• Variety, Wednesday, August 10, 2011 3:15 PM

You may be happy to hear that CBS has ordered a script from Sony Pictures Television for a remake of the classic sit-com "Bewitched" (perhaps best known to ad folk as one of the first times their peers appeared on the small screen -- Darrin! Larry Tate!).

CBS' latching onto a a familiar story was perhaps inevitable, since one of its few hits this past year was a reboot of "Hawaii Five-O," writes Andrew Wallenstein. Still, the 1995 "Bewitched" film "didn't exactly bewitch moviegoers at the box office," he adds -- so we have to wonder if the world is ready for another witch-out-of-water project.

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