Examines the cultural politics of the contemporary American action TV re-boot Offers an analysis of the social update in contemporary US TV re-boots, looking specifically at race, disability and gender discourses Uses different approaches to conceptualise the re-boot, including genre studies, nostalgia, cultural capital, industry studies, representation and aesthetics Places the re-boot in a context of contemporary technological discourses A theorisation of middlebrow television Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Recycling Middlebrow Culture examines the cultural politics of contemporary action TV re-boots on US television. It explores the re-boots of Hawaii Five-0 (CBS, 2010-20), MacGyver (CBS, 2016-21), Lethal Weapon (ABC, 2016-19), Magnum, P.I. (CBS, 2018- ) and The Equalizer (CBS, 2021- ) through the frameworks of nostalgia, cultural value, representation and what Thomas Leitch (1990) has called the 'social update', and contemporary televisual aesthetics. It takes a variety of approaches to the subject including industry studies, textual analysis, genre studies and discourse analysis to analyse the action TV re-boot's role as middlebrow culture. Through this, the book establishes how contemporary US network television is formulating its audience address and maintaining its relevance in an increasingly fragmented media environment.