A third generation of witchy Stephens is heading for the small screen with the news that NBC has picked up a reboot of the classic comedy Bewitched with a put pilot commitment.

The original 1964-1972 series starred Samantha Montgomery as Samantha Stephens, a suburban housewife who was also a witch; a short-lived spin-off in 1977 focused on her daughter Tabitha. A remake/reboot starring Nicole Kidman failed to set the box office alight in 2005, and an attempt to bring the series back in 2011 fell at the first hurdle.

The new Bewitched will feature Daphne  — Samantha’s granddaughter and Tabitha’s daughter — a single witch in her twenties who has always used her magical powers to conjure the perfect life. “But,” the press release explains,  “she soon realizes that the one thing she cannot conjure and control is the one thing she wants most — real love.”

The new series is scripted by The Vow writers Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein for Sony Pictures TV, and was the subject of a bidding war.