The New Little Wellness Arts Site: Why Martin Lawrence Should Be The Next To Return To TV

Let's Do It Again...words by Raymond Tyler!

On August 27th, 1992 Martin debuted on The Fox Network.

The series ran until 1997 with new episodes. However, the show has never been OFF the air since it's debut. (Running successfully in re runs.)

I am glad to say that Arsenio Hall is back and really hitting a great stride in late night TV as only Hall can.Since Hall left there have been a host of late night talk shows that tried with varying degree to do what The Arsenio Hall Show of the 1990's excelled at.

Likewise, there have been a bunch of networks most of them past history and shows that have tried to capture the magic and comedy success of Martin.

Here are my reasons why Martin and how Martin should return to the TV waves.

1. FOX and TBS should be fighting over bring Martin Lawrence back to TV.

I would however feel better with the show airing on TBS. Five years ago I would have said FOX because they have put together a number of incredible shows like Getting Personal and Damon (Damon Wayans' first show before My Wife and Kids.)

However if I am bringing Martin back today, I would place the show on TBS. TBS has brilliantly leveraged their re runs of the popular Big Bang Theory and the late night show Conan to produce a prime chunk of air time for half hour gems of original comedies (my favorites being Ground Floor and Men At Work.)

The New Martin Show would be on a little late compared to 8pm or 9pm when he originally ran, but this is the 21st century. Original Martin fans like me would catch up through streaming online. Plus TBS re runs their original programming on the weekends sandwiched between other very popular re run shows like Friends.

In short TBS would get the most back on their investment in a new Martin and would support it better than FOX would.

In fact if Fox did bring Martin back rather than sure up the new shows success they would use Martin to help gain viewers for the rest of their corny schedule.

2. Bring Back as Much as The Original Cast As Possible-

Hey when it comes to chemistry why fix what is not broke?

See if anything can be done to get Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell to play nice. If not? I hate to say but re cast the role of Gina or....replace the role of Gina.

The chemistry between Lawrence, Thomas M. Ford, Tichina Arnold and Carl Anthony Payne was pure magic and bringing their characters forward I am sure would be fun.

3. People Love Love and LOVE...Martin
A few years ago when Martin Season One was released on DVD, I thought it was dumbest idea yet, only because Martin is on several channels twice a day seven days a week.

To my surprise, the week after it was released it became the number one selling DVD release on the charts.

There is market for MARTIN.

4.The Re Runs air at least twice a day or more on TV One and MTV 2 and a few other channels. This number 4 just re enforces number 3.

5. The 1990's were THE ISH.
The 1990's was the last great decade before Reality TV spoiled TV Executives. There were great shows like Seinfeld and Friends that were allowed to run their course with the cast and with fans.

Then there are great shows like Martin and Living Single that were snatched off the air so that Fox could bring us Temptation Island.

Now is the time for these shows, actors, writers to usher in another great age of TV.

The Return of The Arsenio Hall Show is not a fluke but should be a sign that where 1990's TV is concerned television can be even better the second time around.