CBS announces "Streets" remake series!

Many of those moving in the somewhat limited Streets fan circles will already know this (especially seeing as I'm around a gazillion years late to this party! Sorry! Been busy.), but for those who don't:

 

CBS have announced plans for a remake series of The Streets of San Francisco. It's better news than a remake movie, I reckon, as those can be so seeped in Hollywood machismo and drowned out so completely by the stars employed that they can be a complete disaster for original fans (eg. Starsky & Hutch, Miami Vice). A TV show at the very least can potentially have some fresh faces in the leading roles, a slowly developing arc and hopefully some of the grit of the original show. The fact that Numb3rs producer Robert Port is one of those writing the pilot script brings me a little hope, but remakes like this are such a hit and miss thing.

Writer Lee Goldberg spoofed what has these days become a fairly standard up-rising of outraged fans here on his blog (thanks very much for the site mention, Lee!). We may be lucky and find that the production team and directors want to remain faithful to the original, although even this doesn't really mean it's going to work in our favour. Still, if a set of creators can transfer the electricity and chemistry of the original into the current era, then power to them. Even if they don't, a remake will at the very least get people more aware of the original show and hopefully bring in some fresh fans. (Then again, maybe not; I still have to apend "Yeah i love Battlestar Galactica!" with "the original" because everyone means the remake.)

Doubts aside, this is definitely good news for the DVD releases, because for a remake series to be on the cards the DVD sales must be doing well. It looks good for the rest of the series to be released, and at the very least we can perhaps hope that some of the original cast get a cameo in the new series (if they deem it decent enough. A bit-part in a bad remake would seem a bit too desperate on everybody's part for my liking).

 

That seems like a rather negative post on the matter - i'm just cautiously optimistic really. I'll try and keep this blog updated with news as i hear it, about the remake as well as the normal stuff on the original (i know i've not been real active lately, hopefully some more screen-caps coming soon!).