TV series that should be rebooted

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Well, the good news is that Twin Peaks is coming back!!
http://www.slashfilm.com/twin-peaks-returns/

Joan Of Arcadia

Partly because it was made first for CTV (i.e. Canadian Television Network, Ltd.; the only
national network in Canada to rival the CBC during the early 1970's) and never did get the
support of an American television network.

I remember that there was an inside joke about the head writer for the series
going by the name "Cordwainer Bird."

The story goes that Harlan Ellison--the actual author of the original screenplay--was
so unhappy with what other, lesser talents did with his story that he refused to take
credit for being the lead writer of the resulting series. Instead, he gave that
credit to Cordwainer Bird (as in "It's for the birds.")
"It's for the birds"="It ain't Scottish, it's cr-r-r-r-r-rap!")

The Pretender

I'd like to see a couple redone...

Voyagers was a pretty cool show about a couple of guys who could time travel to fix history.

And Buck Rogers in the 24th Century could benefit from an intelligent, modernizing reboot in the same way that Battlestar Galactica could.

Perry Mason and/or Matlock should both considered for reboots.

I've been saying for years that we need a new Perry Mason. Raymond Burr's other well-known show Ironside got a reboot that nobody cared about, but Mason gets nothing. It's sad, because there are plenty of legal dramas around but nothing like Mason. After watching The Lincoln Lawyer, I thought Matthew McConaughey would have been perfect for a new Mason. I'd even be happy with a recurring Lincoln Lawyer series, but we can't even have that since the movie didn't make much money.

It'd be great if a Matlock movie was greenlit with Matthew McConaughey as Matlock. As for a new Perry Mason series, I'm not sure about that, meaning I'm not sure who should star in
a new Perry Mason series. A new Perry Mason series would be great, but the studio has to find the right actor.

Yes, I agree a new "Black Adder" would be great. I was going to post that even before I saw the post below. Rowan Atkinson is young enough to do the role again, but it seems like the kind of role that might work with another good comic as the lead.

The Twilight Zone

Beyond Belief

Got another one to add: Do any of you remember the Canadian series Forever Knight? That deserves a reboot, but I'd set it in Los Angeles instead of Toronto in the original.

I'm frankly shocked it hasn't been rebooted already, with all the recent interest in vampire movies and TV shows.

I'd love to see a modern version of "Time Trax"; it was one of my faves as a kid. I even tried writing a fan fiction for it, but got stalled after the futuristic opening.

I also want a proper, mostly-serious version of "Knight Rider". The 2008 show tried hard, but it was far too reliant on smut and cliched villians. They also bastardized the character of KARR, though it was nice to hear Peter Cullen do that voice again.

the writers and cast of old TV legends are either decrepit or dead, and so it would have to be a "new persons" take on the idea that i have no interest in sticking around to even see what they are going to do.

columbo was my favourite TV detective series, and peter falk is now dead, and the show could never be resurrected in my mind.

things should always be new if they are going to have a chance of success.

there are very many old things that seem so powerful, but their expression has been spent, and it is time to seek new ways of looking at the world, so i think that topical and current sit-coms would be more successful than for example reviving the charlie sheen style of things he acted in in 2 and .5 men.


the next greatest producer will be someone who has their finger on the pulse of social mechanics and then predicts the likely couse of events and makes a show about the peculiarities of the new social lifestyle, and breaks ground with a new and fresh show about stuff that is very new in history to be explored.

who knows? but i do know that the past is always receding further and further away, and so one can not hope to keep a grip (even with nostalgic augmentation) so it is not well to grip the ropes to the past.