MacGyver Might Get A Reboot With A Female Lead — cinemablend.com

“The Next MacGyver” is a crowdsourcing competition aiming to bring another brilliant and inspirational engineer to the forefront of a TV series, as MacGyver is still beloved today all over the world, and is responsible for bringing untold numbers of viewers to engineering fields. Combine that with an effort to get more female protagonists on TV, and we might have the next great action series. Here’s how the competition works. Create an idea for a show that revolves around a female protagonist that will motivate generations of TV viewers with her engineering skills; it doesn’t have to resemble MacGyver in the least, and can fall into technically any genre. And since MacGyver was a spy whose skillset involves engineering, the main character doesn’t have to be an engineer per se. But it does have to be compelling to middle school and high school audiences, since inspiration is key.

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