I just had a horrible thought about the Veronica Mars return; what if it’s just an ad campaign for Australian tourism?
Turbo Boost! Digital displays! LEDs flickering and flashing on the car body! It’d be like nothing they’ve ever seen before!
Props to Stuart Margolin, too.
It might be tough to get Cicely these days. The Man in the High Castle also films in Roslyn, WA.
Along with Brideshead Revisited Revisited.
Problem is, we can’t afford Mark Ruffalo as Al to Domhnall Gleeson as Sam.
Green Acres
*Sick of cut-throat life in Silicon Valley, successful software designer, Oliver Wendell Douglas buys a run down marijuana farm from con-man, Eustace Haney, much to his ditsy wife, Lisa’s chagrin.
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Cast:
Oliver Douglas: Jason Bateman
Lisa Douglas: Lisa Kudrow
Eb Dawson: Sean Hayes
Mr. Haney: Jon Lovitz
Sam Drucker: Christopher Llyod
Hank Kimball: Norm McDonald
Fred Ziffel: Dave Chappelle
Arnold Ziffel: This guy
Hank Kimball: Ty Burell
Ralph Monroe: Kristen Schaal
Alf Monroe: Jermaine Klement
I will always hold out for The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. But where to get someone like Bruce Campbell to star?
Similarly, I would have said Arrested Development, but I haven’t been all that impressed with its revival on Netflix.
*Seinfeld *with original cast is too obvious. I think it could work if it were done in vein of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but since we’ve already had Curb, it’s probably best to just leave it.
I saw some of the new Murphy Brown and thought it was not funny, so maybe sitcoms are just not good candidates for this.
I like the suggestions for *Firefly *and Quantum Leap. Would be nice to keep original casts, maybe do a 10 episode Netflix miniseries for each and give a proper ending.
I wish King of the Hill were still on. That was some funny shit, right there.
I’ve been sayin’ this for years, but there doesn’t seem to be any talent to pull it off.
I would watch this, with this cast! You, Sir, need to get to Hollywood!
Do you mean the 1995 series with Gary Cole as the evil sheriff? That was a great show, very creepy and gritty.
I was excited to see a new show in 2016 called American Gothic, but it wasn’t the same at all. Just the same name.
One of the storylines on Curb Your Enthusiasm several seasons ago had Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld working on a Seinfeld reunion show. Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus all appeared on the show. The show was to pick up just after Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer were released from jail, naturally not having learned a thing from their experience or becoming better persons from it. They were the same self-absorbed people they’d always been.
Laugh In
That Was The Week That Was
I am somewhat surprised that no one has brought back Bewitched as a one hour drama-seems like a natural for the CW.
ABC is working on a reboot of Bewitched, from the producer behind Black-ish and with an African-American Samantha, but a white guy as Darren. From Deadline Hollywood, “They struggle to navigate their differences as she discovers that even when a black girl is literally magic, she’s still not as powerful as a decently tall white man with a full head of hair in America.”
“Hey you got social commentary in my sitcom!”
“Hey, you got sitcom in my social commentary!”
And no one was happy.
Numb3rs
Well, think about the original show with Elizabeth Montgomery. This idiot marries a woman who can twinkle her nose and have the housework and cooking done in an instant. And yet, he expects her to do things the old-fashioned way; pushing a vacuum cleaner all over the house and then spending hours in the kitchen making dinner. Hell, he didn’t even need to work once he married her. She could just twinkle her nose and take them anywhere in the world.
Ozzie and Harriett - with the original cast.
I’ll wait.
Community
Also My Name is Earl.-+
I expect Ozzie, Harriet, Ricky, Thorny and Wally have reached skeletal stage by now. Dave and Doc Williams may still have a little goo remaining.
But, all things considered, if the script-writing is taut, this could be the hit network sit-com of the year.