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I think they're now saying that's more of a "revival" than a "reboot".

Thanks for the correction. I knew they were related; I just thought they were siblings.

I remember it. It was the only CSI franchise show I got into, & that was really when TNT (Turner Network Television cable channel) was running it in off network syndication, mostly really late at night (I'm a night owl). Melina Kanakaredes was the original female lead (she left after 6 seasons); Sela Ward replaced her (for the next/last 3 seasons of the show). Gary Sinise was the male lead the entire 9 seasons. Peter Lenkov was the Executive Producer/Showrunner of the show before taking the same jobs, plus Creator & sometimes/often Writer, with the Hawaii Five-0 reboot as of the Fall 2010-Spring 2011 TV season (the CSI show ran until Spring, 2013).

And supporting actors were also around for multiple series. Among them, actress Mary Jane Croft, who appeared in I Love Lucy as 1 character, then was in The Lucy Show & Here's Lucy as a different character, which she played in both shows; & actor Gale Gordon, who was in all 4 of Lucy's shows, I Love Lucy all the way through Life with Lucy.

From TV Line: Alex's Series Moonlight Now Streaming on CW Seed (cwseed.com) (The article mentions he's on H50 now, so there's an H50 media mention within)

Aww man... Besides his own acting credits (among them, he was Paul Reiser's character's father in Mad About You), he was married to Supporting Actress Oscar winner (for Moonstruck) Olympia Dukakis (&, thereby, brother-in-law to former Massachusetts Governor/1988 Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis). I think 93 years is a good, long, life though.

Well in some ways this TV Line article, which I also linked to upthread, says/implies at/toward the end, if I'm reading it right, that we're getting so many reboots because viewers complain so much about the "new" ideas & then wish we had more shows like (insert name of show here). So all the reboots are being blamed on "nostalgic" viewers.

You might've misread, or I misunderstood you (apologies if it's the latter). They weren't saying the original version of Charmed was "feminist". The reboot is supposed to be "feminist", however.

From the Los Angeles Times: An Article/Review of the Recent All the President's Men Live Reading Involving TWW Cast Members and Others

From TV Line: TV's Reboot Trend Triggers Viewer Rage, Backlash: 'Stop the Insanity!'

Today is Alan Alda's (California Senator/Republican Presidential Candidate Arnold "Arnie" Vinick, in S6 & S7, & an Emmy Award winner, for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, in S7) 82nd birthday. He posted this to his Twitter to mark the day; I just thought I'd share.

Bill put these 2 pics, 1 of Will & Zoey, 1 of Will & him, on his Twitter feed in about the last week. You'll notice he comments on the first pic that Zoey's hair is growing in (which is a kind of strange statement--or at least a strange way to phrase it-- unless she had some removed for some reason... medical procedure, gave herself a bad haircut, etc.). I think if you click on Will's pic in the bottom 1, hopefully you can finally see his head. He's reenacting the "Han Solo in Carbonite" scene from Return of the Jedi; Bill says something about Jabba (the Hutt) & Boba (Fett), but he's behind a thing where he puts his head in a hole & it looks like he's Princess Leia from the original movie (maybe The Empire Strikes Back, since Boba Fett's in the cutout pic near Leia).

From Variety: John Morris, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein Composer Dead at Age 91

From NBC News: Former Rockies and Marlins Pitcher Marcos Carvaja Dead at Age 34, in Part Because of a Lack of Medicine in His Home Country, Venezuela

This story, from CNN, is about the winners in the Best New Artist category (used as an example, but also appropriate because this year's Grammys are being presented tonight, in New York City). I used this story as an example because it's exactly what happens with some Oscar winners, as well as Best New Artist Grammy winners: Either you (or your "team") are able to capitalize on the win & go on to bigger & better things, or you fade back into obscurity--either slowly or quickly, depending--with a shiny reminder/shiny reminder(s) of what was/what could've been on your mantel, shelf, or wherever.

Yeah, the ST cancellation was really good--NOT. Especially when William Shatner's voiceover during the opening credits clearly says the USS Enterprise is on a 5-year mission & the show was canceled at the end of the third year/season. This is a good reason why you should never explicitly state something like how long your TV show is supposed to go on, in the show's opening credits at the very least, in case you end up being unable to deliver on that, sort of, promise.

As @kassygreene said, Toby & Andie's daughter, Molly, was named for a Secret Service agent who was on Zoey Bartlet's detail & killed when Zoey was kidnaped from that club the night she graduated from Georgetown (the same day Toby & Andie's twins were born). Molly's fraternal twin brother, Huck (full name Huckleberry), on the other hand, was named for Andie's grandfather.

The thing about Sorkin is he likes to reuse stuff--all or parts of character names, words, ep titles, etc.--from project to project. Like, all of the shows he's done for TV (Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, & The Newsroom) have all had an episode titled What Kind of Day Has It Been?. In TWW, that was the S1 finale.

I'll have to try & watch the ep again before it's not 1 of the 5 free that are available at a time (usually the last 5 eps that aired), since I haven't subscribed to the CBS All Access thing yet, & see if I can catch where they show the mic & satellite (or whatever) dish pointed at the guy's car. Apparently it was a "blink & you miss it" thing, & I must've blinked or looked away long enough, for some reason, to miss it. I'm pretty sure they're all wired for sound at least when they're wearing their vests, because they're always talking to each other--giving orders, instructions, etc.--when they're wearing them (so I always thought the coms stuff they use to talk to each other was, like, built into the vests). I'm laughing about the implants & Jerry's theories. He can be a bit (or more than a bit) out there, but I think he means well & has a good heart, ultimately. And he did get HPD over to rescue the team when Michelle Shioma & her goons held the team hostage on the other island last season (which resulted in Jerry's getting the Five-0 badge he coveted).

I just watched this ep again yesterday, through the CBS app. Once they found out the father-in-law had a (legal) gun, with the intent to use it, & that he was stubborn enough to hang around (probably to see his ex-son-in-law kill himself), Steve said he could stay, under Duke's supervision. So he was detained, initially--& I thought they took his gun; maybe they did & he got it back (shrugs). Then, I don't remember for sure what happened--it might've been the hullabaloo when the food arrived (& we never did find out whether or not there was a coded message in what Lou was ordering, because I thought he was overly emphasizing certain parts of the order like the pineapple on the pizza, & the calamari, & whatever, like that was supposed to mean something to Steve)--but the father-in-law managed to break away from Duke & the other HPD cops who were supposed to be watching him, & that's where the suspect, & the father-in-law, got shot. Lou didn't actually attempt suicide--if he had, he wouldn't be a character on the show now, or he'd be more "damaged" than he is. Just saying. He definitely thought about it more than once, though: when he was pissed off because he thought Renee or somebody changed the combination to his safe because he couldn't get into it (if you ask me, I think he was too drunk to remember how to get into the safe) & then when Renee went to the store on a grocery run; he had the gun in a place where he was about to do it, then he heard a noise, like somebody was trying to break in or something, & he still cared enough to check out what the noise was/where it was coming from. It turned out it was his son, Will, who decided to cut class that day. After that, Lou started going to some kind of support group. And he never thought about suicide again, that we know of. I think the realization that Will might've found Lou's body--which he probably didn't want to happen--is what snapped him out of thinking about suicide. The thing that got me about this ep was how, all of a sudden, Steve, Danny, & whoever, could hear what Lou & the guy were talking about through headphones, from in the car. We know Lou wasn't wired for sound to start with; he was out with Will on his day off. And then, when he decided to check on the car because there was an emergency alert out on it, I still didn't see any way he could've gotten wired before he got in the guy's car. And he wasn't wearing his vest either, which might be a way he could be wired for sound. Oh well, I can handwave it, I think.

Multiple entertainment news media reported yesterday that CBS has ordered a Pilot for Peter Lenkov's reboot of Magnum, P.I..

Or it may mean basically nothing to their careers, except something to put on their mantel, shelf, or wherever. Take for instance Hilary Swank, 2-time (within 5 years) Best Actress winner, ex-wife of Chad Lowe (whom she infamously forgot to thank the first time she won; they divorced, I think, fairly soon after she won her second Oscar) & ex-sister-in-law of Rob Lowe. Her 2 biggest movies have, so far, been the 2 she won the Oscars for--Boys Don't Cry & Million Dollar Baby. I don't think any of the movies she made between those 2, or since Million Dollar Baby have gotten much, if any, notice.

Actually, they were announced--at least the development of the Magnum 1 was--over the summer. They (Magnum & C&L) were given actual pilot commitments today.

People says his family has gone to Puerto Rico to ID the body. The cruise he was on was apparently a 7-Day Caribbean cruise for gay people--the ship was chartered by a company specializing in booking cruises to gay clientele; legendary singer/actress (& gay icon, at least to some) Olivia Newton-John was on the ship, along with her husband; she had performed for the passengers the night before. TMZ said, in connection with the possible overdose theory, the cruise ship involved was supposedly a "zero tolerance" ship regarding drug use.

From TV Line.com: Charmed Reboot Gets Pilot Order at The CW; Also Gets a Feminist Twist Also from TV Line.com: Holly Marie Combs Slams Charmed Reboot on Twitter