Friday, April 15, 2016

​Melissa Joan Hart Reveals ​Mitchell Kriegman Is In Talks With Nickelodeon To Reboot "Clarissa Explains it All"

​Melissa Joan Hart has revealed in super interview with Digital Spy that a Clarissa Explains it All remake is currently being pursued by the show's creator!


​The star of the hit '90s Nickelodeon TV series - which ran from 1991 to 1994 - recently celebrated its 25th anniversary disclosed: "I think the Clarissa creator ​Mitchell Kriegman​ is trying to create a reboot with Nickelodeon.​

"​I think he's working on trying to come up with an idea, but nothing is in the works yet. If anything, Clarissa will be a little further along than Sabrina will be - but there's nothing solid yet."


To celebrate the comedy show's recent landmark anniversary, ​three-time Emmy Award-winner Kriegman​ released the book Things I Can't Explain: A Clarissa Novel​.

"There's a novel out and my sister [Emily Hart] does the voice on the audio book​," Melissa said.

Unfortunately, the Melissa and Joey star has also ruled out her involvement in a Sabrina the Teenage Witch remake.


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The actress had said that the hit '90s ABC show could return while appearing on the Fab Life Show recently, but she's since revealed to Digital Spy that "no one has taken the approach to go ahead and do it right now".

"There's no reboot - just so you know," she told DS. "That's all rumours. There's nothing going on. I do think there will be a lot of people interested in doing it should something come about.

"There's tons of politics involved in this. No one has taken the approach to go ahead and do it right now."


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Explaining her recent comments, she continued: "I was on a talk show and I was having a meeting at Netflix that afternoon, and I said that and everybody assumed I was going to do a reboot."

But the star was positive that if it "were to become a feasible thing, I think there would be a lot of people interested."

Melissa is still in touch with former castmates including Caroline Rhea, who played her on-screen aunt, Hilda, and Nate Richert, who starred as her on-screen boyfriend Harvey.

"I actually called Caroline Rhea yesterday (Tuesday, April 12) for her birthday, and I speak to Nate Richert who played Harvey from time to time.

"And Lindsay Sloane [Valerie Birkhead] who played my best friend in the early years. Beth Broderick was on Melissa and Joey recently, so we got to catch up which was lovely.

"And I'm still very close with Soleil Moon Frye [Roxie King]."

Sabrina the Teenage Witch ran from 1996 to 2000 on ABC, followed by The WB, and spanned a total of seven seasons. Both Clarissa Explains it All and Sabrina the Teenage Witch were firm fan favourites on Nickelodeon UK.

Melissa stars in the faith-based movie God's Not Dead 2.

Additional source: Wikipedia.
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