I sometimes post links to articles I found interesting ... and if I find them interesting, everyone finds them interesting ... right? :: deafening silence ::
And as background, Tuesdays Roseanne is still getting big (by todays' standards) ratings with a 3.4 demo / 13.26 million total viewers in the live + same-day ratings ... numbers that breath life into the revivals/reboots trend.
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2018/04/13/how-far-can-tv-take-its-90s-revival.html
SilverSurfer wrote:
I sometimes post links to articles I found interesting ... and if I find them interesting, everyone finds them interesting ... right? :: deafening silence ::And as background, Tuesdays Roseanne is still getting big (by todays' standards) ratings with a 3.4 demo / 13.26 million total viewers in the live + same-day ratings ... numbers that breath life into the revivals/reboots trend.
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2018/04/13/how-far-can-tv-take-its-90s-revival.html
I think it is a pretty safe bet for a network to reboot a once very popular show.
JuanArango wrote:
I think it is a pretty safe bet for a network to reboot a once very popular show.
Not always. Some reboots/revivals didn't fair well ... from Coach getting a confirmed episode order to being scrapped after the network saw the first, still unseen, recorded episode to reboots like the Bionic Woman, Night Stalker, Knight Rider, Ironside, Charlie's Angels, Melrose Place, Kojak, Get Smart, Dragnet, Mockingbird Lane (Munsters) to other reboots that hung around for a season or two before giving up the ghost.
I give a long list because some of these shows, the originals, were ratings juggernauts back in the day or became cult favorites in syndication but the reboots crashed and burned ... and yet astonishingly, to me anyways, networks keep putting their faith in the reboot/revival. I guess it's like baseball ... a .300 hitter is considered a great player even though they get out 7 outa 10 times ... the gems (and their profits) outweigh the turkeys (and their costs).
Hmm, yes...already forgot completely about most of those reboots :)
JuanArango wrote:
Hmm, yes...already forgot completely about most of those reboots :)
Me too actually. I remembered some but I knew more existed but forgot which ones ... I cheated and googled to remember more names ... my secret is out! :(
OMG ... reboot mania is taking over everything! https://screenrant.com/atari-vcs-console-details/ ... and we have Trump trying to reboot the Korean War ... I guess we do only have 7 stories to tell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots)
JuanArango wrote:
I think it is a pretty safe bet for a network to reboot a once very popular show.
I'd say a revival/continuation is a safer bet than a reboot... I always thought it's odd how the 'industry' can't quite seem to graps what a reboot is from project to project. To me personally, like as with a computer, a reboot is restarting a show and a revival is where they pick up with the existing show (Doctor Who, Roseanne, etc etc), those are two different things that they can't seem to keep straight anymore.
