Reboot means reboot.
In the same way that you restart your computer to refresh it, the film industry has in recent years restarted a lot of film successes - that is, made new versions of old goodies.
The Lion King, Cats and Spiderman are some examples.
The TV series have gone a different way.
Instead, the emphasis has been on original stories, with a penchant for authors who both write, direct and play the lead role.
But among the 2021 TV series premieres, one can sense a reboot trend that is beginning to take shape.
This does not only apply to the crime series, which have already produced old works such as Young Morse and Young Wallander.
But also drama series.
The first example is the award-winning In Treatment (2008).
The original series (which in itself was a new version of an Israeli model) took place entirely on the therapy couch - where the crisis-stricken psychiatrist played by Gabriel Byrne worked his way through his own life crisis with his patients.
In 2021, another new version of In Treatment will be released, also on HBO.
The Nigerian-American actress Uzo Aduba - perhaps best known as Crazy Eyes in the Netflix series Orange is the new Black - plays the lead role, Dr.
Brooke Lawrence.
Another example is the upcoming new version of Ingmar Bergman's old TV series Scenes from a Marriage (1973) with Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson in the lead roles.
The series was said to lead to a wave of divorces in the mid 70's - we will see if it will be the same now in quarantine times.
The new version is directed by Israeli Hagai Levi - who also wrote and directed BeTipul - the original version of In Treatment.
In the roles of the crumbling couple, we see Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, who previously played against each other in the thriller A most violent year (2014).
The third example is the series We Children from Bahnhof Zoo, which premieres on Viaplay at the end of February.
This is a new version of the cult film of the same name from 1981 - or rather the novel on which both the film and the series are based.
The series is about Christiane - a young heroin addict in Berlin.
The little I have had time to see testifies to a series that is admittedly not a comedy directly, but at least a little more bearable than its night-black model.
Three examples in a short time can signal an incipient trend, but it can also be a coincidence.
Let's hope for the latter.
What has distinguished the TV series during The Golden Age (the last 20 years or so) are precisely the fantastic original stories.
And it would be unfortunate if the golden age passed into some kind of cannibalistic age.