Futurama, for sure.
And I’d track down and torture unto death every HBO exec who had anything to do with the cancellation of this show. Bastards!
“Freakazoid!”, of course. And “Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys” (cancelled because it wasn’t selling enough toys! Bah!).
No need to torture them. Since I’m a billionaire as well, we’ll pool our money, buy HBO, bring back Carnivale and fire all the execs.
While we’re at it let’s also bring back Six Feet Under.
Another vote for Barney Miller also
The Nanny (Did you know Chilean TV is producing new episodes of The Nanny in Spanish, with local actors, using the original scripts? I want it on DVD!
Night Court Oh! Miss Sullivan!
Homicide, Life on the Street
Great writing and acting.
I’d say Firefly, but I think the whole experience has left a bad enough taste in Joss Whedon’s mouth that he wouldn’t be interested in it, and I know a couple cast members probably feel the same way.
So, I’ll say Wild, Wild West.
I’m sure I could money-whip Joss and Company enough to take the bad taste out of their mouths.
Firefly
Angel (Although the ending was perfect)
Night Court
I’ll add my billions to this pool.
I haven’t been as impressed with a show, since the early days of Twin Peaks.
And I am dying to find out what happens after the ending of season 2.
Um, Bob continues a killing spree, controlling Agent Cooper’s body? More disconnected story threads, not connected to any story arc or even character development, get brought in to pad air time?
Lynch ran out of ideas long before TP ended. Let it rest.
Firefly
Arrested Development
Are there other shows?
I’d like to see Blake’s 7 resurrected. With the new, darker Battlestar Galactica a success I think the time is ripe.
Firefly first, with out a doubt. It would have to fall between the last episode and the events in Serenity, I suppose, but it would be worth doing.
After that, Brimstone. How can you not love a show with John Glover playing the Devil? They had established enough interesting themes and conflicts for a full run, and they had plenty of damned souls left to provide stories. I really wanted to see the endgame for this one; the Devil is obviously going to try to cheat Stone somehow, and Stone is just as obviously going to turn it around on him, but I want to see it play out.
Newsradio, but only if I could bring back the late great Phil Hartman.
Married…with Children
Justice League Unlimited
Farscape
Strange Luck
In that order.
Another vote for Barney Miller.
WKRP would be OK with me too.
Titus. And then I get to fire the blonde chick and play her part myself.
Crusade, the Babylon 5 spinoff, though it’s been awhile and I doubtif you could get the cast together again. It was fun seeing the boss from Office Space (Gary Cole) as a Starship Captain.
Firefly was my first thought as well, along with Sports Night. That said, I think I’d be more likely to give Joss Whedon & Aaron Sorkin free reign to start brand new shows in whatever genre they want, with complete creative control (perhaps with a proviso that they only do 12 episodes a season, so as to allow them to do as much of the writing/directing as possible themselves & maintain the highest quantity). I’d have the following conditions:
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Alyson Hannigan and/or Jewel Staite get to star in the Joss vehicle;
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Rob Lowe and/or Brad Whitford star in the Sorkin vehicle; and
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John Wells is not only not allowed to have anything to do with either show, but his picture is distributed to all the security guards with instructions to taser him on sight.