http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/08/tvs-history-o f-failed-remakes/243609/

I don't know if it's just me, but I can't open the link.

Page not found--but I will include Charlie's Angels in the remake mess :wave:

The new 90210 would be the one exception. It was just renewed for a fourth season.

Hawaii Five-0 is an exception too. Though even that isn't nearly the hit people thought it might be. It's solid enough though.

Not even the Wayback Internet Machine can help matters:

http://wayback.archive.org/web/



Nightstalker (2005)

Kojak (2005)

Fantasy Island (1998)

The Fugitive (2000)

Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998)

Get Smart (1995)

Dragnet (2003-04)

Family Affair crashed and burned! :eek:
The New Monkees :(

TV execs just never seem to learn!!! :crazy:

And the new version of Wonder Woman was canceled before it even aired.

There was a typo on the link. Here's the right link:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/08/tvs-history-of-failed-remakes/243609/

Remakes fail, but so do tons and tons of original series, so what's the difference?

Hawaii Five-O isn't a bad remake. It's not as good as the original but it's fun enough if you don't think about it as a remake. Most remakes are just awful though.

The new 90210 would be the one exception. It was just renewed for a fourth season.

True, a fourth season but it's still a flop by all means! It would've been cancelled ages ago on any other network.

Remakes fail, but so do tons and tons of original series, so what's the difference?

It is because of that word I underlined. At least the originals tried and failed on their own merit. Not trying to copy some successful show.

My husband has been saying for a few years that he thinks Hollywood has dried up. We need some family friendly sitcoms that are Really family friendly for a change!

I am sick of Reality TV.
(Example) There is a show that covers anything and everything and NOT just one Repo show.... how many now? At least 4! It goes on and on and on and on....
TV is in the toilet IMO.

I know there are thousands upon thousands who agree with me but the Networks don't care what we want.

I don't think there is a night where anything that is suitable for the entire family is on TV anymore. It's to the point that we seldom even turn it on, what is the point?
When our grandchildren are here we struggle to find a show their parents would approve of, you can't even trust the cartoons of today!

They continue to do remakes and just ruin them. I forgot how many remakes are in the works for this year...?
THEY know what we want, we want the original classics but NO, they offer a sorry remake instead.

I just wish someone would air the old classic shows on a network available to everyone. Tons of us want that but nobody listens. I know many people who no longer pay for cable or dish because nothing is on worth watching.

My husband has been saying for a few years that he thinks Hollywood has dried up. We need some family friendly sitcoms that are Really family friendly for a change!

I am sick of Reality TV.
(Example) There is a show that covers anything and everything and NOT just one Repo show.... how many now? At least 4! It goes on and on and on and on....
TV is in the toilet IMO.

I know there are thousands upon thousands who agree with me but the Networks don't care what we want.

I don't think there is a night where anything that is suitable for the entire family is on TV anymore. It's to the point that we seldom even turn it on, what is the point?
When our grandchildren are here we struggle to find a show their parents would approve of, you can't even trust the cartoons of today!

They continue to do remakes and just ruin them. I forgot how many remakes are in the works for this year...?
THEY know what we want, we want the original classics but NO, they offer a sorry remake instead.

I just wish someone would air the old classic shows on a network available to everyone. Tons of us want that but nobody listens. I know many people who no longer pay for cable or dish because nothing is on worth watching.

What's wrong with today's cartoons? What about Nickelodeon and Disney? They're family friendly.

My husband has been saying for a few years that he thinks Hollywood has dried up. We need some family friendly sitcoms that are Really family friendly for a change!

I am sick of Reality TV.
(Example) There is a show that covers anything and everything and NOT just one Repo show.... how many now? At least 4! It goes on and on and on and on....
TV is in the toilet IMO.

I know there are thousands upon thousands who agree with me but the Networks don't care what we want.

I don't think there is a night where anything that is suitable for the entire family is on TV anymore. It's to the point that we seldom even turn it on, what is the point?
When our grandchildren are here we struggle to find a show their parents would approve of, you can't even trust the cartoons of today!

They continue to do remakes and just ruin them. I forgot how many remakes are in the works for this year...?
THEY know what we want, we want the original classics but NO, they offer a sorry remake instead.

I just wish someone would air the old classic shows on a network available to everyone. Tons of us want that but nobody listens. I know many people who no longer pay for cable or dish because nothing is on worth watching.

I miss having good classic tv shows on basic cable as well but let's face the facts, if classic tv shows did as well as you think they would, there would be a network airing them. With the availability of so many classics on DVD or online, there's not a huge market for them. The ones that do well are the ones you see over and over.

I miss having good classic tv shows on basic cable as well but let's face the facts, if classic tv shows did as well as you think they would, there would be a network airing them. With the availability of so many classics on DVD or online, there's not a huge market for them. The ones that do well are the ones you see over and over.
It's because all these networks care about anymore is a fringe audience and reality tv is cheap even if the ratings aren't good. If it wasn't for sports I'd probably get rid of cable. It's not what it used to be.

My husband has been saying for a few years that he thinks Hollywood has dried up. We need some family friendly sitcoms that are Really family friendly for a change!

I am sick of Reality TV.
(Example) There is a show that covers anything and everything and NOT just one Repo show.... how many now? At least 4! It goes on and on and on and on....
TV is in the toilet IMO.

I know there are thousands upon thousands who agree with me but the Networks don't care what we want.

I don't think there is a night where anything that is suitable for the entire family is on TV anymore. It's to the point that we seldom even turn it on, what is the point?
When our grandchildren are here we struggle to find a show their parents would approve of, you can't even trust the cartoons of today!

They continue to do remakes and just ruin them. I forgot how many remakes are in the works for this year...?
THEY know what we want, we want the original classics but NO, they offer a sorry remake instead.

I just wish someone would air the old classic shows on a network available to everyone. Tons of us want that but nobody listens. I know many people who no longer pay for cable or dish because nothing is on worth watching.

1). The networks cave in to making reality shows b/c they refuse to shell out the big bucks to produce quality shows anymore.

2). What about Nickelodeon and Disney? They're family friendly.

Spongebob Squarepants is not THAT family-friendly. Some eps. lean towards crossing that line at times.

Okay, I should have said, You can't trust ALL of the cartoons that are on today.

There have been quite a few times the grandchildren were watching what we thought were just simple cartoons.
Maybe I'm just getting old but I never thought we had to be careful what cartoons kids watch today.

Back to the topic at hand:

Apparently the article poster hasn't seen the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone. That version ran for 2 seasons on CBS, before going on for another 1-2 more seasons in 1st-run syndication. And like the original TZ, the 80s TZ also didn't have monstrous ratings but did have stable ratings (at least in the 1st season) to warrant it for a few more seasons.

The 1980s version Alfred Hitchcock only ran for 1 season on NBC before humming on to the USA Network for another 2 or 3 seasons.

And the 2003 Dragnet lasted 2 seasons. The 1st season debuted midseason and the 2nd season was retooled to feature more of an emsemble cast.

A lot of revivals on network TV haven't worked since Dragnet '67 but on cable it's had a better success rate, thanks to the revival of Battlestar Galatica.

What's wrong with today's cartoons? What about Nickelodeon and Disney? They're family friendly.
It's not even only a matter of being family friendly or not,modern cartoons are junk.The older ones are 100 times better.Seriously I don't even know why they spend money making new cartoons when they can just show the many,many older cartoons.

It's not even only a matter of being family friendly or not,modern cartoons are junk.The older ones are 100 times better.Seriously I don't even know why they spend money making new cartoons when they can just show the many,many older cartoons.

I Agree! Even the ones they make for kids these days don't hold a candle to the ones they made when I was growing up, ESPECIALLY the ones made by Hanna-Barbara & Filmation. Many of those were taken off the air and replaced by the schlock they show these days thanks to Do-Gooder groups such as Action for Children's Television. They claimed many of these shows were either too violent, lacked any "Educational Value" or were "Overlong Commercials". They got the FCC to BAN many of them, only recently have I been able to see many of them again, some by bootleg DVDs.

Regulus,I tell ya television in America has gone totally insane. And what a joke the FCC has become.

I agree!

It's not even only a matter of being family friendly or not,modern cartoons are junk.The older ones are 100 times better.Seriously I don't even know why they spend money making new cartoons when they can just show the many,many older cartoons.

Just as with classic TV, classic cartoons wouldn't be popular with the current generation of kids. You may find the new cartoons to be "junk," but the millions of kids that watch them would say otherwise. Times change. What we found to be entertaining as children is not going to be entertaining to today's children. That's just reality.

There was a Adam-12 Remake only last two seasons from IMDB.com

from 1990-1991

Just as with classic TV, classic cartoons wouldn't be popular with the current generation of kids. You may find the new cartoons to be "junk," but the millions of kids that watch them would say otherwise. Times change. What we found to be entertaining as children is not going to be entertaining to today's children. That's just reality.

Yes it is certainly Reality but as parents and grandparents we have the right to decide if we want our children exposed to some of the junk/trash they offer kids today. I also realize that one mans trash is another man's treasure. I don't try to tell anyone else what to watch, just expressing how I feel about what we watch.

Not all of it's bad but there is certainly quite a bit on TV that is not fit for children. JMHO

Hawaii Five-O isn't a bad remake. It's not as good as the original but it's fun enough if you don't think about it as a remake. Most remakes are just awful though.
I had enough of the remake after three episodes. These hacks had to redo this great theme 'cause the critics thought their first version was crap.

BTW, there's a 1997 sequel pilot with new main characters and old ones including Danno as state governor mentioning he was the former head of Five-O.