3. What many individuals do not know is that Hart’s mom, Paula Hart, was actually the person answerable for getting a Sabrina TV series going after someone gave her the comic book on a playground.
“She took it to Viacom, made the 1996 movie, and kept saying this may be a terrific TV show. [Executives] kept going, ‘Okay, whatever, whatever,'” Hart told Glamour in 2020. “She went to the editing room for the movie and cut together a five-minute trailer for a TV show, took it to the networks, and sold it to ABC on the spot. Within the TGIF time slot!”
Paula would function an executive producer on all seven seasons, “hiring and firing, involved with the music, the editing—the whole aspect of it,” Hart explained. “I didn’t should worry in regards to the next thing, because she was in charge of the following thing.”
4. Within the 1996 TV movie, Charlene Fernetz and Sherry Miller played Sabrina’s aunts Zelda and Hilda, respectively. But when it became a TV series, Beth Broderick and Caroline Rhea replaced Fernetz and Miller as Zelda and Hilda Spellman.
5. Oh, and the family’s last name within the film was Sawyer, but reverted back to the unique last name, Spellman, from the comics for the ABC series.