# Shows That Need a Reboot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [August 8, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242 "2021-08-08T17:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/122 "2021-10-26T16:39:57Z")
The idea of “rebooting” a sketch comedy show doesn’t make any sense to me. Same with variety or anthology series. Rebooting something like Star Trek makes sense, because the audience is invested in the characters as much (if not more) than the actors, and there’s an appeal in seeing Captain Kirk do more stuff, even if it’s not William Shatner playing him. But that doesn’t apply to something like MPFC, or The Twilight Zone. Monty Python was the output of five specific, highly talented comedians. You could get a different five highly talented comedians to put on a surrealistic sketch comedy series, but even if it’s really, really good, that’s never going to be Monty Python in any sense other than a cynical corporate branding sense. And if the members are that good, they’re going to want to do their own thing anyway, and not work under the shadow of the original group. It’d be like rebooting the Beatles. How would an entirely unrelated group of people, creating entirely new music, be “The Beatles” in any way other than in trademark law? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/123 "2021-10-26T17:06:31Z")
_Airwolf_? One of the great theme songs. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/124 "2021-10-26T17:14:27Z")
Yeah, the subtle humor was nice, but later he was too much of a con-man. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/125 "2021-10-26T17:47:18Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Monty Python was the output of five specific, highly talented comedians. You could get a different five highly talented comedians to put on a surrealistic sketch comedy series, but even if it’s really, really good, that’s never going to be Monty Python in any sense other than a cynical corporate branding sense. And if the members are that good, they’re going to want to do their own thing anyway, and not work under the shadow of the original group. Isn’t Monty Python generally considered to be six people? Terry Gilliam didn’t appear on screen as often as the rest, but was still a full member of the troupe. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/126 "2021-10-26T17:47:58Z")
Yeah, my bad. I miscounted in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/127 "2021-10-26T19:02:45Z")
**Liquid Television** should come back, it was really just a collection of pilots and animator graduation projects so there’d be little production cost. There was something so raw about it. I get that YouTube has DUST and Omeleto, but they’re just not the same. Also, a good science show aimed at children, Mr. Wizard, Beakman’s World, Bill Nye, I don’t care, just something I can watch with my kids that gets them excited about science and the world around them. Ditto, Where In The World is Carmen Sandiago? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/128 "2021-10-26T19:36:00Z")
I’d like to see a Firefly spinoff called _Badger_ featuring Mark Sheppard as the lovable rogue Badger and his adventures dealing with everything from Alliance goons to bad spaceship captains. If we could have some old Firefly characters show up in cameos. great. Even better, set it fifteen years into the future from the Serenity movie, and add Adam Baldwin to the cast: The Serenity crew has broken up, and Jayne now works as muscle for Badger. A Jayne/Badger team could be a hoot. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/129 "2021-10-26T23:08:56Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > _Land of the Lost_ could use a serious reboot. A sci-fi drama version - I refuse to recognize the Will Ferrell movie as anything but a comedy banking on the name. And a bigger budget, so the Sleestax tech could be more than just moving crystals around in a zen garden to open time portals. Like _Lost In Space_ has gotten? Hell yeah, I would watch that! Netflix, are you listening? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/130 "2021-10-27T12:34:14Z")
id like to see a reboot of millennium but with the daughter who had the same abilities shed be a fugitive on her own against a resurgent millennium group … ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/131 "2021-10-27T13:19:51Z")
I’d like to see a new something like James Burke’s **Connections** or **The Day the Universe Changed**. True, they had **Connections[sup]2[/sup]** and **Connections[sup]3[/sup]** on The Learning Channel, but those were back in the 1990s! Certainly someone else could come up with new things if Burke wasn’t interested (and Burke himself has written several Connections-like books since then, including **Circles** and **American Connections** and **Twin Tracks** ). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/132 "2021-10-27T18:46:09Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > id like to see a reboot of millennium but with the daughter who had the same abilities shed be a fugitive on her own against a resurgent millennium group … Would this be set just before the year 3000? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/133 "2021-10-27T19:41:15Z")
Richard Hammond has a series called ‘Engineering Connections’ that is very similar. It’s available on streaming. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242/134 "2021-10-27T20:01:01Z")
Yeah, you’re right. Rebooting a sketch comedy show is a dumb idea because it would be an entirely different product, sharing nothing from the original, apart from the format and name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-need-a-reboot/948242.md?page=6)