It’s a pretty straightforward question: “Star Trek” may be coming back if Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer successfully revive “The Munsters”. “Space: 1999″ is being rebooted as “Space: 2099″. The “Battlestar Galactica” reboot put SyFy on the map for intelligent programming and found a lot of Trekkies (yours truly included) forgiving Ron Moore his sins on another franchise.
So, what TV shows need to come back?
We’ve got a few suggestions:
The X-Files
At its best, it was funny without being goofy and clever in its monsters and its use of pseudoscience. While some episodes haven’t aged well, the overall premise is solid enough that it deserves a chance to redeem itself from the seasons no one liked.
Alien Nation
A franchise that never quite lived up to its concept. The TV show wasn’t bad, but the idea of exploring the immigrant experience through aliens just never quite got paid off the way it should.
Day Break
This show, on the other hand, paid off its premise quite well: it sounds like “Groundhog Day: The Show”, where a cop repeats the same awful day over and over, but the plot against him was complicated enough to carry the show without being silly, and the day repeating was thankfully left unexplained. It deserves a second shot.
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How about completely new shows instead?
If we have to reboot a show, let it be the nightly news. Instead of telling us what happened today they should make up amazing stories of amazing things that amazing Americans did that will inspire us toward being great. We can call it North Korean News. Or NKN.
You’re asking Hollywood to be creative. No good can come of this.
dollhouse
No. No more rebooting.
M.A.N.T.I.S.
Yeah, when your hero is killed by an invisible dinosaur, you should at least get a chance to recover from that.
The Misfits of Science, of course. Kidding. Really.
The only show I’d want to see rebooted was already rebooted BADLY. I speak of the classic Darren McGavin show, The Nightstalker. McGavin’s Karl Kolchak was a caricature of an old tyme newspaper man and it was fun to see what trouble he got into every week. The remake featured an attempt to put a homogenized cool-guy hero in the role.
damn, I was going to say MoS too. I’ll go with American Gothic.
Yeah, Frank Spotnitz made a misstep with that one. The original TV movies are still rock solid, though.
I just picture the network execs handing him notes with things like “Spikier hair” and “Higher swagger quotient” scrawled on them in crayon.
Heres my vote for Automan. heck Ill even take a Manimal reboot.
Space: Above and Beyond.
The space saga of Humans vs the Chigs, only lasted 1 season (24 episodes) and was cut down right after a huge cliff hanger. With an intersellar war raging across the galaxy there is plenty of room for new heros, villians, and stories. This series is ripe for a re-boot.
Damn that is what I was going to say. The show has not aged well because the limited CGI of the time. Still, the concept is solid and I want to see it come back.
As to the X-Files, let it stay dead. The stand alone episodes were often great but the mythology ones felt too forced.
CGI aside, I think the designs for their spaceships and equipment still look pretty good and believable.
That said, it looks and feels an awful lot like the BSG reboot, minus the whole “who’s a zylon” thing of course.
ALF, but with a Cthulu.
Nightmare Cafe!
Despite the TONS of crap littering TV now, there’s still enough good stuff on that there’s always something new to watch on my DVR, so I don’t think that anything really needs to be rebooted. Besides, BBC is putting out plenty of stuff for us to reboot.
As far as your list goes, I think Fringe has captured the X-Files vibe wonderfully, just replacing the alien angle with a fringe science angle (X-Files meets Global Frequency?).
I never watched Alien Nation, so I can’t comment on it.
But I rewatched Day Break a few months ago and did a small write-up here ([tellmewhatsitallmean.blogspot.com]). There was precious little I disliked about this show, and while it ended with a possible set-up for a second season, reading about the show leads me to believe that it was only planned as a short, half-season show during the Lost hiatus.
We need a Cartoon Network “Thundercats” “Silverhawks” “Tigersharks” Power Hour.
Another favorite cartoon of mine as a kid was “Spiral Zone.” Would love to see that get rebooted as well.
Lastly, “Sledge Hammer.” Starring Will Arnett.
I really wanna see animorphs reboot on disney channel with china anne macclain as cassie. That will give it an oppertunity for it to have crossover with suite life or hannah montana and etc.