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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And, after those capture the public, there will be:
Captain Kangaroo
Alley McBeal
The Waltons
The Real McCoys
THe Adventures of Tom Terrific
Did you see McGarrett’s obnoxious mother? A world traveling CIA agent who can whip twenty men at once. These shows are such drivel. Constant male kissing. Constant women dressed like men....Horrible drek.
Simon&Simon had a great theme song!
I liked the first opening better with the slide show/dissolves.
The Power Wagon was about a macho TV vehicle as any and always loved it.
I have seen only a handful of that era or close Dodge 4WDs in SC ever.
Zero
Creativity
including reboots..
We’re outta original ideas...
About 3 decades ago when one of our adult children was a teenager and a junior in high school.
He wrote an Essay titled “Nothing New on TV and in books published that year. He documented how basically every tv show was a rip off of a previous tv show, a movie or a book.
His English teacher gave him a C for lack of reality and poor research. I challenged her and she gave him a B.
Years and decades later she apologized to him and I. She said that he was on target then and later.
I will be sending her an email about these exciting new ripoffs of old tv shows.
I missed seeing the mother. Kono the super surfer girl was enough!
Well, to be fair The guy who had the lead in that show was not exactly a manly-man.
REMAKE
TC: “Whoo-hoo, oh Magnum, baby...!!!”
(chopper buzzes down, lisping black pilot in shades and short-shorts waves with a flourish to an oiled-up, muscular mustachioed male mincing over)
Magnum: “Ya fly in the extra nice drapes..?” (rolls eyes)
Supertrain might dominate the California viewing market this time.
Sheriff Lobo had a great theme song in the first season, sung by the great Frankie Lane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5IOGokQf5A
They ruined the show when they moved Sheriff Lobo to Atlanta and dumped Frankie’s song for a generic version of “Georgia on My Mind.”
Streets Of SF was a great show, probably one of QM’s best.
I met Perkins at some show when I was a kid and got his autograph.
He was always out to get college boy.
The new H 5-0 stunk from the first episode.
Except his name won't be TC. They will change it to TS ( short for transsexual ).
My sister had a crush on Bobby Sherman so we always had to watch Here Come The Bribes.
No. That was Hillary Clinton.
Recycling old shows is proof there is no longer creativity in Hollywood.
I didn’t like when they replaced Downtown Brown, though.
It did better than Police Squad.
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