I'm hoping that will motivate Paramount /CBS to release the original series on blu-ray!

I'm a bit late on the band wagon here as I only watched the trailer once. The things I liked is that to me, Till does look about the way I picture a 25 year old Mac might have looked like. He's got the long blondish hair and dresses casually.
The trailer doesn't really make me think of the character. There's nothing in there to give much of a glimpse of Till's personality. Richard Dean's Mac was really all about character and his personality shined from the get go and in each episode. So just based on this trailer it's too early to say if I can accept him in the part.
The rest, well it looks like every other show out there: NCIS, CSI, the newer Hawaii Five O, etc etc
Still, the pilot itself might be cool and who knows? Maybe Lucas will win me over in the pilot?

You can't make blu-ray from video masters. You have to have the masters on film.

With MacGyver, the only thing on film is the raw footage. It was transferred to video for editing, which means the master copies will be on video so no-blu-ray.

Which is a concern. If it looks the same as every other action show it runs the risk of just blending in and fading away.

The original show stood out because the non-shooting hero was such a unique hook. I'm not sure if that's still the case. It'll be interesting to see how they play that out.

You can't make blu-ray from video masters. You have to have the masters on film.

With MacGyver, the only thing on film is the raw footage. It was transferred to video for editing, which means the master copies will be on video so no-blu-ray.

Oh I see, thanks for the clarification.

So this means our MacGyver will never make it to Blu-Ray?

Even not, they could at least put the show in HD. However, KiwiTek has already said (not word for word, of course) in the past that this can be quite the undertaking due to how it was filmed. I would assume they won't do a remaster of any kind unless it's worth the effort financially. Hopefully if the reboot does well, they might consider doing at least a cleanup of the video.

It's too bad that they don't have a major backing like Disney, because they do that sort of stuff ALL the time and have the resources for it. ABC, who originally aired MacGyver, is actually owned by Disney, who is the parent company. Was MacGyver always owned by CBS? O_o

By that rationale, why wasn't it done correctly... the first place?

Who knows... my assumption would have been that ABC lacked the funding. Around that time, it would make sense if they were owned by Disney at that time. Disney was struggling around the 1980's... I remember going to the parks in Florida as a kid, and the parks were always dead.

It wasn't until the late 80's and 1990's that Disney's success finally picked up steam. By that time, MacGyver had ended. HOWEVER, that's just a guess based on what I remember. I was a munchkin in the 80's and remember very little of the original airing, except for bits and pieces... and certain episodes that traumatized me as a kid... *cough*Widowmaker*cough*

Hihi, I think "The Widowmaker" was the first episode I've seen as a kid. And while this show sure intrigued me, I was also a bit traumatized - guess I must have been a very strange kid *lol*.

MacGyver was one of, if not THE, most expensive shows to produce while it was on air. The main reason they moved production to Vancouver was because the show was deemed to expensive to continue.

Yeah now, but it wasn't back then. Disney didn't purchase it until 1995.


As far as doing things right went they were industry leaders in some things, such as the first TV show to use electronic sound post-production.

Also transferring to video would have been leading edge back then too I would think because of the speed and agility it allowed the editors compared to splicing film in the edit suite. There was no foresight of high definition back in those days so they would have thought they were leading the way.

Yes.... sort of...

Originally it was produced and owned by Paramount Television. When CBS purchased Paramount Television in 2005 CBS inherited all the shows owned by Paramount, one of which was MacGyver and to this day they still own all the rights to the MacGyver television show.

To make matters complicated Lee Zlotoff now owns all the rights to the MacGyver name and character. This means CBS can't make any new MacGyver material without Zlotoff's permission (hence him being an exec producer on the new show), but likewiseZlotoff can't directly use anything from the show (other than the MacGyver character) without their permission.... talk about a rock and a hard place!

The only reason this show is even possible now is because CBS and Zlotoff came to an agreement back in 2015

Totally forgot I opened this thread a while ago *lol*

I think it's only fair to post the announcement of the premiere date here also. Check the mini-video at https://twitter.com/MacGyverCBS/status/745328233051099136

I guess as soon as they start filming the pilot episode, we will get new pics of the main characters and announcements of the additional cast members - and maybe a new trailer once they finish the first few episodes?

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In terms of promo material I want I would love Lucas till on the cover of men's health seriously the article writes itself

How to Macgyver your way to health...

I've been wondering a bit about Lucas - he was in three movies of one of the biggest franchises of today (X-Men) and he didn't do much promo for it; he wasn't even at the premiere... Yes, of course he's not in the same league as the big movie stars of this franchise, but that's what would have made him a good asset for promo: they wouldn't have had to pay him the big bucks and he would have drawn in a younger female audience (than e.g. Hugh Jackman).

Usually, it's the younger, unknown actors they like to send on their merry way on promo road: The big stars (e.g. Jennifer Lawrence for "X-Men" or "Hunger Games", Robert Pattinson for "Twilight" or Daniel Radcliffe for "Harry Potter") do the talk show round and magazine spreads, the not so big stars (e.g. Actors of the "Wolf Pack" for Twilight, the Weasley Twins for Harry Potter) to some fan events at convention or malls and so on).

I wonder if maybe Lucas just doesn't like to do this promo stuff? There aren't many paparazzi pics of him; he doesn't seem to go to the events other actors go to to get their picture taken...

Well, I guess now that he's the main star of a TV show, it's not like he can't say no to promo but I hope he does more than just some interviews and photo shoots...

Also, Lucas isn't really into social media (at least not on official accounts). He doesn't tweet very much and only set up an instagram account this week; the first picture having a hashtag for the MacGyver Reboot.

I hope we get some stuff on social media because he wants to share it and not because CBS makes him do it. Sure, it's always great if actors contribute, but on the other hand it fits the MacGyver persona. And I get why actors like to concentrate on their work and to live quiet and private life. After all, their are people being hired for a show's promotion.

Also to remember: RDA wasn't into that stuff either (and still isn't).

No but social media wasn't around in RDA's time either and he did do a lot of interviews for the show (see many of them on our Youtube account) back then, mostly because he had to I would say. It's all part and parcel of the job - as is social media promotion these days.

From what Peter Lenkov said in his interview they are planning on doing social media teasing all week in preparation for the show each Friday, so I assume that means onset shots and things from the actors and crew like many other shows do.

When you look at shows like Agents of Shield and the Flash and Arrow those guys really know how to work social media to their advantage. I'm hoping the MacGyver team do the same - and don't delete it the next day!!

You can't make blu-ray from video masters. You have to have the masters on film.

I'm not 100% sure, but there can be edited version in 35mm copy too...maybe...maybe, or not. Maybe from some episodes. I once read that the edited 35mm film roll is kind of spare copy, if something happens to those master tapes example, brokes or image quality will get worse in archiving (tape vs film), so you can copy new one from film to tape.

But, but I'm still very sure that there isn't almost any edited 35mm copy.

They changed the Logo??? But I liked the old one...

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Justin doing some promo tonight via https://twitter.com/JustinHires/status/756560303840714753


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first promo photos via http://www.spoilertv.com/2016/07/macgyver-...romotional.html


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I guess this is the new TV ad promo: https://www.facebook.com/MacGyverCBS/videos...63068613998785/

The Knife from the old logo is definitely gone.... wonder why.

Perhaps it was hard to make out his name?

They probably audience tested it... And some humdingers probably called him MacGyer... Or something along those lines.

Shame cause I really liked it - but it is probably for the best, less gimmicky !

I wondered about it when I noticed it was missing from the electric cars and the shirts at ComicCon - they had changed the logo on social media that day, too.

I thought that maybe, it didn't really fit what MacGyver stands for or was a problem for ComicCon? For me, the SAK is a tool that MacGyver needs to do something good. But the SAK is still a knife and can also be a weapon. They want to advertize MacGyver as a guy who needs his brain as a weapon and as a TV hero that stands out nowadays because he's so different. A "weapon" in the logo might not be the right choice if you're targeting at an audience that doesn't know yet who MacGyver is?

And you're right of course, the logo is far easier to recognize from afar; that's why I thought it was a good choice on the shirts and the cars at ComicCon where so many people are milling around.

Hey, just noticed that's the first video on CBS's social media accounts for MacGyver that isn't geoblocked. Finally ;-)

I think I like the logo better without the knife. It's less gimmicky.

agreed.

This looks more official now.

Missing the theme though.

The boxset and complete collection are essentially the same. They made no changes to the DVD content. The only difference is that the boxset was not well packaged and the discs had a risk of getting damaged.

Personally, i own the individual seasons which i have also digitally transferred to prevent further use on the DVD's.

I guess that's the track by Colossal TM; they tweeted about this a month ago via https://twitter.com/ColossalTM/status/746748064182894592

I'm not even sure if Keith Power also will take on the Opening Theme or if he just does the scoring? Either way, we might have to wait a bit longer for the "real" music... But if they do the almost exact "explosion in front of a logo"-thing; I really expect a similiar theme like the original version now! Would be very disappointed if not.

I don't expect an exact reenactment of the original intro but I'd like to see a few similar bits, especially the last three or four shots at the end and maybe the MacGyverism closeups and the timer counting down to 0 just before the title appears.

I can imagine the theme song will be shortened quite a bit (very few theme songs these days are as long as the original MacGyver theme), so I suspect they might entirely cut out that opening bit of the theme. I could see them starting with the explosion, with the main section of theme kicking in right away.