'Bewitched' TV Show Remake Hits TV Soon; 'The Vow' Writers to Pen Reboot
- Auj Lazaro
- Oct 17, 2014 11:45 AM EDT
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The classic sitcom, "Bewtiched," may return to the small screen as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
According to Deadline, "Sony Pictures TV is shopping a new version of the supernatural comedy, which ran on ABC from 1964 to 1972."
The show focuses on the adventures of a witch named Samantha (first portrayed by Elizabeth Montgomery) and how she tries her best to live a normal life as a plain housewife.
Through the years, the show has been adapted by various countries all over the world, including Japan, Argentina, India and Russia, Deadline added. This is proof of its long time success and Sony is reportedly aiming to replicate that with their planned reboot.
Red Wagon Entertainment's Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick, along with The Vow writers, Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein have partnered with Sony to make the series happen, a report by Comic Book Resources claimed.
Red Wagon Entertainment was behind the film adaptation of the classic sitcom released in 2005. It starred Will Ferrell and award winning actress Nicole Kidman.
A remake after the film adaptation was supposed to take off three years ago but it did not push through even when CBS already ordered a script, TV Guide wrote. But the show might finally find its way to success again on TV, this time around.
Cinemablend provided a brief background of the show:
"For those too young and/or unmagical to remember, Bewitched was a 1964-1972 Sol Saks-created sitcom that centered on the Stevens family. Darrin (Dick York, Dick Sergeant), the loving and mortal ad exec and his wife Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery), a bona fide witch. A lot of their conflicts involved him not wanting her to use her witchcraft, and then her getting into a situation where witchcraft is the only valid solution. Many of their woes are put into place by Samantha’s classically savage mother Endora (Agnes Moorehead), whose distaste for Darrin knows no bounds."
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