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And I doubt it's being made


the post for this reads 2019 and it's end of year. So I don't think it got traction as is

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I'd really like to think it has been canned. Sick of reboots and for me some shows/movies are a product of the era they were made in. You couldn't reproduce this show at the moment in a decent way.

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I'd have been open to a new show about Niki Wood or Kendra. Reboots actually done correctly (Star Trek had tons of TV reboots) are immensely successful and profitable. They can go on for generations.

But the botched Murphy Brown reboot where most of the original cast was just dusted off and then the BH 90210 'remake' where essentially the same thing happened probably scared people.

We're not seeing anything.

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For me Wesley or Spike would have been far more interesting characters to base a new show on, of course they are males but regardless it is better than just repeating the same story with another Buffy or Vampire slayer.

Kendra was cool though. A Slayer set in the 70's as per Wood might have been cool too.

I think MB alienated a large chunk of their audience by being too politically biased, as with Will & Grace.

Charlie's Angels (2019), Terminator Dark Fate (2019) among others, perhaps also Girlpower is running out of steam, if it had any to begin with.

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the remaking the charlies angels movie again and again idea is a disaster.

Murphy Brown--the original WAS political. They should have had Avery and his friends
try to negotiate what working @ 'wolf broadcasting' is like when you are personally liberal/moderate...but still need a paycheck to pay your bills.

That would have been funny. And far more plausible. They could have even given it a cute name like into the wolf's den.

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Bad casting with CA as well, I don't buy those women as action heroes.

I was just a kid when Murphy Brown was originally on so I didn't recall the politics.

A lot of creativity is sacrificed now in order to shoe horn liberal politics and PC agenda's into shows and films. I agree your idea would have been more interesting.

There is an ep of the recent Twilight Zone come back about a woman who has the power through her TV remote to rewind time and replay events over and over. She is black, she is in the car with her son when a cop pulls them over and the cop ends up shooting the son because he becomes aggressive.

Anyway, as she rewinds events she plays it out over and over. At one point she even buys the cop a piece of pie but he is suspicious, who does that? Her behaviour becomes more and more suspicious each time and erratic. To me that is the Twilight Zone twist right there. She brings about her own demise.

Instead they play it out like a BLM rant.

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The original Murphy Brown was inherently political...Murphy talked about how she was covering the 1968 Democratic convention where of course protesters were beaten, a vice president (yes) had critiqued a plot line of her having Avery. People such as JFK jr appeared in the original series. You had to know who people like Henry Kissinger was to understand the reference in the stories.

where the remake goofed up was pretending people in their 70's who had professional degrees and were (in sitcom world) world famous celebrities would still need to work full time. That was implausible.

Most of us know that Brokaw only fills in now rarely...he's enjoying retirement. So other news anchors who are also big names--again in TV world would also not need to still regularly work.

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