Not to be outdone, CBS announced today that it would be moving forward with a similar adaptation, this time bringing the sorta-but-not-really 2003 movie S.W.A.T. to television.
What’s funny, of course, is that the movie S.W.A.T. was itself a movie version of the popular ABC series that ran for 36 episodes across 1975 and 1976, making S.W.A.T. a television adaptation of a movie adaptation of a television spin-off of another television series (The Rookies).
On that day, I might look back on the brief run of CBS’s S.W.A.T. with something akin to nostalgia and good cheer.
I guess when we asked executives if they could stop bringing mediocre movies to television, we probably should have been more specific.