Old T.V shows that flopped when thet were first released that might do good today?

That series is legendary, Robin Hood mixed with dark magic and clannad

Everything about Babylon 5 seemed rough. CGI, sets and some of the acting which was all too bad for me to be able to watch it. Pity because the universe it created seemed really good.

Could easily work as a high budget reboot. The only downside is activating another whole set of sad angry gate keepers.

That's not really how marines work, I know "every marine a rifleman" and all but it's not literal, and if it was they'd be more likely to be platoon leaders since they were all officers.

It's typical sci-fi stuff. Star Trek TNG seemed to think everyone was at least an ensign and the idea that only the bridge crew and not a dedicated trained away team unit would go to planets was always laughable.

SGU and Enterprise both suffered from franchise fatigue and a changing sci-fi and TV landscape.

Both also didn't do half enough with their premise.

Nice to see someone remembering it. I have the Network DVD set, have watched a couple of times.

I often wonder would Jericho (Skeet Ulrich, Lenny James) do better now. Seems like a slightly more plausible scenario now than it did 15-20 years ago given the current global landscape. A lot more conspiracy nuts and preppers to pander to.

I rewatch it every couple of years. It's my guilty pleasure.

The One Game. A series from 1988. Might make a lot more sense now.

Regards...jmcc

The UN (or some form of Unified Earth government) did exist from what I recall of the pilot episode although they quickly moved on to still having the various nation states; so you still have the USA, China, etc. fielding their respective militaries, whatever other over-arching world government may exist.

On an aside note, the show had season 2 broadstroked out with McQueen returning to earth as a war veteran dealing with invitro bigotry, the loss of his leg, and and his failed marriage, Damphoose & Vansen listed as MIA and Wang as KIA as per the last episode of season 1, and Hawk & Cooper facing into Operation Roundhammer (i.e. D-Day 2, the invasion of the Chigs homeworld).

Whilst I think a reboot is long overdue, the one character who would be sadly missed is Lee Ermey as the USMC Drill Instructor. He stole the show in the pilot episode. And whilst I would also like to see both James Morrison & Tucker Smallwood reprising their roles as McQueen & Commodore Ross respectively, both are probably a bit too old now alas.

That was great. Watched it again this year. Patrick Malahide was excellent in it.

Great show, but you've just reminded me of the pressure when most people didn't have VCRs and you never knew when/if something like this was going to be repeated. You really had to make an effort to make sure you were around to watch. Monday nights, 8.10pm BBC1 iirc.

There has been many attempts to reboot Blake’s 7 and all have failed.

BBC had some great stories always let down by British TV production values. Most attempts to reboot were scuppered by later poor British TV production values.

Blake 7 could work with a proper reboot but the best it will get is the kinda low budget twee British reboot Doctor Who got (a show I can't understand the popularity of in any era)

A good example is the excellent but low budget Survivors and the terrible even more low budget reboot.

There was a couple of major attempts just after the reboot of Battlestar Galactica came out and was a major it.

I know Sky were close a number of times but it just never happened.