Remakes Of Old TV Series Usually Flop – So Why Does Hollywood Keep Trying?

Sleek, hip, and expensive relaunches of The Bionic Woman … and Knight Rider … were high-profile disappointments for NBC … [and] attempts at reviving Get Smart, Love Boat, and Melrose Place (among others) [had] tanked spectacularly before them. Given the graveyard of TV remakes haunting Hollywood, why do networks keep churning them out?”