3. Renewed Interest in Spy Thrillers on TV
There's many police procedurals dominating the TV landscape but there doesn't seem to be an abundance of spy thrillers on TV, even after the success of
Alias with Jennifer Garner. It's time for a resurgence of the genre on TV and what better way to make a comeback then to make TV series about the ultimate spy? If a Bond TV series is successful, it could lead the way for more spy thrillers, maybe even some spy comedies, similar to
Get Smart or
I Spy in the 60s, which were inspired by the success of the early Bond films.
2. A Series That Can Belong To One Actor
While Sean Connery is usually seen as the definitive James Bond, the series has belonged to several actors by now, and each generation has a favourite Bond. With a Bond TV series, we could have a show that belonged to one actor for several years, a series that was his and his alone. Who could play Bond in a TV series? Could they get some one high profile like Michael Fassbender? After his performance as the young Magneto in last year's
X-Men: First Class, he
made a lot of people think, "Bond." There's also actors who are a little more under the radar that'd be more likely to star in a TV series, such as Rufus Sewell. He played Italian detective, Aurelio Zen, in the mini-series
Zen, a character who has drawn comparisons to the character of Bond. Whoever they pick, he'd have to go toe to toe with Craig or whoever is playing Bond in the films at that point. It'd be a battle of the Bonds not seen since Roger Moore and Sean Connery were in seperate Bond films in the same year- Moore in the official Bond film
Octopussy, and Connery in the unofficial Bond film
Never Say Never Again.