# What's on TV etc. now, that will get a "Charlie's Angels" movie treament in 20 years? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 2, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-tv-etc-now-that-will-get-a-charlies-angels-movie-treament-in-20-years/601677 "2011-11-02T20:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-tv-etc-now-that-will-get-a-charlies-angels-movie-treament-in-20-years/601677/21 "2011-11-03T12:43:27Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > CSI, I’m guessing. > > Or, if you really want to get grim, some show that tries to have a social conscience. [Especially](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXkF2viFDgU) if the original was really sincere about it. . . . I dunno, if that worked we would’ve seen a retro-comic _Quincy_ movie by now. And I don’t think we ever will. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-tv-etc-now-that-will-get-a-charlies-angels-movie-treament-in-20-years/601677/22 "2011-11-03T15:07:55Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, in 20 years with global warming, it might be _Pennsylvania Shore…_ Or if Al Gore buys a McMansion there, it will be “Ice Road Jerseyites” ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-tv-etc-now-that-will-get-a-charlies-angels-movie-treament-in-20-years/601677/23 "2011-11-03T16:41:19Z")
20 years from now will be time for the next Simpsons movie. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-tv-etc-now-that-will-get-a-charlies-angels-movie-treament-in-20-years/601677/24 "2011-11-03T16:58:15Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What I’m asking specifically is, what’s on TV, etc., now, that might, in 20 years or so, get a retro-comic treatment based on everything essential to it being now markedly dated and markedly characteristic of its period, in a "Boy, they could **only** have made that **then!"** kind of way? Which is essentially what happened to _Charlie’s Angels, The Brady Bunch,_ etc. Not currently on TV, but I’d bet on ALIAS getting the treatment some time. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-tv-etc-now-that-will-get-a-charlies-angels-movie-treament-in-20-years/601677/25 "2011-11-03T17:24:13Z")
About the only thing I can think of is Two and a Half Men. But I can’t imagine it with other actors, and it’s already kind of a parody of itself. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-tv-etc-now-that-will-get-a-charlies-angels-movie-treament-in-20-years/601677/26 "2011-11-03T21:58:18Z")
Glee? Or is that already too much of a self-parody? ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-tv-etc-now-that-will-get-a-charlies-angels-movie-treament-in-20-years/601677/27 "2011-11-03T22:11:48Z")
Agreed. Great post. > [@astorian](#): > > You know, I’m not sure ANYTHING currently on TV will get that kind of treatment, because the nature of TV has changed so much since the Seventies. > > I’m 50, and when I was a kid, there were only 3 major networks. As a result, there were loads of TV shows that EVERYBODY watched, and many more that everyone of a certain demographic watched. In the early Seventies, a HUGE percentage of kids watched “The Brady Bunch,” for instance. Hence, twenty years after it went off the air, a “Brady Bunch” movie made sense, because there were tens millions of 30-somethings who had nostalgic feelings for that show. > > Today, there are so many TV stations that no one show commands the same kind of mass audience. The highest rated shows today don’t get NEARLY as big a percentage of the viewing audience as “All in the Family” or “M_A_S\*H” used to. And in twenty years, there just won’t be NEARLY as many nostalgic 30-something “Glee” fans out there as there once were nostalgic “Charlie’s Angels” fans. > > Hollywood makes old TV shows into movies because they hope to attract all the millions of people who used to be devotees of the show. But today, wheneven HIT television nshows don’t draw as many people as “Starsky and Hutch” used to, there’s not so much incentive to make movies based on them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-tv-etc-now-that-will-get-a-charlies-angels-movie-treament-in-20-years/601677.md?page=1)