TV shows you’d love to see return

Heighway61

Recently finished, never to return...

Detectorists, Peter Kaye's Car Share.

Strumms

Phoenix Nights would have been another…. I’ve always been curious as to why that never made a comeback…. Given its success and popularity.

all the main cast are still alive so….

that was loved by the critics and the public… think there was more life in that show….there is supposedly a third series written that’s just being sitting on a shelf for over a decade. Also Peter Kay more recently has alluded to a film being a possibility.

Think that could be dangerous. TV is littered with shows that decided to jump up to the big screen only to be very ‘meh’…

something I like and most people too…. sitting down for a 30 minute injection of comedy, laughs and entertainment and getting to do it over next week, the week after etc….fück this film business.

Car share can be amusing but Sian Gibson and her character I think are annoying more than funny. I can never decide if her character is just really that odd or just a case of iffy enough acting. It’s pretty safe and predictable….

Heighway61

Gemini Man

https://youtu.be/hTWLDa5DnpQ?si=ZLR_UTazhBAPSCf4

Heighway61

The Invisible Man

https://youtu.be/g1NGEidXo7s

mikemac2

*dramatic voice *"The Fugitive´s name is Doctor Richard Kimble."

The recent court testimony of Josef Puska had me thinking of this TV series (not making light of the case in Tullamore)

Puska claimed a mysterious stranger did the murder and in The Fugitive it was the one-armed man. Only in the TV show it was true!

This TV show is ancient and filmed in B&W but dammit it was hugely popular in Ireland. The day the TV show finished there were multiple radio call in shows like Gay Byrne on RTE discussing it. It was a superbly produced and well acted TV show

Bring it back! Maybe at a slot that RTE do not want like 11pm. Hell I will watch or get later on the RTE player

The movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford was nothing on the TV series. That film was muck

El_Duderino 09

Old shows were good because they were reacting to contemporary issues. Just remaking Glenroe wouldn't work now. The idea of Dublin growing and the suburbs reaching into rural communities was interesting back then. It gave you the hig city/small village dynamic which was novel back then but it isn't novel anymore. It was novel back when Glenroe was new, and that's what made Glenroe good.

Then old shows were dealing with the issues of the day. So if they remake shows with modern issues of the day, people just complain they're gone WOKE. They don't realise lots of those old shows were woke in their context. Think of the people complaining that the new Star Trek series was WOKE because the lead character was a woman. Imagine not seeing the irony of calling Star Trek WOKE. The show that was protested for an interracial kiss, is too WOKE.

I'd leave old shows alone. I know most new shows aren't interesting to me, so I say let the creative people come up with new shows and I'll watch the ones that interest me. I've only got so much time to watch telly anyway so I find there are more shows I'd like to see than I have time for anyway.

Riddle101

The Wire. I'd like to see a new series and see what everything is like in Baltimore 15 years later. See how Dukie, Michael, Randy and Namond getting on since we last saw them.

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121417498#Comment_121417498

No way! Get up the yard. It was brilliant, leave it alone.

fatherted1969

Nostalgia maybe but

The Greatest American Hero

Hill Street Blues

BaywatchHQ

Maybe Baywatch, a show like that can work in any decade because of the many stories that a beach side location can provide. Although I suppose the actors would be degenerate millennials and zoomers even more degenerate than the original cast.

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/110336362#Comment_110336362

Blakes 7 - yes please - wasn't there talk about it but never happened

So many shows said here that would never happen in this day and age unfortunately - how could you ever redo The Golden Girls, just perfection at the time and still hilarious as ever now.

Cheers - a playground for many actors but such a "nice" show - that could be done again

Melling Road

The High Chapparal

Mannix

Jake and the fat man

SineadSpears

If they haven't already been mentioned..

Bewitched

I Dream of Jeannie

Quantum Leap

Stargate SG-1

Sabrina The Teenage Witch

Futurama

El Gato De Negocios

I'd love to see a third season of Utopia, brilliant, mindbending stuff.

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122404713#Comment_122404713

They already redid Quantum Leap. There was a thread about it. Most disliked it and thought it was WOKE because not all the main characters were white, amongst other things.

Bobson Dugnutt

Utopia which was cancelled after two season by Channel 4. The American remake was a terrible disaster in comparison.