Night Stalker VS. The Night Stalker

ABC is bringing the night stalker back to prime time television, with a
"from the producers of the x-files" sort of spin.

Gone is the off-center quirky determined bloodhound of a reporter as
embodied by Darren McGavin. Now Kolchak is being played by Stuart
Townsend, not a bad actor, but kind of a pretty-boy (you'll remember him
as Dorian Gray" in "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", and he was very
good.) too much of a pretty-boy, in my opinion to be playing Kolchak.
With this new re-vamp of the Night Stalker concept, Kolchak get's a
partner, and a photographer, gone is the one man band approach to
reporting as taken in the original, besides, no one believed him, so he
went out on his own.
So in this "from the producers of the X-Files" approach I think they are
really going with a "How can we do another x-files" except of course for
ABC
Now I'll watch, I'll give it a shot, I'll want to like it, but I most
certainly will miss Darren McGavin, a magnetic screen presence whenever
he's on one, and I'll be waiting to see if they give the old whistler
theme a dust-off.
The old Night Stalker is a cult favorite to be sure, not a huge hit or
long remembered by most, but it is remembered fondly by some of us, some
of us who would wait up to see the reruns repackaged as movies on late
night tv, just to hear that whistled theme, and that distinctive
voice-over narration.