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‘Magnum PI,’ ‘Cagney and Lacey’ Reboots Among Six Pilot Orders at CBS
Variety ^ | January 26, 2018 | Joe Otterson

Posted on 01/26/2018 6:22:58 PM PST by EdnaMode

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To: EdnaMode

No, Meg Foster played Cagney.


41 posted on 01/26/2018 7:01:05 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (DACAs: badly spoiled housepets who aren't housebroken)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I only saw a few episodes but I rooted for Wo Fat!


42 posted on 01/26/2018 7:03:07 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: wally_bert

Simon & Simon was fun.


43 posted on 01/26/2018 7:03:18 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: wally_bert

What about “Sledgehammer!”


44 posted on 01/26/2018 7:03:23 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: EdnaMode

They’ll screw up Magnum PI. They’ll fill it full of stunts and shootouts. And worst of all, it will be completely devoid of the wry sense of humor that was pervasive in the original and made it so fun.


45 posted on 01/26/2018 7:03:29 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Shadowstrike

They’ll probably use a Tesla as the PC Ferrari stand-in.


46 posted on 01/26/2018 7:03:43 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: dfwgator

It deserved a couple more seasons.

Sledge was great comedy.

Doreau was very pretty.


47 posted on 01/26/2018 7:07:08 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: LostInBayport

It ain’t going to be a Prius.... It’s going to be a Chevy volt


48 posted on 01/26/2018 7:07:16 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

On Perfect Strangers, Cousin Larry said he could do a Cagney impersonation and proceeded to badly imitate him with, “You dirty rat! You killed my brother.” Balki said, “Cousin, that was a wonderful Cagney! Now, can you do Lacey?”


49 posted on 01/26/2018 7:07:51 PM PST by Rastus
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To: LYDIAONTARIO

Wo Fat got a lousy ending in the old series but the show was about out of steam.


50 posted on 01/26/2018 7:08:16 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: LYDIAONTARIO

“I guess they fought crime, too?”

Hate to say this, but that was the premise of the old show. My wife wasn’t aware there was dialogue until I said something about it in the last year. She said, “There’s sound?”

This had nothing to do with acting or story line. It was Hawaiian coast and topless Tom Selleck. And more than half of the audience were women glued to the TV screen, literally.

rwood


51 posted on 01/26/2018 7:09:51 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: EdnaMode

They are liable to remake Combat! with a woman in the Vic Morrow role of Sgt. Chip Saunders leading a squad of all genders and sexual orientaion in World War II.


52 posted on 01/26/2018 7:09:57 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: LostInBayport
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 figure it worked once, why can't it work again? Nothing succeeds like success. But yeah, I think they are rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

53 posted on 01/26/2018 7:10:09 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Bryanw92

“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).”

It wouldn’t surprise me one bit.


54 posted on 01/26/2018 7:11:23 PM PST by aquila48
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To: EdnaMode

Talk about out of ideas. I just came across this channel on ROKU called the Pilot Channel. It is pilot episodes of shows that were made into series and those that were not. Some of the ones not picked up look kind of interesting.

If TV needs some ideas they need to go back and look at rejected pilots to see what might work today.


55 posted on 01/26/2018 7:13:34 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: wally_bert

My football coach had a Dodge Ramcharger that looked like the one in Lone Wolf McQuade. Same color, had the push bar on the front, but didn’t have the light bar up top.


56 posted on 01/26/2018 7:13:44 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: EdnaMode

Greatest American Hero (with a female lead) is also being rebooted.


Didn’t they already try this?


57 posted on 01/26/2018 7:15:44 PM PST by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: gaijin

From what you describe, it sounds like they casted obama as T.C.


58 posted on 01/26/2018 7:16:10 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: LYDIAONTARIO

How about a reboot of Tenspeed and Brownshoe??????


59 posted on 01/26/2018 7:16:30 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: EdnaMode; All
This thread is USELESS without pictures!

60 posted on 01/26/2018 7:17:00 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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