Norman Lear's Classic TV shows being rebooted...

[brody]

variety.com/2016/tv/news/norman-lear-all-in-the-family-jeffersons-reboots-1201944546/

Sony Pictures Television is in very early stages of rebooting several classic sitcoms from TV legend Norman Lear as miniseries — including “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons,” and “Good Times” — Variety has learned exclusively.



The idea currently being discussed by Lear and Sony executives would be to have new actors recreate classic episodes of the shows, working from the original scripts, and package them as short, six-episode anthologies. The scripts would be treated similar to plays being mounted in new productions.



“There is some talk about doing some of the original shows, redoing them with today’s stars,” Lear told Variety. “There is a possibility that we’ll do ‘All in the Family,’ ‘Maude,’ ‘The Jeffersons,’ “Good Times.'”

WHY?  A lot of the progressive angles those shows took are now common place and no longer culturally significant taboos.

[Bob Schlapowitz]

Well, I'm looking forward to not watching these.

[James Fabiano]

Oh, Sorry, er, I mean Sony....learned nothing from nearly ripping the Internet apart with SJW-busters, did we?

Yeah it's like why every non-Rayburn version of Match Game never quite clicked. It was a different time and more taboos to dance around. The toothpaste is out of the tube now.

I can see AITF being more blatant about Archie being a buffoon to appeal to certain "movements" like most of Hollywood does now...

[brody]

Dec 18, 2016 13:52:47 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

Oh, Sorry, er, I mean Sony....learned nothing from nearly ripping the Internet apart with SJW-busters, did we?

Yeah it's like why every non-Rayburn version of Match Game never quite clicked. It was a different time and more taboos to dance around. The toothpaste is out of the tube now.

I can see AITF being more blatant about Archie being a buffoon to appeal to certain "movements" like most of Hollywood does now...

That's what is almost so baffling - it says they are going to recreate the script, apparently word for word, so no Archie lamenting about "Black Lives Matter" or whatever. 

[wildojinx]

No Sanford and Son remake? At least that one, for the most part, was apolitical, so they wouldnt have to worry about the scripts being "dated" (aside from some technological advances).

[James Fabiano]

Dec 18, 2016 14:45:01 GMT -5 brody said:

Dec 18, 2016 13:52:47 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

Oh, Sorry, er, I mean Sony....learned nothing from nearly ripping the Internet apart with SJW-busters, did we?

Yeah it's like why every non-Rayburn version of Match Game never quite clicked. It was a different time and more taboos to dance around. The toothpaste is out of the tube now.

I can see AITF being more blatant about Archie being a buffoon to appeal to certain "movements" like most of Hollywood does now...

That's what is almost so baffling - it says they are going to recreate the script, apparently word for word, so no Archie lamenting about "Black Lives Matter" or whatever. 

That or since we also forgot what subtlety was too, like I said they'd go out of the way to make Archie more "villainous" and wrong.

So it's basically a TV stage show version of the shows.

Hey anyone remember the NBC show where they did parodical recreations of sitcom scenes?

[Raw is Doodie101]

Ok I just read the headline and thought this was stupid. But the premise of doing some "plays" basically doesn't sound that bad.

[brody]

Dec 18, 2016 14:48:14 GMT -5 wildojinx said:

No Sanford and Son remake? At least that one, for the most part, was apolitical, so they wouldnt have to worry about the scripts being "dated" (aside from some technological advances).

Well...Fred did bash Mexicans and used the n word... 

[SAJ Forth]

Sony: Because the internet was the problem.

[wildojinx]

Dec 18, 2016 15:06:07 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

Dec 18, 2016 14:45:01 GMT -5 brody said:

That's what is almost so baffling - it says they are going to recreate the script, apparently word for word, so no Archie lamenting about "Black Lives Matter" or whatever. 

That or since we also forgot what subtlety was too, like I said they'd go out of the way to make Archie more "villainous" and wrong.

So it's basically a TV stage show version of the shows.

Hey anyone remember the NBC show where they did parodical recreations of sitcom scenes?

That's actually what I thought of when I first read this idea. Thinking about this, even though he's not that old, I could see JK Simmons pulling off the Archie Bunker role for these remakes (if they're going to hire well-known professional actors that is).

[Mochi Lone Wolf]

This time around, Meathead will be the one to rant on the Russians. At least, for the 4 weeks it will air before being yanked off the air by people with a clue.

[Chainsaw]

Today, In Missing The Point Completely History...

[Mozenrath]

I see no real benefit in making All in the Family, given Cartman essentially took Archie Bunker's spot in "bigot the audience roots for and misses the point entirely".

[Duke Cameron]

No Maude?

[Bub (BLM)]

At what point in all this reboot madness is some executive going to point out that the only reason a lot of these shows worked is because of the cast, not the characters? Archie Bunker worked BECAUSE of Carol O'Connor. George Jefferson worked BECAUSE of Sherman Hemsley. You can't just recast it and expect it to fly again. Has anyone watched the new Lethal Weapon series? Yeah, it's okay, but Damon Wayons has none of what made Murtaugh work, because what made Murtaugh work was Danny Glover.

[ayumidah]

I don't know how they expect this to work. *shrugs*

[Shai]

Dec 18, 2016 23:14:02 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I see no real benefit in making All in the Family, given Cartman essentially took Archie Bunker's spot in "bigot the audience roots for and misses the point entirely".

Pretty much.

[hassanchop]

Modern All In The Family will be like this: