Way, means again in 2018, we heard that Nickelodeon was pursuing a reboot of its basic children sitcom Clarissa Explains It All, which and launched Melissa Joan Hart to teen stardom. (This was earlier than Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.) There’s a submit within the ScreenCrush archives from March of that 12 months, stating that authentic Clarissa creator Mitchell Kriegman and Hart have been each in talks for a present about “Hart’s Clarissa Darling as the family’s mother.”
But nothing ever got here of it, regardless that Nickelodeon and its dad or mum firm, Paramount, have turn out to be more and more obsessive about its classic Nick catalog as a result of of its streaming platform, Paramount+. The undertaking appears to be lifeless, to the purpose that Hart revealed the premise of the failed revival in a current interview.
Hart informed Insider that present would have been about an grownup Clarissa who “is divorced and moving to California with her two kids and living on the beach in California with her aunt.” She additionally added “I don’t know. It wasn’t my favorite way in.”
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The authentic Clarissa produced 65 episodes from 1991 to 1994, and was one of the channel’s signature live-action collection of its time, notable for Hart’s fourth-wall breaking efficiency — a form of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off from a feminine perspective.
Hart additionally mentioned within the interview, regardless of the problems with that 2018 try, she would favor to revive Clarissa to her different nostalgic kidcom basic, Sabrina the Teenage Witch. “I do feel like Sabrina wrapped up really nicely with her riding off on the motorcycle with Harvey. I think that ending on Sabrina was so iconic that I don’t want to go back and try to recreate that and have another good ending.”
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