6 popular TV reboots that discovered the secret to Emmy success

Every year, Emmy prognosticators measurement the chances of TV’s newcomers. But what astir newcomers that are besides old-timers?

Whether you similar to telephone them remakes, revivals oregon reboots, reimaginations of beloved movies and TV shows are each the rage: Think of CBS’ “Matlock,” which swapped successful Academy Award victor Kathy Bates for Andy Griffith arsenic a charming lawyer who gets things done successful the ineligible system; Peacock’s “Bel-Air,” which turned a multicam sitcom into a drama; oregon HBO’s “Perry Mason,” which was little astir the courtroom than Mason arsenic backstage investigator.

When it comes to awards season, though, reboots aren’t specified a blistery commodity. Max’s “Gossip Girl,” Paramount+’s “Frasier” and ABC’s “The Wonder Years” came and went with nary wins, and continuations similar NBC’s “Law & Order” and “Will & Grace,” Fox’s “The X-Files” and CBS’ “Murphy Brown” person mostly not received the aforesaid emotion from voters arsenic their archetypal runs.

Not each reboots fizzle astatine the Emmys, though. Here are six examples of rethinks that not lone brought backmost beloved bid from the graveyard but made them award-worthy each implicit again.

‘Shōgun’ (2024-present)

Emmy wins: 18

Anna Sawai successful “Shōgun.”

(Kurt Iswarienko / FX)

With 26 nominations and an astounding 18 wins, the premiere play of “Shōgun” is the archetypal Japanese-language bid to instrumentality location an Emmy for play series. In summation to the apical prize, the adaptation of James Clavell’s 1975 humanities caller won awards for stars Hiroyuki Sanada (lead actor, drama) and Anna Sawai (lead actress, drama) positive a raft of below-the-line Emmys. The archetypal miniseries’ instrumentality connected Clavell’s communicative of colonialism and warfare successful medieval Japan didn’t bash truthful badly, either — successful 1980 it scored 14 nominations and won 3 Primetime Emmys, including 1 for constricted series.

‘Queer Eye’ (2018-present)

Emmy wins: 11

“Queer Eye” formed members Antoni Porowski, left, Tan France, Jeremiah Brent, Jonathan Van Ness and Karamo Brown.

(Netflix)

The fixer-upper bid featuring 5 cheery men zhuzhing up the lives of much staid straights was a improvement erstwhile it primitively aired betwixt 2003 and 2007 but was comparatively overlooked by the Emmys, picking up a triumph for world programme successful 2004 positive 3 different nominations. Meanwhile, Netflix’s reboot — featuring makeovers of much than conscionable consecutive guys, and a little snarky sensibility — has earned 11 Emmys to date, including six wins for structured world programme (2018, 2019-23).

‘Westworld’ (2016-22)

Emmy wins: 9

Thandiwe Newton and Aaron Paul successful Season 4 of “Westworld.”

(John Johnson / HBO)

“Westworld” stands retired connected this database due to the fact that it reimagines a diagnostic film, not an earlier TV bid — successful this case, the 1973 movie written and directed by Michael Crichton and starring Yul Brynner. The movie scored nary top-line awards oregon nominations, but the HBO reboot, which premiered successful 2016, landed 54 Emmy nominations and 9 wins crossed its four-season run, including a 2018 trophy for Thandiwe Newton (lead actress, drama) for her show arsenic the series’ cunning madam, Maeve Millay.

‘One Day astatine a Time’ (2017-20)

Emmy wins: 3

Justina Machado, left, and Isabella Gomez successful “One Day astatine a Time.”

(Ali Goldstein / Netflix)

The communicative of a azygous ma raising her increasing daughters earned 3 nominations during its archetypal tally from 1975 to 1984, including 1 successful 1982 for prima Bonnie Franklin (lead actress, comedy); manager Alan Rafkin and supporting histrion Pat Harrington won. The Netflix reboot, which recast the Romanos arsenic the Cuban American Alvarez household and shifted the enactment from Indianapolis to L.A., was nominated for each of its 4 seasons and won two, arsenic good arsenic a peculiar Television Academy Honor.

‘Battlestar Galactica’ (2004-09)

Emmy wins: 3

Michael Hogan arsenic Col. Saul Tigh, left, Edward James Olmos arsenic Adm. William Adama, Mary McDonnell arsenic Laura Roslin and Jamie Bamber arsenic Lee “Apollo” Adama successful the TV movie “Battlestar Galactica: Razor,” portion of the fashionable Sci-Fi Channel franchise.

(Carole Segal / Sci-Fi Channel)

In the decades betwixt the archetypal 1978-79 “Battlestar” and the full-throttle reboot, science-fiction storytelling connected the tiny surface precocious astatine lightspeed, which whitethorn person helped the second past acold longer than the original. The communicative of quality refugees fleeing abstraction colonies destroyed by Cylon robots (who were present connected their tail) earned the archetypal bid 3 nominations and 2 Emmy wins successful below-the enactment categories. The reboot ended up with 3 Emmy wins of its ain from 19 nominations, though each the wins were for peculiar effects and dependable editing. (A 2003 backdoor aviator became a three-hour miniseries and besides earned 3 Emmy nominations.)

‘The Conners’ (2018-25)

Emmy wins: 1

Maya Lynne Robinson, left, Jayden Rey, Michael Fishman, John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Emma Kenney, Ames McNamara and Lecy Goranson successful “The Conners.”

(Robert Trachtenberg / ABC)

Let’s telephone this 1 an unplanned reboot. After ABC canceled its 2018 “Roseanne” revival owed to prima Roseanne Barr’s nationalist flameout, the quick-thinking web teed up “The Conners,” which follows the titular household aft its matriarch’s untimely death. Falling determination betwixt a accepted revival and a full-on reboot, “The Conners” hasn’t matched the archetypal “Roseanne’s” Emmy haul, which included 25 nominations and 4 wins (three for Laurie Metcalf and 1 for Barr). But the series, which precocious concluded its ain seven-season run, has performed solidly with voters, earning six nominations and 1 triumph successful 2021 for editing successful a drama series.