Already jumped the shark.
Via Daily Mail:
CBS’ ‘Murphy Brown’ has returned to television after 20 years but despite the creator saying the sitcom is ready to ‘make some noise,’ early reviews of the show have called the new version ‘crusty comeback’ declaring the show ‘hasn’t aged well’.
The revival stars Candice Bergen as Murphy, a former network TV journalist who’s now working on a cable news channel’s morning show.
Murphy is reunited with most of the old team from the original series including cast members Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto and Grant Shaud.
Jake McDorman is a newcomer, playing Murphy’s son, Avery, a reporter at a competing news channel.
The extended return episode begins the night of the 2016 election, which motivates Murphy to come out of retirement and host a cable-news morning show. She gets the band back together from her old show.
Emmy-winning creator Diane English promised the 13-episode season would address issues including ‘immigration, the midterm elections and the Me Too movement’ but Alan Sepinwall from Rolling Stone declares ‘Murphy’s popular again, but mainly for picking fights with members of the Trump administration rather than for the kind of investigative journalism on which she once prided herself.’
Sepinwall sees this revival as ‘tarnishing’ the real show’s legacy.