Wouldn’t that just be Abby Scutto? Quirky character with genius-level intelligence?
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[files off the serial numbers on the NCIS scripts]
I won’t say anything if you won’t.
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Nonsense, that’s why we paid for ChatGPT Pro.
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I think every time they sit down to make a detective show they should be forced to watch all of Columbo and A Nero Wolfe Mystery (actually, that sounds pretty awesome) and told “that’s the bar.”
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Man, that was a good show. And the “Players” idea for the supporting cast was genius.
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Just split the difference. Have some episodes which are self-contained but then a few at season’s start or finish that have two-parters.
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We need a reboot prediction thread; TV shows, movies, I’m starting to think that they will be “rebooting” books next. Not graphic novels, they’ve already been doing that…The Death of Superman…again?
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I read the title of this thread and really hoped that y’all were joking…
sigh
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Make a new show about two female cops - fine, great. Try to shoehorn it into the Starsky & Hutch universe to cheaply capitalize on the name recognition - grrrrrrr.
And I wasn’t even a fan of Starsky & Hutch.
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Come on, they could have had kids in their 50s.
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This is why I just snicker when someone my age starts yipping about some mythical Golden Age before “P.C.” or some other moral smoke demon they hate but can’t stop huffing at.
I mean, c’mon are your memory cells that depleted when you haven’t even hit 60 yet? 
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Yes, the reason Meg Foster was replaced by the more traditionally “girlish” Sharon Gless was because some people (and CBS) thought Foster and Daly together were a little too “butch”.
There was much discussion criticizing this decision.
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I miss Columbo. That show is so legitimately awesome that even though it is a solid product of the dreaded 1970s it manages to transcend its time and the icky vibe of its era. I dread the thought that bankrupt Hollywood will inevitably one day turn its vile, slimy, filth-riddled, incompetent, agenda-addled attentions to this beloved show and vomit its foul stink onto its legacy.
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MR_Potroast says he wants to check out Poker Face, because fans (of our generation) he knows say it hearkens back to the Columbo style of mystery, structure-wise. But isn’t just a lazy cut-and-paste. I’ll wait and see what he reports back.
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I’ve seen other people say it’s very Colomboesque and quite good. The fact that there’s an ongoing megaplot makes me a bit wary, but if it stays in the background outside of milestone episodes it might be ok.
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By the way, is it just me or is the language around projects like this just making everything even more murky and frustrating than it has to be? 
Even if this project never appeals to the original fans, it’s really more a continuation or spin-off of the original than a do-over. Even if the connection is weak and/or clumsy. I mean, it doesn’t pick up the original characters and place them in the 21st century.
The last three seasons of MST3K are also continuations. Not (thankfully) some grim and gritty, over-complicated new take featuring much earlier versions of the characters.
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The “reboot” language probably doesn’t help.
I think the bigger issue is people are getting tired of this whole take an old IP, splash some paint around, give it a patina of past glory, and call it good.
It’s just lazy.
There is no reason to tie this into the old Starsky & Hutch. Why is it so hard to create a new show with two female leads as new and interesting characters? Give them a cool setting to play in, and bob’s your uncle. Instead, we get yet another “update” of an old show with gender-swapped characters to make it “modern”. It’s not only lazy at this point, but it’s also predictable.
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I’m sure I mentioned this elsewhere, but if you create officially original characters, I bet you hold onto more money than you would if you just window-dress your concept in something made half a century ago.
Sure, inclusiveness is a great thing, but the people running studios don’t really care about it unless it makes them the most money in the shortest possible time.
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True, but they are relying on the nostalgia draw to make up for the revenue from new IP. On top of that, new characters are a risk, and TV executives hate risk.
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