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Reboots

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/entertainment/will-smith-bel-air-peacock/index.html

Will Smith has announced that the reboot of Fresh Prince will air on Peacock.


CNN)The reboot of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" has come home.

Will Smith announced Tuesday on his YouTube Channel that the new series has been signed by Peacock, NBCUniversal's streaming service.
"We have just officially closed the deal with Peacock with an unprecedented two-season order from a pitch," Smith said in the video, which shows him on a virtual call with others including writer/director Morgan Cooper, whose viral video inspired the new series. "I've been in this business for 30 years, and that does not happen."
Cooper's four-minute spec trailer reimagines the comedy starring Smith, which ran on NBC from 1990 to 1996, as a drama. It debuted on YouTube in March 2019.
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https://www.kron4.com/entertainment-news/golden-girls-reboot-for-charity-features-all-black-cast/

Golden Girls in talks for a reboot.

LOS ANGELES (NewsNation Now) — Iconic sitcom “The Golden Girls” is being re-imagined with an all-Black cast for a good cause.

Tracee Ellis Ross will play Betty White’s character “Rose;” Regina King will take on Bea Aruther’s “Dorothy;” Sanaa Lathan will play “Blanche,” originally played by Rue McClanahan; and Alfre Woodard plays Estelle Getty’s “Sophia.” Gina Prince-Bythewood directs the episode, and Lena Waithe will host the event.

Ross even advertised the show on her verified Instagram account.
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RadioPatrol said:
Weakest Link under consideration for a reboot
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Weakest Link reboot starts this week on NBC:

https://deadline.com/2020/09/nbc-we...s-got-talent-ellens-game-of-games-1234573744/

The Jane Lynch-hosted Weakest Link now will premiere at 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 29; it had been set to bow the night before. The show will air in that slot for three weeks until moving to 10 p.m. Mondays starting October 19, following The Voice.

Co-produced by BBC Studios’ Los Angeles production arm and Universal Television Alternative Studio, the new version of the hybrid game show sees contestants answer general knowledge questions to bank prize money across multiple rounds. At the end of each round, the contestants vote out who they perceive to be the “Weakest Link” remaining. The original run of Weakest Link on NBC launched on April 16, 2001.
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anotherguy said:
I get the impression that we will see more game and reality shows as long as new and returning regular series are delayed by the coronaviurus.
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Naturally that will be part of the mix. They were already there, there just may be some more in the early part of this “season,” with ABC having held back a large portion of the game shows they had already produced, then getting a few more into production.
 
https://deadline.com/2020/11/peacock-saved-by-the-bell-channel-revival-1234613888/

The Revivial of Saved by the bell to be released on 11/25/2020

EXCLUSIVE: Time out! Bayside High is about to take over Peacock. The streaming service is set to launch a new Saved by the Bell channel on November 16 ahead of the reimagining of the classic Saturday morning show, which will debut on November 25.

The channel will available on Peacock for free and include over 100 episodes from the original Saved by the Bell series, Saved by the Bell: The College Years, Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style, and Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Vegas. It will be non-stop Bayside fun with Zack, Kelly, Slater, Jessie, Lisa and Screech to keep you satisfied until the revival makes it big premiere.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...e-reboot-from-lee-daniels-in-the-works-at-abc

Tembi Locke and Attica Locke are writing the adaptation of the 1995 movie.
The beloved 1995 movie Waiting to Exhale is getting the reboot treatment at ABC.

The network has given a script commitment with penalty to a project from writers Attica Locke and Tembi Locke and executive producer Lee Daniels. The show is set up at ABC's Disney sibling 20th Television, where Daniels has an overall deal.
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RadioPatrol said:
tvline.com

Fantasy Island Reboot Ordered at Fox, to Premiere Summer 2021

Fox has booked a trip to Fantasy Island. The network has handed a straight-to-series order to a contemporary reboot of the late-’70s/early ’80s ABC drama, to hail from executive produce…
tvline.com tvline.com

Fantasy Island to get a reboot on Fox in 2021.
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They've already done it. Malcolm McDowell referred to himself as the man who wears the black suit, while Ricardo Montalban wore a white suit.

Now that Peter Dinklage is free, wonder if he'd play Tattoo? Now that I'd watch.
 


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