As ITV sign Graham Norton for Wheel Of Fortune reboot, a look at TV shows which have been reprised from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? to Sex And The City
Wheel Of Fortune is the latest show set to return to screens, years after it first aired.
ITV announced this week Graham Norton, 60, will be fronting a remake of the iconic game show, which ran from 1988 until 2001, next year.
The UK series was previously hosted by John Leslie, Nicky Campbell and Bradley Walsh when it aired on ITV between 1988 and 2001.
In recent years, a number of well-loved programmes have made it back onto screens and achieved great success with their revamped formats.
Here we take a look at TV show reboots, from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Sex And The City to Big Brother and 90s game show Gladiators, which will return later this year.
Game show: Wheel Of Fortune is the latest show set to return to screens, years after it first aired (Nicky Campbell and his co-host Carol Smillie pictured in 1988)
Host with the most: ITV announced this week Graham Norton, 60, will be fronting a remake of the iconic game show which ran from 1988 until 2001, next year
Big Brother
Big Brother fans will have to wait until Autumn before the rebooted series returns to screens with AJ Odudu and Will Best taking on the roles as host
All-seeing eye: It was confirmed during the Love Island final in August that the TV favourite would have a new home on ITV2 and streaming service ITVX
Fun: Davina McCall hosted the show while it was on Channel 4 (pictured with Kate Lawler in 2002)
Big Brother fans will have to wait until Autumn before the rebooted series returns to screens.
The show started as a social experiment in 2000 – going on to become a firm fixture of popular culture.
Ordinary members of the public entered the iconic house, skyrocketing to fame as they were watched 24/7 by the British public, while a celebrity version of the show with famous housemates also ran from 2000.
It was confirmed during the Love Island final last August that the TV favourite would have a new home on ITV2 and streaming service ITVX.
Now a date has been confirmed for the civilian edition of the programme, which last aired on Channel 5 in 2018.
AJ Odudu and Will Best will host the show. Davina McCall hosted the show while it was on Channel 4 before Emma Willis took on the role.
Gladiators
90s sports entertainment show Gladiators is set to return to TV screens later this year.
Sports game: The show was presented by Ulrika Jonsson throughout its original run
Burly: The fearsome group includes trained rugby players, accomplished swimmers, sprinters and powerlifters (left Hunter pictured in the 90s, right new series Gladiator Giant)
90s sports entertainment show Gladiators is set to return to TV screens later this year.
While the skimpy outfits popularised by iconic former cast-members such as Jet, Lightening and Amazon have been ditched, the up-to-date look still draws attention to the fearsome sixteen”s chiselled chests, ripped biceps and sculpted abs.
The fearsome group includes trained rugby players, accomplished swimmers, sprinters and powerlifters – but Mark Clattenburg will bring years of experience as a Premier League referee to the table when the series gets under way.
The newly unveiled group are ready to battle contenders at Sheffield Arena in the most iconic and exciting sports entertainment gameshow, coming to BBC One and iPlayer.
Contestants will face the unenviable task of facing the Gladiators in the ultimate test of speed and strength in a series of brand new games alongside some returning classics, among them fan-favourite The Eliminator.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Hit: TV quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? returned to TV screens back in 2018, with Jeremy Clarkson taking the helm
Quiz show: The show, initially hosted by Chris Tarrant, premiered on September 4, 1998 on ITV. Its final episode aired in February 2014
TV quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? returned to TV screens back in 2018, with Jeremy Clarkson taking the helm.
The competition offers a top prize of £1million for successfully answering multiple-choice questions that increase in difficulty as the show progresses.
The show, initially hosted by Chris Tarrant, premiered on September 4, 1998 on ITV and soon became one of the most popular shows in the UK, pulling in about 19 million viewers at the peak of its popularity in 1999. Its final episode aired in February 2014.
It was reprised in 2018 for a one week special to celebrate the shows 20th anniversary.
Fans loved the rebooted version with Clarkson as host and this led to a revival of the programme.
A spin-off of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is reportedly in the works.
The new series, Fastest Finger First, will be based on the first round of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in which contestants have to rearrange the answers of a multiple choice question into a specific order, with the winner being the quickest person to get it right.
Waterloo Road
Reprise: Waterloo Road made a return to screens in 2022, nearly seven years after it was axed by the BBC
Popular: The secondary school-set show first aired in 2006 and won legions of fans by tackling numerous tough issues over its 200-episode run (pictured 2009)
Waterloo Road made a return to screens in 2022, nearly seven years after it was axed by the BBC.
The secondary school-set show first aired in 2006 and won legions of fans by tackling numerous tough issues over its 200-episode run.
The show returned to cover effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on school children and was renewed for a second series.
Adam Thomas and Kym Marsh star in the show.
And Just Like That…
Iconic: Sex And The City aired in June of 1998 and went on for six seasons before it concluded in February of 2004
Back with a bang: The return in 2021 came 23 years after the original TV series debuted – and 11 years since the second movie, with Sarah Jessica Parker, playing Carrie Bradshaw
Sex And The City aired in June of 1998 and went on for six seasons before it concluded in February of 2004. It was based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell.
The return in 2021 came 23 years after the original TV series debuted – and 11 years since the second movie, with Sarah Jessica Parker, playing Carrie Bradshaw, Cynthia Nixon, starring as Miranda Hobbes, and Kristin Davis, as Charlotte York all returning.
The biggest scandal of the return was two major plot points – the absence of Kim Cattrall’s character Samantha Jones and the death of Chris Noth’s Mr Big, which viewers witnessed in heartbreaking scenes at the end of episode one.
But last month, Kim’s shock return to And Just Like That was revealed – despite her explosive feud with star Sarah.
According to Variety, Cattrall will return for only one ‘cliffhanger’ scene, which she shot on March 22 in New York City, without seeing or speaking with stars SJP, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis. The scene was also shot without AJLT showrunner Michael Patrick King.
In the scene, Samantha, who has moved to London, will have a phone conversation with Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw.
The New York Post also revealed Cattrall’s cameo was so secretive that her name did not even appear on the call sheet for the day, leaving people stunned at her presence.
Frasier
Revival: The long-anticipated sequel to the hit NBC sitcom Frasier is in the works (L-R) Dan Butler, Gilpin, Mahoney, Grammer, Pierce, and Leeves
The long-anticipated sequel to the hit NBC sitcom Frasier is in the works.
The series has been given a greenlight by Paramount+, and will be executive produced by Kelsey Grammer, 67, who will reprise his role as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane.
Original supporting cast members include David Hyde Pierce, Jane Leeves, and Peri Gilpin as Niles Crane, Daphne Moon, and Roz Doyle.
Sadly, John Mahoney – who played Frasier’s father Martin – passed away, age 77, in 2018 after a four-year battle with throat cancer.
Grammer confirmed in July that they were ‘in the final stages of the final script for the first episode’ and added ‘I cried, so I’m happy.’
The original series amassed 37 Emmy Awards over 11 seasons spanning 1993-2004.
Fans can expect the pretentious Harvard-trained psychiatrist to bring his radio show/podcast to a new city after leaving his Seattle hometown.
Grammer famously originated the character as a married shrink living in Boston on nine seasons of the classic NBC sitcom Cheers.
Maid Marian And Her Merry Men
Iconic: Sir Tony Robinson is working on a reboot of his award-winning kids’ comedy , Maid Marian And Her Merry Men, nearly 30 years off air
Sir Tony Robinson is working on a reboot of his award-winning kids’ comedy, Maid Marian And Her Merry Men, nearly 30 years off air.
The BBC show, which first aired in 1989, ran for four series until 1994.
But after selling the ‘rights’ to the BBC show, Tony has revealed that they are now ‘in the process’ of creating a reboot for television.
He told The Sun: ‘A company I have worked with before has bought the rights to Maid Marian And Her Merry Men from me.
We are in the process of creating a version of the original for television.’
The show was a partially musical comedy retelling of the legend of Robin Hood, placing Maid Marian in the role of leader of the Merry Men, and demoting Robin to an incompetent ex-tailor.
Hugely successful, it won a Bafta, RTS gong and the Prix Jeunesse Variety Award at the International Children’s Programme Festival in Munich.
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