Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 3 and 4 Confirmed
It’s not a tornado that’s coming. It’s something much much worse. The witches are coming. Despite what the false god and its propaganda machine would have you believe, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season 3 and 4 will be delivered by Netflix, according to Variety.
“Praise Satan! I’m so grateful to my partners at Warner Brothers, Netflix, Berlanti Television, and Archie Productions for supporting this darker vision of the world’s most famous teen witch,” creator and showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who is chief creative officer of Archie Comics, said in a statement via Variety. “And I’m thrilled to be continuing to tell Sabrina’s chilling adventures with our incredible cast and crew, led by the unstoppable Kiernan Shipka.”
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina didn’t come from your grandfather’s Archie Comics. Why, if this were the Springfield of The Simpsons Universe, Abe would demand Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack be sacrificed to their gods. But it’s not. It was given life by in the Afterlife with Archie series from Archie Horror. While there seem to be no danger of a zombie apocalypse invading Riverdale’s neighbor Glendale, there are darker things afoot than would ever step into a series on The CW.
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Netlix chops the story of the Dark Lord’s rebellious servent into Parts, rather than seasons. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 1 debuted in October for the Halloween season. Part 2 is set to launch on April 5, 2019, although that’s too close to April Fool’s Day to accept unconditionally. Parts 3 and 4 will go into production in 2019.
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch is played by Kiernan Shipka. The dark coming-of-age story also stars Michelle Gomez as Mary Wardwell, but she’s really Madame Satan. Miranda Otto, Lucy Davis, Ross Lynch, Chance Perdomo, Jaz Sinclair, Richard Coyle, Tati Gabrielle, Adeline Rudolph, Abigail Cowen, Lachlan Watson and Gavin Leatherwood are also featured players. McKenna Grace (The Haunting of Hill House) plays young Sabrina Spellman in the Holiday specials.
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Parts 3 and 4 will add Alexis Denisof (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) as Mary Wardwell’s boyfriend Adam Masters. He comes back to Greendale after working with Physicians Without Frontiers. He doesn’t kmow she’s not who she used to be. Jedidiah Goodacre (The Originals, The 100) will also join the cast as the warlock and nightclub owner Dorian Gray.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comes from Warner Bros. Television and studio-based Berlanti Productions. It is one of 15 scripted series produced by Berlanti, a record for TV. The series is executive produced by Aguirre-Sacasa, alongside Riverdale‘s Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Archie Comics CEO Jon Goldwater and Lee Toland Krieger.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 2 premieres on April 5, 2019 on Netflix.
Culture Editor Tony Sokol cut his teeth on the wire services and also wrote and produced New York City’s Vampyr Theatre and the rock opera AssassiNation: We Killed JFK. Read more of his work here or find him on Twitter @tsokol.