I’m going to suggest Paget Brewster for Endora. She’s really young-looking for hear age, but she’s a very surprising 47, and so she’s not too young for the part, and she’s very, very funny. People who have seen her only on Criminal Minds should look up The Trouble with Normal or Andy Richter Controls the Universe on Youtube, and see how funny she is. Also, Endora is all about the make-up and costumes. Agnes Moorehead played a lot of very dowdy characters, from the farm woman on the Twilight Zone episode, to matrons of women’s prisons who were all tweed and gloves, and had demonstrated range, but had never done a part remotely like Endora, and yet she knocked it out of the park.
Of course, if we were talking 20 years ago, Brewster could do Samantha. She can’t be just a pretty blonde-- she has to carry the show.
I’m really not sure who I’d suggest for Samantha now.
Jim Parsons for Darren. Did anyone else see the small part he played at the end of Judging Amy? he was great in that, and it was an un-Sheldon-like part. He wore suits, and looks really natural in them-- he can definitely pull off the 9-5er look.
That almost makes me want to suggest William Shatner for Larry Tate, but that’d be too distracting.
Would it be too far out to suggest making the Larry Tate character a woman? How about S. Epatha Merkerson? We know she can play an authority figure, and I’ve seen her be funny in other contexts.
I’d like to see Ellen DeGeneres as Gladys Kravitz, but that’s probably too much of a step down for her. If she’d do it, though, then maybe as an in-joke, Arye Gross could play Abner Kravitz.
Thomas Lennon for Dr. Bombay.
The only problem is, I’m not so sure how topical a revival of Bewitched would be. People want their magical shows a little darker now, and you can hardly make the show without references to their sex life. What’s it like for Darren to be incredibly sexually potent as soon as he gets home from work? Not to mention, there wasn’t just a movie out called Bell, Book and Candle to inspire it.