More than 50 years after the last episode aired, the cult series My Favorite Witch is about to make a big return to the small screen. Sony is definitely in the process of developing an animated version of Elizabeth Montgomery’s fictional story in order to reach a younger audience.
This new version of My Favorite Witch will focus on Tabitha Stevens, daughter of Samantha and Jean-Pierre, who is now 13 years old, as she must navigate her life as both a normal teenager and a witch.
Described as a cross between Hannah Montana and Harry Potter, the series follows the adventures of a young girl who attends a normal school and is enrolled in a magical academy run by her grandmother Endora.
“My Favorite Witch,” which aired from 1964 to 1972 in the United States and was offered in France in 1966, is still a cult series today, thanks to many reruns.
The fiction has already experienced a revival in 2005 with the Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell film of the same name, which unfortunately flopped in the US. Over the years, American channels CBS, NBC and ABC have also considered a reboot, but none of these projects have seen the light of day.
My Favorite Witch isn’t the only ’70s series to get a new animated version. Sony has indeed announced that The Partridge Family, an unreleased French sitcom that followed a music-obsessed Californian family, will also be reborn from its ashes.
The series will this time focus on a black family from Brooklyn who owns a food truck. They travel through the five boroughs of New York serving candy and carols.
These two animated series projects are still in development and do not yet have screenwriters. The current strike in the United States should slow down their production.
Source: Allocine
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