Murder She Wrote - Remake
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a526246/murder-she-wrote-reboot-with-octavia-spencer-in-the-works-at-nbc.html
I think if they get the right lead this could work again.
I think if they get the right lead this could work again.
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More likely to be cancelled after one season no matter who the lead is
There previous remakes have bombed massively, They would of been better off calling it something else but have a similar sort of show
Its handicapped from the start
Exactly what I thought. What idiot at NBC actually thinks this will skew young in the demographic. It's going to be another show with too high an age profile. Even if fantastic compared to the rubbish Ironside remake there is no way NBC would keep it. The only channel it would have a hope on is CBS who like crime procedurals, and seem happy with higher age profiles and total viewership, although it would still need to do okay in the 18-49 demographic.
Yep. Though this is the network that remade Prime Suspect, but the only thing they changed was that she wore a hat.
Get someone better please.
Not a young woman (no doubt with a disabled child or something, and a mixed-up love-life!).
Look what happened with The Bionic Woman (and other so-called remakes!)
If they want to do such a series....call it something else.
It's like re-making Miss Marple, starring Sarah Michelle Geller!!!
Don't give them ideas. :eek:
Jennifer Garner tried to do exactly that a few years ago. The comments i saw on basically every website that ran the story weren't pretty
(though some where very funny) We then never heard of the project again. The one time out of a million, they actually listen to fans.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/miss-marple-resurfaces-and-this-time-shes-no-spinster/
I agree.:)
They will probably give her a cameo role and explain the new Jessica as her long lost daughter that they forgot to mention in the 20 years of the show,
But I agree, reviving the show would stand way more chance of working than remaking it - however brilliant the casting.
Dallas the revival is not ripping up trees but is sort of working, Dallas remade with William Shatner as JR etc would have not lasted a year.
Same here - disastrous idea.
It might have been an idea to revisit MSW in the future, but not at this time when the original is still a part of many TV schedules!
And no doubt, modern storytelling for TV will destroy the idea - Jessica will have some problem, love life etc and the shwo which was renowned for its self contained episodes will no doubt end up having a season long arc
Totally agree! Why do they have to keep remaking things, come up with a new idea! If shes such an amazing actress, why cast her in a rehash, find her something new and exciting to play!
This was just an American idea of Miss Marple
Angela Lansbury did play Miss Marple in the film of the Mirror Cracked
Also does the Lansbury family still own some of the rights to the show?
Ms Lansbury said she found it tough filming when she was younger so no way she could do it now. It would film months in the studio then film on location for a week at the real Cabot Cove which was Mendocino, California. You can even stay in what was her house in the show it is a bed and breakfast.
I loved Murder She Wrote I used to watch it with my Nana who looked just like her. I have lovely memories watching the show with her.
Re-makes are never as good as the original. Tim Burton murdered Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
If a reboot of Ironside with an american african actor flops because of viewer perception then this is DOA,
And i have never heard of the actress, i'm away to google now
If you do the math, Angela Lansbury is now, in 2013, 88 years old. Murder She Wrote came on the air in 1984. So she was 59 at the time. Now admittedly 15 years is not a little, but it still means that Lansbury was in the middle aged zone, although maybe on the other side of it vs. Spencer. It's a workable different in ages, at the very least.