Which old TV show would succeed now

Random ideas just came to mind: The Prisoner, Murder She Wrote, and the Twilight Zone IF someone can be found to fill the role of Rod Serling (which is going to be a killer.)

The ITV reboot of The Prisoner was awful, despite some excellent ideas and sets, mainly because Cavaziel was appallingly wooden with all the charisma of a sock full of wet sand. Had they went for Hugh Laurie as Number Six they may have got away with it.

There's rumours that Murder She Wrote was getting a reboot.

I'd love to see remakes of the old BBC "Quatermass" serials, but done as 50s period pieces and with Micheal Kitchen in the lead role. If they followed it up with a remake of "A for Andromeda" in a similar style, I'd be well happy.
 
I would love to see a redoing of Blake's 7 with up-to-date FX.

That said...who'd play Avon?

No. Just no. The problem with any Blake reboot is that the only people who really understood how to write for the series are dead. It's not as simplistic a series as it looks. I doubt that any remake that didn't have Chris Boucher on board could work properly.

Besides, we've already had one reboot that's as close as we'll get - Farscape.
 
I'd love to see a new version of Callan (although La Femme Nikita comes close). Perhaps Edward Woodward and Russell Hunter are too closely associated with the roles?

Callan was really more of an answer to the flashy James Bond-esque stuff, much as The Ipress File was. It's time has passed and it's difficult to think of anyone who'd fit the role and not be compared to Edward Woodward. Besides, ITV did a one off reboot in the early 80s, called "Wet Job" and it was apparently dire.

ITV did something similar to Callan a few years back, but I can't remember the title.
 
I can't imagine anybody better than the original cast, but a reboot (or U.S. version) of "The Professionals" could be interesting.

And if it was done right (& the movie wasn't:eek:), updating "The Avengers" could work (tho more in the mold of Purdy & Gambit would be better, IMO, than Steed & Emma).
 
No. Just no. The problem with any Blake reboot is that the only people who really understood how to write for the series are dead. It's not as simplistic a series as it looks. I doubt that any remake that didn't have Chris Boucher on board could work properly.

I don't know - Big Finish have made a couple of seasons of Blake's 7 stories and at least the first season was pretty good.

Actually, over the past couple of years, Big Finish have been remaking a number of Sixties and Seventies TV series, including The Avengers, The Prisoner (re-imagining stories from the original series), The Omega Factor (the next generation) and Survivors (additional stories from the Seventies series featuring some of the original cast). Most of them work pretty well, though I have to say that The Prisoner doesn't quite have the same impact as the original series - probably because in that case the visuals played a large role in setting the atmosphere.


Cheers,
Nigel.
 
I don't know - Big Finish have made a couple of seasons of Blake's 7 stories and at least the first season was pretty good.

Actually, over the past couple of years, Big Finish have been remaking a number of Sixties and Seventies TV series, including The Avengers, The Prisoner (re-imagining stories from the original series), The Omega Factor (the next generation) and Survivors (additional stories from the Seventies series featuring some of the original cast). Most of them work pretty well, though I have to say that The Prisoner doesn't quite have the same impact as the original series - probably because in that case the visuals played a large role in setting the atmosphere.


Cheers,
Nigel.

There were some Blake's 7 plays or Radio 4 in the 1990s written by Barry Letts (IIRC) and starring most of the original cast. I thought they didn't work apart from when the teleport broke and produced two Avons.

Also I didn't think the rebooted version by Big Finish worked despite having some very good actors. However, some of the prequel stories with the original actors worked much better.

Not on topic because it was a radio programme, but I think its a pity that Aliens in the Mind only ran for one series. I'm surprised that Big Finish haven't resurrected that yet. Who would they find to replace Vincent Price and Peter Cushing?
 
Coach was being rebooted for next season but reportedly the Network suddenly backed out.

It would've featured Coach Fox coming out of retirement at the request of his son Timothy (and infant when the show ended) to coach his college football team.
 
Not on topic because it was a radio programme, but I think its a pity that Aliens in the Mind only ran for one series. I'm surprised that Big Finish haven't resurrected that yet. Who would they find to replace Vincent Price and Peter Cushing?

It was originally written as a story proposal for Doctor Who, specifically Troughton's last season, and titled "Aliens in the Blood". It was only supposed to be 4-6 episodes.
 
It was originally written as a story proposal for Doctor Who, specifically Troughton's last season, and titled "Aliens in the Blood". It was only supposed to be 4-6 episodes.

Fascinating! It's a pity that it was intended to be a one-off story because I thought Price and Cushing made an excellent team. One of my favourite Price of Fear stories is The Man Who Hated Scenes, which is the one Cushing appeared in.
 
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