

While ABC was willing to renew the show for a fifth season, the network was not willing to pay the reported $1.5 million per episode that Viacom Productions, which produced the show, wanted. In the 2000–2001 season, it moved to The WB after a negotiation dispute with ABC. When viewership began to wane, it was canceled after seven seasons.ĭuring its four-year run on ABC, "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" was the highest-rated series among the network's "TGIF" line-up. In 2000, "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" was dropped by ABC and picked up by The WB network. When the TV series debuted on ABC later that year, Melissa Joan Hart became Sabrina Spellman, and Caroline Rhea & Beth Broderick replaced Fernetz and Miller in the roles of Sabrina's aunts, Zelda & Hilda. The movie (produced by Viacom and Hartbreak Films and aired on the Showtime network) starred Melissa Joan Hart as the title character, Sabrina Sawyer, and Charlene Fernetz & Sherry Miller as Sabrina's aunts Zelda and Hilda, respectively. The unofficial pilot of the series was the 1996 TV movie "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" in April of that same year.



