Ripe For Reboot? 15 Shows We Predict (And Maybe Fear) Will Get Remade

When it comes to TV reboots, there's an inconvenient truth we must all accept: none of our favorite shows are safe.

In this climate, executives don't care how precious a show is to you. In fact, the more you love and cherish an existing IP, the more likely someone is to rip it from the sweet hereafter, extract its DNA and create something that vaguely resembles the program you once held dear.

CBS has found success reanimating procedurals of yesteryear, from Hawaii Five-0 to Magnum, P.I.; The CW is living its best '90s life all over again with new versions of Charmed, Roswell and Legends of the Hidden Temple; and HBO Max isn't hesitating to redo shows less than a decade in our collective rearview, with new versions of Pretty Little Liars and (gasp!) True Blood on the horizon.

And the reboot train shows no signs of stopping. In 2021, Fox booked a return flight to Fantasy Island, Queen Latifah became CBS' new Equalizer, Kung Fu kicked back on The CW, ABC relived its Wonder Years and Gossip Girl reemerged on HBO Max.

So the question we're always wondering is: which show is next? Read on for a list of 15 shows we can absolutely see getting the reboot treatment, drop a comment with your own additions — whether you'd want them to happen or not.

Yes, we're aware that ABC already attempted to reboot Charlie's Angels in 2011. But that was 10 years ago, which is roughly 100 in TV years. If the right team and the right script come together, this franchise will fly again.

(We said fly, we didn't say soar.)

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.

And sometimes networks want to go with names that everybody knows.

Much of this Marc Cherry dramedy's success is owed to its lightning-in-a-bottle cast, but regardless of who was getting murdered, cheated on or hit by a falling airplane on any given Sunday, Wisteria Lane always provided the perfect stage for the wives' delicious antics. Who's to say that the iconic street's new residents aren't up to similarly soapy shenanigans today?

Reboots are always risky procedures, and we foresee plenty of complications when someone inevitably attempts to resuscitate this beloved medical drama.

Those doctors may have worked with science... but they also made magic.

"Woman sees dead people" wasn't exactly a novel concept when Ghost Whisperer premiered on CBS in 2005, and it still won't be when The CW or Paramount+ or whomever decides to bring it back for another haunt.

The idea of a Glee-boot may not be music to everyone's ears, but that doesn't mean it won't happen.

In fact, Fox Entertainment President Michael Thorn recently told Deadline that he'd "love to do more" Glee, adding, "We always welcome celebrating our iconic shows and revisiting those with surprising takes and new approaches so, especially in this crowded market, we're always open to reinventing our best IP with some of our favorite partners."

Sure, it wouldn't have the blessing of series creator Susan Harris — she went on record in 2017 to say that you simply can't do The Golden Girls without its original cast — but since when has that stopped Hollywood from rebooting something?

Instead of still arguing about Lost's ending all these years later... maybe we should be working together to stop it from beginning again.

The 2006 film adaptation of NBC's beloved suits-and-speedboats procedural didn't exactly dominate the box office, but something tells us it would receive a warmer welcome on the small screen. And considering CBS' recent success with reboots of classic crime dramas like Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver and Magnum P.I., doesn't this one feel like the next logical redo?

With a Gossip Girl reboot currently streaming on HBO Max, who's to say that a return to The O.C. — Josh Schwartz's other zeitgeisty teen drama from the mid-aughts — won't be next? Say it with us: "Welcome back to The O.C., bitch!"

Just as the complicated dynamic between Snow White and the Evil Queen laid the groundwork for seven seasons of soapy fairytale goodness, there's really no shortage of literary rivals capable of taking up that mantle and running with it — perhaps in glass slippers.

According to original series star Scott Bakula, "significant conversations" are afoot about a potential reboot of Quantum Leap — the late '80s/early '90s sci-fi series in which Bakula traveled through time as Dr. Sam Beckett — so this prediction really isn't much of a... oh, don't make us say it.

UPDATE (JAN. 13, 2022): NBC has ordered a pilot for a Quantum Leap reboot that will center on a "new team." Click here for more info.

Always a hot property, Scooby-Doo basically gets reanimated at least once a year on screens large and small. But we've yet to see the franchise reach its final form: a Riverdale-esque teen drama, most likely on The CW. (For the record, we wouldn't hate this one at all.)

Cartoon Network came dangerously close with 2009's live-action Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (pictured here). It even featured CW staple Robbie Amell as Fred, which pretty much makes it a prophecy.

We were actually afraid to speak this prediction out loud... so we're just going to write it down.

As long as the original TVD-verse is kept alive (currently by Legacies), the iconic girl-meets-vampires drama feels untouchable by the cold, unpredictable hand of Johnny Reboot. But we're all kidding ourselves if we don't think there will be a new Damon Salvatore "hello, brother"-ing all over Mystic Falls someday.

The fact that The CW hasn't already attempted to reboot this late-80s drama — which starred Johnny Depp as part of a young-looking undercover cop unit that investigated teen-related crimes — is frankly a crime of its own.

What even is The CW if not adults pretending to be teens?