2022 is seemingly the year of the reboot.
But while some returns to much-loved franchises pull in old and new fans alike, like Cobra Kai, others leave you wondering who on earth the new show was aimed at.
Because if you strip away all the elements beloved of the older fans but there's not anything particularly good to entice newer fans, who exactly is going to watch it?
This is the exact trap that Bel-Air, the latest TV show mining the treasures of our childhoods to fill a TV schedule, falls into.
Based on comedy show The Fresh of Bel-Air, which first aired a frankly startling 32 years ago, this is a gritty re-imagining of the fish-out-of-water coming-of-age-tale.
But where the 90s version was wacky outfits, Carlton's cheery dancing and the occasional moment of seriousness between the jolly japes, this new version - based on a four-minute fan film of the original footage recut as a drama by the show's director Morgan Cooper - is bleak and hard-hitting from the outset.
Will, now played by Jabari Bank, has the 'one little fight' mentioned in the previous incarnation's cheery rap theme tune but it now sees him fleeing the streets of West Philadelphia in fear for his life after getting embroiled with some local criminals, firing a gun and ending up in jail.
He ends up in a Bel-Air where things are strangely familiar but also soulless and joyless.
The Banks house is as posh as you would expect and packed with all the accoutrements of affluence of the new century.
Uncle Phil (Adrian Holmes) is now standing for LA County District Attorney and has pulled some very dodgy strings to get his nephew away from Philly which may come back to ruin his campaign.
Hillary meanwhile is an Instagram influencer - of course she is - while British Geoffrey is no longer a butler but an iPad wielding 'house manager' who, of course, Will instantly nicknames Idris because it's all so knowing and meta.
I literally sat through the first episode wondering if it was purely that this show wasn't aimed at me and that was why I didn't get it.
But then at the point I concluded it was maybe an E4 show and teenagers and young adults would enjoy the fish-out-of-water angst and blossoming love triangle suddenly there was an aside where characters started using the (uncensored) N-word which made me feel it wasn't a natural fit for that demographic either.
By the time Carlton starts snorting recreational drugs, the unfamiliar familiarity is so jarring it's hard to even concentrate on what the show is actually about.
It's like someone decided to remake a gritty TV show - think The Wire or Breaking Bad - but name all the characters with names from a much-loved comedy like Friends, The Golden Girls or - indeed - The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Just why?
Having watched Pam and Tommy and concluded that just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should, my conclusion having watched the first episode of Bel-Air is very much the same.
Watching it is like having a cheese dream after you've spent an afternoon at a designer outlet shopping village.
As a one-off episode it's an interesting experience, but there's nothing about it to tempt you to try again.
Bel-Air is available to watch now on the Peacock Network, which streams free with Sky TV and Now. Have you watched the first episode yet? Let us know what you think in the comments or by tweeting @TheReviews_Club.
