What I want more than a Buffy reboot is Buffy inspired shows. Give me your take on plucky urban fantasy where the veil is everyone around trying to pretend this shit isn't happening.

Scrubs and Malcolm are great and I'm often down to rewatch them but they were great because they were well made shows that would otherwise be generic. Scrubs is just a medical comedy but made by someone with experience as a doctor so it has a lot of heart and willingness to depict the medical system realistically (compared to other shows of the genre). Malcolm is similar it's just a grounded show about a lower middle class family with too many kids and not enough money trying to deal with one of the kids being gifted (and later just absolutely not dealing with another of them being gifted). Nothing is stopping other shows in these genres from being made this well.

Buffy is the only one in a genre that's hurting for content and the answer is you really just need to do it and do it well. Seriously, do a the oroville for Buffy, please, it would be something I've wanted for years and it would be way better than a reboot or sequel or anything because you're just going to disappoint. Also because Buffy was simultaneously amazing and awful. A show inspired by Buffy has so much room to be better than it.

I'd like to see Malcolm in the middle very much thank you very much

I think it's time to accept it's dead but I'd love a show inspired by it

Yeah but those rip offs can be done well and feel unique because of it. Continued IPs not only struggle because of what came before but they're also stuck with the eye of the Property owner on them

It's like that old adage, I only paraphrase, every story is more or less the same- man leaves on journey, or stranger arrives in town.

I do not subscribe to that bullshit because then every story in the world could be summarized with "something happens, the end".

Our humanity may stay more or less the same (that's why we can feel with both men and gods in the Iliad as well as be incensed about contenders on Big Brother, right?), but our circumstances change, our challenges change, our culture changes, with all their peculiarities and specifics that makes fresh voices and takes worth watching, because this particular thing has never been suggested before.

Furthermore you could say the same about music- there are no original tunes anymore because it's already all been done, right?

Not right.