I just can't believe that in a world where every barista, retiree, and waiter has a script or a book, there aren't more original ideas in Hollywood. I assume it's just that producers want to go with a known cash cow, and consumers are too lazy to try new material so would rather eat up reboots, sequels and prequels. If people wouldn't watch these endless remakes, Hollywood would move on. But they do, so...
It's just depressing that there's so little new material and that what does come out is never given a chance to find an audience before it's shut down after three episodes. And it creates a self-defeating cycle. People become reluctant to invest in something until it has some episodes under its belt because they don't want to waste the time, but then the thing gets cancelled because people didn't flock to it immediately. Rinse, repeat.
(I mean, intellectually I know that new stuff comes out all the time, but it's hard to find any of it because so much of the promo noise goes to the remakes and reboots. And then if you do find something, it gets canned too fast. Unless it's reality programming, which is a whole other pet peeve.)
Sorry for the rant, but this just bugs me. It's why I don't watch a lot of TV or movies anymore, and I generally refuse to invest in a book series until the series is finished.