A reboot of the 1990s show "Clarissa Explains It All," again starring Melissa Joan Hart as Clarissa Darling, is in the works at Nickelodeon, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
This time Hart will play the mother of the family, THR said. She had the role as a teenager who spoke directly to the audience about school, boy crushes, and family problems during the five-season run of the original series from 1991 to 1994.
The series was Nickelodeon’s first featuring a female lead.
Series creator Mitchell Kriegman is in talks with the Viacom-owned cable network to write and executive produce, according to THR. Hart also will executive produce through her Hartbreak Films, owned by her and her mother, TV producer Paula Hart.
Kriegman had followed the series with a novel, “Things I Can’t Explain,” in 2015, a sequel that took Clarissa into early adulthood in her twenties.
Hart followed her success on “Clarissa” with a starring role in ABC’s “Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.” She pointed out to The Hollywood Reporter that “Sabrina” had ended on a good note while “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 has been known recently for supporting her Christian faith through such projects as the film “God’s Not Dead 2.”
The new series would have one of Clarissa’s children speaking to the audience, the New York Post’s Page Six reported. Producers made an earlier attempt at revival after the show’s last season when CBS developed a pilot, “Clarissa Now,” in 1995, but it was not picked up as a series.
Negotiations with Hart and Kriegman are still not done as the project is in early development, THR reported.
Nickelodeon focuses on entertainment for children and recently announced a reboot of “Blue's Clues,” a popular animated show with a live-action host.
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