'Bewitched' Reboot on the Way
by EG
ABC is working on a revival of the 60s sitcom Bewitched, but the new version isn't going to look anything like the old one. Read on to find out more about this very 2018 take on the classic.
Via Page Six.
Just before he recently departed ABC Studios to embark on a rich overall deal at Netflix, “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris sold one last high-profile project to ABC: “Bewitched,” a single-camera, interracial blended family comedy based on the popular 1960s sitcom of the same name.
It took a little while for all the deals to close, but the network has given a pilot production commitment to the new take on the classic supernatural sitcom, from Barris and “Black-ish” writer/producer Yamara Taylor. The project hails from ABC Studios, Sony Pictures TV, which has the rights to the title, and Sony-based Davis Entertainment (“The Blacklist”).
In “Bewitched,” written by Barris and Taylor, Samantha, a hardworking black single mom who happens to be a witch, marries Darren, a white mortal who happens to be a bit of a slacker. They struggle to navigate their differences as she discovers that even when a black girl is literally magic, she’s still not as powerful as a decently tall white man with a full head of hair in America.
Barris is executive producing via his Khalabo Ink Society banner alongside Taylor and Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox.
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