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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Technically speaking within the mythology of the show they were already an interracial marriages. Pretty sure the witches weren’t actually human, it’s hinted often that Samantha’s actually over 100 years old.
How about a reboot of “Cannon”(Ca~non?) with Gabe “Fluffy” Iglesias?
And the reboot of “The Greatest American Hero” with a woman playing the lead.
Sacrilege.
Paul Lynde wasn’t playing himself on TV. Neither was Charles Nelson Reilly. Their on screen presence was both actors copying the mannerisms of one actress, Alice Ghostly.
Sounds like a pair to draw to. So, is the magnum reboot main character light in the loafers? Haven’t and won’t see any of them. At least on purpose.
That was tried and it bombed.
Replacing white characters with minorities is all the rage but it’d be the end of the world to replace a minority with a white actor.
Hollywood and Democrats - they love to recycle -- old ideas...
Definitely more intense than the original.
If you get a chance, check out the original pilot of the original series.
Dr. Smith (same actor) was played as a serious villain who was trying to destroy the Jupiter 9 with help from the robot. But he very quickly morphed into the buffoon most people remember.
They should really start coming up with original ideas.
She was around during the Salem witch trials. So Samantha was more like 400 or 500 years old at least.
That one didn't bother me. There was nothing in the original character that made it necessary to be male.
Yeah, when I was a kid I watched The Jeffersons and Good Times because they were funny, not because they were socially engineered to meet some demographic standard. These days, the goal seems to reduce whites to at least 25% on commercials, 40% on shows, and make MORE reparations by giving random black people talk shows or game shows. And sometimes 100% minority on “expert panels”.
hollywierd would do better to just replay the originals.
Pass.
“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.”
The she should twitch her nose and make him 18 inches tall, bald, and green.
Better yet, do that to the folks who have come up with something so amazingly STUPID.
Who was hotter? Jeannie or Samantha?
Paul Lynde was a great actor, but I never knew that about him. He didn’t announce it...
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