Hawaii Five-0, Charlie’s Angels and … Bewitched?
In the latest classic TV title getting considered for a reboot, CBS and Sony are developing a script for remake of the classic sitcom Bewitched. This is still in very early stages, but it’s definitely a project worth keeping an eye on.
Sony ushered the return of Angels and the producers of the clunky film version (which starred Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell) are on board. Can you imagine the 2011 pitch of this show, about an ordinary suburban businessman who discovers his wife has magical powers? “It’s Harry Potter meets Desperate Housewives!” Here’s a blast from the past:
Oh, God. Ok…..tv remake might work but the movie SUCKED. One of the worst movies I have ever seen. This is not good.
WHYYYYYYYYYY????????!!!!!!!!!
Well they can cast the tall girl Rachael from Boy Meets World
The movie was a real stinker at the box office, yet someone believes that a TV series is in order? These guys are crazy.
I can’t believe they’re doing this, after the disaster at the box office!
No! No! Nooooo! The world sucks! Shoot me! Kill me! Take me out of my misery! When I die it will be because TV killed me! Wait, I’ve got a better idea–I’ll kill my TV. Where’s my gun? Die TV! Die mother f*cker! Die! Die!
Just kill us now.
Oh no, that’s way too easy. They need to slowly torture you with bad television until you watch only reality tv from now on. Get used to it.
So what’s next Gilligan’s Isle???? (((rolls eyes)))
Next will be Brady Bunch. THEN I will kill my TV.
I can just see it now, “New on ABC Family… What happens when a single mom trying to raise her three daughters meets a single dad trying to raise his three sons? Can this misfit group somehow form a family?” Ugh.
Ah CBS….you see a show like SECRET CIRCLE on the CW and think “How can we do that for OLD people?”
You have just won 25 internets. Bravo!
LOL Bruce_F
The CBS Police are on their way to your house. They will want to know how you got hold of their strategic plans and who else you told.
You do know that CBS owns The CW (half)
The film version was horrible & it’s Nora Ephron fault. I remember the original director left. (So of course the script had to go as well) Kidman, Caine & MacLaine signed up like 2 years in advance for a straight up remake & then that bozo came up with a real witch on Bewitched idea.
The movie was so lame. I loved the TV show because Samantha was allowed to be a smart woman, which was rare in that time period. The movie didn’t get that at all. I don’t think there is any need for a remake. There are so many creative writers in the TV industry right now, I don’t understand why they need to pillage old shows for ideas.
@charlotte – yes, she was smart, but a major theme of Bewitched (and Jeannie) was that Darrin was controling and forced her to hide and deny her true nature. (Jeannie even called Tony “Master!). They’d have to find some way to not make her subservient to Darrin in the modern version.
It was Sam’s choice to be a housewife. She gave up ‘life of leisure’ to do work herself.
Sure having the husband being head of house is dated, but women choosing how to live is not.
@Bobby’s Robot- But it was also a major point that no matter how hard Darrin tried to supress he abilities, he couldn’t. I think the show was much more subversive than you give it credit for.
Still, reboot sucks.
@ Bobby- But Darren was the one always being turned into a monkey or given huge ears. He wasn’t in as much control as you think he was. Go back and watch the DVDs.
They have completely run out of original ideas in Hollywood.
No they haven’t, but the creative writers are working for USA, TNT, A&E etc. The network hacks are out of ideas and are ruining the big three. White Collar, Suits, The Glades, etc. are the shows worth watching.
I completely agree with Templar.
AND they’re going to use the same producers? So we’re in for a weekly “clunky” version. I don’t think I’ll even give it a chance.
more evidence that there really are no new ideas…
WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT “SABRINA: THE TEENAGE WITCH”? THE CW COULD MAKE A REMAKE SINCE THEY’RE DEVELOPING SITCOMS FOR NEXT SEASON…
I want SABRINA THE TEEANGE WITCH remake on The CW since they’re developing comedies for next season.
Oh…my…dear…god…
There is a small white haired man in one of those tall Hollywood buildings. Really old. Smells of prune juice, and constipation. It was his turn to pick a television show to slate for production.
better to bring back Dark Shadows after the Johnny Depp movie comes out in May
What? Johnny Depp playing a vampire? Really? That’s going to be HOT!!! I think Bewitched on tv again might work!
Yes I agree Johnny Depp in Dark Shadows would be Super HOT, but not Bewitched they’ll just try to sexy Samantha up and turn her into a Desperate Housewife!
That’s hot? Oh please Ben Cross (who did the last reboot) hes not.
BTW at one point the movies remake was going to have two actors as Darrin, one in the first half, and the other in the rest of the film
Another remake….yeesh !
They (the networks) are truly out of ideas !
Bad enough about the movie (truly horrible) but this ?
Next will come remakes of I Dream of Jeannie, Leave it to Beaver, Perry Mason and ad infinitum….
Sexy up Samantha ?? Don’t get any sexier than Liz honey !
Amen!
YOU CAN’T HAVE BEWITCHED WITHOUT ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY! She is Bewitched thats like trying to have I love Lucy show without Lucille Ball its ludicurous some shows are just never going to work without the originals that made the character
Okay, then it’s settled. Let’s dig her up.
You won’t have to. If this turd makes it to the air she’ll spin so fast in her grave she’ll come flying out of the ground.
Alex- I LOL’d. I think if they make the show without a laugh-track (laugh track shows are so over these days), and brought in some “happy endings” “cougar town” style humor, then it could work. Oh, and they would have to cast someone who looks completely different than Elizabeth and retool the character of Samantha so it wouldn’t be too much like the original
Well done, Alex. Although, you’d figure that would have already happened at the film premiere.
Well they tried to have The Bionic Woman without Lindsay Wagner, and look where it got them. Now they are trying to have Wonder Woman Without Lynda Carter. Gee whiz, when are they going to learn.
This is a great comparison!
Why did you have to say that? Now some idiot in a suit is going to say, “Let’s remake ‘I Love Lucy’ “.
Dirty Dancing, and now Bewitched. It’s like Hollywood can’t keep it’s lunch down this week.
I believe that phrase was also a remake
SExy Samantha up? She oozed sexiness!
yeah she did, but in that sexy 1960s classy kind of way.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
no.
just no. leave Bewitched alone.
^ i couldn’t have said it better.
Enough with the “Reboots”! This can’t be happening!
At first I thought this could work, then I read the producers of that shatty movie are involved and now I want to throw up.
Watch they do something horrible to modernized it like have Samatha cheat on Darren with some cheesy vampire who moves in next door just because vampires are in! GOSH SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE THE INSANITY STOP!!!. MAKE IT STOP!!
Is nothing sacred now?
You cannot remake a classic show that is so closely tied with 1 star.
Hawaii Five-O, Charlie’s Angels and Dallas may work because of the larger casts, even if 1 or 2 people were well know.
You cannot replace Elizabeth Montgomery who WAS Samantha and carried the whole show.
Great point!!!
The new Dallas is not a remake, it a continuation of the old show with some of the same actors playing the same parts again.
And sounds boring.
I won’t watch it, but I’d love to read about how they bring J.R. Ewing back from the dead. Unless he’s Zombie-J.R.
Can’t Hollywood come up with something original?
Inception! FTW
Stop remaking movie and come up with your own and new ones and don’t do dirty dancing to
I think this might make for a decent show. Go for it.
Are you the writer or one of the producers?