Sabrina the Teenage Witch is an American fantasy sitcom series based on the Archie Comics character Sabrina Spellman which shares the title of the 1971 comic book series Sabrina the Teenage Witch . Created by Nell Scovell and developed by Jonathan Schmock , the series premiered on September 27, 1996, on ABC to over 17 million viewers in its " T.G.I.F. " lineup.
71-715: Milo Anthony Ventimiglia ( / ˌ v ɛ n t ɪ ˈ m iː l j ə / VEN -tim- EEL -yə ; born July 8, 1977) is an American actor. Making his screen acting debut on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1995, he portrayed the lead role on the short-lived series Opposite Sex in 2000 before landing his breakthrough role the following year as Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls (2001–2007). Thereafter, he appeared as Chris Pierce on American Dreams (2004–2005) and Richard Thorne on The Bedford Diaries (2006) before starring as Peter Petrelli on Heroes (2006–2010), for which he received nominations for Teen Choice , Saturn and People's Choice Awards . After appearing in main roles on
142-543: A Playboy bunny , moved into the house next to the Pryors. In 2005, he starred in the mid-season replacement series The Bedford Diaries . The producers had only Ventimiglia in mind, but the show lasted only eight episodes and was one of several shows not picked up by the newly formed network The CW . In between television work, Ventimiglia had supporting roles in the horror films Cursed (2005), directed by Wes Craven , and Stay Alive (2006), as well as starring roles in
213-538: A voice actor , starring in several animated television programs like Marvel Anime , Ultimate Spider-Man , and Robot Chicken . Ventimiglia was born on July 8, 1977, in Anaheim, California , the youngest child of Carol and Peter Ventimiglia, a Vietnam War veteran . He has two sisters. His father is of Sicilian descent and his mother has English and Scottish ancestry. Ventimiglia has a self-described "crooked mouth," having been born with damaged facial nerves causing
284-791: A flight of stairs and computer graphics morph Sabrina into her room, lying on her bed next to Salem. In the seventh and final season, the computer graphics morph Sabrina arriving at Scorch . Upon pushing the door open, she is revealed to be walking into her house to greet Roxie, Morgan and Salem. The house pictured as the Spellman residence is a Victorian mansion located at 64 E. Main St. in Freehold, New Jersey . The exteriors for Westbridge High School are those of Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey . The show went through many cast changes,
355-623: A group of young people with the ball, causing a confrontation that frightens his mother, who sends him to live with his wealthy aunt and uncle in the opulent neighborhood of Bel Air, Los Angeles . Will's working class background ends up clashing in various humorous ways with the upper class world of the Banks family – Will's stern uncle Phil and tough but fair aunt Vivian and their children, Will's cousins: spoiled Hilary, pompous Carlton, impressionable Ashley and baby Nicky (introduced in season 3), as well as their sarcastic butler Geoffrey. The show
426-437: A lot of these characters, but at the same time some of these characters for some of us actors are more than a decade in the past. It was exciting going back to Gilmore Girls for the four Netflix movies, but I'm satisfied with it. I think the stories were told. I think it was great for the audience and fans to get just one small taste of that world again. But, at the same time, I think people should not get so greedy." Beginning in
497-415: A monthly limited series. The comic is about John Barrett, a white-collar New Yorker whose life changes when he becomes addicted to a drug that prevents him from falling asleep. Divide also has a comic book called Berserker written by Rick Loverd. After working with writers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on Pathology , Ventimiglia appeared in the pair's next film, Gamer . Ventimiglia also starred in
568-405: A reboot was in development, saying that it would happen "...pretty close to when Hell freezes over". In 2019, a mock trailer titled Bel-Air was uploaded on YouTube , written and directed by Morgan Cooper, for a darker, more dramatic re-imagining of the sitcom. Will Smith subsequently heavily praised the fan film, commenting that "Morgan did a ridiculous trailer for Bel-Air . Brilliant idea,
639-593: A rich white teenager, whose family lived in Beverly Hills and allowed Medina to live with them. Medina decided to use this part of his life as the main focus of the show. However, given that by then a black character living with a white family was a concept that had been done multiple times on TV, Medina decided to change the rich white family to a rich black family. "That way we could explore black-on-black prejudice as well as black class differences", Medina said in an interview for Ebony magazine. Medina pitched
710-481: A two-season order for Peacock , and released on February 13, 2022. Will Smith and James Avery were the only actors to have appeared in all 148 episodes of the television sitcom. The theme song and opening sequence set the premise of the show. Will Smith is a street-smart African-American teenager , "born and raised" in West Philadelphia . While playing street basketball , Will accidentally hits
781-480: A voice chants "Secret" in the background. The opening credits for the final three seasons are accompanied by a new vocal theme song and feature Sabrina at various locations around Boston : Harvard Bridge , Boston Common , Union Oyster House , Massachusetts State House , Quincy Market , Newbury Street , Harvard University , Tufts University and Beacon Hill . In the credits for Seasons 5 and 6, after leaving Newbury Comics on Newbury Street , Sabrina walks down
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#1732788026417852-599: A week. It originally aired in Australia on the Seven Network during its first run. In Canada, the show is available on Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access) since the 2021 international launch and rebranding of the service. In Russia, the first show of the series took place on the TV channel "Russia" on November 8, 2003, where it was originally broadcast until January 31, 2004 under the name "Academy of Witchcraft" and
923-510: A young age led him to make decisions during that time that he now regrets and wishes he had made differently. The reunion show also features a tribute to James Avery, who died in 2013, that was shown to the surviving cast. The tribute brought the entire cast to tears. Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series) The show stars Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina, who, on her 16th birthday, learns she has magical powers (a departure from
994-465: Is available to stream on Hulu , The Roku Channel , Amazon Prime Video , Pluto TV and Paramount+ . In the United Kingdom, Sabrina previously aired on ITV and Nickelodeon , while it later began airing on Pop Girl , a free-to-air children's channel. The series was slightly edited for content on UK children's channels. In July 2012, which previously broadcast the first two seasons and
1065-539: Is notable for having a heavy celebrity guest presence, with more than forty celebrities guest starring throughout the series. Seasons 1 and 6 had the highest celebrity participation, with over 10 celebrity guest stars each. In 1989, music manager Benny Medina , along with his business partner, real estate mogul Jeff Pollack , decided to market a TV story based on Medina's life. Medina had grown up poor in East Los Angeles but his life changed when he befriended
1136-646: The Blossom episode "Wake Up Little Suzy" as Hilary Banks. Parsons also appeared in the Patti LaBelle sitcom Out All Night as Hilary. James Avery had a short cameo as "the father from Fresh Prince" on Family Matters , at the end of the episode "Scenes from a Mall". He appears during the credits in a blooper scene where he surprises Reginald VelJohnson on set. In the House and Fresh Prince were both executive-produced by Winifred Hervey (who served as
1207-966: The RIAA in the United States, double Platinum in Canada, and has sold over 700,000 copies worldwide. On June 11, 1999, Knowledge Adventure through Simon & Schuster Interactive and Havas Interactive officially announced the video games Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Spellbound , Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Brat Attack and Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Bundle of Magic for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. On March 29, 2001, Knowledge Adventure through Simon & Schuster Interactive and Havas Interactive officially announced
1278-578: The University of California, Los Angeles as a theatre major. At eighteen, Ventimiglia pursued an acting career, first starring as a gay teenager in Must Be the Music , a short film released as part of Strand Releasing's Boys Life 2 . He enrolled at UCLA before landing a role on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , guest starring on television series including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , Sabrina,
1349-745: The Xavier Gens apocalypse thriller film, The Divide . Ventimiglia was the voice of Wolverine in the English dub of the Marvel Anime: Wolverine anime series and reprised his role in an episode of the Marvel Anime: Iron Man and an episode of Marvel Anime: Blade . He did not return to voice Wolverine in Marvel Anime: X-Men , due to that series portraying an older Wolverine, instead Wolverine
1420-563: The Archie Comics series, in which she has known of her powers since an early age). She lives with her 600-year-old aunts, witches Hilda (played by Caroline Rhea ) and Zelda (played by Beth Broderick ), and their magical talking cat Salem (voiced by Nick Bakay ), at 133 Collins Road in the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston area. The series aired on ABC for its first four seasons, with
1491-511: The Spellman family secret in season 3. Sabrina' s basic premise and "genial loopiness" earned the show comparisons to the 1960s television series Bewitched . The show spanned seven years over seven seasons, though each season was not a year. The unofficial pilot of the series was the April 1996 television movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch . The movie, produced by Viacom and Hartbreak Films and aired on Showtime , starred Melissa Joan Hart as
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#17327880264171562-424: The Teenage Witch , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Boston Public . He played Jed Perry, in the short-lived Fox TV series, Opposite Sex , which originally aired in 2000. From 2001 to 2006, Ventimiglia played brooding teen Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls ; he was introduced in the second season as a leading cast member. He signed on for a spin-off of Gilmore Girls called Windward Circle which
1633-535: The Teenage Witch: The Complete Collection 25-disc DVD set was released from Australia by Via Vision for Region 0 , including all seven seasons of the show plus the TV movies Sabrina Goes to Rome and Sabrina Down Under . During its four-year run on ABC, Sabrina was the highest-rated series among the network's TGIF line-up. In the 2000–2001 season, the show moved to The WB after a negotiation dispute with ABC. While ABC
1704-674: The Teenage Witch: The Complete Enchanted Series 24-disc DVD box set was released from the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures for Region 2 . Then on January 27, 2021, a repackaged and slightly more compact edition of the Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: The Complete Series Region 1 DVD set (still with 24 discs) was released from the United States by Paramount Home Entertainment . On June 21, 2023, Sabrina,
1775-599: The Teenage Witch: The Complete Series Pack —which included an individual DVD set for each of the seven seasons, totaling 24 discs—was released from the United States by Paramount for Region 1 . On February 16, 2016, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: The Complete Series 24-disc DVD set was released from the United States by Paramount Pictures for Region 1 , as well. On August 15 of the same year, Sabrina,
1846-501: The cast virtually reunited over a video call in an episode of Smith's Snapchat reality series Will From Home that premiered in April 2020. A reunion of the surviving original cast, The Fresh Prince Reunion , aired on HBO Max in November 2020. Among other reminisces, Janet Hubert appeared, also appearing around this time in a joint radio interview with Smith where the two reconcile. More information and context were offered regarding
1917-573: The category Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series . In 2019, Ventimiglia starred opposite Amanda Seyfried in the film adaptation of The Art of Racing in the Rain , based on the novel by Garth Stein. Ventimiglia and fellow former Gilmore Girls co-star Alexis Bledel were in a relationship from 2002 to July 2006. Ventimiglia also dated his Heroes co-star Hayden Panettiere from December 2007 to February 2009. Ventimiglia and his sisters were raised as lacto-vegetarians , and he has maintained
1988-468: The complete series boxset in the United Kingdom. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' s success is considered to be a watershed moment for hip-hop and black television, with many publications referring to it as one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. Professor Andrew Horton stated: "Smith's genre of comedy, popularized on the sitcom Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , translated well into commercial box-office appeal. The Fresh Prince watered down and capitalized upon
2059-648: The diet as an adult. He was named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ' Sexiest Vegetarian in 2009. He also does not smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. He is a fan of The Clash as well as The Smiths and Morrissey . Ventimiglia took a United Service Organization tour in July 2008, in support of American troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. In September 2023, Ventimiglia married model Jarah Mariano . On September 29, 2024, Mariano announced that she
2130-492: The dramatic version of The Fresh Prince for the next generation", expressing interest in expanding the idea beyond the short film into a full Bel-Air reboot series. In August 2020, it was announced that Will Smith and Morgan Cooper would be developing a reboot of the series based on Cooper's Bel-Air . The series had reportedly been in the works for over a year since Cooper posted his Bel-Air trailer on YouTube, with Netflix , Peacock and HBO Max all currently bidding for
2201-402: The fall of 2016, Ventimiglia starred opposite Mandy Moore in the critically acclaimed NBC period drama series This Is Us playing Jack Pearson, the patriarch of a middle-class family in late 1980s/early 1990s America. In 2017 Ventimiglia starred in the suspense thriller Devil's Gate alongside Amanda Schull . For his role as Jack Pearson, Ventimiglia received his first Emmy nomination in
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2272-449: The final episode on the network on May 5, 2000. The final three seasons ran on The WB from September 22, 2000, to April 24, 2003. Sabrina the Teenage Witch chronicles the adventures of Sabrina Spellman ( Melissa Joan Hart ), a girl who discovers on her 16th birthday that she is a witch. As a novice witch, her spells often go awry. Her witch aunts Hilda and Zelda Spellman ( Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick , respectively ) counsel her on
2343-440: The first of which involved the unexplained departure of Sabrina's best friend Jenny Kelly ( Michelle Beaudoin ) and her teacher Mr. Pool ( Paul Feig ) at the end of the first season. At the beginning of the fourth season, Valerie permanently departs the show along with Libby. Valerie's character moves away to Alaska with her family, while Libby transfers to a boarding school. After the fourth season, several secondary actors left
2414-645: The first season was shown. Later, all seven seasons were shown in the period 2004-2006 on the STS channel (premiered on March 9, 2004). In 2007, CBS Home Entertainment (through Paramount Home Entertainment ) released seasons 1–3 on DVD. CBS later released seasons 4–7 on DVD. The official copyright holder for the series (as with all series originally produced by Viacom Productions) is CBS Studios Productions, LLC. For this home video release, music has been changed and many episodes are edited. Some musical performances were cut due to music licensing. On July 27, 2010, Sabrina,
2485-465: The idea to Quincy Jones , who had just signed a development deal with Warner Bros. Television . Jones was impressed by the idea and arranged a meeting with NBC chief Brandon Tartikoff . Will Smith was well known at the time as one-half of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince , which had put him on the mainstream radar, but he had come into debt after failing to pay taxes. At
2556-472: The image of the Black male into unaccustomed spaces just as Smith himself was in the process of conquering Hollywood." On August 13, 2015, it was reported that a reboot of the show was in development by Overbrook Entertainment , with Will Smith serving as a producer. In August 2016, during a promotional interview with the E! television network for his then upcoming film Suicide Squad , Smith denied that
2627-459: The latter series' showrunner for its second and third seasons), David Salzman and Quincy Jones. During the second season's first episode, Alfonso Ribeiro and Tatyana Ali appeared as their Fresh Prince characters (Carlton and Ashley Banks) in the crossover episode "Dog Catchers". Later that season, James Avery (Phillip Banks) appeared as a mediator in the episode "Love on a One-Way Street". Following Fresh Prince ' s conclusion, Ribeiro joined
2698-646: The left side of his mouth to remain immobile – much like actor Sylvester Stallone , with whom he worked in Rocky Balboa . Ventimiglia attended El Modena High School in Orange, California . During high school, Ventimiglia wrestled, acted in drama productions and served as student government president, graduating in 1995. At eighteen, Ventimiglia studied at the American Conservatory Theater for their summer program, subsequently attending
2769-534: The music and stills were dropped, and the credits were now played over bloopers from the episode. During the fall 1991–1992 season, NBC gained two hit television shows to anchor their Monday night lineup ( Blossom aired immediately after The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ). To gain popularity between the two shows, Will Smith appeared in the Blossom episode "I'm with the Band" as himself under his rap stage name , The Fresh Prince. That same season, Karyn Parsons appeared in
2840-402: The principal cast of In the House for its third season as Dr. Maxwell Stanton, who had personality traits similar to those of Carlton. In the season 4 episode "My Pest Friend's Wedding", Avery and Daphne Maxwell Reid (the second Vivian Banks) guest starred as Stanton's parents. Joseph Marcell, Geoffrey Butler on Fresh Prince , appeared as an officiating minister in the same episode. The series
2911-577: The proper use of her magic and give her moral advice. Sabrina lives with Hilda and Zelda until she leaves for college at the beginning of season 5. Additionally, Hilda and Zelda must take care of Salem Saberhagen ( Nick Bakay ), a witch turned into a cat for trying to take over the world. The show includes contemporary pop cultural references, but also features fictional history (often explained as secrets hidden from mortals by witches) and science fiction elements. Story plots are often episodic, but some seasons feature running arcs, such as Sabrina's quest to find
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2982-473: The same, but the fourth one changes from episode to episode. At the end, Sabrina would say something related to the last costume (often a pun or a joke related to the costume or the content of the episode), and then magically disappear from head on down. The opening sequence was changed for the fourth season, featuring a completely new theme and the show's main characters, starting with Sabrina, floating in bubbles while their names are displayed in gold letters and
3053-481: The series Mob City (2013), Chosen (2013), and The Whispers (2015), Ventimiglia starred as Jack Pearson on This Is Us (2016–2022), for which he has received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series . He also starred in the drama series The Company You Keep (2023). In film, Ventimiglia made his breakthrough as Rocky Balboa 's son in
3124-450: The series' conclusion in 2010. Ventimiglia also produced and developed a mini web-series called It's a Mall World as part of a marketing campaign for American Eagle Outfitters in 2007. In mid-2007, he starred as the love interest of pop/R&B singer Fergie in the music video for " Big Girls Don't Cry ". In 2008, he starred as a medical student in the horror film Pathology . The film co-starred Charmed actress Alyssa Milano and
3195-597: The series. On September 8, 2020, Peacock gave Bel-Air a two-season order, with the series produced by and copyrighted to Universal Television. In September 2021, the full cast was announced with newcomer Jabari Banks cast as Will Smith, Adrian Holmes as Philip Banks, Cassandra Freeman as Vivian Banks, Olly Sholotan as Carlton Banks, Coco Jones as Hilary Banks, Akira Akbar as Ashley Banks, Jimmy Akingbola as Geoffrey, Jordan L. Jones as Jazz and Simone Joy Jones as Lisa. The series premiered in February 2022. Much of
3266-520: The short film Intelligence and the full-length feature Dirty Deeds (2005). The same year, he was cast as Robert "Rocky Jr." Balboa, the son of Rocky Balboa, in the sixth Rocky installment Rocky Balboa which was released in December 2006. He starred as Peter Petrelli in the NBC series Heroes , a show about "ordinary" people discovering they have superpowers, and portrayed the character until
3337-490: The show after appearing in Seasons 5 and 6. Producers felt that his character was not well received by fans and also had to make some budget cuts for the show's seventh and final season. Miles was never properly written out, leaving his fate undetermined. Sabrina's love interest Josh, played by David Lascher , left for Prague after appearing from Seasons 4 through 6; Lascher reportedly wanted to pursue other projects. To fill
3408-496: The show was canceled after seven seasons. The television series was produced by Hartbreak Films and Viacom Productions , with Finishing the Hat Productions involved for the first season only. The opening titles of the first three seasons show Sabrina in front of a mirror posing with four different costumes and outfits as the cast members' names quickly flash on the bottom of the screen. The first three outfits are always
3479-475: The show was produced as well as the biweekly magazine Sabrina's Secrets. On October 27, 1998, Geffen Records released a soundtrack for the series. The album features songs by contemporary pop artists such as Spice Girls , Backstreet Boys , and Britney Spears . It also features Melissa Joan Hart's cover of " One Way or Another " from the Season 2 episode "The Band Episode". The album was certified Gold by
3550-425: The show's premiere, decided to leave the show. When the character of Sabrina started to attend college, the role of her aunts became less important. Broderick felt that the role of Zelda had nothing more to offer, while Rhea landed her own syndicated talk show, The Caroline Rhea Show . The aunts left for The Other Realm but returned in the series finale. Trevor Lissauer , who played Sabrina's housemate Miles, left
3621-527: The show, including Martin Mull and Nate Richert , who played Sabrina's boyfriend Harvey since the first season. Harvey's character was dropped in order to give the show a different look as Sabrina was about to attend college. The decision was later rescinded, and Richert appeared in three episodes of Season 5 and then returned as a series regular in Seasons 6 and 7. After the sixth season, Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick , who had portrayed Sabrina's aunts since
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#17327880264173692-399: The situation between Smith and Hubert and her exit when the two met for their conversation. Hubert discussed the turmoil in her personal life, her abusive marriage and that she had not actually been fired by the show. She was offered what she described as a "bad deal" to return for the fourth season and she turned it down. Smith talked about how grappling with his rapidly increasing fame at such
3763-568: The sixth installment of the Rocky film series, Rocky Balboa (2006), going on to reprise the role in the eighth installment Creed II (2018). He has also appeared in Pathology (2008), That's My Boy (2012), Kiss of the Damned (2013), Grace of Monaco (2014), Devil's Gate (2017), and The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019). Ventimiglia also has a notable career in animation as
3834-409: The spot. Smith did so, and the first contract for the show was drawn up that night in a limo outside. Andy Borowitz and his wife, Susan , are credited as the series' creators. Andy Borowitz, who was on a contract with NBC, was selected by Tartikoff to write the pilot. He based Will's cousins on Quincy Jones's daughters, and named Carlton after his friend Carlton Cuse . In 2015, he remarked that "it
3905-446: The suggestion of his then-girlfriend, Smith went to a taping of The Arsenio Hall Show where he met Medina by chance. Medina pitched the idea to Smith, but Smith was reluctant, having never acted before. Medina invited Smith to meet Jones at a party that Jones was throwing at his house in December 1989. There, Jones handed Smith a script for a failed Morris Day pilot that he had produced and challenged Smith to audition for Tartikoff on
3976-501: The then growing popularity of hip-hop and almost anticipated its dominance on the American scene". Author Willie Tolliver noted: "What The Fresh Prince did accomplish was to put Smith and his character Will into an environment of affluence and possibility, thus changing the terms of his own Black identity. This social and cultural mobility is central to Smith's racial significance, and this will become evident again and again; he moves
4047-421: The title character, Sabrina Sawyer, and Charlene Fernetz and Sherry Miller as Sabrina's aunts Zelda and Hilda, respectively. When the television series debuted on ABC later that year, Hart became Sabrina Spellman, and Beth Broderick and Caroline Rhea replaced Fernetz and Miller as Zelda and Hilda Spellman, respectively. In 2000, the show was dropped by ABC and picked up by The WB . When viewership began to wane,
4118-528: The two subsequent movies before shutting down in October 2015. It has aired on 4Music since 2019, and previously on The Vault since 2014 until its subsequent rebrand as Trace Vault. In October 2021, the entire series became available to stream on Amazon Prime Video , but was removed at the end of September 2022. The show can be seen in the Republic of Ireland on RTÉ2 weekdays at 5:10 p.m. as part of
4189-577: The video game Sabrina the Teenage Witch: A Twitch in Time! for the PlayStation game system. An animated spin-off of the show, Sabrina: The Animated Series , started airing during the live action show's 4th season. The role of Sabrina was voiced by Hart's younger sister Emily Hart . Melissa Joan Hart voiced both aunts, Hilda and Zelda, and Nick Backay reprises his role of Salem. This series
4260-606: The void, the producers brought in Aaron, played by Dylan Neal , as Sabrina's love interest in the show's final season. In 2000, The WB network picked up the series after ABC canceled it. The show was syndicated by Paramount Domestic Television for reruns on local stations, including Tribune -owned WB affiliates. Reruns have aired on ABC Family , Nickelodeon / Nick at Nite , Noggin (as part of its teen block The N ), TeenNick , MTV2 , Hub Network , Logo TV , Antenna TV and Fuse . It currently airs on Rewind TV and
4331-425: The youth-oriented show TRTÉ . In Italy, the show aired on Italia 1 under the name Sabrina, vita da strega ( Sabrina, life as a witch ) from September 3, 1998 until May 28, 2004. In Australia, the show aired on Eleven , the free-to-air channel owned by Network Ten (upon which repeats of Sabrina had previously aired) at 6:00 p.m. and until December 6, 2013, with repeats at 12:30 a.m., seven days
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#17327880264174402-399: Was composed by Quincy Jones , who is credited with Smith at the end of each episode. The music often used to bridge scenes together during the show is based on a similar chord structure. In seasons 1, 5 and 6, the credits would be played over still frames from the episode that aired and was accompanied by an instrumental version of the main theme that played in the background. In seasons 2–4,
4473-402: Was considered Will Smith's star vehicle into television, and later his film career. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a top hit for NBC, running for 148 episodes over six seasons. A reunion special/retrospective reuniting the surviving cast debuted on HBO Max in November 2020. A more dramatic reimagining of the series, titled Bel-Air and based on the fan film of the same name , was given
4544-453: Was directed by Marc Schölermann for MGM . In 2005, Divide Pictures created the DSC, or Divide Social Club, an online and global social network for like-minded people co-founded by Ventimiglia with his best friends Russ Cundiff and Dino DeMilio, a radio producer for The Tom Leykis Show . Ventimiglia, Cundiff, and Divide Pictures partnered with Top Cow to produce the comic series REST which will be
4615-505: Was followed by a television film , Sabrina: Friends Forever , which in turn was followed by another series titled Sabrina's Secret Life . Neither Emily Hart nor Melissa Joan Hart returned for the television film or the follow-up series. An animated spin-off focusing on Salem the Cat was also slated to debut in the 2001-02 season before it was scrapped. A new animated spin-off was produced by Hub Network in 2013 called Sabrina: Secrets of
4686-600: Was pregnant with their first child. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom created by Andy and Susan Borowitz that aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. The series stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself , a street-smart teenager born and raised in West Philadelphia who is sent to live with his wealthy uncle and aunt in Bel-Air, Los Angeles , where his lifestyle often clashes with that of his upper-class relatives. The series
4757-744: Was produced by the Stuffed Dog Company and Quincy Jones Entertainment (later Quincy Jones -David Salzman Entertainment in 1993) in association with NBC Productions . In 1994, the series' distribution rights were picked up by Warner Bros. , which continues to hold those rights to this day. Warner Home Video has released the complete series, seasons 1 to 6, on DVD in Region 1. Seasons 1 to 4 have been released in Regions 2 and 4. Seasons 5 to 6 have been released in Region 2 in Germany, and in
4828-496: Was to be focused on the relationship between Jess and his estranged father (played by Rob Estes ), but the proposed series never made it to air. Afterward, he dropped down to a guest star/recurring cast member, and he came back for four episodes in season four and two episodes in season six. In the third and final season of American Dreams , Ventimiglia played Chris Pierce, the rebellious boyfriend of Meg Pryor ( Brittany Snow ); Pierce and his single mother, Shelly ( Daphne Zuniga ),
4899-655: Was voiced by Steven Blum . He played Ned Stax, a former marine, in Frank Darabont 's short-lived neo-noir crime drama Mob City for TNT . He also reprised his role as Jess Mariano in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life in November 2016. After this, he reportedly told USA Today that, "I hear rumors that they're bringing back everything that I've ever been a part of... I think it's exciting. At times, though, I think it's too much. There are more stories to tell with
4970-432: Was willing to renew the show for a fifth season, the network was not willing to pay the reported $ 1.5 million per episode that Viacom Productions , which produced the show, wanted. The WB then picked up the show for a mere $ 675,000 per episode, but agreed to commit to 66 episodes. The series spawned a 1998 soundtrack and the release of several multiplatform video games beginning in 1999. A book series based on episodes from
5041-571: Was written and taped in about three weeks, start to finish, and somehow it worked. It was just an explosion of really good luck." The pilot episode began taping on May 1, 1990. Season 1 first aired in September 1990, and ended in May 1991. The series finale was taped on Thursday, March 21, 1996, and aired on Monday, May 20, 1996. The theme song " Yo Home to Bel Air " was written and performed by Smith under his stage name, The Fresh Prince . The music
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