My beloved witch is part of the growing club of comeback series. ABC commissioned a pilot episode from Kenya Barris. This reboot is likely to be successful. The series could return to our screens in 2019.
Television seems to have gotten lost in a spiral of nostalgia. American producers want to bring up to date the cult series of our childhood. After Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina, the Witch's Apprentice, Roswell, Magnum… it is the turn of My Beloved Witch to return to the front of the stage. The 1960s series was aired and rerun, charming generations of viewers. Kenya Barris is leading this reboot project. The American writer and producer is already enjoying great success with his Black-ish series. Kenya Barris wants to modernize the series by staging a mixed couple. Samantha will be a black woman, a single mother and a hard worker. She will marry Jean-Pierre (Darren in VO), a lazy white man.
A chance to succeed?
The original series featured the daily life of Samantha Stephens (Elizabeth Montgomery), a witch stay-at-home mom, and Jean-Pierre Stephens (Dick York), a mortal who works in advertising. Samantha uses her powers to help her family, with a frown that has become famous. Samantha's mother, Endora, prefers to use her magic to make life difficult for her son-in-law. Kenya Barris' version should be more rooted in the twenty-first century. The show will focus on the social differences between blacks and whites, single mothers and male-children in today's America. ABC Studios eventually won the broadcast rights war. Sony Pictures Studio held the rights to the original series. Between 2011 and 2012, CBS and ABC were fighting for the reboot of My Beloved Witch. In 2014, NBC began and then abandoned a spin-off project centered around Samantha's granddaughter.
The reboot of My Beloved Witch will be released in 2019, if the pilot episode of Kenya Barris pleases the television channel.
