What TV show would you like to see rebooted with the original cast?

Think like Roseanne, where it just picks up years later.

Saw a discussion about this somewhere and thought it was interesting.

My pick was:

Millenium

Yeah, the third season went to poop, so let’s ignore that and bring back the gang, with his daughter full grown and with his power.

I’m just glad Twin Peaks S3 happened.

Firefly, of course. Duh.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Beauty and the Beast

Farscape. Muppets don't age. Neither does Claudia Black.

Cheers.

Edit: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaait, I got a way better idea: Wings.

Let's bring Bob Ross back for more of The Joy of Painting.

Unfortunately half the cast of Babylon 5 has died.

Fringe. I just want more Walter.

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Fringe. I just want more Walter.

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Robear wrote:

Firefly, of course. Duh.

I don't know. The older I get the more I think it's better off as one season and a movie. I'd have a hard time watching Adam Baldwin these days, given that IRL he seems to have all of Jane's intellect and toxicity, without any of his redemptive qualities.

For me, in terms of shows that didn't get the endings they deserved, Deadwood and Carnivale come to mind.

I wouldn't mind more Luther too, to give them a chance to do better by the character of Alice. Although that would require ignoring the final season.

Iridium884 wrote:

Farscape. Muppets don't age. Neither does Claudia Black.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. As long as we can pretend the mini series never happened.

Sopranos would be high on my list.

Rat Boy wrote:

Cheers.

Edit: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaait, I got a way better idea: Wings.

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Star Trek TNG is a great call.

I want more IT Crowd.

If anime counts, I would really like to see them finish Baccano!, I really enjoyed it and was quite bummed that it died mid-way through the second season IIRC. I just want to see how they were going to end the story lines. :*(

I think Fraiser would work, even though John Mahoney has passed away. I think the Fraiser/Niles interplay is strong enough.

While I like Everyone Loves Raymond, I don't think w/o Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts it would work.

Robear wrote:

Firefly, of course. Duh.

I don't think it would work. It's been fifteen years, so they're not a bunch of young, insanely beautiful people at loose ends anymore. They wouldn't still be on the Firefly, they'd have lives and careers and roots put down.

Now, animated Firefly with the original actors as voices, maybe set shortly after the movie? That could work, although I do kind of worry about Adam Baldwin. I'm not sure he'd get along with the rest of the cast all that well, any longer. He turned into a serious sh*thead.

Malor wrote:
Robear wrote:

Firefly, of course. Duh.

I don't think it would work. It's been fifteen years, so they're not a bunch of young, insanely beautiful people at loose ends anymore. They wouldn't still be on the Firefly, they'd have lives and careers and roots put down.

Now, animated Firefly with the original actors as voices, maybe set shortly after the movie? That could work, although I do kind of worry about Adam Baldwin. I'm not sure he'd get along with the rest of the cast all that well, any longer. He turned into a serious sh*thead.

he didn’t get along all that well with some of the cast the first time around, either.

Malor wrote:
Robear wrote:

Firefly, of course. Duh.

I don't think it would work. It's been fifteen years, so they're not a bunch of young, insanely beautiful people at loose ends anymore. They wouldn't still be on the Firefly, they'd have lives and careers and roots put down.

I'm sure Mal would never stop flying. New series starts with a lonely, jaded, weathered Mal getting the crew back together for a big job. The Serenity film is retconned so that Jayne was killed instead of Wash. I'd watch that.

ccoates wrote:

For me, in terms of shows that didn't get the endings they deserved, Deadwood and Carnivale come to mind.

I would really love more Carnivale. Such a brilliant show.

My first thought was they could do a season 6 of The Wire. Would be easier to pick up a few years later since it tended to drop and add characters over time. But it seems like many reboots of these acclaimed, well-regarded series can't match up and just taint the memory of the originals.

So, maybe I'd go with some more obscure shows that never got a chance the first time around. Brimstone and Max Headroom come to mind after thinking about it for a while.

Ugh, Firefly. No thanks. Baldwin aside that show is a monument to Joss Whedon's boner for fighting f*cktoys who are emotionally dependent on the men in their lives. I actually don't know if I can watch any of Whedon's stuff since I realised this.

I'm struggling to come up with any actual examples. I didn't really grow up with TV so I don't have any attachment to shows of the 80s and 90s unless I've seen them recently.

PaladinTom wrote:

Star Trek: The Next Generation

You may be getting that.

The new deal comes as rumblings about another Star Trek series, featuring Patrick Stewart reprising his role as Star Trek: The Next Generation's Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, have been getting louder. Sources say Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman, who left Discovery after season one, are attached to the Stewart-led reboot. CBS TV Studios declined to confirm the Stewart project as sources say a deal is far from completed and may not happen, despite the fact that the actor recently teased his potential return to the franchise.

*holds up boombox*

Now and Again

Though I wish they would pick up where they left off. Then again, the name would be meta of they didn't.

For me, I'd rather they leave Star Trek: The Next Generation as it is. That show was so full of wonder and hope, it's not made for times like these.

cheeze_pavilion wrote:

For me, I'd rather they leave Star Trek: The Next Generation as it is. That show was so full of wonder and hope, it's not made for times like these.

And for that reason I'd argue this is why we need this show back. Star Trek was best when it commented on the social issues of the time.

Let Picard and gang in their quasi living room non-military starship bridge visit planets devastated by global warming, dictators, etc and show the hope that we can overcome.

PaladinTom wrote:
cheeze_pavilion wrote:

For me, I'd rather they leave Star Trek: The Next Generation as it is. That show was so full of wonder and hope, it's not made for times like these.

And for that reason I'd argue this is why we need this show back. Star Trek was best when it commented on the social issues of the time.

Let Picard and gang in their quasi living room non-military starship bridge visit planets devastated by global warming, dictators, etc and show the hope that we can overcome.

That's the thing--the hope of TNG as I remember it was the hope of "things are good, but they could get better" rather than overcoming things being terrible. It's hope for a time of wonder, not a time of outrage.

I would say be careful what you wish for. Season 4 of Arrested Development kind of ruined the whole series for me. It used to be one of my favorite, go-to comfort shows but in Season 4 the evolution of the characters just gave me a bad taste in my mouth. I'd rather that they had never made it.

There were so many good shows that got the ax too early but I'm not sure that lightning strikes twice all that often.

MrDeVil909 wrote:

Ugh, Firefly. No thanks. Baldwin aside that show is a monument to Joss Whedon's boner for fighting f*cktoys who are emotionally dependent on the men in their lives. I actually don't know if I can watch any of Whedon's stuff since I realised this.

I can still thoroughly enjoy seasons 2-4 to maybe like 5.5 of Buffy, despite the fact that Buffy gets a lot of man drama and issues dumped on her. I attribute this to what feels like a lot of input from Espenson and Noxon.

I do not want a Buffy reboot or revival: SMG seems perfectly happy to retire young and very rich, ASH seems happy back home, Hannigan's doing her thing, Brendan is a goddamn wreck, Marsters seems eerily unaging but Boreanez was already losing that fight against time in Angel's last season, Benson and Caulfield got killed off, no one cares to see Blucas again, and the bridge with Carpenter seems to have been burned but good by Whedon's creepiness.

The Farscape revival I'd like would be very weird: some new Earpman gets sucked down a wormhole and wanders around in the wake of everything the crew has done, possibly with John and Aeryn's kid as a dubious ally. "This is where Mom and Dad blew up a moon..."

Avatar: The Last Airbender. We got a good amount of 'what happened' in The Legend of Korra, but I'd still be very happy to see some of the less monumental moments of the future lives of Aang and company.

Atras wrote:

Avatar: The Last Airbender. We got a good amount of 'what happened' in The Legend of Korra, but I'd still be very happy to see some of the less monumental moments of the future lives of Aang and company.

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Malor wrote:

Now, animated Firefly with the original actors as voices, maybe set shortly after the movie? That could work, although I do kind of worry about Adam Baldwin. I'm not sure he'd get along with the rest of the cast all that well, any longer. He turned into a serious sh*thead.

Animated Firefly would be cool. Sign me up.

Also, what happened with Adam Baldwin?