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alp227

(32,026 posts) Thu Oct 24, 2013, 10:33 PM Oct 2013

NBC To Reboot ‘Murder, She Wrote’

http://www.deadline.com/2013/10/murder-she-wrote-reboot-series-octavia-spencer-nbc/

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NBC To Reboot ‘Murder, She Wrote’ (Original Post) alp227 Oct 2013 OP

Not crazy about this idea. displacedtexan Nov 2013 #1

So I'm going to have to not watch this series all over again? Iggo Nov 2013 #2

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)

1. Not crazy about this idea.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 04:38 PM

Nov 2013

MSW was a vehicle for guest star paychecks and light to virtually no violence on display. TV producers today want to make everything salacious and macabre in order to generate buzz and grab that 18-49 demographic.

I'm just not sure that a reboot today would pay appropriate homage to the original.

Iggo

(47,558 posts)

2. So I'm going to have to not watch this series all over again?

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2013, 03:54 PM

Nov 2013

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