‘Bewitched’ To Get Animated Reboot

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The traditional TV sitcom Bewitched will get a brand new lease on life by way of Sony Television. The idea is reportedly being prepped for an animated reboot focused towards youthful viewers. It’s being pitched as “Hannah Montana meets Harry Potter.”

The unique Bewitched aired on ABC from 1964 to 1972, after which has remained on TV just about ever since in syndication. The collection starred Elizabeth Montgomery as a witch named Samantha, who was married to an abnormal man named Darrin. (Dick York performed the character in early seasons; he was later changed by actor Dick Sargent.) The couple’s divergent backgrounds created friction of their home lives. It’s one of many quintessential supernatural TV collection of its period, together with I Dream of Jeannie,

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While the unique Bewitched was live-action, it additionally featured a really well-known animated opening credit sequence.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the animated Bewitched will give attention to Tabitha, the daughter of Samantha and Darrin, who was a toddler on the unique collection. In the brand new Bewitched, Tabitha can be 13 and “juggles two lives attending middle school while also being secretly enrolled in a magical academy run by her grandmother, Endora.”

This wouldn’t be the primary animated spinoff from Bewitched — and in reality, it’s not the primary animated Bewitched that includes Tabitha. The character was given her personal animated TV movie known as Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family within the Seventies.

This is the newest try and revive Bewitched for contemporary audiences, however not the primary. In 2005, the late Nora Ephron used the property as the premise for a excessive idea function movie starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. In that model, somebody decides to remake Bewitched and winds up casting a lady (Kidman) who’s an actual witch. Despite the spectacular solid and artistic group, the film obtained mediocre evaluations and solely earned $130 million worldwide towards a price range of some $85 million.