NBC’s nostalgia for its glory days has thus far led to trying to build sitcoms around stand-up comics, reuniting with old friends like Stephen Bochco and David Milch, and forcing employees to start wearing big shoulder pads while blaring Wang Chung’s “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” on a constant loop in the hallways. Now it’s digging up Stephen J. Cannell’s Wiseguy and giving it a contemporary reboot, hoping to remind everyone—as with the rehiring of Bochco and Milch—that it used to do groundbreaking stuff and can once more, mostly by doing that exact same stuff over again. (Even if it was technically done by other networks, as Wiseguy originally aired on CBS.) In the original version, Ken Wahl played undercover FBI agent Vinnie Terranova (yes… yes), who underwent a fake prison sentence in order to establish his criminal credentials and infiltrate various dark corners of the underworld. The update, to be written by Homeland’s Alex Cary, will focus on a jailed, disgraced former cop who agrees to do the same as part of a plea bargain to lessen his sentence. It’s the 21st century; we demand redemption stories.