March 31st, 2006 | 3 Comments
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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March 30th, 2006 | 5 Comments
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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March 29th, 2006 | 9 Comments
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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March 3rd, 2006 | 6 Comments
The Charmed ones have officially cast their last spell. Multiple sources confirm that execs behind the new CW network have decided to pull the plug on the eight-year drama. The final episode will air Sunday, May 21.
Ironically, executive producer Brad Kern was holed up in an editing bay all day Thursday and missed a call from the president of Spelling Entertainment giving him the official cancellation news. But it’s not like it came as a surprise; he says he always intended to write this season’s last episode as a series finale. “It’s been a hell of a run,” he says, “but all good things must come to an end.”
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March 1st, 2006 | 0 Comments
As far as Charmed going on another season, it seems unlikely. Charmed is prepping one ending and one ending only — a series finale.
Via Ask Ausiello
