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We have become conditioned by now, upon learning of a beloved/respected/familiar show being remade, to ask: Why?

After all, more often than not, such ventures turn out to be hollow, cynical cash grabs that don't even succeed at that last part – let alone recapturing a thimbleful of what made the original so special.

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The whys and the why nots

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