The British Fantasy Cult Classics That Deserve a Reboot

Whether you’re down to rollick around history with Apple TV+’s new reimagining of Time Bandits or you think the reboot of the classic 1981 fantasy movie got lost in all those timelines, there’s a clear hunger for Britain’s brand of fantasy, once confined mainly to feature films, to be revived on the small screen. Disney+ recently attempted Willow, Max has three seasons of His Dark Materials, and now the new remake of Time Bandits proves that reimagining classics for the streaming age is the right idea, especially if they didn’t get it completely right the first time.

Britain’s history of mysticism and Arthurian legend means it’s sprouted one of the most enviable libraries of fantasy fiction on Earth. In the last hundred years alone, there’s been The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, all three of which are in various states of small screen remakes/spinoffs themselves – and that says nothing of the child-friendly tales of earlier authors Lewis Carroll or J.M. Barrie, both of whom have gotten cartoon feature films and live action ones. Now that everyone’s excited at firm fantasy favorites returning to the small screen, we've taken the liberty of listing ten British fantasy properties that deserve a television reboot.