Posted on 01/26/2018 6:22:58 PM PST by EdnaMode
CBS picked up six pilots for the 2018-2019 season, including reboots of “Cagney and Lacey” and “Magnum P.I.”
“Magnum P.I.” is described as an updated version of the original series that follows Thomas Magnum, a decorated ex-Navy SEAL who, upon returning home to Hawaii from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator. Tom Selleck played the mustachioed Magnum in the original series.
Peter Lenkov, the writer and producer behind current CBS reboots of “Hawaii Five-O” and “MacGyver,” will serve as the writer and executive producer on the new version of the classic 1980s series, which had previously gotten a pilot production commitment at the network. Eric Guggenheim, an executive producer and writer on Lenkov’s “Hawaii Five-O,” will also write and executive produce. John Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment will also executive produce. CBS Television Studios will co-produce with Universal Television.
“Cagney and Lacey” will follow the titular female police detectives and friends as they keep the streets of L.A. safe. Bridget Carpenter will serve as writer and executive producer. CBS Television Studios will produce with MGM Television.
Carpenter, who is under an overall deal at CBS Television Studios, recently worked as a consulting producer on HBO’s “Westworld” and has previously produced and written shows like “Friday Night Lights” and “Parenthood.” She also developed the Hulu series “11.22.63.”
The original “Cagney and Lacey” ran for seven seasons and 125 episodes on CBS from 1982 to 1988. The series also spawned four made-for-TV movies in the mid-90s. Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly played the title roles for the vast majority of the series, though Loretta Swit played Cagney in the original two-hour pilot and Meg Foster played Lacey for the first season.
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What’s weird is this rebooting is probably better than what they could come up with on their own.
Oh great. More reboots “adjusted” for the 21st Century.
Let’s see....
Magnum PI: black, shaved head, and gay?
Cagney and Lacey: one black cis-female and one almost-caucasian pre-op trans-female (post-op in Season 2, with a developing lesbian plot line between the two).
I tried watching the new Hawaii Five-0 when it came out. The cute guy was always taking off his shirt...I guess they fought crime, too?
We're outta original ideas...
Zero
Creativity
LOL. That’s probably a good bet.
Rebooted programs I never watched to begin with. It’s actually good news though...more time to watch Netflix programming, and the piles of British shows I’ve downloaded over the years.
What about “B.J. and The Bear”?
Absolutely. Rebooting will be a bust.
And Supertrain...
Manimal...
Magnum PI was 98 percent the stage personalities of Selleck and his “englishman”
it will be very difficult to put just any other good actors in those roles....
Man from Atlantis
I’d want Sherriff Lobo again and this time stay in Orly county.
The Atlanta move was dumb.
I watched at most 5 minutes of the new H50 and gave up.
The O-riginal is still the best.
Magnum is a show I could take or leave. It never did much for me.
Simon & Simon was a favorite of mine.
On one hand I am repulsed at this crapping on great shows like Magnum by arrogant Hollywood types who think they can outdo classics. Magnum was lightning in a bottle, and they won’t recapture it with a transgender Higgins and a lesbian T.C. while millennial Magnum traces bad guys in his red Prius.
But on the other hand I take satisfaction in guessing why they are doing all of these revivals and revisions. The networks, who rely on cable, have lost millions and millions of viewers over the past decade, and they are desperate for some hook to draw people back. They see their end on the horizon. This is panic, and it will not work. Heh heh
That was tried at or near the end of the original series.
I watched a little and gave up.
GAH was a good series overall. I liked the episode where Ralph was in the haunted house and the suit showed it had weaknesses.
A classic.
Three blonde girls and three dark haired boys.
Wait.
That was that other show.
The Streets of San Francisco.
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