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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 3, 2020 13:37:00 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Sept 3, 2020 17:05:46 GMT -5
To quote the immortal Rex Buckland: This is getting ridiculous!
It's one thing to reboot Hawaii Five-O and Magnum P.I. Those shows ended decades ago, a lot the current audience were not even born when those shows were on.
PLL ended only a few years ago, and under less than pleasure circumstances. Is Hollywood so bankrupt that they need to reboot a show that ended less than half-a-decade ago!?
Apparently, the answer is yes.
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Post by Squad 51 on Sept 3, 2020 17:12:32 GMT -5
Apparently, Hollywood has lost ideas if it's going to reboot shows who have just ended. Crazy!
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 3, 2020 20:45:54 GMT -5
To quote the immortal Rex Buckland: This is getting ridiculous!
It's one thing to reboot Hawaii Five-O and Magnum P.I. Those shows ended decades ago, a lot the current audience were not even born when those shows were on.
PLL ended only a few years ago, and under less than pleasure circumstances. Is Hollywood so bankrupt that they need to reboot a show that ended less than half-a-decade ago!? Apparently, the answer is yes.
I'm almost wondering if there's some copyright shenanigans going on, aka. WB will lose the rights to PLL to a competitor in X number of years if they don't keep on making new episodes. Like, think of what happened with Spider-Man, and how we got the Amazing Spider-Man reboot only 5 years (2012) after Spider-Man 3 (2007). Why? Because, Spider-Man 3 killed sequel potential, and if Sony didn't keep on making Spider-Man movies, then they would lose the rights to Marvel/Disney. Given that PLL originally aired on ABC Family (now Freeform), I wonder if The Mouse has been vying for the rights to the show.
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Post by Trinity on Sept 3, 2020 21:29:27 GMT -5
You got to be kidding me. This is a new low, the freaking show ended three years ago, and they already attempted a spin-off that just got the axe earlier this year. This is stupid.
I pray we don't sink to new lows, where the likes of Supernatural and Arrow get rebooted by a streaming service when both these shows end/ended this year.
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Post by Trinity on Sept 3, 2020 21:35:32 GMT -5
To quote the immortal Rex Buckland: This is getting ridiculous!
It's one thing to reboot Hawaii Five-O and Magnum P.I. Those shows ended decades ago, a lot the current audience were not even born when those shows were on.
PLL ended only a few years ago, and under less than pleasure circumstances. Is Hollywood so bankrupt that they need to reboot a show that ended less than half-a-decade ago!? Apparently, the answer is yes.
I'm almost wondering if there's some copyright shenanigans going on, aka. WB will lose the rights to PLL to a competitor in X number of years if they don't keep on making new episodes. Like, think of what happened with Spider-Man, and how we got the Amazing Spider-Man reboot only 5 years (2012) after Spider-Man 3 (2007). Why? Because, Spider-Man 3 killed sequel potential, and if Sony didn't keep on making Spider-Man movies, then they would lose the rights to Marvel/Disney. Given that PLL originally aired on ABC Family (now Freeform), I wonder if The Mouse has been vying for the rights to the show. I wonder if this also could have to do with streaming service, HBO Max, where Pretty Little Liars just got added this year, I'll bet it's a huge hit and everyone is checking it out (and Gossip Girl which is also being rebooted too, and went off the air eight years ago, is also on HBO Max getting a reboot), so they feel the need to offer new content to it, and here we go they might reboot the series on that service. That is how Charmed got rebooted in the first place, due to the success of it on Netflix. It's funny, because HBO Max is a sponser, to the Pretty Little Wine Mom's podcast which Holly does.
But, you could be right with the rights of PLL expiring soon. I always wondered why Spider-Man reboots so many times, when the first movie only turns 20 in two years, and we've gone through three different versions of it, in less than twenty years.
But, it's really stupid to reboot a show that only just went off the air three years ago, like the need for more PLL died, when they had a failed spin-off series get the axe, so nobody will want to watch it, unless it is so faithful to the books, which I doubt.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 4, 2020 1:32:33 GMT -5
I wonder if this also could have to do with streaming service, HBO Max, where Pretty Little Liars just got added this year, I'll bet it's a huge hit and everyone is checking it out (and Gossip Girl which is also being rebooted too, and went off the air eight years ago, is also on HBO Max getting a reboot), so they feel the need to offer new content to it, and here we go they might reboot the series on that service. That is how Charmed got rebooted in the first place, due to the success of it on Netflix. It's funny, because HBO Max is a sponser, to the Pretty Little Wine Mom's podcast which Holly does. Why am I always finding that it's some worthless streaming service behind so many reboots? But, you could be right with the rights of PLL expiring soon. I always wondered why Spider-Man reboots so many times, when the first movie only turns 20 in two years, and we've gone through three different versions of it, in less than twenty years. But, it's really stupid to reboot a show that only just went off the air three years ago, like the need for more PLL died, when they had a failed spin-off series get the axe, so nobody will want to watch it, unless it is so faithful to the books, which I doubt. It might not necessarily be about the rights to PLL itself, but instead, Sara Shepard's books, in general. A year after PLL premiered, ABC Family shoved out an adaptation of The Lying Game, and it ended up flopping after only two seasons. Then, right after that show ended came PLL Spinoff #1, Ravenswood, which was an even bigger dud and was canned after only one season. Then, after PLL ended, they shoved out Spinoff #2, and we all know how that went down. It's obvious that someone up top doesn't want to go more than two years without something based on Sara Shepard/PLL airing new episodes. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been constantly trying for force out new adaptations/spinoffs since 2011 (and renewing PLL long past its due date).
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Sept 4, 2020 1:36:37 GMT -5
I never watched PLL but didn't that finish last year or the year before then?
Rebooting it this early's too soon.
Like Jana said Macgyver, Hawaii Five-O which I've seen some of the reboot of and Magnum PI I understand and even the Charmed reboot because of their original air dates but not this obviously.
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Post by Tim on Sept 4, 2020 11:55:59 GMT -5
Ah, don't get started. Streaming caused the evisceration of Star Trek. Streaming made that Sabrina travesty possible.
I'm nor surprised that streaming is responsible for this thing either.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Sept 4, 2020 22:33:52 GMT -5
Ah, don't get started. Streaming caused the evisceration of Star Trek. Streaming made that Sabrina travesty possible.
I'm nor surprised that streaming is responsible for this thing either.
Yeah, that is streaming for you, they see old classic hits doing so well, they feel the need to get more money but branding the name of said hit, for a reboot. Pretty Little Liars is a joke to be rebooted after only three years.
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Post by Tim on Sept 4, 2020 23:26:07 GMT -5
Streaming should be outlawed.
Just how I feel sometimes.
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Post by Trinity on Sept 5, 2020 6:35:31 GMT -5
I wonder if this also could have to do with streaming service, HBO Max, where Pretty Little Liars just got added this year, I'll bet it's a huge hit and everyone is checking it out (and Gossip Girl which is also being rebooted too, and went off the air eight years ago, is also on HBO Max getting a reboot), so they feel the need to offer new content to it, and here we go they might reboot the series on that service. That is how Charmed got rebooted in the first place, due to the success of it on Netflix. It's funny, because HBO Max is a sponser, to the Pretty Little Wine Mom's podcast which Holly does. Why am I always finding that it's some worthless streaming service behind so many reboots? They seem to be a pain and the ones behind so making reboots, even if most of them are not part of streaming, it's streaming of old shows that gets Hollywood to reboot everything. Seeing people still love those shows. It seems to be where the reboots all started, go back to where Charmed's reboot first kicked off in 2013, and where X-Files, Prison Break, Gilmore Girls, Will and Grace all ended up being revived was due to how popular they were on streaming. They seem determined to make shows out of her books. Why can't they go looking for new ideas, Hollywood writers these days have no imagination, everything is always based off a book. When was the last time we ever saw something that wasn't based or adapted from a book, old film, show or comic.
Just makes you look back at the 80s and 90s, and see just how creative the writers were back then, since everything from those eras are being rebooted, adapted or revived. So clearly that is the era of television that was the best when you think of it, not that I disagree, since it really had the best shows. I just feel bad that the generation these days don't have their own shows instead they just get our leftovers being rebooted.
Streaming should be outlawed.
Just how I feel sometimes.
Yeah, why can't Streaming go back to how it used to be when it first came out, only used as a library for exisiting films and movies, ditch the streaming originals. It was fine as just another way to old movies and shows.
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Post by Tim on Sept 5, 2020 11:17:02 GMT -5
That's it. They should have just stuck to that, let people catch up on old shows and such.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Sept 5, 2020 13:44:01 GMT -5
They seem determined to make shows out of her books. Why can't they go looking for new ideas, Hollywood writers these days have no imagination, everything is always based off a book. When was the last time we ever saw something that wasn't based or adapted from a book, old film, show or comic. Just makes you look back at the 80s and 90s, and see just how creative the writers were back then, since everything from those eras are being rebooted, adapted or revived. So clearly that is the era of television that was the best when you think of it, not that I disagree, since it really had the best shows. I just feel bad that the generation these days don't have their own shows instead they just get our leftovers being rebooted. Fully agreed. The overwhelming majority of the teen dramas of the 90s weren't an adaptation or remake of anything -- BH 90210, My So-Called Life, Party of Five, Dawson's Creek, Felicity, etc. Only real exception was Buffy, but the movie it was based on was still a fully original idea. (And, the show wasn't exactly cashing in on a popular or successful movie, anyways.)
Hell, even most of the early-mid 00s teen shows (Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, The OC, Veronica Mars) were also still mostly based on original ideas. The late 00s seemed to be when the current era of YA adaptations and reboots started, with Gossip Girl, Neo-90210, and Vampire Diaries. Along with this also seemed to come a trend of every teen show being either an edgy murder mystery or a genre show. The "regular" teen show in the vein of BH 90210 or Dawson's Creek seems to have gone extinct.
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Post by Tim on Sept 5, 2020 17:02:35 GMT -5
Did anyone want more PLL? From what I understand, many feel the original show ran a few seasons longer than it should have.
So let's make more. What a great idea
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