Well they re did Captain Scarlet, a Thunderbirds remake is in the works, so who knows maybe Stingray will be next. It might work provided thoigh don't try to Americanise it like the live action Thunderbirds movie.
TV shows yet to be remade/rebooted...
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Well they re did Captain Scarlet, a Thunderbirds remake is in the works, so who knows maybe Stingray will be next. It might work provided thoigh don't try to Americanise it like the live action Thunderbirds movie.
I am waiting on the reboot of ALF.
Wow, corny!
They should have done what Falling Skies did - start right in the middle of the action, with the Robinsons in a spaceship on their way to wherever, happy to be embarked on an amazing adventure and then about 4 or 5 minutes after the show starts, WHAMMO, something happening that pushes them catastrophically off-course. I'd have their whole part of the convoy wiped out, so that the rest of the colonists might assume they're dead. Then it all becomes an emergency survival situation, and the premiere ends with them landing somewhere, where it's questionable whether they'd survive.
They can handle the backstory stuff later, when we already know the characters and the talky scenes are interesting for their sake. Adrianne Palicki was good, anyway. The lab with the robot - ugh! I think they could have done a better job with that in the 60s.
The characters don't seem the kinds of people who would be the first space colonists. You'd think there would be millions jumping at that chance, and not bitching about it and having to be dragged along. Like a farming colony in space would be boring.
They would also need to be far more special in their attitude and abilities than this very average-seeming family.And I'm surprised that's from 2003. It looks like something from the 80s.
I agree that Alien Nation has a lot of potential that the television series was never able to explore because of cancellation, and the movie was never able to explore because of a general lack of ambition. Tim Minear was attached to a remake a few years ago for the SyFy Channel, but nothing came of it.
It might be interesting to see the ticking time premise of 24 applied to a series that tackled something a little different than the war on terror.
It might be interesting to see the ticking time premise of 24 applied to a series that tackled something a little different than the war on terror.
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I didn't mind it, until it became just another CIS clone with a group of investigators doing stuff. It forgot that the original show was simply about Friday and his partner. And as I recall near the end they pretty much pushed Friday to the background which kind of defeated the purpose of the exercise.
I'd go with that, but only if a few conditions were met:
1. That whoever does it - and this includes producers, writers and cast - have respect for the original series. I did not get that sense with the Bionic Woman remake and it's one of the reasons why it didn't work.
2. There's no excuse to not use Martin Caidin's source material this time. I'd like to see the series adhere closer to the original novel and its premise. Plus it would be great to go into some of the more extreme uses of bionics Caidin postulated in his final Steve Austin novel, Cyborg IV, which saw Austin's consciousness implanted into a next-generation jet fighter, creating a new form of Cyborg. I love the old show to pieces, but if a new series gave us more plots like this and fewer Bigfoot-style stories, a new SMDM would work.
3. Make Steve be the only bionic man for at least 2 seasons before introducing another Barney Hiller or Jamie Sommers. Big problem I had with the remake of BW was the fact they immediately removed any notion of Jamie being unique by having Katee Sackoff's character around.
4. No Oscar Goldman = no sale. Cast Miquel Ferrer again by all means, but this time as the real deal, no watered down analog.
Alex
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Yevetha
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Who cares about fanbase? I mean I don't think the actual Battlestar Galactica fanbase was that big, back in the early 2000s when remakes/continuations were faffing about like flies in some kind of clever metaphor. The issue is more, I guess, how well the show performed Back In The Day when we're talking remakes, since the target of a remake is the general audience or new viewers, not fans of the original (who may get some winks and nods anyway).
I have the vague feeling Alf was a success because I remember it being kind of... big-ish in my early years of life. And that Simpsons joke about 'Alf... in pog form!' seems to be sum up my childhood detritus rather nicely.
A DNA-modified human society future ala Gattaca as a police produral series like Alien Nation (TV series)
Gattaca series on TV -as a dramatic police procedural
Gattaca series on TV -as a dramatic police procedural