"MacGyver" co-stars on reboot of classic action series

In the classic "MacGyver" series, Richard Dean Anderson played a secret agent who used science and ordinary objects to solve tough problems. Now, the show is getting a reboot as a new series on CBS. Co-stars Lucas Till and George Eads join "CBS This Morning" to discuss how they prepared for their roles.

[@elisabethmhawkins9025]

Love the show, and I've missed you George ❤❤

[@deshandjoseph4449]

A huge fan of the old.... Rda is awesome but Lucas is also great... As the series progress his performance will grow. Amazing wonderful looking forward to more

[@donaldsachse4817]

Richard Dean Anderson was a GREAT! MC GIVER! No one BETTER!

[@fancyfaces10]

I have watched the show and it is really good and different compare to the old MacGyver which is always a plus. the idea is to come a little different but stick to what the show was about. which was a man that can get out of any situation with his pocket knife and duck tape. I hope it stays around long while.

[@MeganAngel315]

I'm sorry but the new series is very bad. Its branching off from the seeing how the plan plays out.

[@joeofmacabre07]

Mac doesn't need a team..he is a one man army...

[@kieronnovak1334]

They screwed this show.If the were familiar with the old one, they could see that Mac was a hacker, chemistry wizard, physics expert and many many other things. Didn't need any help but most important HE HATED GUNS! How do you expect me to watch this show if one of his teammate has a gun??? Also old song is far more good than this one!

[@murk4552]

They humanized the show and made it realistic dumbass, like they are gonna copy the old show, 100% and be entirely unoriginal?

[@cristibaluta]

This show is a huge crap even without the guns and team. For fuck sake, even explosions looked more real in the original. This is something made in a rush and makes no sense

[@cristibaluta]

We were not talking about how sexy he is, which is not in my opinion anyway... The movie remains a crap.

[@rogers.5]

Anderson disliked being a one man show

[@CARLOSDIAZ-gf6uh]

Have old box set of original macgyver and love the way for its time was done

[@tama07ums]

love the new show reboot

[@scottwarnick5126]

I just watch it because of George Eads

[@lyzashhh4765]

Great show...good couple mac and jack..good job

[@MyEd72]

je suis une grande fan de la série des années 80, Richard Dean Anderson est irremplaçable mais Lucas Till est vraiment très bon acteur, je l'aime beaucoup. Par contre, dans cette nouvelle version, il reçoit trop d'aide et c'était bien mieux quand mac était seul . Ceci dit, cette nouvelle version est agréable à regarder et j'espère voir plusieurs saisons avec les mêmes acteurs

[@utew.8566]

I love the new MacGyver he and his team are incredible. The old series was great but the reissue of the series is even better. Love it :) Greetings from Germany

[@RS-tp3uu]

Ute W. The new ones suck and aren’t anything like the originals

[@caridadilano9934]

RDA portrayed macgyver that made it a legend

[@solaprose5042]

They're both cute to me 😊

[@41663]

George Eads that dude really makes that show. Hes a dam good actor. I like him in this more then the other detective stuff hes in where he has to be so serios

[@marygordon6832]

Two eye candies side by side. Great ideas!!

[@alicelaplant312]

I LOVE MACGYVER

[@marygordon6832]

I watched the show yesterday and loved it!!! I have loved MacGyver sense I was a teen. Do you think Richard Dean Anderson will appear at anytime?

[@nefelibata4190]

who knows

[@sandavijithminirathnayake7033]

NEVER !

[@shellyblanchard5788]

He said he didn't want anything to do with it. He was jeaulous.

[@sandavijithminirathnayake7033]

@@shellyblanchard5788 No he was NOT jealous , but that's human psychology . Just imagine ,if you were the star , limelight and the hero of a show ,and they're gonna reboot it with someone else as its hero , would you join it as a minor character , forgetting all your identity ,dignity and pride ? I bet you'd never ! After all ,RDA is a human ,and maybe he doesn't like to be compared . Furthermore ,I 'm really glad he didn't joined this silly reboot that's ruining the spirit of original show .

[@JoyMadrugada]

usually a reboot isn't "watchable" in the first episodes for many reasons and compares. But they developed. Nice

[@jaxondabeastz2046]

Who else hopes Murdock returns

[@kieronnovak1334]

The original Murdock to kill this fake MacGyver :) lol Hope he succeed!

[@VideoNewZ9]

he just did

[@daiyanheard7679]

he did watch more episodes

[@collina0072]

I love it!!

[@gabrielamejia8006]

Oh i love mac gyver is special.

[@allysonchen4286]

A lot of you posters don't even realize this is not a reboot it's a prequel from when he was with the Phoenix Foundation not when he was in his later years. People are so quick to write something off because they don't research how the show is going to be written or what the premise is.

[@Fenixias]

but how can that be a prequel when it actually plays in our time?

[@hdtv2296]

@@Fenixias what year did the original MG take place

[@Fenixias]

@@hdtv2296 I guess the 80s

[@tracicalhoun8204]

lucas till is a looker......

[@georgemacdonald5151]

that's all he is, his acting in this is soooo cheap.

[@jojojo2303]

54 and still hot!!

[@delsongalasinao706]

Hollywood is now on reboot era .I hope it will end soon and entertain new ideas of story.

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

"MacGyver " looks much too young and scrawny in comparison to the original. I actually thought it was George that was MacGyver, not the other one.

[@nenabunena]

MacGyver always had great thick hair though, even today RDA has not lost a strand of his hair

[@hekurancaushi3403]

Io guardo tutti i giorni mecgayiver😎😎😎😎

[@pengejarbintang]

There's only one Angus MacGyver.

[@caridadilano9934]

New show is Macgyver Team

[@nancyguevaragrillo5306]

Este es la. Comedia ke des truyo el .clasico..

[@delsongalasinao706]

Hollywood now is on reboot era I hope it will end show and entertain new ideas of story

[@GoodmovieTV-tm1gf]

woah

[@macgyver__]

*Penny Parker!*

[@bobo11112222]

Macgyver the 6 million dollar man & his NCIS Team

[@zoecloney248]

George Eads look like jack dolten

[@vojtechkoutnik254]

Old is better

[@panime007]

Should have left MacGyver alone..

[@shakikchoudhury4015]

If they copy the old one 100%, it could be a plasure, but as a tim like a companey thats going to be an unfimeliar like worse!!!!!????

[@urbangirlparis]

they missed the whole point of the show , the real macgyver is not a show off . he's a laid back guy. i don't feel like watching this . i'll watch the real one instead

[@alicelaplant312]

I want to meet you Lucas I am scared of heights too I have a bag of the picture you using the Americain family flag. I L O V E Y O U M A C❤

[@karenross9888]

#SaveMacGyver

[@kacperjankowski2023]

mac gyver is nly one

[@angusmacgyver3713]

I just hope CBS knows what it does. Just as e looks a poor copy of the original. RDA can provide no substitute. He is a popular representatives specifically for this series. With Lucas Till sadly mistaken occupied. Unfortunately...

[@beccal.m.2237]

😎🖒💜

[@ausermane5926]

The appeal of the first show was the dichotomy between the woeful acting and perpetually flat affect of Richard Dean and the heightened problem-solving skills the character possessed. MacGyver was never a smooth suave Bond-type. This appears to be a bungled rehash merely exploiting the MG name.

[@the80s87]

This MacGyver reboot is mediocre, being adapted to modern times, it is the same as any other series. The original series was excellent because it was precisely different from any other TV series. The arrogance and narcissism of the characters in the new series are also adapted to modern times, since nowadays being arrogant and narcissistic is quite a strong trend. In short, this new MacGyver reboot is more like a James Bond movie but with the name "MacGyver".

[@maickelrojas9795]

Yo me pregunto si el compañero de Maggyver is gay

[@HoustonYu]

Not as good as the old one

[@darrellhall6622]

George Eads get the better deal in the new series. Jake is the old one was stupid and want to get rich or get the woman.

[@dimebag88m]

You mean Jack?

[@michelangelo7835]

New MacGyver series is a complete failure in comparison with the classic- original one! It has a great lack of: Mystery, Feelings, Thrill, Adventure in the wild, Dealing with the unknown, Action, Moral Lessons, Contingency, Coincidence, Seriousness of the situations and so much on!!!

[@marijapupovac1731]

If you watched enough you would know that it has all that stuff

[@cyndibear5]

Have never watched the new MacGyver and refuse to do so. It's a shame writers and tv execs can't come up with new ideas on their own. They have to copy old successful shows.

[@mendesarmy1235]

Cyn Mann it's actually pretty good and I'm saying this having watched the original. Give it a go, you might like it.

[@maruia8555]

He ran like the six million dollar man to get that plane, old MacGyver would find out a smartarse way to take that plane daown arrrrrrgh im sorry i dont like the new show, i just watched it today, maybe the new generations will like it...who knows...

[@miriamfigaroa1310]

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[@jorgeboyvazquez7950]

H

[@maickelrojas9795]

Puro chistes que ni risa dan. Que estupides😠

[@MeganAngel315]

Macgyver was his own team. He knew engineering, computers, chemistry, and physics. I mean come on Macgyver was his own man team and partnered with two people because they were friends. I'm sorry the new series isn't that great.

[@marijapupovac1731]

Well this is about Macgyver in his younger days and its not supposed to be exactly the same just like you cant have the same knowledge and experience when youre 20 and when youre 40 years old. I realise that people who watched the original Macgyver have different expectations but this show is really really good.

[@guvoscity]

Está versión apesta

[@trenthill3578]

the remake sucks. can only be one MacGyver. RDA

[@javimaniacs]

Hoy to destroy a Serie? ... .Make a Reboot.

[@jadaaleeshamindexpert7365]

Not half as handsome as RDA

[@95204186]

canser !

[@bosshogg_210]

Leave classics alone ...get some new material sheesh

[@SombraPiloto]

Nope.

[@user-jj8cc6no8i]

Not good is 🤮👊

[@DanielZenMaster]

This is one big piece of crap. Team what? Yeah...turn great classic TV show into another Glee. CBS sucks!

[@AT-zr9tv]

Yeeeeah.... Naaaah... Too much over the top action

[@InDreamsYourMine]

Such a crappy reboot. Should of been a continuation of the original where MacGyver(RDA) is in charge of the Phoenix Foundation and his son/daughter takes over doing missions.

[@darkavenger666]

"I'll be the gun guy"..... There you realise that this show is not going to be good.

[@amylayton1457]

Fail.