Yahoo News Magnum, P.I. is being rebooted by Hawaii Five-0 team
Magnum, P.I. is being rebooted, but it won't be the female-led sequel that was announced last year.
CBS is working with Peter M. Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim, the team behind the reboot of Hawaii Five-0, on a modern re-envisioning of Magnum, P.I., according to The Hollywood Reporter.
This reboot depicts Thomas Magnum - the character originally played by Tom Selleck - as a former Navy SEAL who repurposes skills from his Afghan war service as a private investigator back in the US.
Together with war buddies Theodore 'T.C.' Calvin and Richard 'Rick' Wright, characters played by Roger E. Mosley and Larry Manetti in the '80s, Magnum takes on the dangerous cases that all the other PIs turn down.
There's no indication that Tom Selleck will appear at all in the new Magnum, P.I, but he does star in the network's long-running police procedural Blue Bloods.
Rival network ABC had previously announced late last year that it was working on a Magnum, P.I. sequel series that would have been based around Thomas Magnum's daughter Lily 'Tommy' Magnum.
Tommy was a pre-existing character from the original Magnum, P.I., and would have returned to Hawaii to take over her father's firm in that ABC incarnation.
Eva Longoria produced that project from a script by Leverage creator John Rogers, but it never got off the ground at ABC.
The original Magnum, P.I. originally aired for more than 160 episodes from 1980 until 1988 on CBS.
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