In summary: I, Sam Haine, in complete presence of mind and totally sober, have no flipping interest in a Miami Vice reboot run by the people who have brought us the Fast N’ Furious the series or Shana Waterman (24: Live Another Day, Wayward Pines).  I don’t care if it’s set in the modern day, some cyberpunk future or worse a complete throwback series set in 1980’s Miami. No. No; No way, Charlie.

The first project to spawn from Vin Diesel’s deal with Universal Television and will be penned by Peter Mcmanus (The Mist: the TV series).  Has anyone even seen the new Mist television series? Exactly.

I’d rather watch a 3hour lip reading seminar hosted by Stephen Hawking than talk about this anymore.

Listen – I like Vin Diesel. I like how he’s remained the sincere D&D playing and life loving kid in a candy store, he’s been his whole career. I’ve liked a good number of his films and at times I’m either pleasantly surprised or thoroughly entertained by his films. However, I’m not buying into this one.

Instead I would suggest you go and binge on classic episodes of Miami Vice instead. Miami Vice is an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson as James “Sonny” Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to 1989. The USA Network began airing reruns in 1988, and broadcast an originally unaired episode during its syndication run of the series on January 25, 1990.

 Do you remember this gem? Does anyone remember this short lived series based on the Wes Craven horror franchise? Well I do. And it was awesome.

                Freddy’s Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series was an anthology series featuring different individual stories; each episode being a two-tier story, with the second half focusing on a character that played a minor role in the previous role. The show’s host and sometimes episodic antagonist was Freddy Krueger. He’d appear like other horror anthology hosts, supplying short monologues, puns and hints at the night’s story.

                The pilot episode was directed by Tobe Hooper, and begins with Freddy Krueger’s prosecution on child-murdering charges ending in a mistrial due to the discovery that his arresting officer did not read Freddy his Miranda rights. A mob of parents eventually corners Freddy in a boiler room (his workplace), leading to him being torched by the police officer, dying and gaining his familiar visage.

            Some of the featured actors who went on to later become notable were: Robin Antin (The Pussycat Dolls), Morris Chestnut, Mariska Hargitay, Eva LaRue, Phill Lewis, John Cameron Mitchell, Bill Moseley, Lori Petty, Brad Pitt. Other notable guest stars featured in the series were: Timothy Bottoms, Jeffrey Combs, Jeff Conaway, Mary Crosby, Ellen Albertini Dow, Tony Dow, Diane Franklin, Richard Gautier, Tamara Glynn, Bob Goen, Tiffany Helm, Joyce Hyser, David Lander, George Lazenby, Lar Park Lincoln, Dick Miller, Susan Oliver, Jay Thomas, Tracey Walter, Jill Whitlow and more.

            There has never been a DVD release of the series apart from two episodes being included on a Nightmare on Elm Street Blu-Ray collection in 2011.

            NBC’s Chiller network at one time aired short marathons of the series but stopped in 2011. However, EL REY network has acquired the rights to the series in 2015.