Do they honestly think they’ll attract former viewers? They’re on a nostalgia trip, which would be fine, except these remakes are always full of modern mores, that ruin the original concepts. They ran out of decent ideas of their own, a long time ago.
On the other hand, millennials and younger don’t usually know any better, and THEY’RE the target audience, not us old people -— they couldn’t care less about what WE want.
I posted similar in a related thread.
These reboots seemingly are to attract the older viewers. Those viewers are well outside of the demographic advertisers prefer — 18 to 49.
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It does seem that only about 1 out of every 3 or 4 reboots manages to get beyond a second season.
I am well into the older demographic. I didn’t watch many of the shows being rebooted during their original runs and have no desire to watch the retooled versions.