It's been nearly 20 years since ' signed off Nickelodeon, but the pre-adolescent blonde at the center of the series (played by Melissa Joan Hart) who had a penchant for mismatched men's style shirts with bike shorts, hating on her redheaded little brother, and letting her best friend use a ladder to get into her bedroom, has never left the hearts and minds of many children of the '90s. The series, which aired for five seasons on Nickelodeon from 1991-1994, was a candid, yet quirky depiction of tweenhood. Mitchell Kriegman, the creator of 'Clarissa Explains It All,' tried to continue her story as a young woman with a 1995 CBS pilot, titled '.' The spinoff brought the character to New York City, where she was a young journalist working at a newspaper, but sadly, Clarissa Darling's story was cut short. Now, 18 years after the pilot wasn't picked up to series, Kriegman is reconnecting fans with Clarissa, who's now in her mid-'20s, with an upcoming novel called. Below, Kreigman opens up to The Huffington Post about where Clarissa and the Darlings are now, what really happened with that 'Clarissa' pilot, another missed spinoff opportunity, the Nirvana-inspired 'Clarissa' album that wasn't, the clothes, that alligator and much more. How did the idea for the book come about?

Apr 16, 2010 Early 90's classic Nick commercial for Clarissa Explains It All, in which Clarissa explains herself. Freewebs.com/stuffilike - Classic shows on DVD. Melissa Joan Hart, Actress: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. 1991-1994 Clarissa Explains It All (TV Series) Clarissa Darling - The Last Clarissa (1994). Delfino Bambaren Pdf Reader there. Clarissa Explains It All debuted in 1991 and quickly became a classic. 'The idea that you do something 20 years ago, and everybody still remembers it—not just.

Well, I've been thinking about it for ages just because the show was always unfinished business to me because Clarissa kept on growing and why wouldn't you want to know what happened to her? I found [the end] to be just kind of an absurd stop. The show never went down in ratings. The show never lost its audience. And I felt frustrated when we did the CBS pilot because I got sort of taken out of that and even though I cast it and I designed it in a lot of ways, I didn't really get to realize it. So since I've been writing novels, which is relatively recent, that's when it really dawned on me.

The other thing is, I've had this amazing experience that I'm extremely thankful for -- that happens everywhere, including the ski lift -- that anytime I talk to anybody from 23-35, they are so thrilled to hear about 'Clarissa.' It literally makes my day every time I talk to someone who loves the show and I just find it to be incredibly satisfying.

It's the thing that transcends all the difficulties of the business and all the difficulties of creating something and making it live. We're sitting here, well into 2013 and the fact that it's fondly thought of, it's just great. But basically, it's always been on my mind.

I've always wanted to find a new way to get back involved with her life. Why a book versus a TV reboot or a movie? The novel, for me, is just the most genuine way to do it because if you did it as another TV series, not only are there hurdles because of the business and everything, but it's such a different play, especially to that audience that's grown up on so much media. To do it as a novel, we all know it takes something to write a book. [Laughs.] And it means that you're really going to explore it and you're really going to see what she's like.

Is the book going to continue where the 'Clarissa Now' pilot left off? There are a couple things I'd love to correct from. One is that she's probably a little bit older than 23 -- she's sort of quarter-life, mid-'20s. I'm trying to keep it general a little bit. And what I wanted to do was not to ignore that CBS pilot, even though it wasn't necessarily what I had envisioned.

I wanted to absorb that as part of her life. Journalism isn't the focus of this book at all. It's really about her romance and love life and point of view on the world and catching up with her. She's looking for work just like everybody else -- I say she's on the 'unenjoyment' line -- and she has some skills from having been a journalist.

She kind of got to the point where she would have had a career as a journalist if journalism had been what it was. The paper that she worked for went away and she had to start over again. I think it's so interesting that a lot of people have to do that at 25.

I mean, how wild is that? They've gone to college, they've found a good job and then they went away? So that's where I put her really. The only reason why I mention journalism is because I'd rather absorb what people know [from the pilot] than deny it. The centerpiece of this whole thing is really a guy. She's finishing a relationship in this book and starting a new one. It's what happens when the cute guy that she used to see at the coffee shop every day suddenly becomes somebody that she's talking to and involved with, all by these quirky, goofy, kooky, oddball, Clarissa kind of maneuvers. Download Maxwell Sv Software Reviews.