Yay or nay: should these TV series reboots see the light of day?

Hollywood seems to be out of ideas for new TV material and that could be a bad thing or good thing, depending on whether you are excited about some of your favourite shows making a comeback or not.

And many of these reboots (the story picks up where it left off) and remakes (same-ish story, different cast) are getting scooped up by streaming services and broadcasters, making it easier to watch them.

Here are three series, which are still in the pre-production phase, slated to premiere in the near future. We decide whether they should be booted back to the past or if they deserve a new spin:

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: YAY

After the successes of Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, True Blood and The Originals, will millennials be interested in a story about a vampire-slaying girl? Well, we like to slay, so we say yay to this one.

To keep with the times, the producers are looking to cast a black actress in the lead, according to Deadline. They told the publication, “Like our world, it will be richly diverse, and like the original, some aspects of the series could be seen as metaphors for issues facing us all today.”

The head writer has clarified that new show will be more of a sequel to the original, which ran from 1996 to 2003, focusing on different characters and storylines, The Verge reports.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a pioneer when it came to celebrating a cool, strong female lead, featuring inclusive love stories, and playing around with different formats for various episodes of the show — all things that are now on trend.

The show is still being shopped around but the Fox TV group is working with the writers and producers on the reboot, according to Deadline.

If you watched the original, you will probably hate this one, but for the fluffy puppies, it sounds just right.

VERONICA MARS: MAYBE

Kristen Bell has played such a wide variety of characters, it is surprising she keeps reprising her Veronica Mars role. She clearly believes in the saying "never forget your roots".

Veronica Mars survived for three seasons, crowdfunding helped create a sequel film and now nostalgia is bringing us a fourth season: the eight episode limited series will stream on Hulu in mid-2019.

WATCH | Kristen Bell talks about the new Veronica Mars

In an interview with E! News, series creator Rob Thomas said he wants the show to keep being revived. “What I’m hoping for is that, after I retire, some quality young writer wants to remake it and send me checks — that’s the dream there.”

The reboot had better be good because this is one train that is not stopping, apparently.

GOSSIP GIRL: NAY

Word on the street is some of Manhattan’s elite want to see a reboot of their lives from a bygone era to remind us just how unfair life is as they sip on their cocktails in Trump Tower. But, to quote Teen Vogue, “a show like Gossip Girl needs to live in 2007, not 2019”. 

Nonetheless, The CW seems determined to bring back all their past TV hits. TVLine quotes the president of the network as saying they are already in discussion with the executive producers and others.

They should stop right there. The show is everything the world of TV is rejecting in 2019: a cast that lacks much diversity, rich guys who target young girls as sexual conquests and glamourising the lives of wealthy bullies.

The creators should just let fans wallow in nostalgia for a time when high school girls could frolic with ex-con teachers on a show without audiences calling it out for the mess it actually was.