Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch explained

Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch is an animated television series on the Hub Network based on the Archie Comics series Sabrina the Teenage Witch. The series was co-produced by MoonScoop Entertainment/Splash Entertainment, MoonScoop Group, DSK Entertainment, Laughing Lion, Telegael Teoranta, and Archie Comics Publications, Inc. with the participation of The Walt Disney Company. The series was developed by Pamela Hickey and Dennys McCoy and was acquired by the Hub Network on October 1, 2012.^[2]

The series was originally intended for a summer 2013 release but was delayed to fall 2013, and ran for one season.

This was also the last production by MoonScoop Group before it was filed for bankruptcy.

Premise

The series tells the story of a young teenager named Sabrina Spellman, who is born as a half-witch and a half-human. She lives a double life as a normal high school student and as a sorceress-in-training in the magical world. Once her two worlds collide, Sabrina is the only one who has the rate mystical ability to battle her enemies while also attempting to maintain her secret identity/life as a half witch from all of the humans around her.

Unlike previous versions, Sabrina is shown to be a witch princess; as she is destined to rule all of the magical world one day as queen. Sabrina's pet is a black cat, named Salem, who is a spy sent by Enchantra to make Sabrina's life in the human world unbearable enough to live in the witch world permanently; in order for Enchantra to drain Sabrina of her great magical powers, and become the strongest and the most feared sorceress in all of Witch World.

Voice cast

• Ashley Tisdale as 16-year-old Sabrina Spellman, the main character.
• Ian James Corlett as Salem, Sabrina's cat/Professor Geist, a Scottish warlock and teacher at Witch School.
• Tabitha St. Germain as Hilda Spellman, one of Sabrina's paternal aunts. She is quite cheerful and outgoing. She wears spectacles and is plump.
  • Veralupa, a good friend of Sabrina's at Witch School who is a werewolf/witch hybrid. Her magic is yellow like her outfit.
• Erin Mathews as Zelda Spellman, Hilda's older sister and Sabrina's other paternal aunt whom she lives with in the bakery Spellman's Brew.
  • Jessie, an African American friend of Sabrina in the mortal world, and the only human who knows and accepts Sabrina and her developing witch magic.
• Maryke Hendrikse as Amy, a snobby and arrogant girl at Greendale High School who expresses how weird she thinks Sabrina is.
• Kathleen Barr as Enchantra, the evil, racist and peer-pressuring principal of Witch School who wants to take over the world by attempting to make Sabrina remain in the magical world as queen. She would then drain the teenage queen of all of her magical powers and rule Witch World with absolute power.
  • Tiffany Titan, a grumpy security guard at Sabrina's human school who believes in the existence of magic and witches, and will do anything to prove it.
  • Londa and Zanda, fraternal twins who are friends with Sabrina, Ambrose and Veralupa. Londa has blue hair and Zanda has orange hair.
• Matthew Erickson as Harvey Kinkle, a nerdy boy who accidentally and unknowingly becomes a mindless werewolf every full moon but is successfully cured in Episode 10.
• Andrew Francis as Ambrose, Sabrina's first cousin.
• James Higuchi as Shinji, Enchantra's bratty son who hates Sabrina.
• David A. Kaye as Jim, Sabrina's crush in the mortal world.
• Rebecca Shoichet as Spella, Enchantra's evil older sister who debuted in the Season 1 finale bearing her name. She is defeated by the combined magics of her younger sister, her nephew, Sabrina, Ambrose, Veralupa, Professor Geist, Londa and Zanda.

Broadcast

The series was broadcast on most Disney Channel networks outside North America.

In the United Kingdom, the series aired on Pop and Pop Girl.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Hub Network Unveils 2013-'14 Program Slate with Six New Additions to Join Nine Returning Original Series. The Futon Critic. March 29, 2013. March 20, 2013.
2. Web site: The Hub TV Network Picks Up New Original Animated Series "Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch" for Summer 2013. The Futon Critic. March 29, 2013. October 1, 2012.