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Shows you want to come back?

Round two.

Reading Rainbow (honestly, we need kids to read more, and know WHY they need to read more; and the show ended last Friday, after 26 years).

Dynasty. Those tweenybopper dramas (read: OC, 90210 (both of them), Dawson's Creek, etc.) have nothing on the most lavishly expensive one ever made. Besides.. Joan Collins and Dianne Carroll in a 15 minute fight... Holmes, Love Hewitt, and Biel wouldn't last 5 minutes. And a season finale where everyone gets shot and killed at a wedding? Nice.

The Cosby Show. Come on, admit it. Bill Cosby was EVERYONE's dad 20 years ago!

The Arsenio Hall Show. He made late night funny (no disrespect to Letterman).

The Tonight Show. Any episode with Carnac the Magnificent is proof enough. RIP, Carson and McMahon.

Like before, I'll think of more.

BL.
 
fireshot91 said:
Nobody's said Twin Peaks?
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Watched the first season again recently, and while the first half-dozen episodes still stand the test of time for their sheer oddity and charm, spawning a rash of imitators from Wlid Palms to Lost, the second season was an exercise in diminishing returns.

Conflicts between Mark Frost, David Lynch and the networks lead to a muddle of increasingly aimless plot diversions and unresolved red herrings, and by the time the second season came to an end, it was justifiably put out of its misery. David Lynch will never return to the material.

However, one show that always manages to get overlooked but remains the most trenchant and scathingly hilarious attack on vanity and the media is The Larry Sanders Show. Easily the best comedy I've seen in the last ten years.

Without it, no The Office or a rash of other mock fly on the wall pretenders; it's a criminal shame that lame comedy-by-rote series like Friends get the box-set treatment, yet Larry Sanders languishes in incomplete or region-locked form.

Dark satirical comedy for grownups, not one attractive character, no hugs, no lessons, no laughtrack... puncturing the dark heart of showbiz; look it up on YouTube.
 
I'll +1 Larry Sanders. It's tough to explain just how perfectly formed that show was.

To anyone who said 'Alien Nation' - you may be getting your wish. Tim Minear (a Whedon alum) has it in development at the moment.

I'd like to see more:
Animaniacs
Ed
West Wing - I agree it ended gracefully, but I'd love to see a new series with the new president. Be it Santos or his successor.
Quantum Leap (again, rumours of a comeback/reboot)
Firefly
Miami Vice
Hill Street Blues
Cheers - if anyone listens to the BS Report podcast, there was a great idea for a reboot a few months back

I had more. I also had a better memory. I think... :)
 
Firefly.

Fox screwed up in airing the show and never gave it a chance.

How fox screwed it up was
1. showing the episodes out of order
2. Kept changing its time slots
3. It put the show on the same time slot of a very high rate show of its targeted audiences (Star Trek and Star Gate) and then they wonder why it did not get high ratings....

If fox had avoiding those dumb ass moves listed firefly would of been a great show.
 
Capt Crunch said:
The West Wing, although it ended gracefully.
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johnmadden78 said:
West Wing - I agree it ended gracefully, but I'd love to see a new series with the new president. Be it Santos or his successor.
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With you on West Wing. I'm in the middle of re-re-re-watching it (8 episodes into season 5). It will still an excellent show when it ended and would have continued to be excellent with Santos as president, although it may have been to much like art imitating life!!!
 
I'm confused as to how people thing BSG could come back, the story most definitely ended! but Caprica is out soon, a prequel series :D and "The Plan" a parallel movie.

Red Dwarf did make a come back (mini series called back to earth), it sucked big time and I was a big fan of the original. (disclaimer, except series 8)
 
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