From a newsgroup post dated January 30, 2011:<\/i><\/p>\n
This is swiped from a private mailing list I’m on; I hope they won’t mind…<\/p>\n
Let us suppose a network decided that you, yes you<\/i>, are a marketing genius, and they hired you, at extravagant rates, to create three series for them.<\/p>\n
The first is to be a continuation of an existing series that was cancelled too soon — tell them which series should have been kept alive, and what direction it would take to prevent a second cancellation.<\/p>\n
The second is to be a remake\/re-imagining of a canceled series, and you have all of TV’s history to play with, from the 1940s to last week.<\/p>\n
And finally, give them a spin-off — doesn’t matter whether the original series is still thriving or long dead.<\/p>\n
My original three (later revised, but we’ll get to that) were:
\nRevival: “Invasion”
\nRemake: “Car 54, Where Are You?”
\nSpin-off: “Wesley Wyndham-Price, Rogue Demon Hunter”<\/p>\n
Note: I have 345 more saved newsgroup posts. No, not all will wind up on this blog. I started with 589, and I haven’t posted anywhere near 244 here. Most either just get trashed, or saved as text files for my own use. The ones that wind up here are the ones I think might be of interest.<\/i><\/p>\n
Follow-up note: I just did another pass through the backlog, and reduced it from 345 to 288.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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