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Liquid TelevisionР”В«elieve it or not, MTV used to show music videos and other original programming that disproved the theory that youth is terminally lame.

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Perhaps an animated series or some kind of sinister online experiment might do the trick - whatever keeps the original series fresh in new minds would work for us. McGoohan probed many dark corners of consumption, geopolitics and technology in his РІР‚в„ў60s show, and those types of concerns have only intensified in the four decades since the last episode of The Prisoner was shot.

But that doesnРІР‚в„ўt mean AMCРІР‚в„ўs The Prisoner 2.0 is where the game should end. The PrisonerР”Р„s I explained in my review of The PrisonerРІР‚Вs recent reboot, itРІР‚в„ўs not easy stumbling in the shadow of the late, great Patrick McGoohan. But the show might need to be killed so that it can live again.

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(Plus, it probably has more blondes per capita than any show, sci-fi or otherwise, on prime-time television.) Like Lost, Heroes can finish strong if its full potential is creatively unlocked. Rather than exploring the boundless possibilities of an ability-infested superhumanity, NBCРІР‚в„ўs show has offered full-frontal assaults on reason and patience, often barely disguised as reactionary moralism. It might seem like cheating to insert a sci-fi show that is currently in existence, but there are more than enough arguments to support the contention that Heroes, in its current form, is dead on arrival. Syfy or someone needs to resuscitate this life-form, by any means necessary. And executive producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach injected more inside sci-fi and comics info into a single episode of The Middleman than most series do in a season.

The ABC Family series starred Art School ConfidentialРІР‚Вs Matt Keeslar, who was a brilliant mash of Twin PeaksРІР‚В Agent Cooper and The X-FilesРІР‚В Fox Mulder. Minus some unnecessarily cute banter and quirkiness, the short-lived 2008 series was one of the funniest shows on television, sci-fi or not. This hilarious, unfairly canceled sci-fi brain-fry masquerading as a teen soap doesnРІР‚в„ўt actually need a reboot. Maybe thereРІР‚в„ўs no point polluting that good name any more, but itРІР‚в„ўs past time for a series like The Twilight Zone that marries psy-fi with sci-fi without blinking.

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