A reboot of the popular ’90s series Clarissa Explains It All was in the works at Nickelodeon beginning in 2018 but the series’ original star, Melissa Joan Hart, says that the reboot has “fizzled out.”
During a chat with People, Melissa Joan Hart says that they tried to get the reboot off the ground but it appears that a new president at Nickelodeon and the passage of time has made the potential series disappear:
“We tried that, actually. Nickelodeon got a new president and they kind of squashed the whole thing. So it was actually in the works and yeah, it just sort of disappeared. It took like a year to do the contracts, which was the hardest part, and then it just kind of fizzled out. So I don’t think [it will happen.]”
The original series was created by Mitchell Kriegman and it aired for five seasons between 1991 and 1994. On the show, Hart played Clarissa Darling, a teenager speaking directly to the camera as she navigated typical adolescent issues, from school and young love to dealing with her sometimes annoying younger brother. The reboot was to focus on the character’s life as a mother.
A total of 65 episodes were produced and the series originally headlined the popular SNICK (Saturday Night Nickelodeon) lineup. Reruns of the show have appeared intermittently on TeenNick’s channel block The 90’s Are All That, eventually NickRewind, from 2011 to 2020. The series also starred Jason Zimbler, Sean O’Neal, Elizabeth Hess, and Joe O’Connor.
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