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 physically restrain his boss from attacking Diane. This in the same season where a WW1 realises he is the last man standing of his band of brothers. If you look at the first episode- Sam is dressed more or less as John travolta   Sam's story is actually one of someone who falls head over heels in love with an educated woman. Sam and Diane are a battle of the sexes comedy writ large.

Sam almost got paired with Captain Janeway 

 They are also toxic. Sam and Diane nearly come close to physical violence a few times - Equally how do you show that two people are poison when mixed together 

Sam is happy to use his sexual magnetism to impress the ladies  it also equally true in the canon in Cheers that Karla is spit roasted in the 1990s sense 

 Sam is not presented uncritically - Firstly Sam was actually supposed to have a child with Rebecca, but the late Kirsty Allie's miscarriage ended that story.   Indeed the series goes on - Sam tries to get a therapist for his sex addiction.  Woody is introduced as a rival to Sam, this path is not really explored. To be honest I think Sam is a less interesting character as the series goes on, and is suplanted by Woody, and Frasier and Lillith 

 Most of the sexism is actually later in the series directed at Rebecca- Rebecca is harassed by Frasier's mentor -who denies it, and tries to gas light her. Equally Sam is trying to manipulate rebecca, by trying to get her to fall asleep in an episode

Beyond that- We have the story of Norm, and his wife never having a child and Cliff's struggle with lonliness. 

There is more here than you remembered 

Anyway- it is actually really easy to reboot Cheers and put it in the Frasier-Cheers Universe

Frasier was a Rhodes Scholar, and Lillian Huxley and her daughter worked at Cheers