I've always wondered why they couldn't make one episode that Columbo couldn't solve.
One that we the viewer could figure out, but he couldn't fit all the pieces together. If only just to be different.
I can’t figure out why advertisers and networks want so urgently to appeal to younger viewers and consumers, when it’s us boomers who have far more money to spend.
They wonder why their ratings suck. They want to cater to the young crowd, fine. Reality TV seems to be the only thing watched these days.
I will admit, I watch ‘Gene Simmons Family Jewels’ ;D!
That would certainly appeal to ABC's demographics...
Columbo was CSI before CSI was cool.
I can’t believe no one will take this project.
Well, I hope they find a company to do it, cuz I’ll definitiely watch.
Columbo has always been one my favorite characters.
Surprised that ABC wouldn’t want it.
Who’s the demographic that pays the cable bills, huh?
The writers missed a great opportunity... they should have had the elusive Mrs. Columbo materialize in one of the last episodes or movies. Not as some cheesy spin-off character (Kate Mulgrew), but as a special guest star, the bombshell Italian wife nobody would expect, played by Sophia Loren.
I guess the commercials they usually run with Bob the impotent on erectile dysfunction drugs, and ads for KY for the analists, and the herpes formula that doesnt stop you from passing herpes on but keeps down the sores dont go too good with the over 80 crowd.
I dont remember Columbo having queers and mixed blood couples on the show either ,and that is certainly a requirement these days. On todays shows at least one of the main characters has to be queer and another has to have mental problems. We all know all police shows have one detective with family or mental problems.
Maybe if they got a female butch type homosexual to play alongside Columbo they could sell the story. Columbo was also very non-racial. They didnt have many blacks playing the top cop. Maybe if they could make Columbo’s boss a black woman it would fly.
I can’t believe anyone cares. But, then, I ALWAYS hated that Columbo show. It was horrible TV in the first place. The writing was just not even to the level of a 5th grade plot!
If we never see this hackneyed show again it’ll be too soon.
Columbo is definitely different from today’s cop shows.
Look, I like CSI. I admit it. I have to watch every week...especially the Miami one.
But, today’s cop shows are so focused on how things get done with science and don’t involve the good-old fashioned detective work that the old shows had. The old shows’ focus on forensic science was.....fingerprints. That was it. Not even DNA was considered until the 90s gradually, and then boom, CSI hits and everything changes.
I am a young person just 24, but I enjoyed watching Columbo and Matlock when I was growing up as a real little boy in the 80s and early 90s.
Too bad we don’t have many of those pure reasoning detective shows left.
He could play a retired detective living in an assisted living center who is called on to help solve the mysterious death of an alzheimers patient who dies from a tainted drug overdose that was obtained thru the medicare prescription drug plan......
Well he just had a small part in ‘NEXT’ with Nicolas Cage. Seemed still able to handle the part.
80?? He’ll be 80? How does a guy who hung around with Cassavetes live to be 80?
He smokes cigars, drinks, he’s sexist (he always talks about “The boys back in the lab” ) he drives a car that causes global warming.
just one more thing...
that’s not a police dog, that’s a policeMANS dog.
It’s a lie that Columbo doesn’t appeal to young people.
Our son was touring Harvard several years ago and got to meet Peter Falk, who was there to receive their famous “Hasty Pudding” Award.
Young people adore him.