What have we learned from Charmed, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Twilight Zone, Heroes and Roswell? All together now: Reboots. Don’t. Work.
From the perversion of childhood classics to the destruction of otherwise perfect TV series with famously enduring cult followings, the list of failed adaptations, reboots and sequels which have fruitlessly attempted to capture the magic of the originals is disturbingly long. Meanwhile, brilliant new adaptations are getting cancelled left, right and centre despite largely positive reviews.
