Charmed Spin-Offs Unlikely

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.”

Series executive producer Brad Kern said The WB network wanted the eight-year series to end with the possibility of characters going off on their own series. “We started this season with a mandate to come up with a way to keep the show going or have some spinoff characters. That’s the way that The WB picked up the show,” Kern said. “But I have to say … the show has had an amazing run, and we don’t want to end the show a year too late, a year after when it should’ve been canceled, and there is always that possibility. We feel good about the way that we’re ending, and again, you don’t get that opportunity in television to end the show on your own terms.”

One of the most likely spinoffs would center on the new character of Billie, played by Kaley Cuoco (ABC’s 8 Simple Rules). But Cuoco said it’s not going to happen. “No,” she said. “There is not going to be a spinoff, not for me, not for my character. I think I want to go back to a sitcom.”

Don’t count on Charmed stars Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs or Rose McGowan to recreate their Halliwell sister characters in another series anytime soon. Milano and Combs have been on the show for eight years, and McGowan joined after five. “There won’t be a spinoff with us or our characters,” said Combs, who is also a producer. “That’s for sure.”