What shows would you bring back?
Some of mine -
Lie To Me
Farscape
Battlestar Galactica
Fringe
The Wire
Twin Peaks (again)
Freaks And Geeks
Jericho
Seinfeld
Frasier
Law and Order
NCIs: New Orleans
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Interesting that nobody mentioned Lost. Every few years, one of the showrunners or ABC will float the idea of a prequel/sequel/spinoff series and the only response is *crickets*. That awful final season -- and the even more awful finale -- just killed a lot of the goodwill that fans -- me included -- had for the show.
I'm sure there are still some diehard fans, but in the larger pop culture media, it's generally referred to with scorn, or as a source of jokes. (College Humour did it best.)
In the wake of Lost, there were efforts to create series that followed the Lost formula -- the ensemble cast thrown together under mysterious circumstances in a serialized drama -- but too many people had been burned by Lost so they stayed away from anything that had a whiff of 'Lost-ness' to it. (The most recent example would be 'The Crossing' which ABC stupidly compared to Lost in the promos... pretty much the kiss of death.)
Some of them were pretty good and I wish they could be continued or re-booted.
Flashforward
Surface
Another older show that was different was Nowhere Man. It was unique... kind of a cross between The Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, and The Fugitive. Would be ripe for an update. Its themes are more relevant today than at the time it was made.
Colony - I watched all three seasons and I thought it was about to get interesting as they were about to show the aliens. Then they cancelled it!!!
sharea remake of the Miami Vice series would be nice.
shareI don't think it could be done. The original pitch for this was "MTV cops" written on a scrap of paper. (Might be an urban legend according to some sources...).
At any rate, it was unique combination of its place, time and zeitgeist.
Did you ever see McG's 2003 series Fastlane? It was a Miami Vice crossed with The Fast and the Furious (which had just come out the year before).
It followed the same formula as Vice... two undercover cops... one white, one black... but set in LA. The soundtracks featured pop hits including Phil Collins iconic In The Air tonight which was also prominent in Vice. It was big on candy-coloured visuals, fast cars and crashes, scantily clad women, etc.
Pretty good -- 7.5 on IMDB -- but killed because it was so damn expensive to produce.
Although the hard-to-find DVDs are still a fun watch, due to licensing issues they couldn't use the soundtrack songs. They were replaced with original music which is still good but the originals would have been better.
The first that came to mind immediately...
Firefly
Dead Like Me