Monday, November 11, 2013

Angela Lansbury calls 'Murder, She Wrote' remake a 'mistake'



The moment I heard NBC was remaking Murder, She Wrote, the classic whodunit starring the wonderful Angela Lansbury, with Octavia Spencer, I thought the move was stupid.

But when are broadcast network executives ever really smart?

Didn't NBC learn anything from the Ironside disaster with Blair Underwood? While Spencer is a tremendous actress and clearly has a funny side as she proved on her recent guest-starring turn as an alcoholic/drug addict/wacko embezzler on the CBC sitcom, Mom, the role of Jessica Fletcher is so identified with Lansbury, I can't picture anyone else playing her.

What's next? Samuel Jackson in a Gunsmoke remake? Imagine Jackson as Matt Dillon: "I said, get off that horse, motherf----er!"

I digress.

Back to the Murder, She Wrote reboot. It appears as if Lansbury agrees with me, telling the Associated Press that bringing the show back to life is a mistake.

"Murder, She Wrote will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person," Lansbury said. "So I'm sorry that they have to use the title Murder, She Wrote, even though they have access to it and it's their right."

Lansbury said she was surprised when she got wind of the remake. Still as classy as ever, Lansbury said she wished the Oscar-winning Spencer luck in her new/old role.

"I saw her in The Help and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress," Lansbury sid. "So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn't in Murder, She Wrote."

Me too.

But, like Lansbury, I don't want to see Spencer fail and hope the new Murder, She Wrote doesn't, uh, get murdered in the ratings.
The moment I heard NBC was remaking “Murder, She Wrote”, the classic whodunit starring the wonderful Angela Lansbury, with Octavia Spencer, I thought the move was stupid.
But when are broadcast network executives ever really smart?
Didn’t NBC learn anything from the “Ironside” disaster with Blair Underwood? While Spencer is a tremendous actress and clearly has a funny side as she proved on her recent guest-starring turn as an alcoholic/drug addict/wacko embezzler on the CBC sitcom, ‘Mom,” the role of Jessica Fletcher is so identified with Lansbury, I can’t picture anyone else playing her.
What’s next? Samuel Jackson in a “Gunsmoke” remake? Imagine Jackson as Matt Dillon: “I said, get off that horse, motherf—-er!”
I digress.
Back to the ‘Murder, She Wrote” reboot. It appears as if Lansbury agrees with me, telling the Associated Press that bringing the show back to life is a mistake.
“‘Murder, She Wrote’ will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person,” Lansbury said. “So I’m sorry that they have to use the title ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ even though they have access to it and it’s their right.”
Lansbury said she was surprised when she got wind of the remake. Still as classy as ever, Lansbury said she wished the Oscar-winning Spencer luck in her new/old role.
“I saw her in ‘The Help’ and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress,” Lansbury sid. “So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn’t in ‘Murder, She Wrote.’”
Me too.
But, like Lansbury, I don’t want to see Spencer fail and hope the new “Murder, She Wrote” doesn’t get murdered in the ratings.
- See more at: http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/quickpulse/2013/11/11/angela-lansbury-calls-murder-she-wrote-remake-a-mistake/#sthash.JBQzXYbD.dpuf
The moment I heard NBC was remaking “Murder, She Wrote”, the classic whodunit starring the wonderful Angela Lansbury, with Octavia Spencer, I thought the move was stupid.
But when are broadcast network executives ever really smart?
Didn’t NBC learn anything from the “Ironside” disaster with Blair Underwood? While Spencer is a tremendous actress and clearly has a funny side as she proved on her recent guest-starring turn as an alcoholic/drug addict/wacko embezzler on the CBC sitcom, ‘Mom,” the role of Jessica Fletcher is so identified with Lansbury, I can’t picture anyone else playing her.
What’s next? Samuel Jackson in a “Gunsmoke” remake? Imagine Jackson as Matt Dillon: “I said, get off that horse, motherf—-er!”
I digress.
Back to the ‘Murder, She Wrote” reboot. It appears as if Lansbury agrees with me, telling the Associated Press that bringing the show back to life is a mistake.
“‘Murder, She Wrote’ will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person,” Lansbury said. “So I’m sorry that they have to use the title ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ even though they have access to it and it’s their right.”
Lansbury said she was surprised when she got wind of the remake. Still as classy as ever, Lansbury said she wished the Oscar-winning Spencer luck in her new/old role.
“I saw her in ‘The Help’ and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress,” Lansbury sid. “So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn’t in ‘Murder, She Wrote.’”
Me too.
But, like Lansbury, I don’t want to see Spencer fail and hope the new “Murder, She Wrote” doesn’t get murdered in the ratings.
- See more at: http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/quickpulse/2013/11/11/angela-lansbury-calls-murder-she-wrote-remake-a-mistake/#sthash.JBQzXYbD.dpuf
The moment I heard NBC was remaking “Murder, She Wrote”, the classic whodunit starring the wonderful Angela Lansbury, with Octavia Spencer, I thought the move was stupid.
But when are broadcast network executives ever really smart?
Didn’t NBC learn anything from the “Ironside” disaster with Blair Underwood? While Spencer is a tremendous actress and clearly has a funny side as she proved on her recent guest-starring turn as an alcoholic/drug addict/wacko embezzler on the CBC sitcom, ‘Mom,” the role of Jessica Fletcher is so identified with Lansbury, I can’t picture anyone else playing her.
What’s next? Samuel Jackson in a “Gunsmoke” remake? Imagine Jackson as Matt Dillon: “I said, get off that horse, motherf—-er!”
I digress.
Back to the ‘Murder, She Wrote” reboot. It appears as if Lansbury agrees with me, telling the Associated Press that bringing the show back to life is a mistake.
“‘Murder, She Wrote’ will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person,” Lansbury said. “So I’m sorry that they have to use the title ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ even though they have access to it and it’s their right.”
Lansbury said she was surprised when she got wind of the remake. Still as classy as ever, Lansbury said she wished the Oscar-winning Spencer luck in her new/old role.
“I saw her in ‘The Help’ and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress,” Lansbury sid. “So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn’t in ‘Murder, She Wrote.’”
Me too.
But, like Lansbury, I don’t want to see Spencer fail and hope the new “Murder, She Wrote” doesn’t get murdered in the ratings.
- See more at: http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/quickpulse/2013/11/11/angela-lansbury-calls-murder-she-wrote-remake-a-mistake/#sthash.JBQzXYbD.dpuf
The moment I heard NBC was remaking “Murder, She Wrote”, the classic whodunit starring the wonderful Angela Lansbury, with Octavia Spencer, I thought the move was stupid.
But when are broadcast network executives ever really smart?
Didn’t NBC learn anything from the “Ironside” disaster with Blair Underwood? While Spencer is a tremendous actress and clearly has a funny side as she proved on her recent guest-starring turn as an alcoholic/drug addict/wacko embezzler on the CBC sitcom, ‘Mom,” the role of Jessica Fletcher is so identified with Lansbury, I can’t picture anyone else playing her.
What’s next? Samuel Jackson in a “Gunsmoke” remake? Imagine Jackson as Matt Dillon: “I said, get off that horse, motherf—-er!”
I digress.
Back to the ‘Murder, She Wrote” reboot. It appears as if Lansbury agrees with me, telling the Associated Press that bringing the show back to life is a mistake.
“‘Murder, She Wrote’ will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person,” Lansbury said. “So I’m sorry that they have to use the title ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ even though they have access to it and it’s their right.”
Lansbury said she was surprised when she got wind of the remake. Still as classy as ever, Lansbury said she wished the Oscar-winning Spencer luck in her new/old role.
“I saw her in ‘The Help’ and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress,” Lansbury sid. “So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn’t in ‘Murder, She Wrote.’”
Me too.
But, like Lansbury, I don’t want to see Spencer fail and hope the new “Murder, She Wrote” doesn’t get murdered in the ratings.
- See more at: http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/quickpulse/2013/11/11/angela-lansbury-calls-murder-she-wrote-remake-a-mistake/#sthash.JBQzXYbD.dpuf
The moment I heard NBC was remaking “Murder, She Wrote”, the classic whodunit starring the wonderful Angela Lansbury, with Octavia Spencer, I thought the move was stupid.
But when are broadcast network executives ever really smart?
Didn’t NBC learn anything from the “Ironside” disaster with Blair Underwood? While Spencer is a tremendous actress and clearly has a funny side as she proved on her recent guest-starring turn as an alcoholic/drug addict/wacko embezzler on the CBC sitcom, ‘Mom,” the role of Jessica Fletcher is so identified with Lansbury, I can’t picture anyone else playing her.
What’s next? Samuel Jackson in a “Gunsmoke” remake? Imagine Jackson as Matt Dillon: “I said, get off that horse, motherf—-er!”
I digress.
Back to the ‘Murder, She Wrote” reboot. It appears as if Lansbury agrees with me, telling the Associated Press that bringing the show back to life is a mistake.
“‘Murder, She Wrote’ will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person,” Lansbury said. “So I’m sorry that they have to use the title ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ even though they have access to it and it’s their right.”
Lansbury said she was surprised when she got wind of the remake. Still as classy as ever, Lansbury said she wished the Oscar-winning Spencer luck in her new/old role.
“I saw her in ‘The Help’ and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress,” Lansbury sid. “So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn’t in ‘Murder, She Wrote.’”
Me too.
But, like Lansbury, I don’t want to see Spencer fail and hope the new “Murder, She Wrote” doesn’t get murdered in the ratings.
- See more at: http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/quickpulse/2013/11/11/angela-lansbury-calls-murder-she-wrote-remake-a-mistake/#sthash.JBQzXYbD.dpuf
The moment I heard NBC was remaking “Murder, She Wrote”, the classic whodunit starring the wonderful Angela Lansbury, with Octavia Spencer, I thought the move was stupid.
But when are broadcast network executives ever really smart?
Didn’t NBC learn anything from the “Ironside” disaster with Blair Underwood? While Spencer is a tremendous actress and clearly has a funny side as she proved on her recent guest-starring turn as an alcoholic/drug addict/wacko embezzler on the CBC sitcom, ‘Mom,” the role of Jessica Fletcher is so identified with Lansbury, I can’t picture anyone else playing her.
What’s next? Samuel Jackson in a “Gunsmoke” remake? Imagine Jackson as Matt Dillon: “I said, get off that horse, motherf—-er!”
I digress.
Back to the ‘Murder, She Wrote” reboot. It appears as if Lansbury agrees with me, telling the Associated Press that bringing the show back to life is a mistake.
“‘Murder, She Wrote’ will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person,” Lansbury said. “So I’m sorry that they have to use the title ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ even though they have access to it and it’s their right.”
Lansbury said she was surprised when she got wind of the remake. Still as classy as ever, Lansbury said she wished the Oscar-winning Spencer luck in her new/old role.
“I saw her in ‘The Help’ and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress,” Lansbury sid. “So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn’t in ‘Murder, She Wrote.’”
Me too.
But, like Lansbury, I don’t want to see Spencer fail and hope the new “Murder, She Wrote” doesn’t get murdered in the ratings.
- See more at: http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/quickpulse/2013/11/11/angela-lansbury-calls-murder-she-wrote-remake-a-mistake/#sthash.JBQzXYbD.dpuf
The moment I heard NBC was remaking “Murder, She Wrote”, the classic whodunit starring the wonderful Angela Lansbury, with Octavia Spencer, I thought the move was stupid.
But when are broadcast network executives ever really smart?
Didn’t NBC learn anything from the “Ironside” disaster with Blair Underwood? While Spencer is a tremendous actress and clearly has a funny side as she proved on her recent guest-starring turn as an alcoholic/drug addict/wacko embezzler on the CBC sitcom, ‘Mom,” the role of Jessica Fletcher is so identified with Lansbury, I can’t picture anyone else playing her.
What’s next? Samuel Jackson in a “Gunsmoke” remake? Imagine Jackson as Matt Dillon: “I said, get off that horse, motherf—-er!”
I digress.
Back to the ‘Murder, She Wrote” reboot. It appears as if Lansbury agrees with me, telling the Associated Press that bringing the show back to life is a mistake.
“‘Murder, She Wrote’ will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person,” Lansbury said. “So I’m sorry that they have to use the title ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ even though they have access to it and it’s their right.”
Lansbury said she was surprised when she got wind of the remake. Still as classy as ever, Lansbury said she wished the Oscar-winning Spencer luck in her new/old role.
“I saw her in ‘The Help’ and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress,” Lansbury sid. “So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn’t in ‘Murder, She Wrote.’”
Me too.
But, like Lansbury, I don’t want to see Spencer fail and hope the new “Murder, She Wrote” doesn’t get murdered in the ratings.
- See more at: http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/quickpulse/2013/11/11/angela-lansbury-calls-murder-she-wrote-remake-a-mistake/#sthash.JBQzXYbD.dpuf

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