Rebooting old shows...

[the G-man]

Also, I was wonder what are other peoples feelings on the Flintstones reboot that they are plotting? IMO it's a bad idea. Not just because it's a classic but because, as much as I like Family Guy and American Dad, I don't like the idea of Seth MacFarlane in charge of it.

Thoughts?

I'm with you on this. He can spoof the show all he likes, but if Seth's just going to turn Fred Flinstone into Peter Griffin in an animal skin ....

Oh, come on...you act like Family Guy, Republican Family Guy and Black Family Guy aren't three completely unique and original shows.

 

[milo bloom]

I love covers and remixes of old songs, and I don't mind when they try a new take on an old show. Of course it's annoying when they just take the names and do something different, but then I'm a fan of nuBSG which really changed things up (although I'm with the folks that say the new series was truer to the original concept than the original series ended up being).

Basically, I don't get bent out of shape. I just don't watch.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

The Six Million Dollar Man. [...] Finally, in order to explain the title of the show, I'd establish that his annual salary from the government is six million bucks, and not what it cost to rebuild him.

What about the idea of changing the title to The 600 Million Dollar Man or The 6 Billion Dollar Man?

Considered and discarded because:

• That was too easy;
• I wanted to keep the original title as part of establishing its a reboot of a classic show;
• I think the original title rolls off the tongue better;
• Arguably 6 billion wouldn't be enough
• I thought making it his salary, as opposed to initial construction cost, helped add to the idea that this Steve Austin was something of a "badass," in it for the bucks as much as the idea of "helping people.

In that case, what about upping it from $6 million per year to $6 million per job? I figure, once you factor in inflation, that's just a little bit over what the Man with the Golden Gun used to make. (According to http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ , $1,000,000 to pay Scaramanga to assassinate someone in 1975 would be akin to $4,006,277.06 in 2010.)

I can't resist pointing out that the original Bewitched was basically a remake of an old Veronica Lake movie, I Married a Witch.

What goes around, comes around . . .

Hell I didn't know that but being a watcher on Bewitched...I don't think that they can capture the (oh vey!) "magic" that was Elizabeth Montgomery....

Of course not. Today's actresses have niether the screen presence or the sex appeal Liz had.

Anyone else remember that Roswell episode "I Married an Alien" where Isabel imagines her life as a Bewitched style sitcom? I think Katherine Heigl would make a great Samantha.

 

[Warped9]

I always felt Bell, Book And Candle (with James Stewart and Kim Novak) was a more direct inspiration for Bewitched.