What old TV show do you wish could come back? - Page 2

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Originally Posted by A-Pathetic 

Cupid.  I think they are/were going to try this again?  The first one with Piven was really fun.

They did. I mentioned this upthread. They used similar scripts. Piven's approached seemed more delusional and wacky. Cannavale's Cupid was more of a backslapping, "Hey have a beer with me" type.

Piven made it sing. Cannavale made it rape-y. The re-vamp lasted only a few weeks.

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Originally Posted by Gabe T 

They did. I mentioned this upthread. They used similar scripts. Piven's approached seemed more delusional and wacky. Cannavale's Cupid was more of a backslapping, "Hey have a beer with me" type.

 

Piven made it sing. Cannavale made it rape-y. The re-vamp lasted only a few weeks.

 

Apologies.  I actually read every post in the thread before I posted but somehow missed your last little asterisk section.

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Originally Posted by Schwartz 

If the worst comes to pass, I propose they cut costs on bringing them both back by having Party Down cater Greendale's graduation ceremony.  I don't give a damn if they have to retcon the school into being in LA.

 

I did enjoy the cameo they had catering at Childrens Hospital this season, even if it was just a 10 second post credits moment.

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Originally Posted by Dalyn 

 

I did enjoy the cameo they had catering at Childrens Hospital this season, even if it was just a 10 second post credits moment.

I caught that on youtube or something, but it's not enough.  2 theatrical send-offs with one stone, it's like, synergy and all that shit.
 

Cop Rock. Though I'd settle for Party Down.

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Originally Posted by Upgrayedd 

That also has me thinking how sweet a Munsters remake would be if it was handled correctly.

Funnily enough.

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Originally Posted by Upgrayedd 
 

BTW, flawless nick.  You have perfect taste. 

I would...Love a return to...Glen A. Larson's Battlestar Galactica!  Not that Ronald D. Moore crap, but the...Classic Space Opera of the 1970's.  The original cast members could play some of the council of 12, and some of the officers.  Seeing a new version with a...fully intact Battlestar, and not the stripped down version of Ron D. Moore.  Laser Pistols, Space Clothes, a cover of Stu Philips Score should be included.  

A New...Ufo Robo Grendizer would be...Awesome as well!

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Oh man, I remember that. If I recall, it was like...5 parts? 3 episodes of greatness and then it just utterly and completely shit the bed at the end. Even Margaret Cho couldn't save the utterly pedestrian way it ended. Pretty awesome premise, though. Dug the hell out of the world, but I think Warehouse 13 kinda took the idea and ran with it much, much better.

Dead Like Me - I could watch Mandy Patinkin take people's souls all day.

Strange Luck - starring DB Sweeney! He played Chance Harper, a guy with incredible luck that swung from good to bad. It was like the writers were acknowledging the ridiculous coincidences that happen in shows and just go 'Fuck it, it's because he's lucky!' 

Wouldn't mind a reboot of Sliders. Always had a good time with that show, at least in the beginning.

I would like to see either SledgeHammer! or Police Squad.  Something that is just silly spoof.  Not hipster ironic kind of silly, but straight up Zucker style funny.

The 1960s "Batman."

Renegade - we never did find out if Reno Reigns got revenge on Dutch Dixon. We found out in the last episode Reno cleared his name and that Dutch had a bounty put on his head but that was it.

Also, after Sons of Anarchy has run it's 7 series course a return to The Shield - where is Vince Mackey 10 years on ?

Third on the Quantum Leap, still pissed how that show got shafted for three seasons.

I'll add two I haven't seen yet.

Titus

Night Court, in it's prime, not the "let's cash in years".

Alas, Netflix refuses to carry the movie.  It's stings all the more for its randomness.

There is a similar thread to this, but I will post the same reply here.  Life, Firefly, Arrested Development, Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me and Reaper.  All within the past decade, and most within the past 5 years, but dammit.

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Originally Posted by Gabe T 

I also kind of think, no offense, but you're kinda being a brat if you want more from a show that lasted more than three seasons or so. Requesting more Angel and Buffy? You've had enough sir. Especially when the world is littered with promising shows that didn't live past a few weeks.

Excuse me sir, I'm not quite sure if you were directing this at me or not. If so, I think you misunderstand me. I just wasn't entirely happy with how Angel Season 5 ended as for me, I just found it too abrupt as it literally ends in mid-air. For a show (along with BTVS) that eschewed the usual end of season cliff hanger and for the best part wrapped each season up at the end of the season instead of waiting for the next one, I found this especially jarring. Hence, even just a truncated Season 6 where it wasn't quite so ... unresolved ... would have been better for me in light of this.

Angel Season 5 is my favourite season but I actually thought the final episode of Season 4 was the perfect way to end the show if they had to have done so.

As for Buffy, even though there were some good, and even great episodes, as a narrative whole, I thought it probably would have best ended at the end of Season 5.

So in total, had things been different, I could definitely have lived with one to three less seasons of these two shows combined. After all, this alternate universe me would hardly have known otherwise, would I?

Spoilers for Angel

There's nothing unresolved about the end of Angel.  They were going to lose.  They knew it.  They didn't care.  We saw them take a stand, we didn't need to see them fall.

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Strange Luck - starring DB Sweeney! He played Chance Harper, a guy with incredible luck that swung from good to bad. It was like the writers were acknowledging the ridiculous coincidences that happen in shows and just go 'Fuck it, it's because he's lucky!' 

 

I remember watching that show on Friday nights just before The X-Files. Just when it was starting to hit it's stride, Fox canceled it. Dumbfucks.

Anyway, I'd like to see more of that strange little show Wonderfalls. It was funny, quirky, and Caroline Dhavernas was great in the lead role.

A more recent show I really liked and thought got canceled way too soon was The Good Guys, an action-comedy cop show starring Colin Hanks. Fox won't even put it out on DVD. Dumbfucks.

The Good Guys was great. Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks were an awesome matchup. The 'stache, the car, the gun...

This one is still on the air but it qualifies.   Terra Nova.   Cancel it, get the folks behind BSG on it and let them do what they want with it.

In the "One More Season" camp I nominate "Kings".    That show was just incredible.

I feel like there has been a thread for this subject before, where I've made the exact post I'm about to make now, but.........

If they could bring back any show, it should be ROME. And they should make the ROME movie. The sets and costumes still exist. The actors still are alive. There are no excuses

If I had unlimited funds to bankroll a list of shows that need to return so they can conclude, I'd also do DEADWOOD and CARNIVALE

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Originally Posted by dynamotv 

In the "One More Season" camp I nominate "Kings".    That show was just incredible.

Glad I could inspire, dynamotv.

A retooled American version of Queer as Folk for HBO. I love the Showtime show, but even as a major fan who never missed an episode, I have to admit that it was ultimately a trashy, and often times poorly written soap opera w/ a good cast that never quite lived up to the promise of a show explicitly depicting the lives of a group of gay men and women in Pittsburgh. HBO would, I think, have done a much better job of maintaining a healthy balance between cheap, softcore spectacle and genuine drama.

This post, by the way, was inspired by the news that John Cameron Mitchell, a hero of mine,  is working on an "80's show" for HBO. I so fucking hope that happens.

Came here to mention Strange Luck.  Glad I'm not the only fan.

Also, I'd have loved to see Carnivale play its story out.

After the movie, which was aight and due to the success of Hawaii 5-0, I'm totally down for a reboot of Miami Vice.

In Search Of, but only if they keep the original music and Nimoy hosts.

Space above and Beyond....I thought I was the only one who watched that....I was bitterly dissappointed when that was canceled as I really enjoyed it.

Firefly had such a great vibe, it was one of those shows where you got to hang out with people you liked.

I also was enjoying Rubicon. I liked the premise, I am dissapointed we did not get to see where it leads.  Really bums me out that a piece of shit like Fringe keeps going while Rubicon gets axed.

Also, Kates suggestions of Carnivale and Deadwood were also excellent. I was meh about Rome, not sure why.

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Originally Posted by 3nnui 

In Search Of, but only if they keep the original music and Nimoy hosts.

 

 

I wish.  I went on an In Search Of... jag about a year ago.  They're all on youtube, still awesome.  And, no, this doesn't count.

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Originally Posted by MrTyres 

The Good Guys was great. Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks were an awesome matchup. The 'stache, the car, the gun...

I was coming to post the same show. It was a nice summer distraction. Although I think it would fit better on USA, maybe paired with Psych.

I'd also like to nominate The Simpsons. I mean honestly it dissappeared 10-12 years ago and hasn't been heard from since.

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Originally Posted by dynamotv 

In the "One More Season" camp I nominate "Kings".    That show was just incredible.

This.  I wanted to see so much more.

EZ streets was great, I remember chatting with Paul Haggis about that show back in the rec.arts.tv days.  We agreed that once CBS put it opposite L&O, the party was over.  Still have all the episodes on VHS though.  Wonderful show, but I wish they had done as Haggis wanted and cast Paul Gross instead of Olin.

Another good CBS show was Feds, a Dick Wolf show with Dylan Baker and Adrian Padar leading a team of FBI and federal prosecutors on a number of difficult cases.  The show ended with the government starting to build a case against the tobacco industry, which was supported by a shadowy international organization named CigSac.  It was most famous at the time for one episode which  had a radio announcer break the news that 'patrolman Mike Logan has been shot and killed in the line of duty..." in the background of a scene.

Space: Above and Beyond, with modern FX? That would be great, and get Morgan and Wong away from that FD crap.  I know it pays the bills, but Jesus...

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Big Apple - the great unknown cop show from David Milch and Anthony Yerkovich , a mid-season replacement back in early 2001.  Ed O'Neill and Jeffrey Pierce were the NYPD, Davis Strathairn, Titus Welliver and Kim Dickens were the Feds, and Michael Madsen and Donnie Wahlberg the Irish mob.  It lasted all of 8 episodes, of which only 6 were aired.  Thankfully the last two episodes give some sort of rushed but satisfying conclusion.   Titus Welliver chatted about this show on the Kevin Pollak podcast last year, talked about how the show's second arc was going to deal with muslim extremists.  Damn, it was great.  With that cast, Milch's gift for dialogue and Yerkovich's understanding of crime and law enforcement, local, federal, and international - this show should've run 5 seasons, easy.

Has anyone seen Undergrads? It ended with things up in the air.

Yeah, not to harp too much on your Homicide reboot, Parker, but the TV movie/finale really does put Bayliss' future with the BPD to rest, in one way or another. 

I'd like to see NBC bring back the Mystery Movie "wheel show." They could air it year-round, so you'd always have new episodes of something. Let's start with RAINES and LIFE, two shows that were too quirky for NBC but probably would have done well on USA. Jeff Goldblum clearly enjoys doing TV and that character was a better fit for him than his CRIMINAL INTENT character, who could have been billed as "Jeff Goldblum as Jeff Goldblum, Jew." Rotating shows means not as many episodes; meaning Damien Lewis could fit this and HOMELAND in his schedule. PRIME SUSPECT is about done for, so let's put that in the slot there. The re-tooled LAW AND ORDER: LOS ANGELES with Doc Ock and Ernest Hemmingway as the detectives and let's bring Jeremy Sisto over from the old mothership as one of the ADAs in place of Terrence Howard.

The last show would be a spin-off of IN PLAIN SIGHT starring Richard Schiff as a rabbi skip-tracer. If you've never seen a single episode of IN PLAIN SIGHT, I recommend this one. It's the only one I've seen. 

Which brings to mind the L&O flagship, My God, was that cancellation a bone-headed move. It had found it's feet magnificently in those last couple seasons with Linus Roache as the ADA and Sisto & Anderson as the cops. The show was skipping along nicely there for a while. I miss it.

The alternating Goldblum/D'onofrio L&O: CI died quickly but it was great while it lasted.

NBC is just the worst.

To be fair, its ratings were a shadow of what they were when it was an Emmy-nominated powerhouse in the early to mid 90s, and Dick Wolf was asking for money for the record-breaking season. 

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Which brings to mind the L&O flagship, My God, was that cancellation a bone-headed move. It had found it's feet magnificently in those last couple seasons with Linus Roache as the ADA and Sisto & Anderson as the cops. The show was skipping along nicely there for a while. I miss it.

 

The alternating Goldblum/D'onofrio L&O: CI died quickly but it was great while it lasted.

 

NBC is just the worst.

I want Stabler back. :(

One of my favorite series...Space Battleship Yamato aka Star Blazers...Is coming back, albeit in Japan, in April!  I hope some network brings the New Yamato, to the US, as the teaser looks...Awesome!

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Originally Posted by MrTyres 

The Good Guys was great. Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks were an awesome matchup. The 'stache, the car, the gun...

The thing was, they couldn't decide how dumb Whitford should be and the comedy was nowhere good enough to hide how bad the writing was.

I wish more people had watched Kidnapped. The idea was a different family every year with someone kidnapped for Jeremy Sisto to find. Fortunately it had a good and solid ending after 13 episodes.

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Originally Posted by teledork 

This.  I wanted to see so much more.

Yeah Kings was something special.   Also, would have loved to have seen "Journeyman" get picked up for a full season order just to see how the story would have unfolded.

I want to see F-Troop again. It spoke truth to power what with the incompetent cavalry soldiers, hot frontier babe and drunken injuns' who were all in cahootz together. It was all the American history I ever needed in small town Ohio. C'mon Milton Berle as a Native American?

I always got Larry Storch and Micky Dolenze mixed up.