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CBS GREEN LIGHTS NEW "BEWITCHED" PILOT

Nate Wesley said:
New revenue streams beyond advertising, cable syndication, or ticket sales. New platforms, from your 5" AMOLED smartphone screen to your 58" LED HDTV, fed by something called a Boxee or 'Apple TV'.

The chase of new money using tried and true creative ideas. Is it really that hard for people to understand?
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Are we really to believe companies aren't pursuing new revenue streams? I'd hope not, as one need only to some basic reading to see that they're doing precisely that.

No one is sitting around saying "Hey, I have a really cool idea...let's just leave money on the table. How's that sound?" :D
 
Like many other posters I am appalled that the networks are re-hashing old shows from the 1950s and 60s just because they can't come up with new ideas.

No one can replace Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha. Dick Sargent tried to replace Dick York but failed in my opinion; not that it was Sargent's fault that York had to leave the show because of health reasons.

If the networks want to recycle shows from previous decades then why aren't they any westerns on TV?

And for the love of God please spare us any more reality shows. :mad:
 
Yes, they come up with nothing that's not a remake...except for, what, 90% of their schedules? CBS has one remake actually on the air. ABC has one planned. NBC has none currently. Fox has none. What an overwhelming trend that is. :D

This is simply giving a green light to a pilot, nothing more. Even in this more cost-conscious world, plenty of pilots end up going nowhere, be they reboots of old shows or not. Yet people get themselves all twisted into knots on message boards making mountains out of something smaller than a molehill.
 
I'm not particularly a fan of Bewitched, so I wouldn't personally be offended by a remake. But I seem to recall that exactly one year ago, posters on this board got their knickers all twisted over the "sacrilege of remaking Hawaii Five-O. 'Noboy can replace Jack Lord'...'People won't watch'...it will be a failure' ...blah, blah. Well we all know how that one turned out.

A clever and well written and well cast and modernized remake might do very well, but a poorly written imitation of the original will flop quickly and be gone. It's as simple as that, really.
 
Just as is the case with the fates of most clever, well-written shows vs. poorly concieved shows that aren't re-makes/re-boots, etc. ("Most" because there are certainly cases to be made about how such-and-such show was brilliant, but didn't survive for whatever reason.) Not sure why the periodic re-boot irks some folks so much...seemingly to the point of taking offense at the very notion.)
 
shheeeeesh....doesn't ANYBODY in television have a fresh idea in their head?
 
The thing that irks me is I go to YouTube and I watch homemade videos and 98% of them are garbage, but there are really funny videos and parodies there too.

This tells me the talent is there but it's not getting heard. Network execs need to stop relying on the writers on hand but seek out fresh new people with new ideas.

I know it's hard to accept unsolicited scripts due to legal reasons, but I believe new fresh talent is there, but it isn't getting heard.

Wasn't there a writer that submitted an unsolicited script to either "Bob Newhart Show" or "Rhoda" and got it accepted then went on to be a writer?
 
Of course, one person's idea of which ones are funny aren't the same as someone else's. Details, details.

Plenty of ideas are being heard. You have to go with which ones look like the best gambles for deliver a good return on the investment.
 
Lkeller said:
I'm not particularly a fan of Bewitched, so I wouldn't personally be offended by a remake. But I seem to recall that exactly one year ago, posters on this board got their knickers all twisted over the "sacrilege of remaking Hawaii Five-O. 'Noboy can replace Jack Lord'...'People won't watch'...it will be a failure' ...blah, blah. Well we all know how that one turned out.

A clever and well written and well cast and modernized remake might do very well, but a poorly written imitation of the original will flop quickly and be gone. It's as simple as that, really.
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i didn`t care for the new hawaii five -o.the cast didn`t show much personality and i don`t need over the edge situations in about every episode.

the outrage of tv show remakes, i believe , comes from the outrage of movie remakes .
 
Don't forget modern technology!
Are we really talking about a Bewitched that thinks it's still the 60's/70's?
Or one that gets with the times?

That might be interesting...
 
Pab Sungenis said:
Actually, "Bewitched" has been successfully recreated in a number of countries. India, Argentina, Chile, and Japan have all had successful relaunches of Bewitched.
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I know this is an old message, but the Argentinian remake of Bewitched was a complete failure. It was shown 5 days a week, and it only lasted a month before getting canceled.
 
Yes, it failed in Argentina. That's a good reason to condemn something, sight unseen.
 
Pab Sungenis said:
The only confirmed failure of a relaunch was in Britain, where the BBC passed on a pilot with Sheridan Smith as Samantha, Tom Price as Darrin, and Frances de la Tour as Endora.
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The reason the BBC past was over money issues and not the quality of the pilot.
 
Unlike many here, I'm not bothered by the idea of remakes...I just don't like it when the remakes aren't done well.

And I think that there's a simple reason why we're seeing more remakes now than we once did -- and that's just because there's a lot more TV history to dig into and revive.

Consider that when "Bewitched" first went on the air in 1964, television had been a mass medium for slightly more than a decade. Not a lot of opportunity for finding old programs to remake when there's that little of a legacy. But now that television has been a mass medium for close to six decades, there's a lot more opportunity to be found in mining television history for programs to remake.

Going back even further, there's nothing new in remaking material...it's just that it came from different media. Thus, quite a few of the early television shows were just TV versions of successful radio programs. And several early radio shows came from comic books or pulp magazines.

When all is said and done, I'd rather see something like this prospective "Bewitched" remake than another reality show.
 
This thread has taken on a life of it's own. Don't mess with my Bewitched seems to be
the main theme.

How would you move BEWITCHED into 2011+ ?
Endora lives with her lesbian lover.
Darren works for Google.
Samantha does detective work on the side.
Tabitha clones herself at will, and can be in two places at the same time.
Aunt Clara is married to Donald Trump.
Glady's Kravitz is in the state senate.
Larry Tate is in prison for income tax evasion.
Dr. Bombay has a daily medical show on tv. (Yes, Dr. Oz is indeed a warlock)

I can actually see some interesting story lines available with an update. CASTING would be
the big problem though.
 
My dream cast for a Bewitched remake:

Reese Witherspoon - Samantha

Jim Carey - Durwood, oops, Darin

Shirley McClain - Endora

Nathan Lane -Uncle Arthur

Carol Burnett - Aunt Clara

Jason Alexander - Larry Tate

Anthony Hopkins - Maurice
 
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