Rumor has it that CBS and SONY are considering rebooting the Bewitched TV show. Now, they've just ordered a script so this is still in the very early stages. It doesn't have a full green light and no casting as been announced or anything like that. Part of me is very excited about this! I loved the original TV show with Elizabeth Montgomery! But I'm only very cautious. Apparently producers of the Will Ferrell/Nicole Kidman movie are also involved with this new TV pilot. I hated that movie! It lacked all the magic of the original TV show. I wanted them to just make a Bewitched movie-- about an advertizing exec who's wife happens to be a magical witch. Instead what we got was a movie about a failed actor trying to revitalize his career by doing a re-make of a classic TV show and casting a beautiful woman in the role of the witch who just happens to be a magical witch. Um... that's just dumb. And not funny.
Pardon the quality of this video I found on YouTube, but it sums up my thoughts on that 2005 Bewitched movie. Let's hope this new TV show doesn't provide similar disappointment.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mRAqbAtQ5I]
So exciting! (I hope!)
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