I guess it's simply cheap to be able to use stuff you already own...I don't know.
The article on hollywood reporter doesn't quite get it IMO if they're using the stuff like the X-Files to equivocate as reboots. They're not. They continuing the same thing years down the road.
I sorta get the A-Team in that there was a movie and it made enough money that something like a tv show could be do-able. I'll just say i don't really get what now seems to be the obsession - rebooting an old show. They did it relentlessly in movies and I don't think any were runaway hits or anything, but, once you own it, you own it, so the costs are lesser, in theory, the next time I suppose.
