The 13 more disappointing TV restarts all time

These TV restarts tried to find the size of the classic series and ended up falling flat.


Television booms are all won on television right now, but rely a successful series, it is hardly a new concept.TV restarts can breathe new life in an old premise - just look atOne day at a time,Battlestar Galactica,andQueer Eye,among others. But sometimes, what is done is done, and it is better to stay alone. To prove it, we have compiled a list of the most disappointing television restarts of all time - those who have failed in execution or have been wrong from the jump.

1
The heroes are reborn

Heroes Reborn
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The originalHeroStarted hard in 2006, but it could never take over the excitement of his first season. Nevertheless, NBC brought the series in a new form in 2015, but it was always about people with extraordinary capabilities that meet to save the world.The heroes are rebornIt was supposed to be a continuation of the original history, although several years along the line and introduced both new characters. But the audiences and the critics were not impressed, and the show disappeared again after 13 episodes.

2
Melrose place

Melrose Place reboot 2009
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Restarting the AIGHTS of CW ofBEVERLY HILLS, 90210(simply known as90210) was a decent success, so what happened then was inevitable. The teen-oriented network and the millennium tried the same formula withMelrose place, another nocturnal soap executive produced byAaron spelling. Large in 2009 and offering the required hot melting (includingAshlee simpson, whose performance has been strongly criticized), the newMelrose placecould not recover the magic of the line line and slap of the original. It was not renewed for season 2.

3
Bionic woman

Bionic Woman reboot 2007
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The Bionic Womanonly run for three seasons in the 1970s, but theSix million dollarsSpin-off had enough pop culture cache to inspire a restart of NBC 2007. English actressMichelle RyanTaken the eponymous role of Jaime Sommers, a bartender becoming a half-cyborg operator after receiving controversial medical improvements.Bionic womanwas one of the victims ofThe 2007 typing led by writers Guild of AmericaWhile production was ground at a stop halfway up to the first season. He never picked up again, thanks tolumber reviews Quote the confused tone of the show. Only eight episodes have never seen the light of the day.

4
MADTV

Mad TV reboot 2016
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Fox's answer Reply, biasing games forSaturday Night Livewas far from universally loved, despite a sustainable duration 15 seasons. The sketch show bearing theCrazyNice magazine brand of stressed stereotypes (Alex Borstein In Yellowface as Ms. Swan, for one) and the lowest comedy of common denominator. Nevertheless, he had his fans and in 2016, the CW tried to convert it for a modern audience.A.V. club Says that the new show felt like "an off-branded version of the original", calling its lazy humor and tired jokes. ThisMADTVhad gone after a season, and his games also disappeared.

5
Dallas

Dallas reboot
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TheDallasThis was created in 1978 in an institution, headed for 14 seasons and introducing crop pop touches like the "shot"? "Mystery and" It was a dream season ". A 2012 TNT version of soap on a dysfunctional clan of rich texans brought back some of these original characters - includingLarry Hagman'sJ.R. J.R. Ewing-and mixed with a pretty coupling new relative arrivals representing the next generation. NewDallaswas not a complete catastrophe; He hung three seasons. But he did not have a prayer of having the same cultural scope as the series that inspired him and was forgotten in large part a few years after his end.

6
Knight

Knight rider reboot 2008
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The series of secret agents of the 1980s is really just the story of a boy and his car who speaks, a premise that has not worried in 2008.JUSTIN BRUENING directed the restart, playing the son ofDavid HasselhoffMichael Knight, with the old BatmanVal KilmerExpress k..t.t. (or the knight industries three thousand). NBC tried to save the show with some course correction,Eliminate characters in the middle of the season and try to be more faithful to source material. But it was finally too late andKnightWas dead after only 17 episodes.

7
The Angels of Charlie

Charlie's Angels tv show 2011
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It's a Hollywood rule thatThe Angels of CharlieIs reimagined every few years (see: The movie 2019), you can not blame ABC to try to get another series on the ground. The 2011 version playedAnnie Ilonzeh,Munka Kelly, andRachael Taylorlike the trio fight against core crime, withVictor Garberas the voice of their invisible boss. However, was nowhere where the charm of bad taste of the original of the 1970s, and the series lasted eight episodes, of which seven only was broadcast.

8
Crazy of you

Mad About You reboot 2019
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NBC hot and the intimate comedy of a pair of married New Yorkers was a great success, the collection of several Emmy Awards. But with very few unfinished, the public was barely demanded a renewal. StarsHelen HuntandPaul ReiserBack to their role in 2019 for a limited series of the original spectrum that captures with Jamie and Paul as sheltered parents who just sent their daughter Mabel (whose birth was a TV event in 1997) at the college. The evaluators seem to agree thatit's a fest alarm reminder, So do not hold your breathMad About You: The Twilight Years.

9
24: LEGACY

24 Legacy reboot 2017
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24Premiered not even two months after the attacks of September 11, at a time when the American public was initiated for a series of action on failed terrorist conspiracies and a plug of prisoners, Heroes Everyman. He ran for eight seasons, plus a television movie and a series of events, featuring allKiefer SutherlandAs Jack Bauer seems invulnerable. In 2017,Straight Outta ComptonactorHawkins Corey has taken over the real-time franchise as Soldier Eric Carter24: LEGACY. Critics took the spin-off to the task not only for its stimulation problems, but forits problematic representations of Muslims.24: LEGACYhas not been renewed.

10
The strange couple

The Odd COuple 2015
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Over the five decades since its inception,Neil SimonThe strange coupleHas been adapted from its original game format in two movies, three Live-Action TV series, and a series of animation, as well as a few dishes. The latest version of Freny Cooleholder's Freine TV Oscar Madison and Felix Unger playedMatthew PerryandLennon Thomas, Respectively, and first on CBS in 2015. As he ran for three seasons, the examiners found that theJokes not funny and old-school piste laugh are not worthy of talented distribution.

11
Drag

Dragnet reboot
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The police seriesDraghas the longest legacy of any property on this list, started as a radio drama in 1949. He made the trip on television in 1951, which wearsJack WebbDetective Joe Friday with her, then bifurcate as a movie, three TV rars, and a comic satire film. The last attempt to capture an audience that discovered the originalDragSeries on Nick At Nite StarEd O'NeillandEthan Embry and has been adapted byLaw and orderproducerDick wolf for ABC. With notes hanging after the first, the more traditional season, the series has been renamedL.A. DragnetAnd Friday O'Neill has loaded a group of aesthetic recruit detectives. It was canceled before all the episodes produced could even air.

12
Macgyver

Macgyver reboot
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The series of the 1980sMacgyverhas been such a success that the name of the main character has become a verb. (TO"MacGyver" Something is to fix it with improbable objects, every day.) In a 2016 reboot,Lucas Tilltook overRichard Dean Anderson like the secret agent of resources. Although the fourth season has just started on CBS at the beginning of 2020,Critics have ever warmed it to her, Plus finding it an opportunist, without interest game on a series that was so expensive because it attacks the creativity of its fans.

13
Fantasy Island

Fantasy Island reboot 1998
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Fantasy IslandStarted as two films made for television in the 1970s before being adapted in a series of seven seasons from a remote place where visitors learn to pay attention to what they wanted. In 1998, ABC made its debut a darker grip on the premise, with Malcolm McDowell Enter the role of the mysterious Mr. Roarke, previously played by Ricardo Montalbán , And a more direct connection to the supernatural. The worst crime of this remake, who saw a season maybe he was before his time. It is not difficult to imagine a non-censored HBO version taking off today. In reality, the Fantasy Island characteristic Who has just released this February is a horror movie in its own right.


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