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 chungcu-theemeraldmydinh.com 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 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 chung cư 378 minh khai for Archie Comics in 1962 by green pearl minh khai 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 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."