I’m really surprised that Australia hasn’t really jumped on the “reboot” band wagon yet.
Hey Hey, Young Doctors, Cop Shop would all make terrific concepts for a reboot. You’re half way there with promotion because of the legacy public awareness. Make it fresh and now and you’ve got a built in audience ready to go.
We’ve had All Saints and City Homicide which were updated versions of the medical and police dramas.
Hey Hey was revived on Nine a few years ago and failed. The one off reunion specials did very well but regular weekly variety in that specific format did not fire.
Starring Alan Cumming and Bojana Novakovic.
Coming Soon. Only On TEN And WIN Network.
The hit new US drama series Instinct starring Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming (The Good Wife) as former CIA operative Doctor Dylan Reinhart is coming soon to TEN and WIN Network.
Doctor Dylan Reinhart is a gifted author and university professor living a quiet life teaching abnormal behaviour to packed classes of adoring students.
When tenacious New York Police Department homicide detective Lizzie Needham (Bojana Novakovic) appeals to him to help catch a murderer using his first book as a tutorial, Dylan is compelled to come out of retirement.
Re-energised while tapping into his old skill set, Dylan’s husband Andy (Daniel Ings) becomes concerned that he is breaking their pact about putting away the cloak-and-dagger lifestyle for good.
Although Dylan and Lizzie initially clash, when it comes to catching killers, an ideal partnership may be on the cards if they both trust their instincts.
Written by Michael Rauch and adapted from James Patterson and Howard Roughan’s 2017 book Murder Games, Instinct also stars Naveen Andrews (Lost, The English Patient) as Julian Cousins and Sharon Leal (Dreamgirls, Supergirl) as Lt. Jasmine Gooden.
Another Aussie in a US series.
They are stretching the truth calling this a hit series. It is averaging a 0.89 in the 18-49 demo and 8.2 million viewers for the season and the latest episode got a 0.6 in the demo. Its practically guaranteed to be cancelled.
I agree. It is a lie. And on the verge of being axed.
I guess they are trying to fool people into checking the series out. Most people are too lazy to do their own research into the show.
Do you think they should promote it as the show that is doing badly and likely to be cancelled?
No but they shouldn’t promote it as a hit series either when it’s not.
They shouldn’t bother airing it. Where’s Russell Coight?
The Making Of An American Princess.
Wednesday, 2 May At 7.30pm.
In the lead-up to the highly-anticipated Royal wedding next month, Network Ten is proud to present a special television event on Prince Harry’s future wife, Meghan Markle: A Modern Princess, next Wednesday, 2 May at 7.30pm, only on TEN and WIN Network.
Presented by CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King, Meghan Markle: A Modern Princess is an engaging and inspiring behind-the-scenes look at the woman who will soon marry Prince Harry.
From child activist to future Royal, Meghan’s story is told through personal interviews with her sorority sisters, high school teachers and fellow actors. It focuses on her passion for humanitarian work and successful acting career, and gives viewers a glimpse into Prince Harry and Meghan’s life behind the cameras.
Gayle King said: “Meghan Markle is not like anyone the Royal family has known. The ultimate modern day couple, their love caught the world off-guard, everyone except for Harry and Meghan, who knew exactly what they were looking for.”
An engagement that will modernise the monarchy, Royal experts will weigh-in on the couple and what their fairytale relationship means for Britain and the world.
Do not miss the television event, Meghan Markle: A Modern Princess, to celebrate the sophisticated and successful woman who is Meghan Markle.
Update
Thursday 3 May
08:30 pm Joel Creasey ? Fame Whore - now 90 minutes
Australia’s acid-tongued prince of comedy, Joel Creasey, takes to the Sydney Opera House stage for a sizzling night of no-holds-barred, adults-only stand-up.
10:00 pm 2017 Montreal Comedy Festival
11:00 pm Blue Bloods Rpt
We were on the bandwagon years ago
Young Talent Time
Hey Hey It’s Saturday
Prisoner a.k.a. Wentworth
It’s A Knockout
Spicks And Specks
Big Brother
Problem is that, apart from Wentworth, reboots have never really worked here.
The Young Doctors and Return To Eden were both proposed for reboots in recent years (The Young Doctors reboot was reportedly being considered by both Nine and Ten) but neither got past the initial stage.
I guess I’m referring specifically to drama, not entertainment formats. You can count dozens of quiz shows that have been “rebooted”. But apart from Wentworth (which is successful in most part because of our cultural familiarity with the legacy characters) I’m still surprised we haven’t dug up some old drama classics for a reimagining.
Against The Wind, for example, would make a terrific Netflix series.
Aside from game shows, probably the only revived program that has had success on Australian free to air TV in recent years is The Block.
If you can even count this as a program “revival” there were some Burke’s Backyard seasonal specials on Nine in the late 2000s, although that show definitely won’t be revived in any form ever again for now obvious reasons!
…and yet there are people who still want Ten to revive that show!
Some things should be left alone. I don’t really see the point of a reboot of The Young Doctors. A new hospital drama would do better than a remake using old characters.
If they redid Return To Eden, it should just be the original mini-series and not the regular series that followed which was weaker. I think a reboot of Sons and Daughters could work too but again as a mini-series or short series covering the original main storyline.
Because Ten would do it a 1000 times better than Nine. Big Brother ended up failing on Nine not because of the show itself but how Nine treated it.
Sunday 6 May
07:30 pm All Star Family Feud Masterchef Australia Champions
08:30 pm NCIS S15 Ep21
09:30 pm SEAL Team Ep17 and 18
11:30 pm Supercars Highlights Round 5: Supercars Perth
Monday 7 May
07:30 pm MasterChef Australia Season 10 Premiere
The amateur cooks are given one hour to recreate their signature dish for the first of the two Judges’ Audtions.The judges introduce the nine past winners of Masterchef, who are there to cheer them on.
09:15 pm Roseanne S10 Ep2
09:45 pm 2017 Montreal Comedy Festival
10:45 pm Man with a Plan Rpt
Tuesday 8 May
07:30 pm MasterChef Australia After handing out 18 aprons on the first day of cooking, the judges are looking for six more cooks to round out the Top 24. The cooks who were given a second chance, will battle it out in a challenge.
09:00 pm Hughesy, We Have a Problem
10:00 pm NCIS: Los Angeles Rpt
Wednesday 9 May
07:30 pm MasterChef Australia Our 2018 cooks enter the MasterChef kitchen for their first challenge as the top 24. The contestants need to imagine they are hosting the judges at their house for a meal, cooking anything they want.
08:30 pm Hughesy, We Have a Problem Season Final
09:30 pm This Is Us S2 Ep14
10:30 pm Hawaii Five-O S8 Ep21
Thursday 10 May
07:30 pm MasterChef Australia In the first elimination challenge of the season, three contestants fight to stay in the competition. They are given 75 minutes to cook, using only the ingredients contained in their fridges from home.
08:30 pm Show Me the Movie! Ep8 Season Final
09:30 pm Law and Order SVU: S19 Ep20
10:30 pm Blue Bloods Rpt
Friday 11 May
07:30 pm Living Room
08:30 pm The Graham Norton Show Guests include: Amy Schumer, Stephen Mangan and Jess Glynne.
09:30 pm TBA
10:30 pm TBA
Saturday 12 May
06:30 pm David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities x 2
07:30 pm Ambulance S2 Ep 1
08:45 pm Meghan Markle: American Princess Rpt
10:15 pm TBA
Two episodes of Hughesy?