A good chunk of the cast of Gilligan’s island is dead, so I’m not sure how you’d do a revival.
The various Friends have had kind of middiling careers. I imagine they could be convinced to do a new show. Ditto Seinfeld, though Jerry seems pretty content to make webisodes and swim in his giant vault of money.
Now that we have CGI, maybe some studio will think they can do a Manimal that won’t suck. It will suck anyway.
I also have a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that somebody may be contemplating a revival of The Love Boat. As a special twist, the captain will be black, the cruise director will be a gay man, and the doctor will be a woman. The bartender will be a wise-cracking black woman. Wanda Sykes will wisely turn down the role. The purser will be the only white guy, and they’ll try to get some known actor for the role, maybe either a stand-up comic, or someone who was a kid actor in the 80s. (Josh Saviano, call your agent!)
… starring Captain Schettino of the Costa Concordia.
The Time Tunnel – they might even be able to make a decent show out of it,
Sea Hunt
Flipper – maybe this time with a killer whale?
Magnum PI
Yeah. Maybe one of them can even be persuaded to star in one of these misguided revivals. I can totally see David Schwimmer as a gay cruise director. Or Courteney Cox as the mother on One Day at a Time. Not Matthew Perry, though; he was always the smart one.
Cheers would never get made (or remade) today because it featured older characters and wasn’t “about” anything. It had no hook. If you pitched a show as “It’s about the characters in a bar in Boston.” Network execs would just laugh it away.
The Chevy Chase Show
Not a revival so much as a recasting. As a point of fact, every one of those shows I mentioned had casts that are all (or mostly all) dead by now.
Recasting GI would be a real challenge, I will admit.
I actually would love a Friends revival in about 10 years called “Old Friends”
Yea, I kinda like the idea as well. There are a million Friends-Clones on TV now, it would kind of be fun to have the original come back as a show that shows where all those witty single Manhattenite 20-somethings end up after thirty years.
Plus the cast is a good fit for a revival, since none of them has been so successful post-friends that a TV show couldn’t afford them, while at the same time none of them has completely burned out or disappeared. I think they’re all still working, even.
Get Smart
Except now, instead of working for CONTROL, Max works for the Secret Service.
Ripped from the headlines, I tell ya!
Starring Bob Odenkirk!
With a movie under their belts, I could see them trying to do Maverick and the A-Team again on the teevee.
I think I’d actually like to see a Rockford Files revival. Is James Garner still kicking around? He could do cameos!
Dawn Wells and Tina Louise in a fight to the death on a deserted Island? They’ve been there so long they’ve gone feral, maybe there could be a bit of a Lost vibe, except they actually answer questions.
I think a revival of F Troop, this time set in Afghanistan, would have potential…
Life with Elizabeth, a show about a 93-year-old woman whose husband died 45 years ago who has decided to start dating again now that enough time has passed. It stars Betty White:
How about Small Wonder with this sort of dark twist. Anyone? I guess it was pretty creep enough to begin with…
How about Star Trek: The Next Next Generation, following the Pine/Quinto/Saldana reboot with a new Jean-Luc Picard; I’m thinking James McAvoy in a bald cap?
The Cosby Show. With lots of guest actresses and scenes set on the couch.
Unfortunately, no. Passed away on 19 July last year:
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As for Time Tunnel, a reboot pilot was shot some time ago. It was dismal.
