about different slayers in history, like the one in 80’s NYC.

R85 I think they should do a spin-off instead of a Buffy reboot. And i thought there was supposed to be a Twilight TV show happening. Or maybe i imagined it 🤔

Berlin Station!

MASH. I just discovered Mark Ayres version of the TV song for the show and realized we need a better retelling of the Vietnam war. What I've learned from vets of many wars needs to be told in an unflinching way.

Northern Exposure

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R2 What a fortune teller you are!!

R9 another visionary!

Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!

Alf.

Small Wonder.

Blansky's Beauties.

Joanie Love Chachi.

R91,

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Snorks

BJ and the bear

McMillan & Wife