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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Netflix announces casting additions for Christmas special and season two

The show will return on 14 December for a solstice-themed special

Clémence Michallon
New York
Thursday 29 November 2018 19:54 GMT
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Netflix is expanding the cast of its Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for a Christmas special and the show's second season.

Three new actors have joined the series, which is set to return on 14 December for a holiday episode.

Twelve-year-old actress McKenna Grace will appear as Lil Sabrina, a younger version of Sabrina Spellman, who is played by Kiernan Shipka in Netflix's reboot, Entertainment Weekly reported.

The holiday special will show was a "precocious tot" Sabrina was, Netflix told the platform, adding that while the Church of Night (the witches' coven featured in the series) celebrates the Solstice rather than Christmas, Sabrina is bound to ask Santa "for something special".

Two recurring guest stars will also make their debut on the show when it returns for a second season.

Alexis Denisof, 52, who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in Buffy and the Vampire Slayer and Angel, will be featured as Miss Wardell's boyfriend Adam Masters, a "handsome and charming" man who has no idea his partner is being possessed by none other than the demoness Madam Satan.

Jedidiah Goodacre​, 29, previously seen in Tomorrowland and The 100, is set to play a mysterious character named Dorian Grey – with an "e", unlike the Oscar Wilde character, though Grey does own a nightclub called Dorian's Gray Room.

It was announced in December 2017 that Netflix had ordered two seasons of a new adaptation of the adventures of Sabrina, who originated in 1962 as an Archie Comics character.

The streamer's reboot, which is significantly spookier than the cult late-90s, early 00s sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, has been widely praised by critics.

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