The future Sound of Musak.

I will never understand why producers feel they have to make new versions of films or tv shows that are already beloved classics. If you must remake something, there are a lot of duds around that could use reworking. But Sound of Music? You must be nuts. I don't know who Carrie Underwood is, but I'm sure she's talented. But she's not Julie Andrews. And a three-hour NBC special this December with 850,000 commercials is not the wide-screen no-interruptions epic that we have all come to love. We have already seen the tepid remake of Bye Bye Birdie with Jason Alexander (yawn) and the so-so redo of The Music Man with Matthew Broderick (eh!) They play. They are forgotten. But these producers, in their arrogance, think they can add something new. They never do. Unless you think anachronisms like Audra McDonald as an Austrian nun is new.

Note: Actually I have to admit that the annual showing of the film The Sound of Music pulls in a large audience. I can't imagine why since there are commercials ever ten seconds and it isn't even shown in widescreen so the viewers are only seeing part of the picture anyway and cheating their children out of something special. Break down! Rent the movie.