It has been announced that NBC is remaking the Munsters. This time instead of it being a half an hour comedy it will be an hour long drama. This seems counter intuitive. Why would you take a very funny show and make it into a drama. Why would you make a drama about a vampire, a Frankenstienesque monster, his vampira wife and their werewolf son into a drama/ Then it gets even weirder. Jerry O'Connell is slated to play Herman and Eddy Izzard has been signed to play Grandpa. This just seems doomed to fail. Maybe it is genius but common sense says no it is a huge mistake.
The original was an iconic comedy of the 1960's. There was a dreadful attempt at a remake in the 1980's that was so bad that only the laugh track got laughs. The new version is being called "Mockingbird Lane". The producers are saying it will be Gothic and "Harry Potter" like version with the family just living in an American neighborhood. Perhaps it will be a hit but is just seems doomed.
hmmm...Eddy Izzard is enough to make me watch it.
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