Pamela Anderson missing in Baywatch remake

Twenty years after it first left a tide-mark on America’s screens, Paramount have announced plans to produce a big-screen redux of the waterlogged soap known as ‘Baywatch.’

When NBC debuted the show in September ‘98 the public reaction was so universally bad, it was canceled after only one season. But like all monsters, it came back to life and did ten more years in worldwide syndication, airing in a record 148 separate countries.

But this time the plot is quite new.

Paramount paid seven-figures for the rights in 2005 and planned a serious remake. But all that is gone. Their new plan is to hire 33-year old writer / director Jeremy Garelick [who has never seen the show] to redo the script, direct the movie and make Baywatch his own. “It felt like the template to do a movie similar to ‘Stripes’ and ‘Police Academy,’ the comedies I loved growing up,” Garelick told the Variety bods

The result is a script in which two unlikely lifeguards try to fit in among the lightly-tanned torsos on a California beach. The suits at Paramount loved the new plan - and now Baywatch as slapstick is in pre-production.

To give you a clue how bad this thing was, the original series is the longest-running show in US-network history to never win an Emmy. None of the show’s cast will be stars in the movie, but David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson may make cameo nods.

There’s no date for the premiere, but we’ll let you know if they find the nerve.