Well after reading the script I tend to disagree with everything this reviewer has said and I really think they completely don't understand the concept of a reboot or the premise of the show.

Reboots have to retain certain aspects of the original show that make it both recognizable and unique.. the things that made the show good. This pilot has done exactly that. In fact it left me pondering what might have been if Lenkov had be brought into MacGyver right from the start.

The voice-overs this reviewer complains about are actually an integral part of the show because the premise is Magnum recollecting his experiences. They are also IMHO one of the things that made the show stand out and work. Saying voiceovers make it seem old-fashioned is just plain stupidity... no-one said that about Burn Notice and that had voiceovers all the time.

Yea. I think until we all have actually taken a good whiff of this reboot no one can actually nay or yay the show. But if H50 & MacGyver are anything to go by, I'm probably going to dislike it. Those shows are very formulaic and its the new CSI formula which became popular for a few years before they were proverbially spat out by fans.

First look at rebooted Magnum.

I had to hide my cough at work when I sneak-peeked on Twitter and had to check twice because I thought at first glance it was not Jay Hernandez, but a younger Peter Lenkov

At least he won't have the height issues that Tom Selleck did with the Ferrari 308

Back on the case with his covert ops team.

I wonder if TC is in the boot since his team will be inseparable.

The Magnum Reboot will air this Fall on Mondays, 9pm. Here's the trailer:

This Monday, or in the fall?

It's scheduled for Fall 2018. There's no premiere date set, yet - but I'm assuming September like the other Fall shows (e.g. H50 and MacGyver).

Interesting that Higgins is now a female ex-MI6 agent.

It's standard Lenkov-CBS, though.

They did it with H50 (Kono) and MacGyver (Thornton). Some were complaining that they will end up as a couple, but considering it's Lenkov I think not.

Trailer as expected. A-la-Lenkov style. Updated thread title to be more accurate to current content

After reading the script and now seeing this trailer... I'm there!!

Can't help wondering how the MacGyver reboot would have turned out if Lenkov had been given creative control right from the start instead of having to clean up someone elses mess.

Success is so hard to predict with new shows (including reboots). When the new H50 premiered I, didn't think it would last for more than one season. Boy was I wrong.

It'll be interesting to see if this new Magnum will strike a chord with audiences or be dumped after a short time.

Wow! The Ferrari, the chopper, the dogs, the director of The Fast and the Furious, Sung Kang, I'm sold. I'm not sure if it's the original Robin's Nest, but I don't think so. Now, about the mustache...

No, seriously, this looks promising.

Sadly it's not the original Robin's Nest - that has actually just been demolished in the last few weeks. There's nothing left of it but the plot it stood on.

What?

I want MacGyver BtS photos and I find some for Magnum

via https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhhz0MBnQV0/

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What the camera crew wears when working on Magnum

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they sure shot a lot of helicopter scenes for the pilot... and they had fun doing it.

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Short BtS Featurette (via SpoilerTV):

I'm looking forward to seeing this.

It bugs me quite a lot that CBS are ok with a full copy of the original opening sequence for H50 and Magnum P.I but not MacGyver.

It bugs me that they allow proper DVD releases for H-50, but not MacGyver.

Ferrari's must be a film crew dream.

Having the motor in the back leaves the front available for easy camera mounting.

I'll definitely see where it goes when the pilot is released. I do however fear it'll turn formulaic and clone H50.

Well yeah... it's CBS.

They use episode templates and just change the character names for the different shows.

...I'm joking!.... maybe

Tom Selleck Weighs In on the 'Magnum P.I.' Reboot — And If He'll Make a Cameo

Interview via https://www.tvinsider.com/696360/tom-sellec...-pi-reboot-cbs/


Ileane Rudolph June 15, 2018 10:00 am

Yes, Tom Selleck wishes the new Thomas Magnum well. No, he won’t have anything to do with it.

If you haven’t heard yet, CBS has ordered their Magnum P.I. reboot to series. If you’re a millennial who doesn’t pay attention to old stuff, that’s the loosey-goosey detective show starring the irresistibly charming Tom Selleck that ran on CBS from 1980-1988 and earned him a Best Actor Emmy.

Peter Lenkov, the redo specialist responsible for updating Hawaii Five-O and MacGyver is the guy in charge. He’s hired Jay Hernandez (The Expanse, Suicide Squad) to play Thomas Magnum, like his predecessor, a former Navy Seal turned private investigator who lives in Hawaii.

So what does Selleck, now happily playing NYPD commissioner Frank Reagan in Blue Bloods, another long-running series — it will beat Magnum’s length of service next season — have to say about the new version? He chose to share his feelings for the first time to TV Guide Magazine and TV Insider.

The actor says when he was in L.A. (he lives on a ranch north of the city when he’s not shooting Blue Bloods) he was asked to come to CBS’s West Coast HQ for a meeting with Lenkov and David Stapf, the CBS TV Studios president.

“CBS is kind of my home network,” says Selleck. “I’ve done The Young and the Restless and (most of) the Jesse Stone movies as well as Magnum and Blue Bloods with them.” They told him if he “had a problem” with the remake, their relationship was important enough that they wouldn’t do it. "Peter was very effusive about the project; he grew up with Magnum and this was his dream,” he adds.

Stapf suggested that he talk to Les Moonves, CBS Corporation’s CEO and Chairman of the Board. According to Selleck, Moonves talked about how, since Universal owned the show, they could “do whatever they want with it,” the actor recalls. “Les said, ‘We’d like to control the show We think we can do a better job.’"

"I went home,” Selleck continues, “and thought about it for about a day. In the end, I thought, ‘We couldn’t have a better bow tied around our show. We went off with our final episode as the number one show on all of television. We’re in the Smithsonian for recognizing Vietnam veterans in a positive light, the first show to really do that. And it led to countless other opportunities. I just felt success is so hard to come by in this business, why do I want to root for somebody to fail. I just stepped back, and said, ‘I won’t get in your way.'”

He also won’t be involved in any way. “They asked and I said, ‘Absolutely not. I’m busy with Blue Bloods.’” But more than that, he concedes, “It will never be what in my fantasy world, I would make it to be.”

Don’t expect a fun guest spot either. “I told them that I won’t do some cameo guest spot to let the audience know I approve.” He’s aware that could disappoint some fans of his and the shows. “I’m sure they’d like it, but I have an obligation to my version. And Peter’s going to do his take on what a Magnum under some similar circumstances should be about.”

This isn’t the first time that Selleck turned down a TV offer concerning the ionic role. In the early ‘90s, Selleck was working with big fan and best-selling author Tom Clancy — just off the success of The Hunt for Red October — on a Magnum movie. “Tom and I worked on a story — a good story for a movie. The character wasn’t done; when we left him, he went back into the Navy. I thought it was time because I was having success with features. Three Men and a Baby had been the number one movie in the world.”

Universal Studio chief Sidney Sheinberg had other ideas, Selleck says. He wanted to use Magnum in a wheel of rotating mysteries. “I had no interest; they weren’t thinking big enough and they really blew it.”

Over the years, Selleck says he heard rumors about other movies and TV ideas. He didn’t speak ill of them, but he “wasn’t particularly thrilled," he admits. "This seemed okay because it’s probably going to happen sooner or later. Why choose to be offended? This is Peter’s dream, let him run with it. He’s a nice man.”

That moment that you realize that RDA and Tom Selleck have a few things in common.

Very classy, respectful response. Tom Selleck and RDA and have always been on my short list of actors I admire, both for the roles they play and the way they are in real life.

Mine too Macfan. They're both pure class, both on and off set.

That would've been an interesting concept - Mac goes to Hawaii and teams up with Magnum to solve ...something