With searches under way for the next Bond and a regenerated time lord, it’s time they gave us new heroes
![Bergerac 2.0: Jersey detective’s return is a remake too far](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0e098e506d4a153cbcc8f141a04fc653f7a342ea/4_64_4618_2771/master/4618.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdG8tb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=a1bcf72675270fcf209d4fe0ce6fd604)
Rebooting a popular entertainment franchise can look like a strong plan. For a start, producers and investors are more easily persuaded that there is an audience for a proven brand like Bond, or Doctor Who. Then of course, with the right writers and directors, they truly do sometimes fly again; refreshed and newly relevant.
But Bergerac? News that the Jersey-based detective is soon to return and will roam the Channel Island fighting crime, as he did in the 1980s, has painted such a problematic picture that it raises alarm bells about the whole notion of reviving slumbering screen heroes.