Dark Shadows revived as animated series, continuing Hollywood's pattern of resurrecting nostalgic but niche brands

There are certain Hollywood brands that feel destined to get screwed with for all eternity—well-known enough to trigger that "Oh, people have heard of that" brain impulse that makes executives think there might be money in reviving them, but not so much that people actually ever go see the damn things once they're revived.

It's hard not to see Dark Shadows—the Gothic soap opera that managed to crank out 1,200 of witchy melodrama back in the 1960s and '70s—as falling into this particular ditch.