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13 Planned Reboots That Got Canceled Before They Even Got The Chance To Air

NBC planned to produce a reboot of <i>Murder, She Wrote</i> starring Octavia Spencer. However, when it was canceled, OG star Angela Lansbury was "terribly pleased and relieved."

On TikTok, Jonathan Hurwitz, who was a writer on the reboot, said that he guessed Disney's final straw was a scene in Episode 3, where Lizzie woke up in her middle school crush Ethan Craft's bed after hooking up with him. The CW's entertainment president Brad Schwartz told TV Line, "We’ve already given [it and other canceled series] back to the studios...so they're free to develop those and sell them anywhere." Then, in 2020, Nicole told Entertainment Weekly, "That show was what it was, and it was so much fun, but that concept wouldn’t even work in this moment because, remember, we’d leave our lives for a month and we didn’t have any phones.

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