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Television remakes


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    • Television remakes
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    • Reimagined television programs
    • Remade television programs
    • Remakes, Television
    • Television reimaginings
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    • found: Work cat.: All in the family. First season, c2002.
    • found: Wikipedia, Mar. 1, 2009(Remakes occur less often on television than in film, but have happened from time to time. Examples include Battlestar Galactica (1978, 2003), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983, 2002), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987, 2003); one area where television remakes are particularly common is trans-Atlantic ports, where US shows are remade for the UK or more frequently, UK shows are remade for a US market; recently, the term reimagining has become popular to describe remakes that do not closely follow the original. Reimaginings often contain tongue in cheek references to the original with characters and concepts of the same name, but significantly changed; examples of remakes that are most associated with the reimagining term include Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica)
    • found: TV remakes : a reminder of things past, 2009, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2009("Reimagining" is the buzz word; Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, and Doctor Who are just a few of the old sci-fi shows that have been reimagined with varying degrees of success; "reimagined" television shows.)
    • found: Wikipedia, Mar. 1, 2009:All in the Family (All in the Family; American situation comedy; broadcast on the CBS television network from Jan. 12, 1971 to Apr. 8, 1979; based on the British television series Till Death Us Do Part) Till Death Us Do Part (Till Death Us Do Part; British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975; was re-made in many countries, from the United States, to Brazil, Germany, and Hong Kong, with the most notable remake being the long-running 1970's American series All in the Family)
    • found: Helmer, S. TV series unlikely to be remade, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2009(Every so often, some television network will dip into the archives and, rather than create a new series, try to win over an audience by re-making a show that was popular in another decade; a re-made television sitcom)
    • found: Google search, Mar. 1, 2009(television remakes; television re-makes; re-made television sitcom; remade television programs; remade television series; TV remakes; TV re-makes)
    • notfound: Taves, B. The moving image genre-form guide, Mar. 6, 2009
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    • 2011-05-09: new
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