‘Hacks’ Creators Would Consider Reboot Following Season 5 Series Finale: ‘Never Say Never’

“Yes, I would like to continue being gainfully employed, never say never”

The finale hasn’t even aired and we’re already talking reboot?

Yes, people like to be employed.

“Deborah Vance is by no means the obvious choice for late night. Her missteps are numerous and not entirely forgivable. No doubt there will be more. But for all Vance’s typical boomer-ness, there’s a curiosity that goes beyond age and taps into something more human: our desire to understand each other. Or as her writer Ava Daniels put it, ‘A hack is someone who does the same thing over and over. Deborah is the opposite. She keeps evolving and getting better.’ Watching Vance say the wrong thing makes for entertaining TV, but watching her engage is even better. It’s hard to say if she would be the perfect host. But what she may offer us is something more interesting, someone trying to connect with humanity in her attempt to connect with her own. And that’s worth watching.”

It's possible there are going to be less reboots in the future. Very few of them are successful. The Conners, Scrubs and a few others were successful reboots but most of them end up like the Suits reboot. Hacks wins lots of Emmys but it's not a very popular show. Even when it got a boost after the Emmys it wasn't that popular so I'm not sure they would focus on a reboot. It's a show that is mostly popular with people in the industry. >U.S. viewing time for the dramedy’s first season increased more than tenfold in the week following the [2024 Emmys](https://archive.is/o/7ASSu/https://variety.com/2024/tv/awards/emmys-2024-winners-list-1236142519/) versus the week leading up to the ceremony, leaping from 3.4 million minutes streamed Sept. 9-15 to nearly 42 million Sept. 16-22. This made it the most-watched streaming original TV season on Max in this timeframe, excluding originals shared with linear HBO, such as “The Penguin” and “Industry.” >The caveat here: That’s still not much in terms of audience size. If we estimate viewership based on minutes streamed divided by the season’s total runtime, only about 136,000 people streamed “Hacks” Season 1 in the week following the Emmys. >Meanwhile, the first season of “The Bear” clawed its way back into the top 50 original streaming TV seasons in the U.S. in the week surrounding the Sept. 15 Emmys ceremony (ranked by minutes streamed), with about 230,000 estimated views — more than double the previous week. >This likely has less to do with the awards than with the Hulu series’ ongoing popularity — the third season has not dropped out of Luminate’s top 50 chart since its debut in June — though the spotlight provided by the Emmys probably didn’t hurt. (Despite its loss to “Hacks” in the top category, “The Bear” walked away with four wins, including three of the four Comedy Series acting statues.) >Indeed, “Hacks” illustrates a bitter reality for Max: sustained, robust engagement for its non-HBO originals is sparse.

Oh they can f*** right off with this shit

I dont know why people just act like this is just another job. Like yes its a job but for this kind of job you have to really care about what youre making for it to be good and its a much more personal feeling towards the product so its not ALL about the money. They do it bc they love it.

lol time for another Listnook thread where multiple people try (and fail) to explain to others that the film industry uses the term reboot differently from how fans use it.