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There seem to be different categories of "remakes" I would put foreign shows that never aired in the U.S. in a different group than shows already aired in the U.S. that producers want to revive. Most of the shows in your list never aired in the U.S. in their original form.
I don't know if I would consider Fargo a remake. I haven't seen the TV show buy my understanding is that it doesn't use any of the characters from the 1996 movie true?
The Fargo mini series focus on crimes in the general geographic area of the story from the movie with a few Easter Eggs to leave no doubt that you are in the same fictional universe.
and now the nancy drew one as well come on writers you just cant think of any more ideas I guess and are relying on the old series tv and how well they did , but really that was a different time and age and that was don't almost thrity years ago when most of us now were kids . I remember sitting down and watching gunsmoke with my mom and dad and grands . yes we all lived in the same house oy vey !!!
Its Hollywood, they're in the business to make money. If research shows that a Nancy Drew tv show is something that people are interested in and can make money, then they're going to produce it.
There seem to be different categories of "remakes" I would put foreign shows that never aired in the U.S. in a different group than shows already aired in the U.S. that producers want to revive. Most of the shows in your list never aired in the U.S. in their original form.
Why wouldn't they count as remakes? There is already a version made, why not air that? Why remake it? Its not creative to just add an American setting to a show that already exists. I can see maybe the shows that are not English, but the Office, House of Cards, Broadchurch... There are no translation issues keeping one of the networks from airing the originals.
Why wouldn't they count as remakes? There is already a version made, why not air that? Why remake it?
I suspect it has to do with legal copyright / branding / licensing issues. Some networks like PBS have deals with BBC and such to air their programs. Most of the big American networks don't.
And I think there is still a lot of old-fashioned lunk-headedness with execs where they think, "British accents are for PBS. Our audience won't accept that."
Why wouldn't they count as remakes? There is already a version made, why not air that? Why remake it? Its not creative to just add an American setting to a show that already exists. I can see maybe the shows that are not English, but the Office, House of Cards, Broadchurch... There are no translation issues keeping one of the networks from airing the originals.
I'd agree those aren't.. Reboots.
Those are "Based off of" situations.
I certainly see a difference between Sanford and Son and.. The new Hawaii-Five-Oh, for example.
In the 70's and 80's, it was all about the spinoffs. Now, it's all about the reboots.
You know, I can deal with Heroes coming back.. 24.. X-Files.. those aren't reboots, they're just picking the show back up after cancellation and continuing it.. Fine with that.
But, bringing back the A-Team? MacGyver? One Day at a Time?
Enough!
I can see it now, with all the old-timers making cameos. Why don't they just resurrect Love Boat.
Anyway, I don't expect much more from uncreative, lazy Hollywood these days.
Why wouldn't they count as remakes? There is already a version made, why not air that? Why remake it? Its not creative to just add an American setting to a show that already exists. I can see maybe the shows that are not English, but the Office, House of Cards, Broadchurch... There are no translation issues keeping one of the networks from airing the originals.
They are remakes in the strictest sense of the word. But I think there's a definite difference between a show that never aired in the U.S. so the average viewer here was never exposed versus a show that originated in the U.S. and producers want to make a copy of it for people who are too young to remember it. It's kind of like buying a new used car. It's not "new" in the sense it had a previous owner but it is new to the current owner.
I can see it now, with all the old-timers making cameos. Why don't they just resurrect Love Boat.
Anyway, I don't expect much more from uncreative, lazy Hollywood these days.
They already tried to revive The Love Boat. There was The Love Boat: The Next Wave, starring Robert Urich, that aired in the late 1990's. It didn't last long!
The Love Boat was a concept that could only work in the '70s. It was the last era of the variety show, when celebrities whose 15 minutes were almost up would be a guest that week. The Love Boat was like that, only cloaked as a comedy.
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Why don't they just resurrect Love Boat.
