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'Facts of Life' Reboot in the Works at Sony
Hollywood Reporter ^ | August 3, 2018 | Lesley Goldberg

Posted on 08/03/2018 2:57:32 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: Covenantor

It doesn’t seem to be helping.


41 posted on 08/03/2018 4:07:42 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: EdnaMode
Welcome Back, Carter
The Greatest American Zero
Here Come the Trans Brides
Cow CHIPs
TJ's Hooker
Room .223
Mr. and Mr. Ed

Just a few suggestions for the clever, original thinkers in Hollow-wood.

42 posted on 08/03/2018 4:09:23 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Drew68

“Reboots are all they have in an effort to retain aging audiences that grew up with the originals. Young people are watching YouTube. They don’t watch any network TV and little if any cable programming. The old dinosaurs are going extinct.”

the real problem has nothing to do with an aging audience ... the real problem is that network television is completely bereft of talent, is intellectually bankrupt, and consists of nothing but complete garbage now. The talent has all fled to other venues like AMC, A&E, Syfi, Netflix, and Amazon ... there have been some incredibility great original shows on those channels, shows like “Marvelous Mrs. Maisal”, “The Expanse”, “Preacher”, “Hap and Leonard”, “Bosch”, “Better Call Saul”, and “Man In The High Castle” ... every one of those shows is heads and tails above anything being shown even in the theaters today ... just because network television is dead doesn’t mean all television is dead.


43 posted on 08/03/2018 4:24:09 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Sarah Barracuda

They could have Lieberman play the Alf guy.


44 posted on 08/03/2018 4:28:38 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Dang, she's pretty cute now, too..!


45 posted on 08/03/2018 4:31:21 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: IronJack

And Room 223 is the gay straight alliance meet room


46 posted on 08/03/2018 4:32:21 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: EdnaMode

Please.Stop.The.Reboots.
Sheesh what’s next? Small Wonder? Saved by the Bell: the Retirement Years? Dinosaurs?


Welcome Back Again Kotter - Kotter teaches class at the retirement home of the Sweathogs

The 60 Million Dollar Man - inflation and all, but now with Siri built-in

Uber - Taxi but without the medallions

The Really Odd Couple - Zer and Ze share an apartment


47 posted on 08/03/2018 4:34:57 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: IronJack

LOL, I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried some of these.


48 posted on 08/03/2018 4:34:58 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Hate most reboots, though Youtube’s new series Cobra Kai (Karate Kid followup) was very well done. Not sure movie spinoffs classify as a reboot but watched it with a friend who has sub and found it enjoyable.


49 posted on 08/03/2018 4:41:28 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Covenantor

yep that was the episode :)


50 posted on 08/03/2018 4:57:08 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Which role will Rosie O’donnel be playing?

Natalie, or Geri?


51 posted on 08/03/2018 5:16:38 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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Here is a young Molly Ringwald in facts of life...


52 posted on 08/03/2018 5:20:14 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: EdnaMode

I am going to call it now. A gay couple that adopts illegal aliens that were separated at the border and learn to grow up in a family environment in San Francisco with other members of the family that wish they had other members. No imagination no originality nothing.


53 posted on 08/03/2018 5:26:38 PM PDT by klimeckg
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To: klimeckg

That sounds about right.


54 posted on 08/03/2018 5:31:11 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Sarah Barracuda; wally_bert; gaijin

She spoke at a church I was attending. Nice person and down to earth. She lived in an apartment with her mother when the show was being made. Very much a Christian.


55 posted on 08/03/2018 6:14:51 PM PDT by BBell
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To: EdnaMode

The Magnum PI reboot features a Mexican as Magnum, leaf-blower substitites for Colt .45

Okay, I made up that last bit...


56 posted on 08/03/2018 8:44:35 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: EdnaMode

You take the good, you take the bad ...


57 posted on 08/03/2018 8:57:11 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: EdnaMode

Hey, Dinosaurs was pretty dam funny. Still holds up. I’m waiting for a Webster reboot staring Jim Acosta.


58 posted on 08/03/2018 9:04:51 PM PDT by Bommer (Jesus is God! Deal with it.)
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To: wally_bert

#30 This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I’ll get back to you. [Beep]
Angel: “Hey Jim, thinking about a reboot starring me!”
Jim picks up and says “No way!”


59 posted on 08/04/2018 12:18:31 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Probably the only way Jim would pick up the phone to respond.


60 posted on 08/04/2018 3:57:02 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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