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Battlestar Galactica? Doctor Who? Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Weren't those new shows with new casts? This is the same show and cast being brought back two decades later
You said "reboot" without any other qualifiers, so that was my attempt at some examples.
I think the term we're actually looking for here is "revival." "Girl Meets World" seemed to do OK, as well as "Dexter: New Blood" ... The airtime of the successors from this article is probably a good indicator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_series_revivals
My bad I guess I mixed up the terms, thanks for clarifying
NP, I think we both learned something
My Little Pony? (G3 -> G4, not G4 -> G5)
The Next Generation is a continuation of Star Trek. Though, I’m sure a lot of people saw it as an attempted replacement of Kirk and Spock when it was announced.
Formulaically, it was indeed a reboot with new characters taking on aspects of the old roles, as well as a tone shift to match the 20-year gap; I imagine it was inserted into the existing timeline in order to preserve all of the world building that had already been done, similar to what was later done with Doctor Who.