Filming is underway for the highly anticipated new Netflix show Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which is based on the Sabrina the Teenage Witch character from the Archie Comics. So the show, which reboots everyone’s 90’s favourite starring Melissa Joan Hart, is also a spin-off to The CW’s hit show Riverdale. Both re-imagined teen dramas film in Vancouver!

With the success and popularity of the Archie live-action adaptation that is Riverdale, it was only a matter of time before the ‘universe’ expanded (dubbed Archieverse or Riverdaleverse).

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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is based on the comic book series by the same name. Development was announced in Fall 2017, Netflix gave the show a straight-to-season order in December 2017 and filming began in Metro Vancouver aka Hollywood North on March 19, 2018 – just in time for Spring!

Filming around town for the first season is scheduled to last until December 5, 2018 with an expected air date sometime this year. FYI: Sabrina has a two-season order with Netflix so there are plenty of chills to come! Both seasons are filming back-to-back.

Cast

Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina Spellman

aka Sabrina the Teenage Witch
18-year-old actress from Chicago, Illinois
Known for playing Sally Draper on AMC’s Mad Men
Photo/Instagram @kiernanshipka

She’s a bit of a foodie on Instagram having already snapped a meal at Eternal Abundance, an all-organic grocer and cafe located at 1025 Commercial Drive, Vancouver:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgevTJoBDiO/?taken-by=kiernanshipka

Jaz Sinclair as Rosalind Walker

aka Sabrina’s best friend and daughter of Greendale’s minister
23-year-old actress from Dallas, Texas
Known for playing Chloe in the horror movie Slenderman, releasing August 24, 2018

https://www.instagram.com/p/Be07G6lgjsZ/?taken-by=jaz_sinclair

Michelle Gomez as Mary Wardell / Madam Satan

aka Sabrina’s teacher and mentor at Baxter High who happens to be possessed
51-year-old actress from Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Known for playing Missy in Doctor Who

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgG4I3RhhRb/?taken-by=michellegomezofficial

Lucy Davis as Hilda Spellman

aka one of Sabrina’s two witch aunts
45-year-old actress from Soihull, England
Known for playing Dawn Tinsley in BBC’s The Office

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfR9YP_AWtg/?taken-by=officiallucydavis

Miranda Otto as Zelda Spellman

aka one of Sabrina’s two witch aunts
50-year-old actress from Brisbane, Australia
Known for playing Éowyn in two The Lord of the Rings movies.

Richard Coyle as Father Blackwood

aka the antagonist
46-year-old actor from Sheffield, England

Ross Lynch as Harvey Kinkle

aka Sabrina’s boyfriend
22-year-old singer and actor from Littleton, Colorado
Known for playing Brady in the Teen Beach movie series
New actor from the UK

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd5qD7WFSha/?hl=en&taken-by=ross_lynch

Bronson Pinchot as George Hawthorne

aka Baxter High’s principal

Adeline Rudolph as Agatha

aka one of the Weird Sisters
German Korean model and actress
Known for playing Eliza on The Fosters

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeoRWrUDXeB/?taken-by=adelinerudo

Abigail Cowen as Dorcas

aka one of the Weird Sisters
20-year-old actress from Florida; based in LA
Known for playing Mia Tanner in Wisdom of the Crowd

https://www.instagram.com/p/BghE8HyDmsH/?taken-by=abbeycowen

Salem Saberhagen

aka Salem the cat

Ladies and gentlemen, meet #Greendale’s latest resident. All hail, Salem! #sabrina, #netflix pic.twitter.com/XZ1dNPgvja

— RobertoAguirreSacasa (@WriterRAS) February 9, 2018

Crossover?

Could we soon see a Riverdale & Sabrina crossover on the streets of Vancouver and on are small screens? The unofficial crossover has already been happening in real life as casts from both shows get to know each other:

The unofficial crossovers continue! When #Riverdale meets #Sabrina on the streets of Vancouver! pic.twitter.com/dWf2MS8Nrf

— RobertoAguirreSacasa (@WriterRAS) March 19, 2018

Is this the first unofficial #Riverdale/#Sabrina crossover? When Toni Topaz meets Rosalind Walker… pic.twitter.com/SAfym0W8gu

— RobertoAguirreSacasa (@WriterRAS) March 11, 2018

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bgg7smaAbhx/?taken-by=jaz_sinclair

Remember the Boy Meets World & Sabrina the Teenage Witch crossover? Nowadays crossover “events” are a normal thing on network television like in the world of NBC’s Chicago universe (Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Justice) or ABC’s Scandal/How to Get Away with Murder crossover. Closer to home, the Vancouver-filmed Arrowverse has given the fans what they want (Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl).

With Executive Producer Greg Berlanti behind Arrowverse and now Archieverse, a Riverdale/Sarbina crossover is inevitable. Plus, in the comics Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge are witches and other Archie Comics characters make appearances.

Other notable crossover TV events include Steve Urkel on Full House, the Ninja Turtles on Power Rangers.

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