Posted on 11/15/2018 12:39:41 PM PST by EdnaMode
What is dead may never die.
This is a religious oath recited often by the people of the Iron Islands on Game of Thrones. It is also increasingly the guiding ethos of Hollywood development, where any familiar title, no matter how sacrosanct it might have once seemed, is ripe for a sequel, a prequel, a reboot or all of the above. This includes Game of Thrones itself, which is due to end next year but has a prequel in active development, and several other potential spinoffs waiting in the wings if that one works out OK.
Showbiz has been gripped with Zombie TV fever for years. Revivals and remakes are seen as an easy way to cut through the clutter of a universe with hundreds of original scripted shows airing each year: Oh look, heres Will and Grace are swapping banter like they always did, Roseanne and Jackie arguing in the kitchen (until a few too many racist tweets). Sometimes, these continuations turn out to be great, like large chunks of Twin Peaks: The Return. At others, they can be flawed in ways that make the audience reconsider the original shows legacy. (Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, for instance, had a lot of fans asking if Rory was always so awful, or had just become that way as an adult.)
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Where is Cousin Oliver today?
Including the knock offs?
There is a reason the originals ended:
Loss of interest caused low ratings and/or a lack of material.
Rebooting them may regenerate some short-term interest, but is usually short-lived.
All I needed to consider was that it had Jamie Foxx in it. Adios!
Fathom Events and TCM ran it for November.
It is worth checking to see if the event is on and in your area.
Sometime I will join backlot of TCM.
Dude! Spoilers!
One of the few things I like about Christmas anymore.
For the most part, I gave up on Christmas years ago. Stress, misery,endless dumb events I had to sit through, and general depression.
I find it sad that I had to read replies way down until I read your contribution.
In just a few works, regarding “lack of creative people” you put the entire TRUTH in a mere few words.
Good going, darn it!!
One of many.
I’ve been watching reruns of Alice a lot lately.
One of my favorites.....................
This time, don’t stow it!
Kiss my grits!....................
Soylent Green is people!
It's a cookbook!
The butler did it.
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Bruce Wayne is Batman!
Hey, drug dealers have to launder money. What better way than re-boots?
Yea, Id pay real money to see someone coldcock some lowlife presstitute on live TV.
I would watch reboot of Gilligan’s Island and Gunsmoke and Charlie’s Angels and some others as long as there were no SJW scripts and women are in bikini’s and shorts and revealing outfits. Like the old days....
You're right - Hollywood doesn't have options in the matter. They lack the talent to do anything new - so they copy and feed-off creative people from the past - dead vehicles for their modern hatred... pathetic posers...
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