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Cheers reboot

  I love Cheers,  I like Simon Nye - I still enjoy watching Men Behaving Badly. Nye also wrote one of the best Dr Who stories of the revival. Amy's Choice I am unsurprised to discover plans exist to reboot Cheers. I can understand why people, and by people I mean shareholders and executives  want to reboot it. Cheers is a classic still broadcast on Channel 4,  -The podcast draws an audience Cheers is also cheap- A studio set, and a few cameras. It is almost Theatre  In fact there was a Mexican remake in the 00s  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cheers-sitcom-british-remake-b2622008.html That said, why not just make a funny pub sitcom.  “The attitudes of  Cheers  in the ‘80s are very different to the attitudes of today, so there’s a massive amount of work to be done around taking inspiration from the original characters but creating something fresh.” Firstly people were forgetting the series. Cheers is gay friendly from it's first episodes- Norm has to ph

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

  I think this is the first time I have been in the cinema since Peru They should have killed off Winnona Ryder, she really is a limited actress. Stranger things has flattered her. It is easy to play the inguene when you are young and pretty. It would have been better to have Ortega or O Hara face of Beetlejuice 1- The Jenna Ortega romance plot is great. She has a kiss and her lover changes. I liked the fact that her father had died horribly in the amazon -it is an accursed place  2- Catherine 0'Hara is great. She rescues a lot of the scenes with Winnona and her awful vocal fry. It is brave choice to acknowledge the existence of Jeffery Jones. As his past will be looked up online Beetlejuice  Beetlejuice does this. I did wonder why Geena Davis was written out though  The Dune/ Sand snakes are weird. Were they a late addition- The use of animation was a surprise 3- I liked the flashback with Michael Keaton talking italian and remiscing about the plague.. Keaton when we do see him is