Friday, May 4, 2018

Well, look who's coming back!: Clarissa Explains it All merits a sequel

Sometimes, you can go home again.

More than two decades after the series ended, Nickelodeon is planning on reviving the 1991 sitcom, Clarissa Explains it All, but this time, Clarissa Darling (Melissa Joan Hart) will be a mom herself, and presumably explaining things from her own point of view as before.

Both Hart, who recently finished her last series, Melissa & Joey, and series creator Mitchell Kriegman, are on board for what amounts to a sequel to the previous series. As of this writing, there's no exact timetable for the relaunch to begin. What you probably don't know is that after the series ended, Kriegman wrote a novel, Things I Can't Explain, which was meant at the time to be a coda to the series. Too bad it hasn't already been adapted into a movie, or is that also on Kriegman's & Nickelodeon's plate?

Viewers watched as Melissa Joan Hart grew up before our eyes on Clarissa and the even bigger Sabrina, The Teenage Witch (1996-2003, ABC & WB).

Edit, 1/26/22: Unfortunately, Dailymotion deleted the video. In its place is a title card.



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