9 TV Show Reboots That Were Mercifully Cancelled
2. Murder, She Wrote
When octogenarian and all-around pleasant lady Dame Angela Lansbury, the star of the original series, starts sh-t talking your reboot, it's probably time to start rethinking the idea. Lansbury was vocal in her admonition of using the Murder, She Wrote moniker to retread the basic premise:
I think its a mistake to call it Murder, She Wrote, because Murder, She Wrote will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person.
That's elderly woman speak for "Shut this !*$% thing down, dickweeds." But NBC persevered with the reboot, using the exact same premise, supplanting The Help's Octavia Spencer in the role of the amateur sleuth. But it died a quick death, ending before it ever really got off the ground, which relieved not just Lansbury, but Spencer, as well:
"I think things happen as they're supposed to. When you're on a television show, it's a marriage and when you take that vow to be on a series for seven years, it should be something that you want to see and a character you want to learn about, and with a group of people that you want to see for the next seven years."And that's a nice way of saying "Shut this !*$% thing down, dickweeds, because I don't like you enough to see you everyday."