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Isn’t this Jordan Peele the guy who said recently he would not cast any white people in leads in anything he was going to do?

I have CBS All Access and tried watching the promo for this new show, I thought it was terrible.

I think this is the second time they have tried to do this, the last time was basically taking the same Rod Serling stories and updating them, they even had a radio show narrated by Stacy Keach, Jr., and that was actually pretty good.

Personally I would rather watch the originals with Rod Serling, they people on those show were great actors and a lot of up and coming stars before they got big.

I will not be watching the reboot.

>> I think this is the second time they have tried to do this, the last time was basically taking the same Rod Serling stories and updating them <<

Third time. They first revived the show in the mid 80s after the success of Twilight Zone: The Movie (although Twilight Zone: The Movie is quite different in tone and style from the 80s TV series). Then they tried again from 2002-2003 on UPN, with Forrest Whittaker as host. Now they're trying on See BS All Access with Jordan Peele.

All the previous revivals had new, original episodes with a handful of remakes of the original Serling episodes thrown in. They've actually made the episode "Dead Man's Shoes" 3 times (in 1959, in 1986, and in 2002. They're already announced one of the new episodes will be a remake of "Nightmare of 20,000 Feet" so now we're getting a third version of that. IMO it will be impossible to top the '83 version with John Lithgow. They'd also have to do something drastically different like change the ending since I assume most viewers will be familiar with that episode by now.

For the most part, however, about 80% of the episodes are new, original stories.

I will give it a look since Alex Kurtzman, who has utterly destroyed every franchise he's touched (from Spider-Man to Universal Monsters to Star Trek) thankfully seems to have nothing to do with one. But I refuse to pay for All Access and I think there's a good chance that Twilight Zone will follow the SJW trend (e.g. this episode shows how bad "homophobia" is and so on)