12 Hilariously Bad Attempts To Reboot Classic TV Shows

8. Ironside

It is quite common for a series to not be picked up from the pilot stage, but to premiere and get cancelled in the same month suggests it must have been pretty terrible. The Blair Underwood fronted remake of the 1960's detective drama which saw Raymond Burr star as Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside, hit complications very quickly. The signs for trouble were there from the start. While promoting the show star Blair Underwood gave it the kiss of death while talking to Huffpost; "I never say the word remake because I think it was made once and done brilliantly...This is not a remake €“ it's a re-imagining." Controversy circled the project as soon as the casting announcement was made. Many people quite rightly asked why a genuinely disabled actor was not chosen to play the part of the wheelchair-bound main character. The answer from the production team was so that they could produce pre-accident flashbacks. Supposedly reinvigorated by a move from San Francisco to New York City, the new version was promoted as 'tough and sexy' but reviewed as 'bland, predictable and plodding,' it is little wonder that Ironside was especially short lived and lasted only four episodes. Clearly the public agreed with the decision, audience numbers dropped alarmingly - by an average of 0.98 million week on week between October 2nd and October 23rd 2013.