[TesTVWhirl]

I do feel we've had this conversation before so is this thread a revival?

Isn't it only a revival if the opening post is basically a brief 'there was a thread about this on The Blue Place/The Purple Place so I've decided to open one again here', but then with nothing new actually added and leaving it to everyone else to do the debate? This one actually opened up with an entire interesting set of debate points instead!

It is an interesting one though. To me, it feels as though it depends on whether the 'last' of a show went out on a big bang about being the end of a show, or if it didn't whether it was pre-2000, where presumably the smaller number of channels and less thinly spread audience makes shows from then bigger and better remembered events that happened a long time ago. These days it seems it's not uncommon for shows to quietly stop production for several years, but never be officially classed as cancelled so it can quietly reappear at any time without being considered a revival/reboot etc (and presumably lessens the chance of people being able to suggest a U-Turn has been made out of desperation).