Melissa Joan Hart ADMITS Why ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ Is Not Coming Back For

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00:00 Guys, it's been 28 years since Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

00:02 Don't say that out loud!

00:04 I'm sorry, it's been...

00:05 since Sabrina the Teenage Witch,

00:07 and people are still loving it, watching it again,

00:09 showing it to their kids.

00:11 Are you guys at all surprised how much this show, like,

00:14 means to people and how much they love it?

00:16 Yes, very much so.

00:18 And to be such treasured and endeared,

00:21 the young lady called it her comfort show.

00:23 And Beth was saying a couple of minutes ago,

00:25 no way to anticipate that.

00:27 Yeah.

00:28 I didn't know that it's going to go on for 30 years

00:30 and still be making people happy.

00:32 I just came back from Mexico and people were like,

00:34 "Tia Zelda, Tia Zelda!"

00:36 They were, like, following me around.

00:37 "Tia Zelda."

00:38 And they were bringing, you know,

00:39 they, like, delivered, like, cakes to my room.

00:42 And said, "We love you, we love you!"

00:44 Yeah, the things I hear about the show, too,

00:46 like, we learned English from the show,

00:47 or, you know, this show made me want to be a scientist,

00:50 or this show made me...

00:51 and, like, how it kind of directed people's lives.

00:54 And I used to always hear, "I grew up with the show,

00:56 and now I hear I go to bed with your show."

00:59 And you're like, "In what context?"

01:01 I get it, because I'm, like, laying in bed watching it.

01:03 It's like the comfort show, right?

01:04 You know what I love about Sabrina so much

01:06 is that the three most powerful characters on the show

01:09 were the women.

01:10 And back then, that was a big deal.

01:12 You guys had... you could do whatever you wanted.

01:15 And we were all at your mercy.

01:16 So many families are matriarchal,

01:18 if I'm saying that right, center.

01:20 You know, your grandma is the center.

01:21 I mean, growing up in my family,

01:23 grandma was the pivotal person.

01:25 - The most powerful. - Yeah, yeah.

01:27 You know, you walk into that house,

01:28 and it was grandma's house.

01:29 So that fits for me.

01:30 - Yeah. - Totally.

01:31 Like Melissa said, it was really important to me

01:33 to be a scientist on the show,

01:35 to be not just the one in the mini skirts,

01:37 but, you know, but to also be the smart one,

01:40 because that's not something...

01:42 Here before, before that,

01:44 I had played the dumbest girl on TV for a long, long time.

01:47 - Wow, that was good. - Because that's how I looked,

01:49 or that's what they told me I looked like.

01:51 - Right. - Yeah, yeah.

01:52 And so it was really important to me

01:54 to model for young girls, like, no, you can be both.

01:57 - Yeah. - Yeah.

01:58 Absolutely.

01:58 And when people see you,

02:00 and they obviously, you've done so much,

02:01 but yet, you're Sabrina.

02:03 You know, you're...

02:04 Are you okay with that?

02:05 I mean, it's just like, you're...

02:06 Like, it's a character that's just...

02:07 Yeah, it's very strange that my son

02:09 is dating a girl named Sabrina right now.

02:10 So that's very strange.

02:11 - Watch her. - Watch her.

02:12 What?

02:14 Is she a witch?

02:15 No, I don't think so.

02:17 I mean, are we all a little bit of a witch?

02:18 I mean, she's bewitched him, so I guess.

02:21 - But, no. - No.

02:22 So it's, I mean, it is, you know,

02:24 it took me a little while to warm up

02:25 to the, like, the love I was receiving,

02:27 'cause it felt overwhelming at first.

02:29 But over the years, I've really, like,

02:30 I really adore it now, like, being at these

02:32 and having the fans come up

02:33 and just say the most lovely, wonderful, loving things.

02:36 Like, there couldn't be a warmer environment

02:38 than a Comic-Con like this, where it's like,

02:40 you're just surrounded by fans

02:41 that are only there to give love

02:42 and tell you how important you are in their life.

02:44 Like, how do you reciprocate that?

02:45 Yeah.

02:46 Someone called it a love bubble,

02:47 and I'm like, that's such a great...

02:49 Great description of it.

02:50 It feels great.

02:51 I'm gonna use that.

02:52 We're so happy to be here each and every time,

02:54 and we will continue to just keep coming back

02:56 and soaking up all of that love bubble.

02:58 Yeah.

02:59 Are we sharing some reboot news, or what's going on?

03:01 No, we, unfortunately,

03:03 that's out of our control and our power.

03:05 There are other people that own the property now.

03:07 - Yeah. - Mm.

03:08 Okay.

03:09 And the next, but we saw that Netflix did it as well.

03:11 Netflix did, yeah, that was a different Archie comic, though.

03:14 So that was a different comic book that they,

03:15 the IP and all that, you know.

03:16 It's all red tape stuff.

03:18 Well, we have to, like, get rid of that red tape.

03:19 But I just heard, like, is Bewitched coming back?

03:21 I think there's some other show coming back

03:22 that's a witch show, but not ours.

03:24 Never say never.

03:25 But we're here.

03:26 - Yeah. - We're here.

03:27 - We're here. - That's right.

03:28 That's right.

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