All articles tagged with #reboot
A teaser trailer for the Baywatch reboot drops a slow-motion first look at the new cast led by Stephen Amell as Hobie Buchannon ahead of a January 2027 Fox premiere. The clip features Brooks Nader, Livvy Dunne, and Jessica Belkin, and confirms an expanded ensemble including Hassie Harrison and Noah Beck; fans reacted with excitement and nostalgia.
Bungie unveiled a roadmap for Marathon that suggests the revival will undergo a complete overhaul this year, signaling a major reworking of scope and design beyond incremental updates.
Steins;Gate, the 2009 Xbox 360 sci‑fi visual novel, is getting a full Re:Boot reboot this summer, arriving August 20, 2026 in Japan with refreshed visuals, a new scenario, a recreated Akihabara, redesigned outfits by huke, multiple endings, and a longer 30–50 hour campaign, with no confirmed international release yet.
NBC has ordered two drama pilots to series for the 2026–27 season: a Rockford Files reboot starring David Boreanaz as James Rockford and Line of Fire, a serialized cop drama (formerly Protection), both produced by Universal Television. They were among NBC’s five drama pilots, with three other projects not moving forward. The network says the pair should pair well with existing hits like Law & Order: SVU and Chicago PD; the Rockford Files reboot also stars Michaela McManus, Felix Solis and Jacki Weaver, while Line of Fire features Peter Krause, Hope Davis, Kat Cunning, Tommy O’Brien, Taylor Bloom and Charlie Barnett.
Fox is rebooting the classic drama-fantasy Highway to Heaven for the 2027–2028 season, with Emmy-winning writer Jason Katims set to showrun the modern iteration about an earthbound angel helping people in need. The project is produced by Fox with Amblin Television (Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Todd Cohen) and Michael Landon Productions’ Wayne Lepoff and Cindy Landon, with casting not yet announced. Katims says the series will balance timeless themes of compassion and second chances with a contemporary lens.
Justin Berfield says he feels bad for Erik Per Sullivan, who declined to reprise Dewey in Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair, and asks paparazzi to leave him alone; Sullivan was the only original star not to return for the revival, which follows a grown Malcolm at his parents’ 40th anniversary and is streaming on Hulu.
Playground Games’ Fable reboot drops the series’ morality-based morphing, opting for a morality scale that affects NPCs but not the player’s appearance; Peter Molyneux calls the omission a real shame, while Ralph Fulton cites the lack of an objective good/evil and increased complexity as reasons. The game launches this fall on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, marking Fable’s first PS5 appearance.
SNK marks Metal Slug's 30th anniversary with a retrospective video and an anniversary site that teases a rebooted future and new gaming ventures, including a Mission Reboot nod; the series is available on Switch via Hamster's ACA Neo Geo, with an exclusive Neo Geo+ AES Anniversary Edition cartridge planned and more announcements expected.
Netflix releases the first teaser for a Little House on the Prairie reboot, introducing a new Ingalls family and confirming a July 9 premiere. Adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s semi-autobiographical books, the series follows the Ingalls’ frontier life in rural Minnesota, with Laura narrated by Alice Halsey. Showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine leads production for CBS Studios and Anonymous Content, with multiple directors and executive producers attached.
The Financial Times reviews a four-episode Malcolm in the Middle revival, Life’s Still Unfair, reuniting the original cast for a nostalgia-soaked, low-stakes comedy that stays faithful to the original formula. Adult Malcolm is now a single father running a food-waste business; Hal and Lois celebrate their 40th anniversary while the family’s chaos remains invitingly familiar, with a small nod to modernity (including a non-binary Kelly). Streaming on Disney+ from April 10, the reboot earns a warm four-star reception for its comforting silliness and solid callbacks to the past.
Sarah Michelle Gellar says Hulu canceled the Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival after an executive who openly admitted he wasn’t a fan of the original, derailing a project she and Chloe Zhao had been developing with Ryan Kiera Armstrong as the new Slayer; the decision, reportedly by Disney TV Group President Craig Erwich, left Gellar gutted and fans hopeful for a future revival in Sunnydale.
Hulu canceled the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale reboot after a pilot directed by Chloé Zhao that sidelined Buffy; Sarah Michelle Gellar blamed a skeptical Hulu executive, while insiders say Zhao’s cinematic approach and a weak rewrite made the TV adaptation untenable, leaving the project in development limbo despite interest from other distributors.
Sarah Michelle Gellar announced in an Instagram video that the planned Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot for Hulu has been canceled, though she thanked director Chloé Zhao and suggested that the Buffy universe could live on in future related projects.
Paramount has passed on Max Landis’s treatment for a new G.I. Joe film, but the studio is still meeting for a possible franchise reboot; one pitch under consideration reportedly comes from Danny McBride, and officials say the decision was tied to the project’s satirical artistic direction rather than Landis’s past allegations.
Sarah Michelle Gellar announced that Hulu will not move forward with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, Buffy: New Sunnydale, which was in development since 2025 with Chloé Zhao set to direct; Hulu is reportedly weighing next steps, but the project is effectively dead for now.