The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father also getting a TV remake, why not

Aiming to liven up a TV season that threatens to grow moribund with adaptations of semi-recent movies by also throwing in some reboots of classic television shows, Fox has picked up an update of The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, adding it to a list that includes The Greatest American Hero, Lost In Space, Bewitched, and whatever else is announced before Monday, Jesus Christ, let’s just get to the weekend already. The newish series hails from Conan O’Brien’s Conaco, White Collar producer Willie Garson, and husband-and-wife writing duo Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, and is a remake of the 1969 series of the same name. That series was itself an adaptation of the 1963 movie starring Glenn Ford and Ron Howard, which was in turn adapted from the book by Mark Toby, which was based on the idea that men need to be married, otherwise their lives are incomplete.