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30 July 2008 12:30 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Add this one to the "why?" category.

CBS is developing a remake of "The Streets of San Francisco," the '70s era ABC cop drama starring Michael Douglas and Karl Malden as Bay Area cops.

On the show, which aired from 1972-77, Malden played the older, wiser Det. Lt. Mike Stone, with Douglas - in his first major TV role - playing the younger, more rebellious Inspector Steve Keller.

The new show will keep the original title and will also be set in San Francisco.

"The times are very

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29 July 2008 6:29 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Michael Douglas' hit 1970s cop show The Streets Of San Francisco is returning to the small screen.

Douglas found fame on the show, playing Inspector Steve Keller opposite veteran actor Karl Malden, from 1972 to 1976.

The new version of the show will be given a contemporary touch.

Writer Sheldon Turner tells the Hollywood Reporter, "The times are very similar - it was the Vietnam War in the 1970s and the Iraq War now.

"There is the same sort of tension between generations, and we wanted to carry that to the new series."

And the new cop partners will be modelled on presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama.

Turner adds, "One, like Obama, wants to be active and believes in rehabilitation, while the other one, like McCain, doesn't quite believe in rehabilitation and believes that the enemy is the enemy."

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