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The Hollywood Reporter is Hollywood reporting today that CBS has ordered a script for an updated take on the classic sitcom, Bewitched.
[CBS] has ordered a script from Sony Pictures Television for a potential remake of Bewitched.
The script order for Bewitched joins a growing number of classic TV series returning back to the small screen. ABC’s Charlie’s Angels – also from Sony Pictures Television — will premiere in September, and CBS’ Hawaii Five-O returns for its second season in the fall.
Bewitched ran for eight seasons on ABC, from 1964 to 1972 and starred Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha, a witch who marries Darrin, a mortal (Dick York and later Dick Sargent), and attempts to become a typical suburban housewife.
Sure. I mean, sure. Yes. Here’s a conversation about this:
Person 1: They’re remaking Bewitched.
Person 2: Is there a German word for “totally not even a little bit surprised.”
Here’s another:
Person 1: They’re remaking Bewitched.
Person 2: Yes.
Person 1: Oh, you already heard?
Person 2: No, but I mean, you know. Right.
Of course, we can’t just remake Bewitched without bringing it up to date 4 today’s youths. LET’S GET READY TO ROCK! (Haha. Gross. LET’S GET IT FUNKAY!) (HAHAHAH IT IS GETTING WORSE NOW!)
- Samantha is a 17-year-old high school junior and she uses her powers to get on the a capella team.
- Darrin is a vampire. And a werewolf. New creature hybrid.
- Instead of a broomstick, Samantha rides around on a flying RAZOR SCOOTER.
- In the updated version, Darrin is still an advertising executive but his last name is Draper.
- Samantha and Darrin can’t get married because of President Michele Bachmann. Samantha becomes a crusader for witch equality.
- The opening theme song is performed by Matisyahu. So hot right now.
- At dinner parties, Samantha doesn’t create an incredible meal with a snap of her fingers and then remove all of the dirty dishes afterwards with another snap of her fingers, because she believes that Darrin should share some of the household responsibilities. She read about it in Mother Jones .
- Everyone is a hologram and the show takes place on a spacestation.
I can’t wait for this awesome new show. It is going to very hip and funky cool.
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I’m king and they know it. When I snap my fingers, everybody says show it. I’m hot and you’re not. but if you want to hang with me, I’ll give it one shot. Top that.
the old white men rapping thread is one story prior to this
I don’t really give a ……. bout trying to top that.
So we’re just expected to strike Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman out of our collective memori-
You know what…. No One even remembers it, anyway. Carry on, Reboot.
That movie was so so bad. Are we doing a Most Boring Movie of All Time hunt yet? Nominated! And I say that as someone who basically wanted to BE Samantha as a child/tween, because magical powers are awesome and she is sassy.
So I guess it would be hard to make it worse than that movie? But Hollywood is one to take on a challenge!
I’m looking forward to the Fox and Friends segment where they discuss (in very serious and hushed tones) how this is a liberal/socialist/Rastafarian plot to indoctrinate America’s youth with occult values.
I’ve always been Team Jeannie.
Team Jinn
In every episode Darrin and Samantha will do A Capella renditions of several pop songs.
*Don’t Stop Bewitching, Everything Little She Does Is Magic etc.
Hopefully it borrows more from the Ferrell/Kidman film than the original series. Right?
So that we’ll be rewarded with a quick and painless cancellation?
In the movie, Kidman’s nose twitched but that was just her body rejecting the plastic surgery.
They should just turn Samantha into the lead singer of an Irish pop group. Then they should turn Darrin into three back-up members of an Irish pop group, and voila,
1998 was a simpler time.
Maybe they will make it about the internet and it will be called “Webitched”.
Ha ha the internet you guys
Just reboot ‘em all.
- Green Acres
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- My Mother the Car
- I Love Lucy
- BJ and the Bear
- Dragnet
- My Favorite Martian
- Leave it to Beaver
- The Patty Duke Show
- M*A*S*H
- After M*A*S*H
- M.A.S.K.
Just reboot ‘em all.
“…After M.A.S.K.”
So happy you mentioned My Mother the Car. I saw one episode when I was six, and I was convinced for years afterward that it was just a weird dream I had, not an actual T.V. show.
When I watched it again, I liked it better as a weird dream.
So happy you mentioned My Mother the Car! I saw one episode when I was six, and I was convinced for years afterward that it was just a weird dream I had, not an actual T.V. show.
When I watched it again, I liked it better as a weird dream.
id bet my life savings there is a “Two Darrens” joke before page 3.
It will also be the last amusing joke of the show’s four-episode run.
“Dick York… Dick Sargent… SARGENT YORK!”
Sure, this gets picked up, yet my sexxxxy updated Cop Rock languishes in obscurity.
This is a crime. Order at least two seasons of this, Television. I demand it.
PUT THAT ON A POST-IT NOTE.
OMG Crossover with Glee OMMMGMGGMGGG
Can we all agree that this would get higher ratings if they just reran the original show? It would be so charming, and more in line with what viewers might actually enjoy than a reboot.
And who the hell will they get to play Endora? Sherri Shepherd and RuPaul are both entirely too busy.
Nicole Kidman