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Reboots


Chad Moves from Warner Brothers to Roku.

Nasim Pedrad’s comedy Chad is getting a second chance.

The series, in which Pedrad plays an awkward high schooler, will move to the Roku Channel for its second season. Chad originally aired on TBS, but the cable network in July scrapped the finished second season as its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, moved away from scripted original series at TBS and sister channels TNT and TruTV.

“The Roku Channel is committed to championing creativity and fostering great storytelling,” Colin Davis, head of scripted originals at Roku, said in a statement. “Chad is a story years-in-the-making that deserved to be told. We’re thrilled to be partnering closely with Nasim and her team to bring the next chapter of this exceptional series both to existing fans, as well as sharing it for the first time with new audiences, on The Roku Channel.”
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Game shows have often been successfully revived with new hosts/hostesses.

But three different attempts to revive the iconic game show "You Bet Your Life" (originally aired on TV 1950-61, and before that on radio starting in 1947, with Groucho Marx as host), with Buddy Hackett (1980-81), Bill Cosby (1992-93) and Jay Leno (2021-22) were all flops. Each revival lasted a single season.

In the case of "You Bet Your Life", the show was probably so identified with Groucho that no matter how good any of the revivals could have been, the American public wouldn't accept anyone other than "The One, The Only....... Groucho" as the show's host.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
In the case of "You Bet Your Life", the show was probably so identified with Groucho that no matter how good any of the revivals could have been, the American public wouldn't accept anyone other than "The One, The Only....... Groucho" as the show's host.
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Part of the issue is that when modern-day producers try and "reboot" game shows of the past (and other well-known programs for that matter), they try and put their own stamp on them and in some cases completely change what made them great and so "watchable" to begin with. Take for instance The Gong Show. Part of what made that show so great back in the late 70s and early 80s was the utter "fun" and spontaneity of it...Host Chuck Barris' stupidity and mannerisms, the judges (who were household names, well-known from other TV or game shows) that randomly danced around and didn't take themselves or the show very seriously. The completely random, off the wall acts they used to have on. The "performances" from staff members like Larry and Gene, Gene the Dancin' Machine they most likely used as filler when they needed to stretch time a bit, but that seemed to surprise even host Barris when they'd show up. Go back and watch some YouTube videos of the original Gong Show - It was high energy, over the top "fun".

They decided to "reboot" The Gong Show in 2017. They hired Mike Meyers as host, calling him by a different name and regardless of the fact that it was obviously Mike Meyers and everyone knew it was Mike Meyers, the network and producers refused to acknowledge that it was Mike Meyers. The show's format and running order was much more structured, few of the judges were known to many, the spontenaety and "randomness" of the original version was gone. It lasted 2 seasons - just barely - before being quietly cancelled.
 
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Joseph_Gallant said:
Game shows have often been successfully revived with new hosts/hostesses.

But three different attempts to revive the iconic game show "You Bet Your Life" (originally aired on TV 1950-61, and before that on radio starting in 1947, with Groucho Marx as host), with Buddy Hackett (1980-81), Bill Cosby (1992-93) and Jay Leno (2021-22) were all flops. Each revival lasted a single season.

In the case of "You Bet Your Life", the show was probably so identified with Groucho that no matter how good any of the revivals could have been, the American public wouldn't accept anyone other than "The One, The Only....... Groucho" as the show's host.
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That's how I feel. I watched Groucho as a child and PBS stations had reruns.
 
Mikey Radio said:
Part of the issue is that when modern-day producers try and "reboot" game shows of the past (and other well-known programs for that matter), they try and put their own stamp on them and in some cases completely change what made them great and so "watchable" to begin with. Take for instance The Gong Show. Part of what made that show so great back in the late 70s and early 80s was the utter "fun" and spontaneity of it...Host Chuck Barris' stupidity and mannerisms, the judges (who were household names, well-known from other TV or game shows) that randomly danced around and didn't take themselves or the show very seriously. The completely random, off the wall acts they used to have on. The "performances" from staff members like Larry and Gene, Gene the Dancin' Machine they most likely used as filler when they needed to stretch time a bit, but that seemed to surprise even host Barris when they'd show up. Go back and watch some YouTube videos of the original Gong Show - It was high energy, over the top "fun".

They decided to "reboot" The Gong Show in 2017. They hired Mike Meyers as host, calling him by a different name and regardless of the fact that it was obviously Mike Meyers and everyone knew it was Mike Meyers, the network and producers refused to acknowledge that it was Mike Meyers. The show's format and running order was much more structured, few of the judges were known to many, the spontenaety and "randomness" of the original version was gone. It lasted 2 seasons - just barely - before being quietly cancelled.
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I liked that show and I knew most of the judges.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
In the case of "You Bet Your Life", the show was probably so identified with Groucho that no matter how good any of the revivals could have been, the American public wouldn't accept anyone other than "The One, The Only....... Groucho" as the show's host.
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Not gonna hold my breath on that one. Groucho's edition was cancelled 61 years ago! Almost no one alive today would remember his first run episodes.

I'm aware that the show was repeated in syndication in later years, but I'm certain they played to a much smaller audience than the first run in network prime time.
 
WKNO PBS 10 in Memphis had repeats of Groucho in the late 90's on a show called TV to Remember along with other 50's and 60's shows that were in public domain at that time and most of which are on streaming channels with PD shows now.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
Not gonna hold my breath on that one. Groucho's edition was cancelled 61 years ago! Almost no one alive today would remember his first run episodes.

I'm aware that the show was repeated in syndication in later years, but I'm certain they played to a much smaller audience than the first run in network prime time.
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They must have been in reruns when I saw them as a young child.
 


Here is more on the Frasier reboot
Kelsey Grammer is opening up about David Hyde Pierce’s decision not to return to the upcoming Frasier revival series on Paramount+. Hyde Pierce played Grammer’s titular Frasier Crane’s younger brother on the Emmy-winning Cheers spinoff series.

“David basically decided he wasn’t really interested in repeating the performance of Niles,” Grammer told People in an interview.

After Frasier, Hyde Pierce went on to successful theater career and most recently starred in the HBO Max series Julia.
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Note this time a local show is getting a reboot


Gray Television’s NBC affiliate WILX Lansing, Mich., is re-launching its lifestyle show, Studio 10. The show that features local food, health, parenting and financial tips, entertainment, local stories and more returns Monday, Jan. 16 at 3-4 p.m. weekdays.

Studio 10 launched on WILX in the fall of 2020 and took a brief hiatus in the summer of 2022.

This one-hour local lifestyle show will return to air with the familiar face of co-host Nicole Buchmann. She will be joined by New Jersey native Rachelle Legrand, who has a background in journalism and theater, which makes Studio 10 a perfect home for her. And WILX familiar face and multimedia journalist Claudia Sella is joining the Studio 10 team after working as a reporter on the News 10 team since August of 2021.
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