Has anyone seen the new version of "Ironside" on NBC Wednesday night schedule? I've tried watching it a few times and ended up turning it off. I just can't get into it. What are the critics saying about the show? What about other posters on here? I may give it another try, but if I can't get into the show the next time I watch, I'm giving up on it for good.
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The "Ironside" on NBC
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I gave Ironside another chance last night after watching the premiere episode, and I feel like all those jokes cracked about AMC's Low Winter Sun should be taken back immediately. My like of Blair Underwood aside, this show is paint-by-numbers boring. It's just another NYC cop show with the main character in a wheelchair.
I won't criticize the show because I haven't watched it, and have no intention of doing so. But IMO, reviving Ironside was a poor idea. Some TV show concepts should not be rescurrected.
Wall Street Cheat Sheat is reporting Ironside has suffered a viewer collapse.
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/5-tv-shows-most-likely-to-avoid-the-axe-this-season.html/?ref=YF
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/5-tv-shows-most-likely-to-avoid-the-axe-this-season.html/?ref=YF
I'm getting bored with it myself. The first two interested me enough to keep coming back, but I'd rather see Raymond Burr. Blair Underwood was good in "LAX" and "The Event" but the angry man who is bitter about being put in a wheelchair is getting old for me.
Not that it makes a real difference, but did they ever show this many flashbacks of Raymond Burr up and walking?
Cancelled.
To me, it wasn't so much that he came off as bitter, but they were trying to make him an "I may be paralyzed, but I'm still a sexy bad@$$" character.
That's the difference between the Burr and Underwood versions - Burr's "Ironside" knew his limitations, and used his wits and his team to get the job done. Underwood's "Ironside" tried too hard to show that he was still "the man", despite his limitations.
I get trying to show that being paralyzed doesn't mean you can't be functional and all of that, but I just felt they were trying too hard with Underwood's character, almost to the point where he was trying so hard to project a bad@$$ image, he came off as a bit of a jerk, and it just turned people off.
My TiVo listed it. Why wasn't it on? I recorded something else.
You never know. I might have enjoyed it.
You never know. I might have enjoyed it.
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My tivo recorded it on 10/23 and i just watched it but i see that was the last episode as NBC will start other fill in shows until January when Chicago PD debuts. Solves my Tivo recording issue on Wednesday nights at 10. I have been watching The first 4 seasons of the original on ME-TV and they just started season 5.
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The problem with many remakes is that the original is so ingrained into the collective American psyche and that a host, star, or toher element of the original is so identified with that original that there's no way the remake can succeed.
One other case was an unsuccessful remake of the classic game show "You Bet Your Life", which was hosted by Bill Cosby in the early 1990's.
On its own merits, it wasn't a bad show at all.
But Cosby had big shoes to fill. The host of the original version, Groucho Marx, was so identified with the show that there was no way the Cosby version could have succeeded.
Some things are better left not being revived or updated.
One other case was an unsuccessful remake of the classic game show "You Bet Your Life", which was hosted by Bill Cosby in the early 1990's.
On its own merits, it wasn't a bad show at all.
But Cosby had big shoes to fill. The host of the original version, Groucho Marx, was so identified with the show that there was no way the Cosby version could have succeeded.
Some things are better left not being revived or updated.
True for some shows, but clearly not the case with Ironside. The original was taken off the air 38 years ago. Relatively limited reruns have been shown in the last couple decades. The kids who may have watched the original run in the 70s with their parents are teetering on the edge of The Sacred Sales Demo.
In other words, the people who may remember the original are old enough not to matter.
Oleg on "2 Broke Girls" has a friend in a wheelchair. We haven't seen him but when he offered to set the man up with a girl, one of the girls (probably Max) clled the man "Ironside".
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