Since around the latter half of the 2000s there seems to have been a growing trend for old TV shows to be brought back from the dead, often only to be instantly ripped to pieces as 'not being a patch on the originals' and inadvertently cancelled again. 'Fawlty Towers' is the latest 'historical' TV show slated to be making a comeback, despite many of the original cast members no longer being alive, and 'Minder' also tried to come back in 2009 despite being pretty much 'in name only' with none of the original cast members present and basically bombed, and was then cancelled for good.

There's also been speculation on and off fairly recently about various other old chestnuts being brought back from the dead, e.g, Brookside, The Bill, Grange Hill, X Factor, etc.

Surely many of these 'old chestnuts' were cancelled for a reason in the first place, most obviously due to dwindling viewing figures, so apart from primarily appealing to nostalgia (at least initially), what's the point of attempting to bring back a lot of these old programmes that may not even bear quite the same relevance to the present time as the originals?

The same also applies to the many older musical acts attempting comebacks with fresh studio material over the same period, and their respective fans often being vastly disappointed with the new offerings and the inevitable 'not a patch on the earlier classics' being uttered.