Do we really need this?

My expectations are low.

I am so tired of TV reboots. I can't think of one that equaled, let alone surpassed the original.
Some were just plain awful and only served to sully the reputation of the original, if they lasted long enough; others just disappeared in a flash, leaving no mark whatsoever...
Anyone care to start a list of failed reboots?

Hopefully better than the Magnum PI reboot. Has anyone successfully recreated a hit show?

I.E.
Rockford will be female and non Caucasian.

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Originally posted by robotoid:
I.E.
Rockford will be female and non Caucasian.

And Lesbian.

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Originally posted by smschulz:

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Originally posted by robotoid:
I.E.
Rockford will be female and non Caucasian.

And Lesbian.

please

Wanda Sykes

I know they tried two other reboots that failed.

One in 2009, with Dermont Mulroney and a planned Vince Vaughn movie, but never went to production because of horrible feed back.

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Has anyone successfully recreated a hit show?

The new and darker Battlestar Galactica was a cool twist with human looking Cylons.

Kobra Kai was good (for a few seasons) from Johny’s point of view.

The Office was an American version of a British show.

I didn’t watch it, but I’ve read that the updated Hawaii Five-0 was pretty popular.

Magnum really disappointed me, I so badly wanted it to be good, and knew it was going to suck when I saw that Higgins was a hot girl that Magnum would eventually get with.

Same with Miami Vice the movie, damn I wanted to like that. Nope. I’ve read that they are going to try and reboot it as a TV show…I hope not; just let that one die. Nobody can organically recreate the cool that Crocket and Tubbs did in the 80’s.

James Garner is Rockford.

If the morons spent as much time trying to come up with an original idea as they do trying to plagiarize someone else’s work. Garner and the others should get a residual for their work being pirated.

The only thing good about the re-boot of Hawaii 5-0 was they kept the original theme music.

I think the only decent ideas and the few people that have them don't work to make shows for broadcast networks anymore. They are all streaming.

The networks are bankrupt of ideas.

posted January 15, 2026 06:27 PM
I guess if you've never seen the original,
why not give it a shot.

Have a good time finding anyone half as good as
Garner and Stuart Margolin though.
And
What car will he be driving ? And what's he gonna
live in ? And where

True.

Kinda like the Batman movies.

If the plot is unremarkable and the characters are shallow...

At least give us a cool car.

Guaranteed to be just more woke Hollywood crap.

SWAT had a pretty long run.

All I can say is, they better not fuck with the theme song.

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Originally posted by smschulz:

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Originally posted by robotoid:
I.E.
Rockford will be female and non Caucasian.

And Lesbian.

...and Angel will be transgender

As long as he/she/it can still shoot down an airplane with a .38 snub, all will be well.

Wonder if they’ll use a voice mail or text intros. The Rockford Files was tied to its era, don’t think they can successfully transfer the concept and feel to a modern setting. If it’s retro (set in the 70’s) it’ll be worse.

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Originally posted by Belwolf:
If it’s retro (set in the 70’s) it’ll be worse.

Because it will have woke values and story lines no one could have dreamed of in the 70s.