12 TV Shows We Need to Bring Back
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ENTERTAINMENT
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Those brilliant TV execs redid American Gladiators, resuscitated and de-cheesed Battlestar Galactica and gave Bionic Woman a shiny new set of innards. Why stop there?
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 Fantasy Island
It’d be interesting to see if a network could reinvent this '70s show without a heavy dose of kitsch, as there remains infinite promise in the island-removed-from-reality concept. But you know they’d just muck it up with dumb-ass titles like Fantasy Island: The Next Generation! and wink-wink, nudge-nudge cameos from the likes of the muy macho Ricardo Montalban.
I’m With Busey
The only question: whether there are enough tranquilizers, stun guns, and straitjackets to keep Gary Busey in line for another 15 or so episodes. We suppose the folks behind 24 would be up to the challenge.
ER
For our money, TV can’t ever feature enough sexy doctors making sexy-doctor faces while doing sexy-doctor things. Like making out or tripping over the pronunciation of “urethra,” or… What? ER is still on the air? Whoa. Who knew?
Anything involving Sheriff Lobo (B.J. and the Bear and/or The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo)
Nobody—and we mean nobody—put itinerant truckers with deviant chimpanzee fixations in their place like dear old Sheriff Lobo. Since the actor who so deeply inhabited the character, Claude Akins, has since shuffled off this mortal coil, let’s replace him with a hip, wisecracking priest…or something.
thirtysomething
Pretty white people with clear skin who are very much in touch with their feelings… Talk about demographic gold. We’d add an interactive component, too, in which viewers could vote online for the character they’d like to see beaten with a mallet until he or she loses consciousness.
 
Arrested Development and Police Squad!
No changes or nothin’—just bring them back exactly the way they were and we can pretend that the decision to cancel them in the first place never happened. All will be forgiven.
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