[EdnaMode]

Greatest American Hero (with a female lead) is also being rebooted. Network TV stinks!

[ifinnegan]

What’s weird is this rebooting is probably better than what they could come up with on their own.

[Shadowstrike]

No way! Selleck WAS/ IS Magnum...C&L didn't watch it the first time won't know.

[Bryanw92]

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).

[LYDIAONTARIO]

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?

[TomServo]

including reboots..

We're outta original ideas...

[bigbob]

Zero
Creativity

[mass55th]

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.

[Rummyfan]

Magnum P.I..... all that matters is who is playing Magnum. Well?

[Leaning Right]

I think they should bring back that ABC series "Cavemen". Only seven episodes were ever aired. I always wondered if those lovable rascals ever got their car insured.

[faithhopecharity]

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....

[LostInBayport]

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

[wally_bert]

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.

[FrankR]

And, after those capture the public, there will be:

Captain Kangaroo
Alley McBeal
The Waltons
The Real McCoys
THe Adventures of Tom Terrific

[BenLurkin]

Well, to be fair The guy who had the lead in that show was not exactly a manly-man.

[gaijin]

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)

[exit82]

Recycling old shows is proof there is no longer creativity in Hollywood.

[Rastus]

“Cagney and Lacey” will follow the titular female police detectives

Dat’s sexist.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

No, Meg Foster played Cagney.

[DesertRhino]

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.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

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.