Netflix Greenlights Sabrina The Teenage Witch TV Show

Kiernan Shipka recently starred on FX's "Feud."
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Netflix is moving forward with its remake of the "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" TV show, which is still untitled.


"Mad Men" and "Feud" actress Kiernan Shipka will play the lead on the Archie Comics series.


It will be a darker series than the '90s comedy that starred Melissa Joan Hart as the teenage witch.


Netflix didn't announce a premiere date for the new "Sabrina" show.



"Mad Men" alum 
Kiernan Shipka
 
will play the lead teenage witch in 
Netflix
's upcoming series based on Archie Comics' supernatural heroine 
Sabrina
.

Shipka chungcu-theemeraldmydinh.com will play 
Sabrina
 
Spellman. Described as an empowered young woman, half-human, half-witch, Sabrina is just beginning her dark education as a sorceress, even as she tries to maintain a normal life as a sophomore at Baxter High. Intelligent, compassionate and brave to the point of recklessness, Sabrina is all that stands between us and the forces of darkness that threaten our world.

Spellman was created for Archie Comics in 1962 by George Gladir and Dan DeCarlo. A previous live-action television series based on the character, "Sabrina the Teenage With," aired on ABC, then the WB, from 1996-2003.

The untitled 
Netflix
 
series is inspired by the comic book "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina," which reimagines the origin and adventures 378 minh khai of the character as a dark coming-of-age story.

"We're all such huge fans of Kiernan's work that when we started talking about who this new incarnation of Sabrina could be, her name was on everyone's wish list," said executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. "This is a darker, more macabre version of Sabrina, and we're incredibly excited for people to see Kiernan make this iconic character her own."