Last month NBC announced that they would be remaking the popular crime show "Murder, She Wrote" with actress Octavia Spencer as the new Jessica Fletcher. Angela Lansbury, who played the original Jessica Fletcher from 1984 to 1996, told the Associated Press that she wasn't happy when she heard the news, the Daily Mail reports.
"I think it's a mistake to call it 'Murder, She Wrote,'" she said. "Because 'Murder, She Wrote' will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person."
"So I'm sorry that they have to use the title 'Murder, She wrote,' even though they have access to it and it's their right," she continued.
The original show aired for 12 seasons and earned Lansbury international recognition and 12 Emmy nominations. The 88-year-old actress said that the role was her "greatest doorway to the world."
"I suddenly became a worldwide-known character as Jessica Fletcher and really built an enormous audience, which I have to this day," she said. "That was the thing that really made me a star in the minds of everybody."
Lansbury did say that she is a fan of Spencer's work and wishes all her the best even though she isn't thrilled about the remake.
"I saw her in 'The Help' and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress," she said. "So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn't 'Murder, She Wrote.'"
In the new "Murder, She Wrote," Spencer will play a hospital administrator who self-publishes her first murder mystery novel and solves crimes in her spare time.
"It's set in a day where sensational headlines inundate the news, this woman's avid fascination with true crime leads her to become an active participant in the investigations," Deadline reports.
