So long, Archie-verse? The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which was originally being developed at CW as a companion series to their hit teen soap Riverdale, is headed straight-to-series at Netflix with a two-season, 20-episode order.

Of course, it's possible there could be some wheeling and dealing to make a little shared universe magic happen despite the network shakeup since the now-untitled Sabrina the Teenage Witch project comes from the same creative team behind Riverdale. Archie Comics chief creative officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will serve as writer and executive producer. Riverdale director Lee Toland Krieger, who helmed Riverdale's pilot and Season 1 finale among other episodes, will direct and executive produce. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Jon Goldwater will executive produce.

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Deadline reports that Netflix swooped in with a deal the Sabrina team couldn't refuse, a two-season pickup, after Riverdale success on the streaming platform. The CW's dark and delicious spin on Archie comics has been a hit on Netflix, something that has almost certainly been a factor in Riverdale's impressive Sophomore season ratings (it's out-performing the first season by about fifty percent). Additionally, the move to Netflix allows WBTV to maintain full ownership of the Sabrina, unlike the CW series, which are co-produced with CBS TV Studios.

A darker spin on the source material than the popular 1990s Sabrina the Teenage Witch series starring Melissa Joan Hart, the new incarnation of Sabrina was described as a mix of The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby that reimagines Sabrina's origin story as a coming-of-age drama set in the realm of horror and witchcraft and finds Sabrina struggling to reconcile her dual nature as half-witch, half-mortal as evil forces threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit. No release date is set for the series yet.

What do you guys think? Happy to see this find a home at Netflix where anything goes? How horror-centric should Sabrina go? Would you rather see an Archie-verse built out on The CW? Sound off in the comments.

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