Studios Rebooting The Classics: No Room For New Ideas?

           Over the past few years, I have started to realize the increasing boost of studio networks rebooting classic television shows, which has made me speculate what exactly is the intention on rebooting these shows? The first thing that instantly comes to mind is the question, is Hollywood running out of original ideas for new concepts?

             In all honesty, I feel as though this increasing want to reboot a series year after year is getting out of control. There are so many new ideas waiting to become produced, but apparently Hollywood is afraid of change and adapting new ideas. The real concern I have is that I feel most of these shows were such popular classics, and to reboot such a popular show brings an instant chance of failure only because the show will be compared to its predecessor, the original series, and no matter what, the original will always stick out as the ultimate success.

           I would think the studio networks would become concern and cautious after the recent failures of the reboots of 'Charlie Angels' and 'Ironside'. I watched the beginning of both reboots, and neither one had the spark to match the original version, which is what reboots are bound to do, compete against the original version. On the other hand, reboots such as 'Nikita', 'Battlestar Galactica', 'The Twilight Zone', 'Dallas', and  '90210', have seen success. So, not all reboots are destined to fail, but it is surely a risky approach.

           According to Lisa France from CNN Entertainment, she states that studio networks are rebooting these television shows because its hard to make a new television show a success. But I would think that its hard to make any television show a success. Our industry is all about taking a chance at success, that is how magic works in Hollywood, you have to experiment. As 2013 comes to a closing, studios have already ordered the reboots of 'Murder She Wrote', 'Max Steel', 'Charmed' and 'Boy Meets World', which were all successful classics, most have actually just ended not to long ago, like 'Charmed' and 'Boy Meets World'.

            I feel like the bottom line is that there are many new ideas that should be produced, and hollywood should really take a step back from history, and enter the future of new content. Rebooting a successful series only brings in competition against the original series, and like they say, there's nothing like the original.