« Baywatch », « Buffy », « Commissioner Rex »: Many cult series are currently being reissued
Buffy can sparkle the wooden flock: the iconic vampire hunter soon returns to television – just like the lifeguards of Malibu or Rex, the four -legged commissioner with the damp dog’s punch.
Whether US classics such as « Baywatch », « Buffy », « Prison Break », « Cheers » or the German long-running favorites « Commissioner Rex » and « The Last Bull »: Some of the most famous series from earlier are about a new edition on streaming services and on linear television. But is the grip into the moth box a mere sign of lack of incorrect or is there more behind it?
At the latest at the end of 2025, Henning Baum (left) is again said to go hunting criminals as « the last bull » at Prime Video. Previously, he was on duty in 2014. Photo: Sat.1/Prime Video
Nest warmth and security
It is reasonable to assume that there is a connection between the nostalgan room and today’s times of crisis. The serial heroes that you loved in childhood and youth give your fans a feeling of heat and security.
And this need is reflected in naked numbers: According to a survey, the approximately 50 -year -old series « Our Little Farm » (in the original: « Little House on the Prairie ») brought it to an incredible 13.25 billion minutes of vision. The logical consequence: Netflix produces a remake of the US classic about the effort and privation of a settlers in the 19th century. The original with « Bonanza » star Michael Landon as the head of God Pa Ingalls ran from 1974 to 1983, so fans from that time are around 50, 60 years old.
The approximately 50 -year -old series ‘Our Little Farm’ brought it to an incredible 13.25 billion minutes in 2024.
Sure, there were new editions of successful series before, including « Dallas » or « Magnum » – but as much retro as it has never been. Among other things, the sitcom « The Office » is to be reissued, which was once the model for the German cult series « Stromberg » with Christoph Maria Herbst. And at Sat.1, Maximilian Brückner plays the new master of the title-giving Schäferhund-Spürnase in the new edition of « Commissioner Rex ».
Ideally, however, the stars of yore are on board again-as in « And Just Like That », the successful « Sex and the City » new edition with Sarah Jessica Parker. In the remake of « The Last Bull », which is said to start at Prime Video and Sat.1 in 2025, Henning Baum is allowed to play the police officer Mick Brisgau, who is in a coma for 20 years after a head shot, in the presence and put on with his macho just.
And in the remake of the iconic fantasy series « Buffy » Sarah Michelle Gellar is supposed to get involved again, if not in the leading role. From 1997 to 2003 she was chosen as California to fight for vampires and demons.
Like before and yet different
But nostalgia, retroseliness: the remakes have to go over time. Just like the new cinema of the TV classic « Charlie’s Angels », in which the men’s fantasy became a celebration of female solidarity. The planned reboot of the funny doctor series « Scrubs » (2001-2010) has to make a lot different from the original, in which, for example, the depressive hospital lawyer Ted, who wants to dump from the clinic roof in an episode, served as a joke figure.
With new films and series there is an incredible flop rate of up to 90 percent.
The announced “Heidi” series of RTL for the Swiss orphan, which grows up on an Alm with his hermitary grandfather, should not only be about rustic downhill tax, but also “the development of a girl into a young woman.” Unlike the known trick series from 1974, the new adaptation is shot with real people.
It is not difficult to understand why the transmitters get the classics out of the drawer: they rely on the fact that the well -known brands attract enough curious and fans from the past to avoid expensive failure. Background: With new films and series there is « an incredible flop quota » of up to 90 percent, said media manager Christian Seifert, head of the streaming platform Dyn.
Netflix prominently staged the demigods in white
The recent past has also shown that the new edition of a once popular long-running favorite is not a hit guarantee. In 2022, the « Balko » reboot with Jochen Horst for RTL was a quota deast.
For a comeback of one of the most popular sitcoms of all time, however, fans will wait in vain: Asked for a new edition of « Friends », television manager Channing Dungey waved from the responsible media company Warner Bros. with the words: « A new Monica, a new rachel and a new horse – that would not work. »
