Originally, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” was to air on The CW as a companion to “Riverdale,“ both based on Archie Comics characters and storylines. What ended up happening, however, was that “Sabrina” was moved to Netflix, where it will premiere on October 26th.
So then, will the two shows ever bleed together, despite airing in different places? Don’t count on it says Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the man behind both “Sabrina” and “Riverdale.”
Deadline reports out of the ongoing Television Critics Association summer press tour, “All morning long CW president Mark Pedowitz said that there wasn’t any Riverdale-Sabrina crossovers in the work on the CW. Likewise, no one from Riverdale will make a cameo on the Netflix series when it drops at the end of October.”
Why, you ask?
“I think right now we’re just making sure that the shows have their own identities and own set-of-rules,” says Aguirre-Sacasa.
Based on the Archie Comics graphic novel The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” promises to be a much darker vision than the Melissa Joan Hart-starring television series from the late ’90s. The series is set to be an hour-long drama that will reimagine the story of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age tale that traffics in horror, the occult and witchcraft.
“Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.”
