NYT
In the fall of 2000 all the buzz in the television business was about a new drama on CBS on Friday night.
Not “CSI” — that had no buzz at all. All it had was ratings. No, the buzz that fall was about the remake of “The Fugitive,” the classic innocent-man-on-the-run series from the 1960s.
The redo seemed a can’t-miss idea. But it lasted 23 episodes.
And then there was “Bionic Woman.” The NBC remake in 2007 of that sci-fi chestnut from the 1970s started out as the hottest new show of that fall season — and was gone after all of nine episodes.
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