Posted on 08/23/2018 2:12:27 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Edited on 08/23/2018 2:35:09 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Just before he recently departed ABC Studios to embark on a rich overall deal at Netflix, Black-ish creator Kenya Barris sold one last high-profile project to ABC: Bewitched, a single camera, interracial blended family comedy based on the popular 1960s sitcom of the same name. It took a little while for all the deals to close, but the network has given a pilot production commitment to the new take on the classic supernatural sitcom, from Barris and Black-ish writer/producer Yamara Taylor. The project hails from ABC Studios; Sony Pictures TV, which has the rights to the title; and Sony-based Davis Entertainment (The Blacklist).
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Jeannie
And the new Murphy Brown....
Married to Elizabeth Montgomery. But gay? What a waste!
William Conrad had a long history of playing radio and movie bad guys, heavies if you will. Okay, he'd never capture anyone if a footrace was required but he had that great voice. He was one of Burt Lancaster's assassins in The KIllers.
I’m old enough to remember when TV was described as a “vast wasteland”. Don’t think much has changed.
Yup. If they did the Cosby Show or The Jeffersons with a white family, people would be livid.
I can’t argue with you.
Don’t give them any ideas.
They already made the pilot back in 1970.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0523217/?ref_=ttep_ep13
It had Larry Tate in blackface — not sure about the others.
#93 She was around during the Salem witch trials. So Samantha was more like 400 or 500 years old at least.
She must have had 1000 mortal husbands + many boyfriends....
How about a reboot of Bewitched and Mad Men combined? Samantha marries ad man Don Draper.
I don’t care what race the actors are.
But this:
“In Bewitched, written by Barris and Taylor, Samantha, a hardworking black single mom who happens to be a witch, marries Darren, a white mortal who happens to be a bit of a slacker. They struggle to navigate their differences as she discovers that even when a black girl is literally magic, she’s still not as powerful as a decently tall white man with a full head of hair in America.”
...is stupid.
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