With shows like "Jersey Shore," "Roseanne," and "Queer Eye" returning this year, TV reboots are having a moment.
The "Roseanne" reboot may have premiered to high numbers (over 18 million viewers) and positive response, but that doesn't mean all TV reboots strike the same success.
For every "Twin Peaks: The Return," there is a "24: Legacy" — meaning there are plenty of truly bad reboots that get greenlit and make it onto our television screens.
Business Insider looked at 12 of the worst TV reboots ever. Some didn't last long, while others somehow found a longer life than their Rotten Tomatoes scores would suggest.
We ranked them from bad to worst based on those RT critic scores (we took the average of the available seasons) and broke any ties with audience scores on the review-aggregator site.
The worst of the bunch even has the rare misfortune of having a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Below are 12 of the worst TV reboots of all time, ranked by how bad they were:
12. "Melrose Place" (2009)
Critic score: 60%
Original series run: 1992-1999 on Fox
"It's still not good, mind you, but it's more honest and enthusiastic about its badness, you know?" — Alan Sepinwall, Newark Star-Ledger
11. "24: Legacy" (2017 on Fox)
Critic score: 59%
Original series run ("24"): 2001-2010 on Fox
"If the story was half as compelling as an average Homeland season, perhaps audiences could overlook the political commentary. But there's little urgency driving the conventional TV action ... its stars' personalities are largely drowned out by exposition." — Ben Travers, Indiewire
10. "Dynasty" (2017-present on The CW)
Critic score: 53%
Audience score: 85%
Original series run: 1981-1989 on ABC
"I'll never watch this again. Dynasty reminds you of all the bad ways in which the world has changed. It's not niche or interesting to have a soap opera about people who are merely undeservedly loaded any more." — Hugo Rifkind, The Times (UK)
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