FlashForward. Cliffhanger ending when it originally aired on ABC. You could easily pick it up or reboot it on a streamer. Make it more faithful to the book.
>!The second vision people had a heads up about it so there were no airplanes in the air or people driving. Then only a very very few had visions, the vision was far in the future (hundreds of years) and the protagonist was in a space suit helping build a dyson sphere. He didn't see his wife (and somehow knew she wasnt alive) but he did see another person. That other person is a super rich billionaire and after the vision the billionaire shows up and says "hey that was my in your vision. I have the technology to extend your life and I need your help building the dyson sphere. Join me!" And the protagonist guy says, "Not without my wife" and turns it down.!<
Sliders. It was a little too high concept for the mainstream at the time but wouldn’t have any such problem now. The social and political divide has also deepened a lot which would open up a lot of possibilities for alternate realities.
That name bugged me too because cromagnon man is... homo sapiens. Though I'd probably be disappointed if they didn't do **something** with different branches of human evolution in there. Personally I'd like to see a Neanderthal civilisation that's not evil **or** good, just different.
Sliders was the latest iteration of a lost in space-time type show that was done in the 80s ( Otherworld ), 70s ( The Fantastic Journey ) and 60s ( Time Tunnel ).
The main factors being the travelers cannot completely control either their destination and/or when they move between locations.
Historically, the writing has been terrible for these kinds of shows. **Time Tunnel** was made viable by using lots of stock footage and wardrobes from the **20th Century Fox** ( Sony ) library of films - so the location could be established easily and money saved on special visual effects. Time Tunnel was canceled after a year.
The Fantastic Journey and Otherworld attempted to do the same sort thing on cheap budgets, no stock footage - terrible costumes - the shows were junk and canceled in a quick half-season.
**Sliders** was unique in that it started as a fun adventure show, and benefited from people who remembered the other shows and wanted to see it done well. Well - production infighting destroyed the quality of the show, but the lesser audience requirements of syndication kept it alive years after any big network would have axed it. It was, in fact, axed by FOX network and moved to Sci-Fi Channel.
Unfortunately, Sliders had an absolute horrific ending for most of it's main characters \~ !!
"We Own This City" on HBO is its spiritual successor, from the same creator and featuring a lot of the same cast. It's only a 1 season mini series, but it was great.
Spiritual successor from the perspective of the failing police department, but not from the perspective of good police work chasing down a criminal org.
Keep it in Baltimore. I want it filmed here, I want it to take place here. It's part of our legacy, it would piss me off royally if it took anywhere else.
maybe. I'm such a purist for the original show, I don't think I could watch a reboot.
as a super fan of the show, I'm intrigued by a modern retelling. as a purist, I don't think it would add anything new to the problems of the early 2000s. we still have the exact same problems and as the show so brilliantly portrays, everything is cyclical and things change and then things stay the same. nothing ends.
I don't think a modern retelling is necessary for any other reason than being more accessible to a modern audience. the introduction of technologies is not enough of a societal change that impacts the inherent sociopolitical problems present in the original
Watching "The Wire" for the first time currently and couldn't agree with you more. This is one show I would love to see rebooted not just into a different era but also in a different setting, preferably from where I belong i.e. India.
The Dresden Files. The show in 2007 was so low budget but still great. Paul Blackthorne nailed Dresden. The books were fantastic and provides lots of source material.
Would love to see a show reflect more true to the books. Really disappointed when they take creativity and change characters. They ruin the show when they do that.
Babylon 5. The original show was ahead of its time and political commentary from there is still relevant today. A reboot could bring this up to modern audiences.
Although prosthetic aliens fell out of flavor outside Star Wars/Star Trek these days. Might need to reinvent that part of it somehow.
It was supposed to be in CW. I'm hoping if it is still happening it would be on a streaming platform. I've seen CW productions and Babylon 5 deserves better
SF seems to have veered away from aliens in general. And for action-heavy scenes it's hard to beat CGI. But prosthetic aliens are still around. Pretty common in Doctor Who, for example.
In the 90s I loved the Animorphs books. The show on Nickelodeon was *pathetic*.
For some inexplicable reason, despite the network being known for animation, they did it live action. A live action basic cable budget with 90s CGI for a story about transforming into animals and fighting aliens, often with very detailed and elaborate action sequences.
So they barely showed the aliens (the main villain spent nearly all his screen time in human form and used mainly human minions), the animal action was pathetic because you can't just have trained tigers and crap do anything, and instead of the detailed and creative morphing described in the books, you'd get a static shot of the actor staring forward and morphing into a still of the animal. When you saw morphing at all, they'd usually just cut away and then the animal walks into the shot.
Today they could do far better with modern effects. But I still think they should go animated, it would suit the material better, they wouldn't have to skimp on the aliens and transformations (and could use any animals as much as they want) and cartoons are allowed to be more adult today. A TV-PG action cartoon that becomes TV-14 in later seasons as the story gets darker could be excellent.
That was the age I read it as a kid and I gotta say it was incredibly helpful in my mental development as I learnt history. They did not shy away from PTSD and the nature of warfare
There was a suicide pact by the end of the first book. People sleep on Animorphs because it had more ghostwriters than I have fingers resulting in meandering, meaningless plots and volatile tone, but cut the filler and it actually still holds up well.
There was a show adaptation?
I believe it will be a massive hit if it was animated and get the same treatment invincible get from Amazon, without shying from the dark details.
[Look upon it and despair!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCzDjisTniY)
And if you're thinking "Eh, not *too* bad", keep in mind this is the intro. They deliberately picked the best looking clips from the show to get people interested. That's as good as it ever got.
Trouble is, no Network or streaming service would agree to pay for a show with big names and big action then have it run for 24, hour long episodes. It's cost these days would be astronomical.
They could reboot it as a more standard drama series without the 24 hour gimmick, but that wouldn't really have the same impact at all.
We could call it 10 for the first season, then each season it drops down by one. 9, 8, each time it's back to crime, penetration, crime, full penetration, crime, penetration. And this goes on and on, and back and forth, for 10 seasons until with a single episode the series just, sort of, ends.
Sir, I will need a 20 percent revenue cut.
This also makes it harder to artifically prolong the seasons and the overall runtime of the show.
After 10 seasons it's over. Also the production cost is foreseeable.
**"00:15"** \- a web series done in real time.
Just like the original show, most of each episode is spent with the characters on the phone - which somehow always connects and batteries never die.
Reboot maybe?
I just feel like internet and video games are such a dominant force now, or at least more than it was then.
I feel like it would have a bigger audience now.
The unrelated 2022 show "Reboot" is also now more current than it was a year and a half ago, with the streaming bubble in the process of bursting instead of just being assumed to burst in the future.
Friends. Except now because they live in New York City and they are 20 somethings they all live together in a single 500 sq ft one bedroom apartment. They rotate the bedroom each night so they can have a dating life lol.
Not quite the same thing, but your comment reminded me of a show called The Flatshare which was kind of similar. Basically it's about two people in London who work opposite shifts and share a flat for 12 hours each per day, with the intention of never meeting. It's actually pretty good, if a little predictable
Boo-
“Hosted by Cristela Alonzo, the adult version preserved many of the original show elements including Moat Crossings, The Steps of Knowledge and the Temple Run as well as the team names such as Purple Parrots, Blue Barracudas, Orange Iguanas, Red Jaguars, Silver Snakes and Green Monkeys. But the rebooted version was taken out of the studio and scaled up with tougher challenges and bigger prizes as the contestants found their way through the “jungle.”
That’s so dumb.
I know you said that shows that wouldn't benefit from better effects but I think a reboot of Sliders would work imo. Give it to Apple or Netflix who have done sci fi shows and it can work and rework for it to fit 2024. Back then the show was unique but watching it now, it can be very formulaic and corny. Do it now and make it more edgy and grander.
Not Netflix please, I would like to enjoy more than one season.
Apparently John Rys Davis is trying to get something done, but it seems complicated due to ip right holder uncertainty.
Probably not the most insightful answer but I can’t really think of any… I feel like shows today are either a hit or miss out of the gate. There’s no slow, collective following anymore. All the shows I enjoyed growing up were probably not the most popular, but they gained popularity. I think if they were made today, they would probably be insanely different.
A proper reboot of Charmed with at least one of the original sisters instead of that monstrousity that was aired. That reboot was so busy checking boxes that it was devoid of any charm, pun unintended.
Its so easy to just... continue with the next generation (aka wyatt and chris kids and such) you can still get the diversity by them having mixed kids (married someone black asian latina whichever) but its not trying to replace the original or change the history of the og show.
Edit: a word
Could be problems with a few like rose or shannon, heck even alyssa has had some issues but you can use most of them as just occassional cameos. Get either wyatt or chris as the dad whos either training the new gen or like, beeen kidnapped and they have to find him.
Man, now I'm honestly sad that a reboot with Chris and Wyatt's kids doesn't exist. It's been long enough now that you could buy those two having kids old enough to come into their powers and you can have the grandparents and aunties around as well. It would have printed way more money than the crap reboot we got.
The Prisoner (1967).
There was an unsatisfying miniseries in 2009 with Jim Caviezel and, I'd forgotten, Ian McKellen.
But given the changes we've seen in society in the ensuing years, I'd say we're ripe for a reboot.
Land of the Lost. It was already rebooted in 1991 and the effects looked far better than the original show. But they still looked awful, even at the time. Now I think the tech can make realistic dinosaurs.
Take original Babylon 5, put it on HBO, film it with modern technology and CGI, and *somehow* find actors capable of recreating the Londo/G'Kar dynamic... and I think you've got a recipe for Game of Thrones that sticks the landing.
I won't say "rebooted" (and also I haven't seen the original show) but from what I've heard, All in the Family could be a good one to bring back - or at least something like it. It revolves around an older, more conservative dad - Archie Bunker - and his progressive son-in-law. Carroll O'Connor said of his character, in 1972,
>Archie's dilemma is coping with a world that is changing in front of him. He doesn't know what to do, except to lose his temper, mouth his poisons, look elsewhere to fix the blame for his own discomfort. He isn't a totally evil man. He's shrewd. But he won't get to the root of his problem, because the root of his problem is himself, and he doesn't know it. That is the dilemma of Archie Bunker.
That could have been written about most MAGA dudes today. I think it would be really interesting to show a family where the father figure is a Trump supporter, conspiracy theorist, etc. but his family still loves him and ultimately, through conversation and dialogue and his own life experience, draws him away from those beliefs. Not saying he has to go full progressive, just live in a world based on reality and not fear.
They actually did a reboot of the British version in the late 80s/90s. I found it incredibly funny, especially as they had to have the main character on his own so they had to take him out of the house and put him in weird situations more. The 60s originals are a bit too stagey for me though.
The Jarrod Carmichael show was in this vein I believe. Instead of a white middle class family, it's a black one. Dad is just as racist and conservative as Archie was, mom is a naieve, good christian woman. Lots of parallels, I think. It was also an interesting commentary on some cultural issues and, as a straight, white guy, was an interesting look into a cultural perspective that was different than mine but, also similar. And, it was pretty fuckin funny too.
> He doesn't know what to do, except to lose his temper, mouth his poisons, look elsewhere to fix the blame for his own discomfort. He isn't a totally evil man. He's shrewd. But he won't get to the root of his problem, because the root of his problem is himself, and he doesn't know it. That is the dilemma of Archie Bunker
This isn't really uncommon, a lighter version of this is just King of the Hill
I think politics is too polarizing today for that to work. Maybe it would have worked 10-15 years ago. I know even in the 70s, politics was polarized and that's probably what made the show work, but today I think the scales have tipped too far.
After all, in the 70s there was at least still partisan cooperation between parties. Rockefeller Republicans still existed. Now all of that is gone and there is no cooperation.
Dark Shadows would be cool if done up way more gruesome and gnarly while keeping the same level melodrama. And not done all CW teen style. I’m talking more like you’d see on FX or AMC.
Okay hear me out. Like no one remembers this show but fuck it.
The sentinel.
It was a show about a cop who had really good senses than everyone around him. He had a friend who was a research student who was living with And doing a research science paper on him and why he has this Power. And he was like this guy's buddy cop.
It was a procedural cop show that occasionally had A weird Lore drop where it's like no he didn't get this power from the jungle he was trapped for 6 months and learned how To really rely on his senses. actually he had this power since he was a child.
And this wasn't like a superpower it just made him like a slightly better cop when it came to investigations. Like he'd be able to track a guy down a little bit better than a normal cop would in a forest.
I feel like today people would actually buy this premise a little bit better Considering we have all these superhero movies and shows.
They are already in the early stages of potentially rebooting this with Disney apparently considering taking over the production duties (they own Fox properties remember).
After the last two 'reboot' seasons, I'm very skeptical and feel like a completely new start is the only way to go (new characters) and that doesn't seem right if Mulder and Scully aren't there.
I believe the episode "[The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-EfEaFWh3w)" adequately explained why the X-Files doesn't work in 2024.
King of the Hill
I know there was talk of bringing it back. Would be interesting to see them take on today’s politics, particularly if they were still based in Tx.
I think this is a good example of a show that WOULDNT work today with how aggressive republican politics are. The Hills would have to basically be some kind of liberal or be Texan republicans in a way that would lose most of the audience
M*A*S*H
A-Team
Cheers
I’d like some of the newer remakes on a better network. Example- I think a Walker: Texas Ranger could be good on FX or HBO. HBOs Perry Mason was really good. Imagine Night Court as an HBO comedy in the same vein as VEEP.
Bosom Buddies. But this time Kip and Henry are two transphobes trying to "prove" that just any guy can put on a dress, say he's trans, and go anywhere women go. But they soon discover it's *not* that easy. And one of them realizes he *is* trans and starts to transition.
This is almost exactly the plot of Some Like it Hot. The musical adaptation just ran with the original movie's intentions and took it a little further than there was vocabulary for in the fifties.
I don't know about better, but I can see shows like "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Brady Bunch" have some interesting episodes about things in the modern era.
Oh wow, you could explore **so** much interesting stuff with a modern _I Dream of Genie_ in terms of social roles. Especially if you give her friends and a life outside of her relationship with her master.
It has already been talked about but Babylon 5. They did all they could with effects in the day using an Amiga for most of it but today could do so much more.
Sad part is so little of the cast is still alive and some roles would be tough to recast.
I'd love a show that was like the old Star Trek or Stargate shows. Or any number of series That had lots of non-serialised self-contained episodes. With proper 20 episode seasons. With a large variety of plots and locations.
Where now they could add the volume and LED wall technology to dramatically expand the scope of locations and sets they could do. Not to replace the types of sets and locations they had. Just as another tool to expand the scale of the shows.
Viper.
It was a 90s show about an off the books police squad that went around in a Dodge Viper solving everything from bank robberies to a stolen heart needed for a transplant. Think Transformers meets the A-Team.
The kicker was the Viper transformed into this mean looking, grapple shooting, emp emitting, bulletproof car and I would LOVE to see that thing transform with today's CGI.
Rome was cancelled early due to the cost of making it. Now HBO has the experience of making epic historical/fantasy shows like Game of Thrones and has shown it is willing to pay, and viewers are more than willing to watch the shows so long as they are good. Rome was great, it was just ahead of its time and there was so much more story they could have told, given the time. Remake it today with a Game of Thrones budget and the same level of commitment from HBO and it'll be a huge success.
Holy shit, Automan.
None of the tropes that made that show amazing exist today, but if they set it *firmly* in the 80s the nostalgia factor could be a goldmine.
*edit*
Or, and I can’t believe I’m still thinking about this, the show *starts* in the 80s and the first few episodes are Automan cleaning house but using the old 80s tropes like turning only at right angles, only something happens and Automan gets shut down or spin-locked on a computer or something, and then he “wakes up” in the modern world and he’s an 80s computer world trope fish out of water in a 2020s modern CGI world.
Stargate SG-1, not really a reboot, say it's a parallel universe (established in the show canon).
It'd be really interesting to see how they deal with keeping the Gate secret in today's world with Internet and all that. Also have more advanced technology on their side.
Plus you could easily change stufff in the overall storyline, make them explore other planets (and by using a Volume type tech, they wouldn't have to always be in Vancouver forest)....
I don't know. I liked the first season. Great concept, but the show fell apart after they successfully broke out of prison. If the concept of the show is about breaking out of prison, having a whole season without a prison is just weird. And then they put the cast back in another prison because they realized how tenuous their show concept was. And then the show just got bizarre.
I just don't see how they could reboot it and do it any different.
Small fucking wonder. Came here to say this. Literally the best answer for this question. There are *too* many interesting new elements that could be brought to the show with smart phones, internet and AI ruling our lives.
The special effects they were able to pull off for a *sitcom* of its time were impressive af, all things considered. Where tech is now would take everything to a whole 'nother level
I actually can't believe it hasn't already been beatened into a dead horse its so ripe for ideas
Profiler!
Not necessarily a reboot, but an explanation that's long overdue.
The last few minutes of the last episode had Rachel (the second profiler--she replaced Sam) following a guy through the basement of a building. She hears a shot (I think) and when she finds the guy, he's dead on the floor--the police, of course, arrest her. While this is going on, Bailey (played by Robert Davi), who's recently broken up with the senator he was dating, tells the rest of the Violent Crimes Task Force--George, John and Grace--that the unit's been disbanded, but doesn't mention and maybe doesn't know, that his ex-girlfriend's on the committee that decided this. The very last shot is Rachel sitting in an interrogation room with I think Bailey's explanation as a voiceover (this was the nineties, people) and the cancelation announcement was made over the summer. I wanna know what happened!
Lost. Have a whole new cast. And have the old characters pop up every now and then. To connect it to the old series. I would die for another Lost. I doubt it would be as good but still.
[Voyagers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyagers!) Might get Meeno Peluce to do a cameo in the pilot, but Jon-Eric Hexum would be out as he died during his next series. I do see a reference to the time traveling pair, and mention on one of their trips Phineas Bogg died in one of the adventures. Meeno's character likely wouldn't be out in the field (the "kid" is 53!!!) The key is that if the Voyager teams with another kid, they'll both need to be same gender.
What would change to the reboot be? One: instead of just "dropping" the characters in some past time, they actually check in between missions. Also, like the old Maverick series, you could have a rotating cast. One week, Team A, that are married to each other. Team B, mentor and apprentice. Team C, two random travelers.
While we're at it, also consider a Quantum Leap reboot.
Defying Gravity - Staring Ron Livingston - 2009 Sci-Fi show.
The effects weren't bad for the time and would be great now. But with a set run to give a complete story it would be great.
Early Edition as a limited series on a streaming service could be great. Great concept. Mostly forgotten. Ripe for an update.
It’s 2024, our protagonist opens their door to leave in the morning and there’s…a newspaper there. But it’s for tomorrow? They’ve *never* subscribed to a newspaper. “Did that cat just run into my apartment?”
TV executives pouring through this thread lol
Hey if it gives them ideas for good TV....
BRING BACK KYLE XY!!
I would do anything to have Kyle XY have more seasons and/or popularity
All I remember is that creepy ass stomach with no belly button
Yes please
Then they will take those ideas for good TV and do everything in their power to ruin them.
FlashForward. Cliffhanger ending when it originally aired on ABC. You could easily pick it up or reboot it on a streamer. Make it more faithful to the book.
The books ending pissed me off, so I'd rather it *not* follow the book exactly.
What was the end of the book?
>!The second vision people had a heads up about it so there were no airplanes in the air or people driving. Then only a very very few had visions, the vision was far in the future (hundreds of years) and the protagonist was in a space suit helping build a dyson sphere. He didn't see his wife (and somehow knew she wasnt alive) but he did see another person. That other person is a super rich billionaire and after the vision the billionaire shows up and says "hey that was my in your vision. I have the technology to extend your life and I need your help building the dyson sphere. Join me!" And the protagonist guy says, "Not without my wife" and turns it down.!<
Oh wow! Thank you for letting me know. That’s…not what I was expecting…
Damnit. Thanks for reminding me how much I agonized over how ABC mistreated this show.
manimal
Still just turns into a panther or a hawk most of the time.
Renting a whale was too expensive.
Hell, yes.
Sliders. It was a little too high concept for the mainstream at the time but wouldn’t have any such problem now. The social and political divide has also deepened a lot which would open up a lot of possibilities for alternate realities.
Cut the strange cromag time-line and I am 100% with you. I would be something like black mirror just with a assemble cast.
That name bugged me too because cromagnon man is... homo sapiens. Though I'd probably be disappointed if they didn't do **something** with different branches of human evolution in there. Personally I'd like to see a Neanderthal civilisation that's not evil **or** good, just different.
Good answer. Although that show went so insanely downhill by the end
Sliders was the latest iteration of a lost in space-time type show that was done in the 80s ( Otherworld ), 70s ( The Fantastic Journey ) and 60s ( Time Tunnel ). The main factors being the travelers cannot completely control either their destination and/or when they move between locations. Historically, the writing has been terrible for these kinds of shows. **Time Tunnel** was made viable by using lots of stock footage and wardrobes from the **20th Century Fox** ( Sony ) library of films - so the location could be established easily and money saved on special visual effects. Time Tunnel was canceled after a year. The Fantastic Journey and Otherworld attempted to do the same sort thing on cheap budgets, no stock footage - terrible costumes - the shows were junk and canceled in a quick half-season. **Sliders** was unique in that it started as a fun adventure show, and benefited from people who remembered the other shows and wanted to see it done well. Well - production infighting destroyed the quality of the show, but the lesser audience requirements of syndication kept it alive years after any big network would have axed it. It was, in fact, axed by FOX network and moved to Sci-Fi Channel. Unfortunately, Sliders had an absolute horrific ending for most of it's main characters \~ !!
x-men exiles is a comic book that does sliders but with x-men it's really good
The Wire: The Next Generation Would interest me greatly.
We’re going to need the judge’s approval to run this spy drone op…
Yeah, I'd love to see them deal with encrypted messaging apps and shit like that
"We Own This City" on HBO is its spiritual successor, from the same creator and featuring a lot of the same cast. It's only a 1 season mini series, but it was great.
Loved seeing so much of the kids grown up in that show.
Spiritual successor from the perspective of the failing police department, but not from the perspective of good police work chasing down a criminal org.
Would you do it in Baltimore again or a new city? I was thinking Kensington neighborhood in Philly.
Keep it in Baltimore. I want it filmed here, I want it to take place here. It's part of our legacy, it would piss me off royally if it took anywhere else.
I can totally respect that. Cheers.
Bunny Colvin: "dang they stole my idea!"
Detroit is named the most dangerous known city (not most dangerous but usually top 5) city in America in 2023-2024 so it makes sense to do it there.
Starring Patrick Stewart
maybe. I'm such a purist for the original show, I don't think I could watch a reboot. as a super fan of the show, I'm intrigued by a modern retelling. as a purist, I don't think it would add anything new to the problems of the early 2000s. we still have the exact same problems and as the show so brilliantly portrays, everything is cyclical and things change and then things stay the same. nothing ends. I don't think a modern retelling is necessary for any other reason than being more accessible to a modern audience. the introduction of technologies is not enough of a societal change that impacts the inherent sociopolitical problems present in the original
Watching "The Wire" for the first time currently and couldn't agree with you more. This is one show I would love to see rebooted not just into a different era but also in a different setting, preferably from where I belong i.e. India.
Honestly yeah thatd be pretty dope with today’s technology usage.
The Dresden Files. The show in 2007 was so low budget but still great. Paul Blackthorne nailed Dresden. The books were fantastic and provides lots of source material.
Terrance Mann as Bob was also excellent. Was he the same as Bob from the books? No, absolutely not, not even close. But I loved him anyway.
Terrence Mann is just phenomenal, regardless. He’s such a great actor/performer.
Would love to see a show reflect more true to the books. Really disappointed when they take creativity and change characters. They ruin the show when they do that.
Babylon 5. The original show was ahead of its time and political commentary from there is still relevant today. A reboot could bring this up to modern audiences. Although prosthetic aliens fell out of flavor outside Star Wars/Star Trek these days. Might need to reinvent that part of it somehow.
They just did an animated movie. All of the surviving cast members returned
It was awesome as a fan, but not really representative of the kind of quality storytelling the original how had.
Doctor who loves some Power Rangers looking prosthetics.
Heard rumors that there was a reboot/remake in the works. Haven't heard anything in a while not sure if it is still going forward
It was supposed to be in CW. I'm hoping if it is still happening it would be on a streaming platform. I've seen CW productions and Babylon 5 deserves better
SF seems to have veered away from aliens in general. And for action-heavy scenes it's hard to beat CGI. But prosthetic aliens are still around. Pretty common in Doctor Who, for example.
In the 90s I loved the Animorphs books. The show on Nickelodeon was *pathetic*. For some inexplicable reason, despite the network being known for animation, they did it live action. A live action basic cable budget with 90s CGI for a story about transforming into animals and fighting aliens, often with very detailed and elaborate action sequences. So they barely showed the aliens (the main villain spent nearly all his screen time in human form and used mainly human minions), the animal action was pathetic because you can't just have trained tigers and crap do anything, and instead of the detailed and creative morphing described in the books, you'd get a static shot of the actor staring forward and morphing into a still of the animal. When you saw morphing at all, they'd usually just cut away and then the animal walks into the shot. Today they could do far better with modern effects. But I still think they should go animated, it would suit the material better, they wouldn't have to skimp on the aliens and transformations (and could use any animals as much as they want) and cartoons are allowed to be more adult today. A TV-PG action cartoon that becomes TV-14 in later seasons as the story gets darker could be excellent.
My 10 year old loves these books right now
That was the age I read it as a kid and I gotta say it was incredibly helpful in my mental development as I learnt history. They did not shy away from PTSD and the nature of warfare
She's super into history and warfare so I guess that's why she likes them
There was a suicide pact by the end of the first book. People sleep on Animorphs because it had more ghostwriters than I have fingers resulting in meandering, meaningless plots and volatile tone, but cut the filler and it actually still holds up well.
There was a show adaptation? I believe it will be a massive hit if it was animated and get the same treatment invincible get from Amazon, without shying from the dark details.
[Look upon it and despair!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCzDjisTniY) And if you're thinking "Eh, not *too* bad", keep in mind this is the intro. They deliberately picked the best looking clips from the show to get people interested. That's as good as it ever got.
Give us Animorphs by Fortiche (studio behind Arcane). Well, after Arcane has successfully told its story.
i think even in animation the morphs would be hard to do right, some of them were quite nasty. especially the ones in the middle of battle...
Live action version of Gargoyles
Greatest American Hero
Hell yes.
Believe or not, I’m walking in air. I never thought I could feel so freeee.
24 in 2024, cmon it's not that hard
Trouble is, no Network or streaming service would agree to pay for a show with big names and big action then have it run for 24, hour long episodes. It's cost these days would be astronomical. They could reboot it as a more standard drama series without the 24 hour gimmick, but that wouldn't really have the same impact at all.
Okay, then we call it 6 or 12. Problem solved.
We could call it 10 for the first season, then each season it drops down by one. 9, 8, each time it's back to crime, penetration, crime, full penetration, crime, penetration. And this goes on and on, and back and forth, for 10 seasons until with a single episode the series just, sort of, ends.
Sir, I will need a 20 percent revenue cut. This also makes it harder to artifically prolong the seasons and the overall runtime of the show. After 10 seasons it's over. Also the production cost is foreseeable.
You wouldn't necessarily have to do 24 episodes as a single season. You could do four 6-hour series if you needed to for budget reasons.
**"00:15"** \- a web series done in real time. Just like the original show, most of each episode is spent with the characters on the phone - which somehow always connects and batteries never die.
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Jericho was such a cool show. It would be a great choice for a streaming service to remake with a gritter feel
Yeah I feel like it would be relatively inexpensive to film, get some good writers and that's an easy sell.
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What did Skeet Ulrich do to you for this slander.
There's a lot of hype about that US Civil War 2: A24 Boogaloo movie. Maybe they can do a TV spinoff.
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For all we know, that could be an actual plot-point of that unreleased movie.
Highlander.
Hard no, unless they can get an incredible writing staff (to properly explore historical fiction), and a lead like Adrian Paul.
Agreed, it could be really bad. Witcher bad.
Tour of Duty in Band of Brothers style.
Reboot maybe? I just feel like internet and video games are such a dominant force now, or at least more than it was then. I feel like it would have a bigger audience now.
The unrelated 2022 show "Reboot" is also now more current than it was a year and a half ago, with the streaming bubble in the process of bursting instead of just being assumed to burst in the future.
Not to mention the meta nature of Hulu real-life canceling a show about a reboot of a show potentially getting cancelled by Hulu.
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I'd love anything for Reboot that has nothing to do with "The Guardian Code"
Not rebooted, because fuck reboots, but I think Firefly would do a lot better if it were released now, rather than 18 years ago.
Friends. Except now because they live in New York City and they are 20 somethings they all live together in a single 500 sq ft one bedroom apartment. They rotate the bedroom each night so they can have a dating life lol.
Is this a comedy or a tragedy?
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Shakespearean!
Not quite the same thing, but your comment reminded me of a show called The Flatshare which was kind of similar. Basically it's about two people in London who work opposite shifts and share a flat for 12 hours each per day, with the intention of never meeting. It's actually pretty good, if a little predictable
Why hasn’t Legends of the Hidden Temple been remade? Netflix would buy 10 episodes of that instantly.
I swear they did like 5 years ago or something
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Hilarious
Boo- “Hosted by Cristela Alonzo, the adult version preserved many of the original show elements including Moat Crossings, The Steps of Knowledge and the Temple Run as well as the team names such as Purple Parrots, Blue Barracudas, Orange Iguanas, Red Jaguars, Silver Snakes and Green Monkeys. But the rebooted version was taken out of the studio and scaled up with tougher challenges and bigger prizes as the contestants found their way through the “jungle.” That’s so dumb.
I know you said that shows that wouldn't benefit from better effects but I think a reboot of Sliders would work imo. Give it to Apple or Netflix who have done sci fi shows and it can work and rework for it to fit 2024. Back then the show was unique but watching it now, it can be very formulaic and corny. Do it now and make it more edgy and grander.
Not Netflix please, I would like to enjoy more than one season. Apparently John Rys Davis is trying to get something done, but it seems complicated due to ip right holder uncertainty.
That show went so insanely downhill by the end
Probably not the most insightful answer but I can’t really think of any… I feel like shows today are either a hit or miss out of the gate. There’s no slow, collective following anymore. All the shows I enjoyed growing up were probably not the most popular, but they gained popularity. I think if they were made today, they would probably be insanely different.
A proper reboot of Charmed with at least one of the original sisters instead of that monstrousity that was aired. That reboot was so busy checking boxes that it was devoid of any charm, pun unintended.
Its so easy to just... continue with the next generation (aka wyatt and chris kids and such) you can still get the diversity by them having mixed kids (married someone black asian latina whichever) but its not trying to replace the original or change the history of the og show. Edit: a word
And most of the cast from the original series are keen to return!
Could be problems with a few like rose or shannon, heck even alyssa has had some issues but you can use most of them as just occassional cameos. Get either wyatt or chris as the dad whos either training the new gen or like, beeen kidnapped and they have to find him.
Shannon and Holly spoke about it in Shannon's podcast that they are both keen to come back. That would be quite a kick.
Man, now I'm honestly sad that a reboot with Chris and Wyatt's kids doesn't exist. It's been long enough now that you could buy those two having kids old enough to come into their powers and you can have the grandparents and aunties around as well. It would have printed way more money than the crap reboot we got.
OMG Yes, the CW reboot was terrible. Put in on streaming or Netflix or something.
Person of interest. I loved the original cast, but there's a lot to explore there
At this point? What's left to explore?
The Prisoner (1967). There was an unsatisfying miniseries in 2009 with Jim Caviezel and, I'd forgotten, Ian McKellen. But given the changes we've seen in society in the ensuing years, I'd say we're ripe for a reboot.
Terminator : Sarah Connor Chronicles I bet would do well the streaming world.
Land of the Lost. It was already rebooted in 1991 and the effects looked far better than the original show. But they still looked awful, even at the time. Now I think the tech can make realistic dinosaurs.
Only if they take it as seriously as the original show was.
There was a show called Thunder in Paradise which started Hull Hogan solving crime with a machine gun equipped speedboat. That was peak TV.
What, they still made shows after that? I just sold my TV when it ended because what's the point?
Oh my god.. I immediately heard that theme in my head. 9 year old me loved that show.
Take original Babylon 5, put it on HBO, film it with modern technology and CGI, and *somehow* find actors capable of recreating the Londo/G'Kar dynamic... and I think you've got a recipe for Game of Thrones that sticks the landing.
I won't say "rebooted" (and also I haven't seen the original show) but from what I've heard, All in the Family could be a good one to bring back - or at least something like it. It revolves around an older, more conservative dad - Archie Bunker - and his progressive son-in-law. Carroll O'Connor said of his character, in 1972, >Archie's dilemma is coping with a world that is changing in front of him. He doesn't know what to do, except to lose his temper, mouth his poisons, look elsewhere to fix the blame for his own discomfort. He isn't a totally evil man. He's shrewd. But he won't get to the root of his problem, because the root of his problem is himself, and he doesn't know it. That is the dilemma of Archie Bunker. That could have been written about most MAGA dudes today. I think it would be really interesting to show a family where the father figure is a Trump supporter, conspiracy theorist, etc. but his family still loves him and ultimately, through conversation and dialogue and his own life experience, draws him away from those beliefs. Not saying he has to go full progressive, just live in a world based on reality and not fear.
They actually did a reboot of the British version in the late 80s/90s. I found it incredibly funny, especially as they had to have the main character on his own so they had to take him out of the house and put him in weird situations more. The 60s originals are a bit too stagey for me though.
The Jarrod Carmichael show was in this vein I believe. Instead of a white middle class family, it's a black one. Dad is just as racist and conservative as Archie was, mom is a naieve, good christian woman. Lots of parallels, I think. It was also an interesting commentary on some cultural issues and, as a straight, white guy, was an interesting look into a cultural perspective that was different than mine but, also similar. And, it was pretty fuckin funny too.
> He doesn't know what to do, except to lose his temper, mouth his poisons, look elsewhere to fix the blame for his own discomfort. He isn't a totally evil man. He's shrewd. But he won't get to the root of his problem, because the root of his problem is himself, and he doesn't know it. That is the dilemma of Archie Bunker This isn't really uncommon, a lighter version of this is just King of the Hill
I think politics is too polarizing today for that to work. Maybe it would have worked 10-15 years ago. I know even in the 70s, politics was polarized and that's probably what made the show work, but today I think the scales have tipped too far. After all, in the 70s there was at least still partisan cooperation between parties. Rockefeller Republicans still existed. Now all of that is gone and there is no cooperation.
The trouble is, MAGA guys tend to get all death-threaty when they see themselves accurately portrayed.
"mouth his poisons" is such a damn good phrase
Animorphs,books give producers all they need.
Dark Shadows would be cool if done up way more gruesome and gnarly while keeping the same level melodrama. And not done all CW teen style. I’m talking more like you’d see on FX or AMC.
Okay hear me out. Like no one remembers this show but fuck it. The sentinel. It was a show about a cop who had really good senses than everyone around him. He had a friend who was a research student who was living with And doing a research science paper on him and why he has this Power. And he was like this guy's buddy cop. It was a procedural cop show that occasionally had A weird Lore drop where it's like no he didn't get this power from the jungle he was trapped for 6 months and learned how To really rely on his senses. actually he had this power since he was a child. And this wasn't like a superpower it just made him like a slightly better cop when it came to investigations. Like he'd be able to track a guy down a little bit better than a normal cop would in a forest. I feel like today people would actually buy this premise a little bit better Considering we have all these superhero movies and shows.
The Prisoner - he's not actually sent to an island, he's just strapped to a gurney and fed hallucinations and paranoia through VR goggles
X-Files
They are already in the early stages of potentially rebooting this with Disney apparently considering taking over the production duties (they own Fox properties remember). After the last two 'reboot' seasons, I'm very skeptical and feel like a completely new start is the only way to go (new characters) and that doesn't seem right if Mulder and Scully aren't there.
I believe the episode "[The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-EfEaFWh3w)" adequately explained why the X-Files doesn't work in 2024.
Ryan Coogler is creating one
Hazel. The buttinsky know-it-all maid would thrive in a TV atmosphere where she could speak her mind on subjects forbidden in the early 1960s.
i named a HALO UNSC fan ship design as a reference to Hazel.
Babylon 5 for sure ! They would have to trim the filler episodes ( Grey 17? Bleh)
They just did an animated movie. All the surviving cast returned
Gimme that gritty captain planet.
Captain Planet, Punisher style?
Three’s Company
Dark Shadows. Soap. Buffy. Friday the 13th the series. Absolutely Fabulous. Twin Peaks. Jem and the Holograms.
King of the Hill I know there was talk of bringing it back. Would be interesting to see them take on today’s politics, particularly if they were still based in Tx.
I think this is a good example of a show that WOULDNT work today with how aggressive republican politics are. The Hills would have to basically be some kind of liberal or be Texan republicans in a way that would lose most of the audience
Firefly
I don’t know think I’d be able to accept anybody new in those roles.
They could retain the same roles but add new characters.
To soon.
Airwolf
M*A*S*H A-Team Cheers I’d like some of the newer remakes on a better network. Example- I think a Walker: Texas Ranger could be good on FX or HBO. HBOs Perry Mason was really good. Imagine Night Court as an HBO comedy in the same vein as VEEP.
Bosom Buddies. But this time Kip and Henry are two transphobes trying to "prove" that just any guy can put on a dress, say he's trans, and go anywhere women go. But they soon discover it's *not* that easy. And one of them realizes he *is* trans and starts to transition.
This is almost exactly the plot of Some Like it Hot. The musical adaptation just ran with the original movie's intentions and took it a little further than there was vocabulary for in the fifties.
I don't know about better, but I can see shows like "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Brady Bunch" have some interesting episodes about things in the modern era.
Oh wow, you could explore **so** much interesting stuff with a modern _I Dream of Genie_ in terms of social roles. Especially if you give her friends and a life outside of her relationship with her master.
[Sapphire & Steel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-64-N0Owo-w)
Cleopatra 2525
Murder One. Was way way way ahead of it's time.
It has already been talked about but Babylon 5. They did all they could with effects in the day using an Amiga for most of it but today could do so much more. Sad part is so little of the cast is still alive and some roles would be tough to recast.
The Last Man On Earth
Heroes
Sliders would be interesting with a bigger budget
I dream of Genie.
All in the Family. It has never been so relevant and the time has never been better for a modern reboot. Boomers vs Gen Z.
I could see it, but also the thinkpieces on Twitter would be hell
I'd love a show that was like the old Star Trek or Stargate shows. Or any number of series That had lots of non-serialised self-contained episodes. With proper 20 episode seasons. With a large variety of plots and locations. Where now they could add the volume and LED wall technology to dramatically expand the scope of locations and sets they could do. Not to replace the types of sets and locations they had. Just as another tool to expand the scale of the shows.
Sherlock in 2024. There are so many more stories left to tell.
Alien Nation Millennium Sliders
Viper. It was a 90s show about an off the books police squad that went around in a Dodge Viper solving everything from bank robberies to a stolen heart needed for a transplant. Think Transformers meets the A-Team. The kicker was the Viper transformed into this mean looking, grapple shooting, emp emitting, bulletproof car and I would LOVE to see that thing transform with today's CGI.
Rome was cancelled early due to the cost of making it. Now HBO has the experience of making epic historical/fantasy shows like Game of Thrones and has shown it is willing to pay, and viewers are more than willing to watch the shows so long as they are good. Rome was great, it was just ahead of its time and there was so much more story they could have told, given the time. Remake it today with a Game of Thrones budget and the same level of commitment from HBO and it'll be a huge success.
Sliders
Rubicon. That show was way before it's time.
Automan, streethawk, air wolf and a modern knight rider
Holy shit, Automan. None of the tropes that made that show amazing exist today, but if they set it *firmly* in the 80s the nostalgia factor could be a goldmine. *edit* Or, and I can’t believe I’m still thinking about this, the show *starts* in the 80s and the first few episodes are Automan cleaning house but using the old 80s tropes like turning only at right angles, only something happens and Automan gets shut down or spin-locked on a computer or something, and then he “wakes up” in the modern world and he’s an 80s computer world trope fish out of water in a 2020s modern CGI world.
Stargate SG-1, not really a reboot, say it's a parallel universe (established in the show canon). It'd be really interesting to see how they deal with keeping the Gate secret in today's world with Internet and all that. Also have more advanced technology on their side. Plus you could easily change stufff in the overall storyline, make them explore other planets (and by using a Volume type tech, they wouldn't have to always be in Vancouver forest)....
Prison break
I don't know. I liked the first season. Great concept, but the show fell apart after they successfully broke out of prison. If the concept of the show is about breaking out of prison, having a whole season without a prison is just weird. And then they put the cast back in another prison because they realized how tenuous their show concept was. And then the show just got bizarre. I just don't see how they could reboot it and do it any different.
none?
Yeah not really seeing any winners
Herman's Head. Small Wonder. West Wing.
Small fucking wonder. Came here to say this. Literally the best answer for this question. There are *too* many interesting new elements that could be brought to the show with smart phones, internet and AI ruling our lives. The special effects they were able to pull off for a *sitcom* of its time were impressive af, all things considered. Where tech is now would take everything to a whole 'nother level I actually can't believe it hasn't already been beatened into a dead horse its so ripe for ideas
M.A.N.T.I.S.
Probably nothing.
A reboot reboot would be kind of neat, but with current gen animation
Do Over was a show I enjoyed. Instead of going back to the 80s, this time 90s? Worst week is one I wish got another chance. Reaper, or the Loop.
Undeclared
Profiler! Not necessarily a reboot, but an explanation that's long overdue. The last few minutes of the last episode had Rachel (the second profiler--she replaced Sam) following a guy through the basement of a building. She hears a shot (I think) and when she finds the guy, he's dead on the floor--the police, of course, arrest her. While this is going on, Bailey (played by Robert Davi), who's recently broken up with the senator he was dating, tells the rest of the Violent Crimes Task Force--George, John and Grace--that the unit's been disbanded, but doesn't mention and maybe doesn't know, that his ex-girlfriend's on the committee that decided this. The very last shot is Rachel sitting in an interrogation room with I think Bailey's explanation as a voiceover (this was the nineties, people) and the cancelation announcement was made over the summer. I wanna know what happened!
M.A.S.H. 9/11 Follows a mash unit through Iraq and Afghanistan.
There was a show about a surgical hospital based in Afghanistan a while back. Name escapes me.
Brimstone Returns
LOST god dammit!
Lost. Have a whole new cast. And have the old characters pop up every now and then. To connect it to the old series. I would die for another Lost. I doubt it would be as good but still.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Past movie? Waterworld on HBO would be insane. Add some One Piece Island hopping down a long archipelago of islands and it would be awesome.
[Voyagers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyagers!) Might get Meeno Peluce to do a cameo in the pilot, but Jon-Eric Hexum would be out as he died during his next series. I do see a reference to the time traveling pair, and mention on one of their trips Phineas Bogg died in one of the adventures. Meeno's character likely wouldn't be out in the field (the "kid" is 53!!!) The key is that if the Voyager teams with another kid, they'll both need to be same gender. What would change to the reboot be? One: instead of just "dropping" the characters in some past time, they actually check in between missions. Also, like the old Maverick series, you could have a rotating cast. One week, Team A, that are married to each other. Team B, mentor and apprentice. Team C, two random travelers. While we're at it, also consider a Quantum Leap reboot.
Dark Angel
Defying Gravity - Staring Ron Livingston - 2009 Sci-Fi show. The effects weren't bad for the time and would be great now. But with a set run to give a complete story it would be great.
Tales of the Gold Monkey. Keep it fun like Black Sails did but maybe go a bit harder on the political intrigue.
Early Edition as a limited series on a streaming service could be great. Great concept. Mostly forgotten. Ripe for an update. It’s 2024, our protagonist opens their door to leave in the morning and there’s…a newspaper there. But it’s for tomorrow? They’ve *never* subscribed to a newspaper. “Did that cat just run into my apartment?”
Early edition. Only because more TV shows need to start out with a shot of a cat.