Yes, you read that right. And Candice Bergen is coming back, too!
CBS announced today that it has given a 13-episode, series production commitment to a revival of Murphy Brown, the network’s classic comedy that starred Bergen as an investigative journalist. The network is promising that the series will “return to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.”
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The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
Soon to be announced, a new darker Gilligans Islands where two charter boat captains take on passengers but it turns out that they're also drug smugglers and the first mate is a twitchy addict.
Follow this trail of intrigue and conspiracy as we try to find out. Who sabotaged the boat. Where'd the drugs go.
Is the Professor really a actual professor, or is he a killer for the Cartel.
Are the Billionaire and his wife who they really say they are. And why does a movie star like hanging out with a farm girl so much?
Starring Russell Crow as the Skipper and Bobcat Goldwait as Gilligan.
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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...and they all look like $hit - old, dilapidated, out-of-fashion and out-of-step with reality...
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"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think." Georg Hegel
“To generalize is to be an idiot.” William Blake
At this rate, by 2020, I expect the entire CBS primetime lineup to be 1970/80s reboots, NCIS and Big Bang Theory spinoffs, Survivor, The Amazing Race, and 60 Minutes.
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Turn up the good, turn down the suck!
Its a hollywood thing, because of the ratings pressure, they dip back to what worked in the past.
Its partly the fault of the viewers, who either wants to see what happened to the original cast and crew 20 years later (Fuller House). Or they want a reboot that moves it from the colorful 80's to the gritty 2018s. You don't think that Magnum PI for example will be anything but a dark reboot where Magnum is a failed intelligence officer, fired by Trump and he spends his days drinking and driving a chevette after he smashed the Ferrari.
New ideas will get fewer and fewer opportunities because viewers don't have the patience for new concepts, they want to tune into something familiar like the C-Files or Roseanne.
The other big thing is that movie adaptations will become big. I do give credit because I actually really like Lethal Weapon.
Then as Disney buys everything, we're going to get mashups of successful or well thought of movies and franchises.
How about Dazed and Confused at Hogwarts - Follow a day at the magical castle as Voldemort is ruthlessly initiated into the school while Whatever Harry Potters parents names are spend the last day of the year drinking bear, getting high and driving to Cleveland to get Grateful dead tickets in Snapes Trans-am.
Or how about Wolverine meets World - A coming of age series as young Logan and his best friend Sabretooth try to navigate junior high school while dealing with girl problems and overly protective parents.
And wait for the spin-off Phoenix meets World - A coming of age series as a young Phoenix and her best friend Mystique try to navigate junior high school while learning life lessons from the new teacher Charles X
Or even better Darth Vader PI - The Dark Lord of the Sith opens a detective agency, and investigates crimes against the Empire. Starring Howard Hesseman as Palpatine, and that Mila Kunis as the ghost of Padme.
Trust me its coming.
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Murphy Brown revival coming to CBS
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