La Femme Nikita, Being Human, and Torchwood. What do these 3 franchises have in common? They all three are TV series that are being revamped or remade for your viewing pleasure. I just have to wonder “why?”

When did this trend of remaking TV shows start? Was it RDM’s Battlestar Galactica re-imagining that started this trend? We already have to deal with big screen re-adaptations of classic movies and TV’s from our past…so why must we now deal with small screen remakes of series (some of which are not that old).

Here’s a rundown of the “new” adaptations:

La Femme Nikita: Nikita was a 1990 French action film about a woman who after a lifetime of degenerate drug addiction, is trained to be an assassin and femme fatale sleeper agent in Paris. The movie was released in the U.S. as La Femme and was remade by Warner Bros. in 1993 under the name of Point of No Return starring Bridget Fonda; and had a Canadian/US television spy drama show that ran from 1997-2001 based on it (under the name of La Femme Nikita) starring Peta Wilson.

The remake (announced by the CW) will star Maggie Q as “Nikita” and in this “sequel” series; Maggie Q plays a CIA trained Nikita that replaces the original, who has gone rogue.

Being Human : Being Human is a British television supernatural drama-comedy about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost sharing a house. Syfy is apparently making this one (which explains a lot) and even though Syfy’s Craig Engler already answered this question…I am still wondering “why remake a show that is still airing, just showing the British version like they did with Dr. Who?

Whatever, at least we can blame this own on the shows creator and not the network (or can we?)

Torchwood: Anyone who has been into the new Dr. Who series knows what Torchwood is. Torchwood is a British science fiction television show that is a spin-off of another famous long running British science fiction show: Dr. Who. Why do we need an American version of Torchwood to begin with. To me it seems a little unnecessary since the original was so great. Like Being Human, original creator Russell T. Davies will be involved and has moved to Los Angeles so that this is can be one of his pet projects. Several sites reporting this are assuming that this is a remake, starting over from scratch, but one source seems to believe that Davies might just pick up the story where it left off at the end of “Children Of Earth,” the five-hour miniseries that ended the series that aired last year.

Who knows?

Maybe it’s me. Maybe it is a sign that I am just getting old. I just do not see the need for any of it. Specially when one of them is still in production in the country of origin.

Meh I say….Meh!