Most old farts stopped watching James Bond years ago for the very reasons you outline. If you want something different – go do something completely different. Trying to capitalize on the name recognition but totally changing the strip is just plain bad. You can say we’re re-imagining the strip but you’re not. You can’t make a cow pie a re-imagined chocolate pie just by saying we need to make some changes. Taking this one off the watch list.
it was revealed in Season 3, Episode 19 that Ward works for a trust company under Mr. Anderson