Mad about TV reboots: Well-loved US, Taiwan series staging a comeback

Well-loved American and Taiwanese series from the 1980s to 2000s are staging a comeback, some with new plots, others with fresh faces, or both

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If the upcoming television programme line-up looks like it came straight out of a 1980s or 1990s TV guide, well, it did.

Reboots and revivals of classic shows from the past continue to reign supreme on the goggle box.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 28, 2018, with the headline Mad about TV reboots: Well-loved US, Taiwan series staging a comeback. Subscribe