Well, I'm a happy bunny, because last night UK Gold started re-running The A-Team from the first episode. I love The A-Team. While I loved MacGuyver and Knight Rider more when I was I kid, after having watched them all quite recently, I have decided that, as an adult, The A-Team kicks their asses.
Yes, Michael Knight has a kick-ass talking Trans-Am that he's constantly getting inside...but he also constantly wears a frilly, open-to-hairy-chest shirt. Yes, MacGuyver can make a blow-torch out of a wheelchair and a hang-glider out of a satellite...but he also spends the entire third season teaching disenfranchised youths how to play Ice Hockey.
The A -Team, on the other hand, smoke cigars. They don't get all wussy when it comes to grabbing a gun. They blow up helicopters with stunning regularity. They gun down entire encampments of faceless goons almost every week. They rock.
I heard a rumour that, along with all of the other beloved childhood shows Hollywood wants to anally rape, The A-Team is on the 'remake list'. I don't actually have a problem with this. I think, if they keep certain core elements in place, it could actually be a decent movie. My flatmate had never seen The A-Team, and I was telling her that every week the same things happen, no matter what. The scary thing was, a few minutes after I described each one, they happened. These core elements are:
- Hannibal has to stick a stogey in his mouth and say: "I love it when a plan comes together."
- BA has to get punched out by Hannibal and stuck on a plane after saying: "I ain't gettin' on no plane, fool!"
- A helicopter has to explode.
- Murdoch has to lose control of his arm and struggle to keep it under control while it tries to jeopardize the mission.
- The Face has to make out with the hot chick du jour.
- They have to stumble across a barn filled with junk, that just happens to be configurable into a flame-throwing tank.
This is a 
Don't forget in your list of staples that a jeep always has to explode and do a perfect 360° loop too.
Oh, and despite hails of lead going everywhere, no-one is allowed to bleed/die.
Oh yeah! That's so true. Laugh. I also love how they will often blow up three jeeps in succession, and it'll look suspiciously like the last jeep they blew up from a different angle.
BUT WHO'S GONNA BE B.A.?!
ICE fucking CUBE?!
If they make it with a cast of unknowns and absolutely nail the casting, it might indeed rock. If Ben Stiller and/or Owen Wilson are in it, it will be an horrendous pile of poo.
You've also forgotten the wicked disguises that Hannibal wears at the start of most episodes. £2 in a joke shop for a fake moustache and, wait.... where's Hannibal gone????