What's the point?

Author Sebastian Faulks is to write a new Jeeves and Wooster story.  Why??  It's not as though we're not already spoiled for choice - P G Wodehouse wrote no less than 46 stories about the duo - some of them full length books.  I maybe can see some merit in writing a sequel to some popular one-off book - like "Gone With The Wind" for instance - although such ventures do not have a very good track record - but the many attempts for example to write a "new" James Bond book (and Faulks himself is one of those who have had a go at this) to my mind just serve to devalue the originals, and I fear this new endeavour may go the same way.