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Not just bring back the old episodes, although in many cases that would be great, and the proof is in the popularity of Netflix and television shows years or decades old (Dr. Who the original series from the 1960s). But bring back that old show, with the original actors; just in brand new episodes.
Now this is a WHAT IF question, so yes the insanely crazy is not only possible, but for the purposes of maximizing entertainment value for me and the rest of the crowd this morning, it is encouraged! So yes, even though Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland are gone with the wind at this late date, you could voice your support for a new Captain Blood movie, if we weren't only covering tv shows. Keep up, please!
There are so many shows which, over the years, I've allowed myself to begin watching, only to realize after no more than two or three episodes that it would never see a season two. Mostly because it was so bad. But more oftentimes than seems reasonable, it was because it was rather good, and here in America evidently that is a ticket right to Cancellation Hell for television programming.
There are many shows that got the axe and which I would have broadcast forever and one of them is...
Moonlight (CBS) 2007 Starring eye candy Alex O'Laughlin in the main lead. CBS make an error of epic proportions when they cancelled Moonlight. It was out the year before Twilight came out. CBS had a show just curling over the edge of the wave before the Tsunami of everything vampire. It had a hot cast, including Sophia Myles (of the startlingly green eyes, and a propensity for Vampire stories) and Jason Dohring (who hasn't had a great role since). It had decent plotlines and terrific dialogue. It had Alex O'Laughlin (There's a reason CBS kept looking for a home for him). Stupid CBS. At least it has two of the all-time best kiss scenes in TV history. I'll confess, I nearly wore out the 'rewind five seconds' button on my remote control on this scene in Episode 13, which I kept rewinding and watching again and again and... well, you get the picture. Here, Mick (Alex) has been trying to get his humanity back for 85 years, and he finds a cure... but he has to give it up and become vampire once more to save Beth. That was yesterday, in this scene. See for yourself:
My 2nd nominee for BRING BACK NEW EPISODES is a recent show which people should have made the number one show on TV just last year...
Almost Human (Fox) 2014 Starring eye candy Karl Urban AND Michael Ealy. (Hey, I didn't make up the rule about needing eye candy in order to have a successful TV show in America. But I certainly do enjoy it.) Urban played Detective John Kennex and Ealy his Android AI sidekick, Dorian. It was a cop-buddy film cast as TV show. But the storylines were fresh, interesting and the sets were spectacular. Just as the show began to kick into high gear, it got pulled. The guy JJ Abrams brought in to play the (more handsome yet just as irascible) Doctor McCoy on the revamped Star Trek (where he was frickin fantastic), just wasn't good enough for tv audiences? I'll never understand why the masses never watch terrific television en masse. I've loved stupid and dreck before myself, but only as a treat on occasion, not as a main dish all the time. This was a show worth watching, but what should I expect from the Network that cancelled Firefly in it's first year?
Of course, that's the other show I'd bring back. Browncoats Forever!
Firefly (Fox) 2002 Mal and crew flew the Serenity through the empty reaches of space, and into my heart for all time. All you Johnnie-come-latelies who think Christina Hendricks is hot now on Mad Men? You missed her as a femme fatale extraordinaire on Firefly, where she married Mal to escape a planet and then tried to kill him to steal his ship. Woah!
FYI:This is the entire episode.
But if you loved Firefly, you've seen that episode at least 10 times. Watch this instead. I guarantee you probably haven't seen it. Unless you own the Disc set with the bonus features. In which case, you know it's well worth watching again.
So what shows do you still think about fondly and secretly wish could be brought back to the (in most homes now, not so) small screen, with all new episodes for your delight? Which characters do you still miss and wonder about how their lives turned out during the odd, quiet moments when no one else but you is around and your brain is full of wandering thoughts?
as always...
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