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'Sabrina' Makes Big Changes for New Season About the only things not changing on "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" this season are star Melissa Joan Hart and the name of the show.
Despite the fact that Sabrina is now a college graduate and starting her career, legal issues involving the company that produces the comic book on which the series based prevent the show's producers from changing the title, or even shortening it to just "Sabrina." Just about everything else on The WB's longest-running comedy, however, is being revamped.
"It was time for her to grow up, it was time to get her on her own two feet, and yes, it was time to reinvent the show," executive producer Paula Hart (Melissa's mom) tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Its hard to keep generating stories year after year after year if it stays the same."
The show's biggest on-camera move will be that Sabrina takes a job at a music magazine. Several new cast members -- Diana-Maria Riva ("Philly"), Bumper Robinson ("Living Single"), Andrew Walker ("Maybe It's Me") and John Ducey ("Oh Grow Up") -- will play her co-workers. Additionally, Sabrina's aunts, played by Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick, will no longer be part of the show. She will now share her home with friends Morgan (Elisa Donovan) and Roxie (Soleil Moon Frye). Behind the camera, the series has a new showrunner in David Babcock, and its writing staff has undergone a nearly complete turnover with all but one of the 13 writers from last season having been replaced. Related Shows
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