The original Bewitched, which ran on ABC for eight seasons from September 1964 through March 1972, also focused on a witch named Samantha married to a mortal named Darrin, but the comedy on that series came from Samantha’s attempts to live the life of a normal, magic-free housewife as her powers and interfering witchy family have tried before to get a reboot of Bewitched off the ground.
ABC was interested in a previous attempt to bring the show back in 2014, while another attempt was made during the 2011-2012 season to get a new version of the sitcom on the air.