FabSwingers.com forum: TV shows or movies you wish would get a re-boot, re-make or continuation.

By *etwifeandhim69 OP Couple
over a year ago

Darlington

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and it's not like there are not plenty of shows and movies being re-booted, re-made or spun off into something new.

Personally I'd really like to see Farscape or Buck Rodgers make a comeback (if only because of my childhood crush on Wilma

) OR see Karl Urban get the Dredd spin off he deserved.

What about you?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Airwolf

Nuff said

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By *rDiscretionXXXMan
over a year ago

Gilfach

Firefly and Bunheads.

Both brilliant series that got cancelled after one season due to studio politics.

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By *etwifeandhim69 OP Couple
over a year ago

Darlington

"Firefly and Bunheads.

Both brilliant series that got cancelled after one season due to studio politics."

How could I forget Firefly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Killjoys wish they would have done more than 5 season

Also blows firefly out the water such a underlooked show

With a big star who went on to Mcu and ready player one

Hannah John-Kamen

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dredd spin off almost certainly agree with also think Priest should have had a sequel,liked the world they set up.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

I enjoyed UFO and Space 1999 (scifi) in my younger days.

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By *rDiscretionXXXMan
over a year ago

Gilfach

I'm in the middle of binge watching UFO now, and it's pretty good.

The sexism means it'll never be shown on TV again, even though the show was very progressive at the time having a large number of female roles. The other reason it'll never get re-shown is the level of smoking. It really stands out when seen nowadays.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dredd 2 deserved to have been made

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By *obby!2Man
over a year ago

York

Rome by HBO - a fantastic 2 series epic but cost too much, I think it could have run and run

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By *oah VailMan
over a year ago

Dover

My Name is Earl.

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By *he AmbassadorMan
over a year ago

IRLANDA. / Prague. / Cil Dara

CHiPs

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By *he AmbassadorMan
over a year ago

IRLANDA. / Prague. / Cil Dara

The Wire

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

Bsg

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dark matter (TV Show)

Dread (film)

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

Stargate SG1 / Atlantis, J.A.G., House M.D., C.S.I. New York / Miami, All the Star Treks, wish these had continued.

I was pleased to see C.S.I: Crime Scene Investigation had been revamped into C.S.I: Vegas.

Looking forward to see how the new version of Babylon 5 turns out when released hopefully later this year.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

"Dredd 2 deserved to have been made "

The 1995 Stallone one was fun and I enjoyed the more recent film. Agree another would be good.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Buffy

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By *uriousVoyeur2000Man
over a year ago

near enough

Personally I’m not keen on remakes. I think if it’s not broken why fix it, like and the chocolate factory, gene wilders version was perfect. To me they should come up with an original idea not money grab from an existing fan base

Happy fabbing CVx

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By *immyinreadingMan
over a year ago

henley on thames

I’m not a fin of remakes, just leave the originals and write new stuff.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nurse Jackie

If you haven't watched it, find it and do

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know it's a controversial opinion but I wish Michael Barrymore was on TV.

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

I'd love to see a remake of Secret Army but without the wobbly set.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Water margin

Monkey

All great series

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Terra Nova. So much more could have been in done in another series or two

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Terra Nova. So much more could have been in done in another series or two"

Oh Can I add that to mine ? Loved the world that setup too

great show perfect season 2 setup

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There was a great show on E4 years back called Point Pleasant, which was cut obviously way earlier that they expected and they cobbled together a shit ending. I would love for it to get the full amount of episodes it was supposed to get initially!!!

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By *rDiscretionXXXMan
over a year ago

Gilfach

"Personally I’m not keen on remakes."

In some cases (like Firefly and Bunheads) the shows were cancelled a long time ago and all the original actors have moved on. The only way to get more of those shows would be to remake the whole first season with new actors. I'd certainly watch if either of those 2 got remade.

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By *inell1Man
over a year ago

Ipswich

Manimal...with the technology available these days could be awesome

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blackadder....no question about it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Auf Wiedersehen Pet

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By *immyinreadingMan
over a year ago

henley on thames

"Blackadder....no question about it

Why would you want to remake that? How can you improve it? How could you improve the casting?

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By *awtybikerMan
over a year ago

Barnoldswick

They did a remake of V recently and I thought it was quite good, but it got cancelled after the 1st season

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

Dark matter to finish off the other 2 series.

Stargate atlantis finished too early could have gone on way longer than stargate.

airwolf and farscape finished so wouldnt want a remake of them.

babylon 5 wished the war scenes was a whole series of full on battles.

id love to see a full on battle of the timelord war.

dredd and V has already been remade

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By *arrisonMan
over a year ago

Woolacombe

Firefly, because it deserved more, and better. Although "Serenity" is a cracking film.

Judge Dredd, well...for the life of me I cannot understand why a really good film adaptation hasn't yet been made - I mean, most of the pre-production groundwork's been done already, it's even storyboarded!

But it's such a rich, detailed world...so much there to use!

The Stallone one was shite. He was not Dredd. Karl Urban was much better in the role - I do think he's an underrated actor - and the realisation of Mega City One looked dirty in the right ways. But still...given all the material they had to use the film was underwhelming.

Personally - and it is of course too late now - I think Eastwood would have been perfect. He was the right build, his chin and mouth were the right shape (I'd be surprised if Wagner/Ezquerra/Mills didn't have Dirty Harry in mind when they were creating the character) and most importantly...he has the presence, by the metric fuckton.

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By *arrisonMan
over a year ago

Woolacombe

"Manimal...with the technology available these days could be awesome"

Finally! SOMEone else who's frikking heard of it! It's in the culture void along with Street Hawk and Automan, sadly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Street hawk

Air wolf

Manimal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Manimal...with the technology available these days could be awesome

Finally! SOMEone else who's frikking heard of it! It's in the culture void along with Street Hawk and Automan, sadly."

I remember all of those. Was a kid though. Remember Terrahawks?

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By *arrisonMan
over a year ago

Woolacombe

"Manimal...with the technology available these days could be awesome

Finally! SOMEone else who's frikking heard of it! It's in the culture void along with Street Hawk and Automan, sadly.

I remember all of those. Was a kid though. Remember Terrahawks?"

I do, but it wasn't one I was in to. I was young too, then...

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By *picyrodMan
over a year ago

Leicestershire

Breaking bad

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By *arrisonMan
over a year ago

Woolacombe

One I wish could have continued - but couldn't, since the writer died and it needed his experience and insight - is "The Sandbaggers". Very good series. Some brilliant scriptwriting and acting.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Would love if they had made an Italian job 2,just to see what happened to all that gold in the back of the bus

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By *j69funCouple
over a year ago

kildare

The fall guy

Sledge Hammer

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By *arrisonMan
over a year ago

Woolacombe

"The fall guy

Sledge Hammer"

Sledge Hammer was great! I'd forgotten about that...

And The Fall Guy! Brilliant!

He WAS the unknown stuntman, who made Eastwood such a star...lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mindhunter

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By *batMan
over a year ago

Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales)

When's the next series of Better Call Saul?

I'm looking forward to the eventual link up with Breaking Bad and curious to know what eventually happens in the "new life in hiding" scenes.

Gbat

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By *tylebender03Man
over a year ago

Manchester

Quantum leap reboot

Also I'm with you on Dredd sequel with Karl Urban

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By *etwifeandhim69 OP Couple
over a year ago

Darlington

Water margin

Monkey

All great series

There is a new Monkey show on Netflix. It's a western remake and if im honest, its actually pretty good.The new Legends of Monkey is what you're looking for.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Water margin

Monkey

All great series

Monkey was redone on netflix last year or the year before.

For me i would love to see the 6 million dollar man remade.

And film wise it would be Howard the duck or Harry and the hendersons

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By *angOnBunnyCouple
over a year ago

Ipswich

Blakes 7

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By *etwifeandhim69 OP Couple
over a year ago

Darlington

"Manimal...with the technology available these days could be awesome

Finally! SOMEone else who's frikking heard of it! It's in the culture void along with Street Hawk and Automan, sadly.

I remember all of those. Was a kid though. Remember Terrahawks?"

I was a kid but I remember Manimal, Street hawk and Automan.

Street Hawk was just Knight Rider but on a motor bike, Automan was riffing on Tron but Manimal was something else.

The actress played Dale in the Flash Gordon movie. Speaking of which, I bet no one remembers "The Highway Men" which had the guy who played Flash Gordon in it and his Truck turned into a helicopter! Some weird riff on Mad Max if I recall correctly.

But they're all on youtube because sometime you just have to double check you where not imagining it lol.

And Terrahawk's was great. I still dont know what Zelda was other than she freaked me out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Airwolf

Nuff said"

Took the words right out of my mouth

The mr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wish I could unwatch the LOTR just so I could sit and re watch them all again for the first time!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ER, love it

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By *etwifeandhim69 OP Couple
over a year ago

Darlington

"ER, love it

No one ever has any love for St Elsewhere.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Heroes

Lost

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By *etLikeMan
over a year ago

most fundamental aspects

I bet no one has ever heard of this one. Key West

Fisher Steven (now a successful TV director) played a budding poet who moved from the Midwest to the Florida keys to embrace his inner Hemingway. There he encounters lots of oddballs while making money as a newspaper reporter.

It also had an early appearance from Jennifer Tilly before she became more widely known.

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick

Kick start

There's been nothing like it since

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Northern Exposure

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Rockford Files.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Northern Exposure "

Yeah they keep talkingbaboutvit but it never happens.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bionic man

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By *ornyguyMan
over a year ago

Hillsborough, NI

A lot of the programs mentioned above I loved but not sure if a remake would satisfy that nostalgia; taking Knight Rider reboot as example.

One show that didn't go on too long which I'd like there to have been more of was Subarban Shootout (UK).

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By *reyja78TV/TS
over a year ago

Northampton

"Northern Exposure "

Absolutely loved that show x

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By *enhamhoopMan
over a year ago

Denham

New Statesman plenty of scope with our current politicians to parody real life

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nip/Tuck

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By *innocentMan
over a year ago

Littlehampton

wish RoboCop had a TV series. Absolutely loved the cartoon.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

"wish RoboCop had a TV series. Absolutely loved the cartoon. "

It did. It was shit.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

"Nip/Tuck"

My favourite line: no matter how beautiful a woman is, there's some guy at home bored of banging her.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"ER, love it

No one ever has any love for St Elsewhere.

I rarely watched it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Airwolf

Nuff said"

I preferred Blue Thunder

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"New Statesman plenty of scope with our current politicians to parody real life"

I loved that show, alas without Rik Mayall it just wouldn't be the same.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Howards Way...

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By *picyrodMan
over a year ago

Leicestershire

Minder only fools and horses

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By *parrow77Man
over a year ago

cheshire

Firefly

Airwolf

Monkey

Transformers

Live action thundercats

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By *r_PinkMan
over a year ago

london stratford

The Bill

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By *unandgamegeekMan
over a year ago

Bolton

I wouldn't mind a remake of the 1989 fantasy horror movie Warlock.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Night hawk had the best intro music

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

Star trek enterprise with a refit of the enterprise, yes I know I'm a nerd

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Red dwarf

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"Star trek enterprise with a refit of the enterprise, yes I know I'm a nerd

Good call, and a new theme tune please!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The bill

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By *inda May SimmonsTV/TS
over a year ago

hexham

A remake of the fantastic film “Rogue Male”

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Live action Jamie And His Magic Torch.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Condorman. Classic with Michael Crawford

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By *arry monk40Man
over a year ago

Telford

Hill Street blues

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mr Ben needs a live action reboot

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