One wonders if CBS's relative success with its update of Hawaii Five-O this season is a good thing ... or not. Will it prompt the network -- or its peers -- to dust off other series to freshen, series best left as is to enjoy?
Earlier this year, for example, NBC was considering a "new" The Rockford Files. Fortunately, that idea didn't get past the pilot stage. Now, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that a remake of the classic series The Wild Wild West is under consideration (by Ron Moore, who, to give him all due credit, successfully updated Battlestar: Galactica). Not that this would be the first time the Robert Conrad/Ross Martin series has been revisited; Wild Wild West, a dreadful film starring Will Smith and Kevin Kline, was made in 1999.
The Wild Wild West ran for 4 seasons on CBS from 1965 through 1969. We're fans of the series -- the first couple of seasons, in particular; it got a little silly there towards the end of its run -- and think, in the right hands, it could be reimagined. What do you think?
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