Nickelodeon wants to revive Clarissa Explains It All with Melissa Joan Hart

The Hollywood Reporter

Nickelodeon is eyeing another revival of a past hit series, a week after announcing that Blue's Clues is returning. The cable network is in early talks to bring back the teen series that ran for five seasons and 65 episodes from 1991 to 1994 with Hart reprising her role as Clarissa Darling, a teenager who spoke directly to the audience, according to The Hollywood Reporter. But Hart, who turns 42, next month, would play Clarissa as the mother of a family. Clarissa Explains It All creator Mitchell Kriegman is in talks to return, as is Hart, who recently been working at directing TV shows. Kriegman revisited the series in the 2015 novel Things I Can't Explain, which served as a sequel that caught up with Clarissa in her late 20s. Asked last month which of her former series she'd like to see rebooted, Hart told The Hollywood Reporter: "I like the way we left Sabrina. I think Sabrina ended on a really great note, and I don't think you want to go back and explore that. At the same time, I think Clarissa ended on a note that could be explored again, because it didn't really have an ending — it sort of ended."