In the wake of the success of BSG a whole bunch of TV shows are getting the remake treatment. But which ones have been overlooked or which ones do you think deserve to be remade and why?
I’ll start by suggesting Red Dwarf, hands down the best Sci-Fi comedy show ever made. The cast are now too old to carry on and to be honest the last two seasons were way below the quality of the others. I think there is a ton of great writers out there now who could do a fantastic job with the remake; especially if they used the first book as source material to start with.
Can’t say I’m dying to see it but they might actually be making more Red Dwarf with the original cast.
Agree that adapting the novels (maybe as a movie?) might be an interesting idea. But the thing about most of the best british comedy is that they’re usually the writers’ babies, and somehow it doesn’t feel right to farm a show out to other writers just because. Most US attempts at remaking UK shows are dreadful.
The Prisoner remake had Sir Ian Mckellen in it but yeah it tanked. Thing is BSG proves it can be done it just needs to be done with care. I think if they did remake Red Dwarf it would have to be British writers or the chaps that do the US office.
I know the genre is already old and tired, but I would love to see a remake of The Greatest American Hero. The concept of an everyman with a liberal philosophy given a suit that grants him super abilities who then loses the instruction manual so that he has to figure out how to use the suit through trial and error has a lot of potential. Pair him up with an ultra-conservative CIA agent, and there’s just a treasure trove of possibilities.
Originally Posted by Don S.View Post I know the genre is already old and tired, but I would love to see a remake of The Greatest American Hero. The concept of an everyman with a liberal philosophy given a suit that grants him super abilities who then loses the instruction manual so that he has to figure out how to use the suit through trial and error has a lot of potential. Pair him up with an ultra-conservative CIA agent, and there’s just a treasure trove of possibilities.
I’d watch that in an instant.
EDIT: Also, I’ve been thinking Blake’s 7 could do with an update. It was pretty bleak and nihilistic for its time, but the problem today would be making it stand out from all the other space bandits on the run type shows (Farscape, Firefly, even Battlestar Galactica). I think the key would be in embracing its Britishness and giving it to a showrunner like Steven Moffatt or Mark Gatiss.
Quantum Leap is such an open premise and such a solid, sci-fi concept, it could withstand any more number of Dr Who-esque re-castings, as more scientists step into the quantum leap accelerator (and vanish) perhaps to find Sam Beckett. Wasn’t it mooted some time ago that this exact concept was going to go ahead with Beckett’s daughter going looking for him? I don’t about that one specifically, but the potential for a continuation of the core concept is certainly there.
What I liked about Quantum leap what the premise that you could only leap within your own lifetime. That is what set it apart from other time travel shows.
Originally Posted by Ken SavageView Post What I liked about Quantum leap what the premise that you could only leap within your own lifetime. That is what set it apart from other time travel shows. So yeah, as you say it’s ripe for reknewal.
Didn’t they screw that up in the last season?I could have sworn Beckett leaped into a Civil War relative at one point.
Originally Posted by bigbrotherView Post Didn’t they screw that up in the last season?I could have sworn Beckett leaped into a Civil War relative at one point.
They actually tried to justify that through genetics, that something affected the leap and had Sam going into people with a similar enough genetic code or some such. I think Quantum leap would be great also.
Originally Posted by cheftournelView PostThe Highwayman. Give it a no-holds barred, ultra-violent treatment, and elaborate on the dystopian aspects of the setting. Also, Steven Moffat should get working on his version of the British classic Dick Turpin, stat.
There was a show I watched (and loved) as a wee fella called Smuggler. It was set during the Colonial/Napoleonic era, if I remember correctly (8 or so was a damn long time ago now!), and although the majority of the plots and storylines went over my young head, it totally captivated me. I’d love to see something like that on TV again. I also remember it actually got followed up with a sequel called Adventurer, which was set around the discovery/colonization of the Pacific region (NZ, Polynesia etc). If I remember correctly, Temuera Morrison scored his first acting role on that show (which was a big deal at the time, as he was the son of NZ entertainment legend Howard Morrison).