TV Programmes they SHOULDN'T have brought back!

[jonsie]

So to run alongside the TV programmes they should bring back, how about the reverse side of the coin?

As I'm the creator of the thread, I get to cheat, I'll name TWO just off the top of my head

• Open All Hours....ok, Granville and company.....and whatever name it flies by now...
• Magnum P I....oh dear! What a traversty to Tom Selleck!

Any more great TV that disappoints when revived?

[Glory1]

Yes @Mi-Amigo I recorded it to watch later as I was away over Christmas and Nee Year. 

Rather disappointing I thought. Preferred David Suchet's version.

[Mi-Amigo]

BBC version had several changes to the Suchet version.

Do you know which was closer to the book?

[TallTrees]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

I like Midsomer. Though I wouldn't want to live there!@

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Nor Me @Cleoriff 

I like the more recent Barnaby ~ if there is any one left alive for any more series

I would be surprised !

[Glory1]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:
BBC version had several changes to the Suchet version.

Do you know which was closer to the book?

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Yes, the David Suchet version was closer to the book @Mi-Amigo.

[Mi-Amigo]

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@Glory1 wrote:

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:
BBC version had several changes to the Suchet version.

Do you know which was closer to the book?

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Yes, the David Suchet version was closer to the book @Mi-Amigo.

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Thanks @Glory1 That figures. In my opinion, the worst Poirot was Peter Ustanoff - still makes me cringe

[Glory1]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

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@Glory1 wrote:

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:
BBC version had several changes to the Suchet version.

Do you know which was closer to the book?

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Yes, the David Suchet version was closer to the book @Mi-Amigo.

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Thanks @Glory1 That figures. In my opinion, the worst Poirot was Peter Ustanoff - still makes me cringe

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I would have agreed with you @Mi-Amigo until I saw Kenneth Branagh's Poirot. Cringe worthy doesn't really do it justice. His accent wasn't Belgian, it wasn't French, it was just awful 

[Mi-Amigo]

@Glory1 

I`m putting Kenneth B as Poirot in my "never to watch" box

* it`s a big box*

[Glory1]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

@Glory1 

I`m putting Kenneth B as Poirot in my "never to watch" box

* it`s a big box*

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Definitely a good idea @Mi-Amigo. Wish I'd never watched it.

[Mi-Amigo]

I haven`t got permission off thread-creator @jonsie but can I bend the rules a teeny bit and chuck in the remake of the film The Italian Job - the original was an all-time classic in my opinion - and shouldn`t have been remade.

[Glory1]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

I haven`t got permission off thread-creator @jonsie but can I bend the rules a teeny bit and chuck in the remake of the film The Italian Job - the original was an all-time classic in my opinion - and shouldn`t have been remade.

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Yes, I definitely agree with you @Mi-Amigo but then remakes never do justice to the original. Trouble is Hollywood has few new ideas these days so they reboot classics. And very few are as good as the original. Though one slight exception was The Magnificent Seven. I watched it on TV recently and it wasn't half bad. But I still prefer, and own, the Yul Brynner classic.