Melissa Joan Hart won’t return for Sabrina the Teenage Witch reboot, but she is on board to participate in Clarissa Explains It All revival. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nickelodeon is working to bring this teen sitcom back on television and Hart, who starred as Clarissa Darling from 1991 to 1994, is attached to reprise her role and serve as an executive producer.
The original Clarissa Explains It All ran for six seasons and 65 episodes, focusing on a teenager, Clarissa Darling, who addresses the camera directly and talks about her everyday life and shares her views on the world with the audience. Besides Hart, the sitcom also starred Jason Zimbler, Elizabeth Hess, Sean O’Neal and Joe O’Connor. After the series ended, a pilot for spinoff titled Clarissa was shot in 1995.
The spinoff will focus on Clarissa’s internship at a New York City newspaper, but Nickelodeon declined to give it a series order. The Clarissa Explains It All creator Mitchell Kriegman released a novel titled Things I Can’t Explain in 2015 which served as a sequel to the original series and described Clarissa’s adult life.
Back in 2015, Melissa Joan Hart discussed revivals and possibilities of returning to one of her shows saying: “Never say never, but I’m not going to try to push it, really. People have already approached me about doing a few reboots, whether it’s Clarissa or Sabrina.”
Then in February 2018, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she said that she likes the way Sabrina the Teenage Witch ended but that she would like to explore the story of Clarissa more.
“I like the way we left Sabrina. I think Sabrina ended on a really great note, and I don’t think you want to go back and explore that. At the same time, I think Clarissa ended on a note that could be explored again because it didn’t really have an ending — it sort of ended,” Hart said.
