Octavia Spencer to take on Murder, She Wrote

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=110607

She's a good actress, but I think they're trying to do their own Ironside.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I hope it is more a soft reboot/continuation then a full out reboot. If this is actually happens and is actually good, I want to see Angela Lansbury show up some.

 

[Teelie]

I assume it will be in a new city where everyone hasn't been murdered yet. After 12 years of solving dozens of murders, that town was the last casualty before the original series ended.

 

[Sawyer]

Excuse me while I LOL WUT?

Has NBC learned nothing from their last several reboots of semi-classic shows, much less Ironside that just got canned, like, last week? Come on, now...

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

i never liked that show seriously Fletcher had to be a known personality and no one found it strange no matter where she went in the country someone ended up dead soon afterwards

 

[Pink Ranger]

Hopefully she lives in a bigger place than Cabot Cove. It defied reason that such a little town would have so many murders without the army being called in.

 

[Teelie]

Or at least state police, FBI... she solved so many murders and yet no one suspected she was behind them all. She makes Dexter look like a chump in comparison.

 

[X-Ray]

They're not going to stop, are they? Just keep rebooting til one sticks.







They sure hurry up & do Airwolf or Quantum Leap. Let's get those out of the way.

 

[Shifty]

Murder, She Wrote did have stellar ratings but did skew old. It finished in the top ten shows in eight seasons out of twelve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_She_Wrote#U.S._television_ratings

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Cabot Cove, or Santa Barbara (PSYCHE), where white people live in quiet bedroom communities, Muuuuuuurrrrrder is sure to follow.

 

[Destructus86]

eh..we already have waaaaaay too much crime tv.

 

[SpideyFan866]

This is all sorts of no.

Just no.

I love Octavia Spencer, but this is all sorts of nope for me.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Well, unlike other remakes/reboots, at least they waited until all the fans of the original died before doing this one.

 

[Dr. Evil]

NBC is trying again to have a "Female Lead who also happens to be Black" show after Deception failed last year. ABC has found success with it as has Fox. CBS is going to try it this summer.

 

[Pink Ranger]

NBC is trying again to have a "Female Lead who also happens to be Black" show after Deception failed last year. ABC has found success with it as has Fox. CBS is going to try it this summer.

I am eagerly anticipating the remake of Charlie's Angels with three chubby Asian guys.

 

[Teelie]

eh..we already have waaaaaay too much crime tv.

Crime time in prime time. It pays to air crime.

Crime television has been popular since the start. Before there was television crime there was radio crime in the format of radio shows.

Well, unlike other remakes/reboots, at least they waited until all the fans of the original died before doing this one.

NBC is trying again to have a "Female Lead who also happens to be Black" show after Deception failed last year. ABC has found success with it as has Fox. CBS is going to try it this summer.

It's commendable and at the same time desperate of them to do so. I think more diversity is good (Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorite new shows) but it's also trying to cash in on the black female trend.

 

[Dr. Evil]

It's commendable and at the same time desperate of them to do so. I think more diversity is good (Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorite new shows) but it's also trying to cash in on the black female trend.

They see the success ABC is having with Scandal and FOX is having with Sleepy Hollow and want to emulate that. Of course it led to CBS casting Halle Berry in Extant, which debuts next summer.

 

[Sawyer]

I am eagerly anticipating the remake of Charlie's Angels with three chubby Asian guys.

You paint such a clear image, Pink.... I both respect and despise you for it.

 

[terry78]

Even Halle is doing network tv now? Aw snap.

 

[Sawyer]

Even Halle is doing network tv now? Aw snap.

Yep. http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=463275

Dat CBS money + series order, rather than pilot + 13 episode seasons, rather than 22/24. More networks need to come around to that ****. 22+ hour seasons just allow for too much filler.

 

[terry78]

Honestly, that just means no chance of any HBO/Showtime type topless scenes for her. Yes, my motives were strictly shallow.

 

[Sawyer]

Honestly, that just means no chance of any HBO/Showtime type topless scenes for her. Yes, my motives were strictly shallow.

 

[Dark Raven]

Isn't there already a kind of reimagining of this show? It's on ABC and called "Castle". Nathan Fillion is a mystery writer and dabbles in detective work with the NYPD. That's already successful. Why bother with Murder She Wrote?

 

[Sawyer]

Because Nathan Fillion doesn't have lady parts.

 

[Specter313]

Isn't there already a kind of reimagining of this show? It's on ABC and called "Castle". Nathan Fillion is a mystery writer and dabbles in detective work with the NYPD. That's already successful. Why bother with Murder She Wrote?

Because if something is successful on one network, every other major one has to try and find a way to mimic it. Don't you know that's the way things work these days?