Now that they’re wrapping up the eighth and final season of The WB’s Charmed, the show’s cast and crew blasted the network’s handling of the long-running supernatural series in interviews with SCI FI Wire. “We were never treated that well,” star Holly Marie Combs, who plays Piper and became producer after the fourth season, said in an interview on the show’s set in Los Angeles. “We were never promoted properly by the network. The only way we ever got a billboard on Sunset Boulevard was when Shannen [Doherty] called up and insisted.” (Doherty, who played Prue Halliwell, left the show after three seasons.)
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Entertainment Weekly reported that Prison Break’s creative team didn’t think the series should last past a third season. Series star Wentworth Miller was also quoted as saying that he thinks the show will “burn bright and fast”.
But following the announcement of Prison’s second-season pickup earlier this week, executive producer Matt Olmstead told Variety, “There’s no cap on this show, as far as I’m concerned. As long as we find compelling stories for the characters, it can go on.” As long as the writing stays solid, this show has the potential to last several more seasons.
There has been rampant speculation about who Tony’s “wife” was during his coma-induced hallucination. According to executive producer Terence Winter, it wasn’t “Carmela, Gloria Trillo or any woman from Tony’s life.”
“It was just a woman and not [anyone] you’d recognize,” he says, declining to ID the mystery thesp. “We weren’t trying to play any particular head game with anybody. It was not meant to be anybody specific.” Winter says Sopranos fans have become increasingly curious about “the deeper meaning” behind things that “sometimes don’t even have a deeper meaning.
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Arrested Development star Jeffrey Tambor has been cast in the NBC comedy pilot Twenty Good Years from Werner-Gold-Miller and Warner Bros. Television, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Tambor will co-star with John Lithgow in the project about two men in their 50s who experience personal epiphanies and decide to make the most of their next 20 years. The comedy was written by Michael Leeson, who is executive producing the pilot along with Tom Werner, Eric Gold, Jimmy Miller and Mike Clements.
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“Hypnotic,” the first new installment in six weeks — shows how Clark and Lex are evolving into the sworn enemies we recall from comic-book and screen lore.
The animosity intensifies this week when a young woman named Simone hits town and puts Clark under her supernatural spell.
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Cast and crew of The WB’s Charmed, which ends its eight-season run this spring, told SCI FI Wire that various ideas for spinoff series were tossed around, but most think the prospects are unlikely. Producers pitched the idea of a spinoff series centered on Brian Krause’s warlock character Leo Wyatt. “I’d love to do it,” Krause said in an interview during a visit to the show’s set at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles this week. “I’d jump at the chance. …The greatest thing about the character that I play is that my character has integrity, and … I think that my character brought up the idea and emotions of right and wrong.”
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This is the Spoiler Roundup, a weekly column here at the TV Remote where we search the web for all the best spoilers on some of the more popular shows on the air. This week: Alias, Lost, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, Gilmore Girls, and Smallville. Now let’s get to the spoilers . . . (SPOILERS BELOW)
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The entire plot of the show is going to change next year, and a new title will be used to reflect the change. Eight guys escape from jail, so creator and executive producer Paul Sheuring says we shouldn’t be surprised if the new title become Prison Break:, with another one or two words after the colon.
Brad Kern, executive producer of The WB’s Charmed, said that he didn’t ask original cast member Shannen Doherty to join a host of returning actors for the series’ upcoming finale and added that he had his reasons.
Doherty’s character, Prue Halliwell, was killed off in 2001; though the series’ magical storylines would have allowed the return of the character, Kern said: “There are a lot of issues, mostly internal and financial, as to why we didn’t ask Shannen back.” He added in an interview on the show’s set on March 28: “Prue’s memory will be kept [alive] and be honored, but we didn’t ask Shannen to come back. The show is more about the sisters who are here, not the one who’s not.”
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E! will spin-off a web-only segment of its original series The Soup, exclusively for YouTube. It’s called Cybersmack and it’s described in The Hollywood Reporter as “a compilation of user-generated video clips that satirize pop culture.” Cybersmack launches Friday. The best clip wins $25,000. The deal also gives YouTube permission to provide clips from other E! programs.