[Brekkie]

I don’t think it’s that complicated really. When we talk about ‘revivals’ in context of television programmes it’s the return of programmes that have previously officially stopped production.

Slight changes to programmes, who’s appearing in them even producing them wouldn’t be classed as revivals, unless those programmes had previously stopped production.

Exactly.   Taking a planned or even unplanned year off then returning with exactly the same format, look and talent line up is not a revival - it's just taking more than a year before series.   Under your logic any show which paused production due to covid was subsequently revived.

Jon has pretty much nailed - usually a revival comes after the axe and shows like Dancing on Ice and Millionaire were axed then subsequently recommissioned a few years later (with changes to the talent line up).    There will always be some that blur the lines - American Idol for example was axed by FOX and then revived by ABC less than two years later with just the host returning.    I think had it continued the next season on ABC it would be a continuation, if it had been a few more years before returning it would be a revival - but this one is a rather close call.


And then you have shows like Ninja Warrior which were never officially axed even though it appeared they were, and arguably covid did play a part in it not airing in 2020 and 2021.   The change in format here though were more about streamlining production (with 10 contestants a show rather than 30) and the talent and look of the show remained the same, just with a new subtitle.     That's probably more of a revamp than revival.