{"id":101987,"date":"2018-03-15T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=101987"},"modified":"2018-03-14T23:22:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T23:22:59","slug":"netflixs-sabrina-series-casts-ross-lynch-as-harvey-kinkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/netflixs-sabrina-series-casts-ross-lynch-as-harvey-kinkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix&#8217;s Sabrina series casts Ross Lynch as Harvey Kinkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been at least a couple of weeks since we&#8217;ve had any ripe\u00a0<em><strong>Sabrina The Teenage Witch\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>reboot casting news, so it&#8217;s about time some more fell out of that tree.<\/p>\n<p>The latest is that Ross Lynch has joined the show as Sabrina&#8217;s human boyfriend Harvey Kinkle. The character is described as the prince charming of a dark fairy tale. He&#8217;s the son of a coal miner, a dreamboat and a dreamer, and is completely unaware of the dark forces conspiring to keep him and Sabrina apart.<\/p>\n<p>The role was originally played by Nate Richert in the first live-action\u00a0<em><strong>Sabrina The Teenage Witch<\/strong><\/em> series, and by Tobias Mehler in\u00a0Tibor Tak\u00e1cs&#8217; 1996 film.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch is best known for playing Austin Moon in the 2011-2016 Disney Channel original series\u00a0<em><strong>Austin &amp; Ally<\/strong><\/em>, and conversely Jeff Dahmer in 2017 film\u00a0<em><strong>My Friend Dahmer<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The actor joins\u00a0<em><strong>Mad Men<\/strong><\/em>\u2018s Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina Spellman,\u00a0<em><strong>Doctor Who<\/strong><\/em>\u2018s Michelle Gomez as Mary Wardell, Sabrina\u2019s favourite teacher and mentor at Baxter High, Richard Coyle (<em><strong>The Collection<\/strong><\/em>) as\u00a0Father Blackwood, the High Priest of the Church of Night and Dean of the Academy of the Unseen Arts, Lucy Davis (<em><strong>Wonder Woman<\/strong><\/em>) and Miranda Otto (<em><strong>The Lord Of The Rings<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0trilogy) as Aunt Hilda and Aunt Zelda respectively,<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and newcomer Chance Perdomo as Sabrina\u2019s warlock cousin Ambrose Spellman, who has been placed under house arrest by the Witches Council and is forbidden from leaving the Spellman\u2019s funeral home.<\/p>\n<p>The new series will revolve around Sabrina\u2019s origins. In the comics, the witch was born to a warlock father and a mortal mother before she was promised to Satan as an infant and was set to be placed in a coven to grow up with a group of other witches.<\/p>\n<p>However, her mother didn\u2019t want that life for her daughter and attempted to run away with her. When the escape plan inevitably failed, Sabrina was sent to Greendale (a neighbouring town to Riverdale) to live with her aunts, Hilda and Zelda.<\/p>\n<p>According to Deadline, the\u00a0<em><strong>Sabrina<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0series will be \u201ctonally in the vein of\u00a0<em><strong>Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>The Exorcist<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d and finds Sabrina \u201cwrestling to reconcile her dual nature \u2014 half-witch, half-mortal \u2014 while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The untitled<em>\u00a0Sabrina\u00a0<\/em>series\u00a0doesn\u2019t yet have an air date. Get all the latest fantasy news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sabrina reboot series adds Ross Lynch as Harvey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":101988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[5937],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ross-lynch-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}