From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-14 06:29:04 +0000, Your Name said:   
      
   > On 2026-01-14 06:06:53 +0000, Ian J. Ball said:   
   >> On 1/13/26 9:54 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>> super70s  wrote:   
   >>>> 2026-01-14 04:35:05 +0000, Your Name said:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yet another old show gets ruined by the lazy, talentless "reboot   
   >>>>> everything" brigade infesting Hollyweird.  :-(   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Iconic '70s NBC TV Show Gets Reboot Order   
   >>>>> -----------------------------------------   
   >>>>> NBC plans to revisit one of its iconic 1970s series with a   
   >>>>> reported new reboot now in development. The network has   
   >>>>> ordered a pilot for the project, signaling a possible   
   >>>>> return of the classic TV detective to primetime.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If a Matlock reboot can be a big hit with an older-than-middle-aged   
   >>>> woman in the lead this doesn't seem nearly as unfeasible.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's not a reboot. In fact, the first episode referenced the Andy   
   >>> Grifith tv series. You got it very wrong.   
   >>   
   >> It wouldn't be the first time.   
      
   Want some cheese with that crow smart guy?....   
      
   > Despite what many people like to claim (including the CBS marketing   
   > officer!), it *is* actually a reboot (gender-swapped, as usual these   
   > days), but the makers were simply making an "in-joke" about the   
   > original show, as has happened in other shows.   
   >   
   >     "The 2024 version of Matlock is a reboot of the original   
   >      1986 television series of the same name, which starred   
   >      Andy Griffith. This iteration, notably, flipped the   
   >      gender of the lead role, swapping out Griffith's Ben   
   >      Matlock for Bates' Madeline Matlock."   
   >   
   >     "The show was developed by Jennie Snyder Urman, and draws   
   >      from the original Matlock TV series which starred Andy   
   >      Griffith, but with a gender flipped lead character   
   >      played by Kathy Bates and a vastly different premise   
   >      overall."   
   >   
   > If it wasn't a reboot, then why would they bother using the same name -   
   > they could have called it anything, which it has in common to all   
   > idiotic reboots that are unreconisable as having anything to do with   
   > the original they are "based on".   
      
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