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Well, you're sorry for what you've done
I kept still while you strung me up
I've got to know what you're asking for
Can a taste of love be so wrong?
You may find your love is gone
I've got to know how you've been before
And you told me, why with your charmed eyes
Can't get you out of my head
When it comes around with an awful sound
I'll be on my way
Try to bruise what I've been before
There's nothing left to adore
Show me the place where you start to heal
I can't bear your complaints
I lie down and go insane
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And you told me why with your charmed eyes
Can't get you out of my head
When it comes around, with an awful sound
I'll be on my way
Well, you're sorry for what you've done
I kept still while you strung me up
I've got to know what you're asking for
Can a taste of love be so wrong?
You may find your love is gone
I've got to know how you've been before
And you told me, why with your charmed eyes
Can't get you out of my head
When it comes around with an awful sound
I'll be on my way
And you told me, why with your charmed eyes
Can't get you out of my head
When it comes around with an awful sound
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"There ain't nothin' that can make this go away"
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Now all my angst
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To whatever you see that brought you back to me
And everyday looks bright
Cuz now a familar sight is standing right next to me
And I'm no longer sad
You know that you drove me mad
you are the one that I adore
I never wanted you to leave
The things I said I didn't mean
I never told you so
I never thought you'd go
My life is meaningful again
You're in my arms, you're my best friend
I never told you though, I never thought you'd go
What do I know
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and pretend that everything is all okay
what did I do when I left my heart with you
and I never even asked to have it back
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and I never want to do what you wanna do
and I never wanna go where you wanna go
Charmed | |
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Genre | Supernatural drama Fantasy Action Comedy-drama |
Format | Serial drama |
Created by | Constance M. Burge |
Starring | Holly Marie Combs Alyssa Milano Rose McGowan Shannen Doherty Brian Krause Dorian Gregory Julian McMahon Drew Fuller Kaley Cuoco T.W. King Greg Vaughan Karis Paige Bryant |
Opening theme | "How Soon Is Now?" by Love Spit Love |
Composer(s) | J. Peter Robinson and others |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 8 |
No. of episodes | 178 (List of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Brad Kern Constance M. Burge Aaron Spelling E. Duke Vincent |
Location(s) | San Francisco |
Camera setup | Panavision |
Running time | 40–45 minutes |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | The WB |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
Audio format | Dolby Digital |
Original run | October 7, 1998 (1998-10-07) – May 21, 2006 (2006-05-21) |
External links | |
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Charmed is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, on the now defunct The WB Television Network.[1] The series was created by writer Constance M. Burge and was produced by Aaron Spelling and his Spelling Television company, with the show runner being writer-director Brad Kern.
The series follows the four Halliwell sisters—Prue, Piper, Phoebe and, later, Paige (who replaces Prue from season 4 onwards). The sisters are the culmination of the most powerful line of good witches in history and are known as The Charmed Ones in the supernatural community, whose prophesized destiny is to protect innocent lives against evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to hold normal working lives in modern day San Francisco. Keeping their supernatural identities separate and secret from their ordinary lives often becomes a challenge for them, with the exposure of magic having far-reaching consequences on their various relationships and resulting in a number of police and FBI investigations throughout the series.
The first episode, "Something Wicca This Way Comes", garnered 7.70 million viewers, breaking the record for the highest rated debut for the Warner Brothers Network.[2] In January 2006, producer Brad Kern declared that Charmed was the longest running hour-long series featuring all female leads (Murder, She Wrote ran for 12 seasons but only has a single female lead, and The Facts of Life ran for 9 seasons but was a 30-minute sitcom).[3] However, this has now been surpassed by Desperate Housewives, which also ran for eight seasons but had more episodes. The series finale, "Forever Charmed", ended with a season high of 4.49 million viewers.[4]
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In 1998, the Warner Brothers Television Network began searching for a drama series, and looked to Spelling Television, which had produced the network's most successful series 7th Heaven, to create it. Expanding on the popularity of supernatural-themed dramas, the production company explored forms of mythology to find mythological characters they could realize with contemporary storytelling.[5]
In order to create the series, Burge was hired as the creator as she was under contract with 20th Century Fox and Spelling Television after conceiving the drama Savannah.[5] When the theme of witchcraft was first pitched to her, she was aware of stereotypes of witches (flying brooms, black cats, and warts). After Wicca research, she changed her perspective[6] and aimed at telling a story of good witches who looked and acted like ordinary people. With this, her initial concept was a series set in Boston, Massachusetts[6] about three friends and roommates who were all witches.[5] However, executive producer E. Duke Vincent lacked confidence, asking "Why would anybody want to watch a show about three witches?" He proposed that the series focus on family values and developed the series-long mantra of it being about "three sisters who happen to be witches, not three witches who happen to be sisters." Spelling warmed to Burge's ideas and, after the concept was re-crafted to be a series about three sisters (now living in San Francisco) descended from a line of witches,[6] it was pitched to the Warner Brothers' Susanne Daniels, who liked it, allowing the series to begin development.[5]
Shannen Doherty, having worked with Spelling on Beverly Hills, 90210, auditioned for the role of Piper Halliwell but won the role of Prue Halliwell. After the third season, Doherty left the series.
The series was titled Charmed after Spelling's suggestion of House of Sisters was dropped, and the three lead roles were cast to Doherty, Combs, and Lori Rom. Burge wrote the pilot's script. They filmed a 28-minute version (the "unaired pilot", never aired on network television) with which the series was picked up by the WB. The majority of the pilot had to be re-filmed after Rom quit and Alyssa Milano took her role, however some of the scenes from Unaired Pilot stayed unchanged. Also, the role of Andy Trudeau was played by a different actor than Ted King. Upon its debut, Charmed received the largest audience for a series premiere in the network's history.[2] The first season of twenty-two episodes was picked up by Warner Brothers after two shows aired.
Executive producers Aaron Spelling and Duke Vincent maintained their roles until the series ended. Burge became an executive producer when she was hired to create the series and write the pilot. After the short "unaired pilot" was shown to the WB and the series was picked up by the network, Kern was recruited as the fourth executive producer and as the show runner in order to decipher how the series would develop over the course of its run. While Kern remained with the show until its end, between the second and third seasons Burge was not an executive producer. She remained as executive consultant until the end of season four when she left Charmed.
Scripting was done by a large number of writers. Kern did the most writing, with a total of 26 episodes, as well as directing one of them. The writers with the most writing credits other than Kern include Daniel Cerone, Curtis Kheel, Zack Estrin, Chris Levinson, Krista Vernoff, Sheryl J. Anderson, Monica Breen, Alison Schapker, Cameron Litvack, and Jeannine Renshaw.[7] Burge wrote seven episodes for the first and second seasons before leaving her position as executive producer. Scripting was carried out after group brainstorms took place, discussing the events of the episodes, the emotions of the characters, and the mythology involved. Robert Masello, an executive story editor for the series, credits himself as the only demonologist hired for a series, in order to add his experience to the storyline.[8]
“ | Charmed is the only show that has a licensed fully bonded demonologist, which is me, on staff and as a result because I've written books about demonology and the occult of witchcraft, I'm there to answer questions about how a demon would behave. | ” |
However, as Combs revealed in The Women of Charmed documentary, the series aimed at following a mythology created by fantasy, and not adhering to Wiccan rules too closely, for fear of coming under criticism for either not being "technically correct enough" or missing the truth completely.[8] Between the second and the third season, Burge left, leaving her former position to executive producer Kern. Burge remained as creative consultant until season four.[9] Burge's departure resulted in changes in the story structure of the show, from a "demon of the week" system to using third- or half-season-long story arcs. In addition, more importance was given to the protagonists' personal lives. The serial connection of episodes culminated in the second half of season four. Despite the ratings increasing during season four's final story arc from 4.19 to 4.21, Warner Brothers asked Kern to abandon the serial system. This led to the largely episodic structure of season five, and resulted in the two systems being balanced from the sixth season onwards.
During the show's run, the Warner Brothers Television Network used two official logos to represent the series. The first was used during the first and second seasons and featured the name Charmed underlined and with a triple-aspect symbol above it. The second logo was introduced at the start of the third season and remained until the series ended. It was written in a different font and is still underlined and sometimes featured a triquetra above the name. This logo was designed by Margo Chase. Although the second logo replaced the first in all promotional material by the Warner Brothers, such as posters and television adverts, the first remained to be used on official merchandise after the third season, including on the covers of the novel series, the DVDs, the official Charmed magazine and the Charmed Comics.
Charmed shares the theme song "How Soon Is Now?" with the 1996 Columbia Pictures feature film, The Craft, appearing under the opening credits in a cover by Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler's hiatus band, Love Spit Love. The song was originally written and composed by The Smiths. Unusually, the series has had three different end title themes (by Tim Truman, J. Peter Robinson and Jay Gruska), with the theme used dependent on the tone of the episode. In stripped (daily) reruns on US cable tier TNT, "How Soon Is Now?" appears in a 5-second abbreviated 'tag' form to accommodate additional advertising; no music appears under closing credits as they are 'stacked' under an ad or over the succeeding show's opening tag.
The song appeared on the soundtrack album TV Themes: Popular Favorites, released by the St. Clair record label on September 6, 2005,[10] as well as its follow-up TV Themes: Sex and the City and Other Favorites, on August 30, 2005.[11] It also appeared on Your Favorite Television Themes, released by Artemis Strategic on June 7, 2005.[12] The song always appeared on the compilations in its full-length version of 4 minutes and 20 seconds.
Unfortunately for the producers, the song's license expired before the Season 8 DVDs went into production. After efforts to get it back in time for the Region 1 release failed, it was replaced by a generic hard-rock instrumental theme. The Netflix instant streaming of the series also includes this generic hard-rock instrumental theme rather than the original theme.
Played over the opening credits after the hard-rock instrumental theme in Episode 12 ("Awakened") of Season 2, is "American Doll (Live at Reed College)," written and composed by Andi Starr, and performed live by her band. The song is from her album Supergirl.
"Before Melinda was burned at the stake, she vowed that each generation of Warren witches would become increasingly stronger, culminating in the arrival of three sisters [...] the most powerful witches the world has ever known- The Charmed Ones."
In 1998, the three known Halliwell sisters (Prue, Piper, Phoebe Halliwell) move back into their childhood home, The Halliwell Manor, after their Grams' funeral. When Phoebe comes across the family's Book of Shadows (a family heirloom book containing centuries of knowledge, spells, and magic learned or created by the Halliwell matriarchs). Phoebe learns that she and her sisters are the most powerful witches ever in the history of Witchcraft and the world, destined to protect both innocents and the world at large from demons, warlocks, and other evil creatures. Phoebe, reasonably thinking the book is a novelty reads the book's initial inscription—an inscription which also happens to be the incantation which activates the Halliwells' "Charmed" powers once all of the sisters are back at the manor.
By the end of the first episode, each sister learns that she has a unique power and that they can each cast spells and brew potions. Prue, the eldest, had the power of telekinesis—(the ability to move objects with her mind), and in season 2 she developed the power to astral project. Piper, the middle sister, has the power to effectively "freezing" people/objects. As she grows more proficient, she learns how to freeze only certain people or objects or body parts, as she wishes. As her powers grow, she is able to make molecules move so fast they explode (season 3). Phoebe, the youngest, initially possesses the power of premonition, which evolves into being able to receive visions of both the future and the past. She later picks up the powers of levitation (season 3), and empathy (season 6), the latter allowing her to sense and tap into others' emotions (and sometimes, powers).
During the first two seasons, the sisters would face various evil beings from week to week. However, they discover in season 3 that their true enemy is the Underworld's ruler, the Source of All Evil. Prue is later killed in the Season 3 finale by The Source's personal assassin- Chax. While grieving Prue's loss, Piper and Phoebe discover that they have a half-sister—Paige Matthews, who had been the secret love child of the sisters' witch mother and her guardian angel ("Whitelighter"), Sam. Paige's abilities represent her dual heritage as both a witch and Whitelighter; like Prue she possesses a form of telekinesis, but she has to verbally call for objects to teleport ("orb") them to their intended destination. As she learns to control the dual sides of her ancestry, Paige also learns how to orb herself and others, and eventually she receives her own Whitelighter charges to train and protect as they learn witchcraft. Paige, after falling in love with her future husband, develops the ability to heal others with the touch of her hand (season 8).
The Source, responsible for all of the attacks on the sisters, becomes the main villain during Season 4 until he is finally vanquished. After the Source's vanquish, an annual season-long storyline and several multi-episode antagonists were introduced in subsequent seasons (the "Big Bad" television format). These included Phoebe's ex-husband Cole until mid-season 5; the scheming, misguided Whitelighter Elder, Gideon, throughout season 6; the Avatars—consequentalist Utopia-advocating neutral beings— until mid-season 7; the demon Zankou, until the season 7 finale; and in season 8, powerful sister witches Billie and Christy, who fall under the influence of the evil demonic Triad (who earlier featured as early-season 3 antagonists). On top of the supernatural issues in Charmed, the characters had to contend with serious issues in the day-to-day world of the mortals — such as relationships, careers, marriage, childbirth, illness and the deaths of their loved ones. The sisters also had to fight to prevent the exposure of the existence of magic to the community at large, contending with several police and FBI investigations.
The sisters also faced romantic storylines. Prue's only featured love interest is Inspector Andy Trudeau, a childhood friend, who dies in the season 1 finale. Piper's central love interest throughout the series is the sisters' Whitelighter Leo; their early relationship was problematic due to the forbidden nature of witch-Whitelighter relationships, and so in season 2 a love triangle forms with Piper, Leo and her neighbour Dan Gordon. Eventually, the two manage to marry and consecrate their union in season 3, and have two sons—Wyatt, in season five, and Chris, in season six. The couple separate due to supernatural circumstances at the end of the fifth season, and later reunite in the sixth; the final episode shows them to have a daughter, many grandchildren, and grow old together. Phoebe's relationship history involved many dates in the first 2 seasons, and a tortured relationship with half-demon Cole Turner in the show's third, fourth and fifth seasons; they had a turbulent marriage in the fourth, and in the fifth he played the role of aggressive ex. Phoebe had a number of multi-episode mortal boyfriends in subsequent seasons before meeting a cupid, Coop, in the eighth season, whom she marries and has three children with in the finale episode flashforward. Paige, like Phoebe, had several multi-episode mortal boyfriends, as well as male witch and magic "addict" Richard Montana (season 6) and unstable FBI agent-come-Whitelighter Kyle Brody (season 7). In the eighth season she becomes committed to mortal parole officer Henry Mitchell, with whom she marries and—in flashforwards—is shown to have three children with.
The series began its first season on October 7, 1998 and aired for eight years until its finale on May 21, 2006. During its eight seasons, 178 episodes were aired, making Charmed the longest running hour-long television series with all female leads.[16] The series ended when its American network was shut down to merge into a new network station. Each season consists of 22 episodes with the exclusion of the fifth and sixth seasons which contain 23 episodes including their double-episode premiers and double-episode finales.
Specific Charmed episodes are detailed in the following by-season articles:
Actor/Actress | Character | Main cast seasons | Recurring/guest seasons | Notes |
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Shannen Doherty | Prudence "Prue" Halliwell | 1, 2, 3 | N/A | 67 episodes (Including the unaired pilot) |
Holly Marie Combs | Piper Halliwell | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | N/A | 179 episodes (Including the unaired pilot) |
Alyssa Milano | Phoebe Halliwell | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | N/A | 178 episodes |
Rose McGowan | Paige Matthews | 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | introduced in episode 1 & becomes a regular | 112 episodes |
Brian Krause | Leo Wyatt | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | Recurring in Seasons 1-2, 13 episodes, Regular in seasons 2–8, 154 episodes | 167 episodes |
Dorian Gregory | Darryl Morris | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | Regular in seasons 1-7 | 71 episodes |
Julian McMahon | Cole Turner | 3, 4 & 5 | Guest in season 7 | 57 episodes |
Drew Fuller | Christopher Perry "Chris" Halliwell | 5, 6, 7 & 8 | Guest is seasons 5, 7 & 8, Regular in Season 6 | 25 episodes |
Kaley Cuoco | Billie Jenkins | 8 | Regular in season 8 | 22 episodes |
Ted King | Andy Trudeau | 1 | Regular in season 1 | 22 episodes |
Greg Vaughan | Dan Gordon | 2 | Guest in 18 episodes | 18 episodes |
Critical reception of Charmed has been generally favorable and positive. The Entertainment Weekly critic Karyn L. Barr, in her retrospective review of the first season, argued that "for seven seasons, the Halliwell sisters have charmed the pants off audiences with their wonderful Wiccan ways", labelling it as a "crafty cult classic":[17]
Magically delicious the 1st, 3rd, and even 20th time ... this supernatural Spelling series remains spellbinding thanks to its proper balance of quirky humor [and] drama...die-hard and not-so-die-hard fans will still be charmed, I'm sure.—Entertainment Weekly, January 31, 2005
During the first season, EW writer Ken Tucker, speaking on the comparisons between Charmed and rival series, argued: "spike-heeled where Buffy is fleet-footed, Charmed is Charlie's Angels with a Ouija board". As well as the show's action sequences—describing the Halliwells as "superheroes"—he notes that the series "plays up the stars' separate-but-equal charms" and admires both its "casting and pop-culture timing".[18] The Guardian agrees with Alyssa Milano's description of Charmed as "perfect post-feminist girl-power", praising the balance between action and emotion as the "three sibling sorceresses know mischief, but are accessibly feminine".[19] EW critic Gillian Flynn states that "the charm of Charmed is that it knows what it is: a guilty-pleasure fantasy", and gave credit to its mythology as well as the grounded characterisations of the sisters: "they call otherworldly beings 'dude' and get peeved over wondrous inconveniences".[20]
During the third season, PopMatters' Michael Abernethy credited it as "more enjoyable than most shows in the good vs evil genre" largely due to the strength of the performers. He also recognised the use of humour in creating "unexpected turns in stock storylines [which are] more interesting than one might expect". The monster of the week format is frequent during the early-half of the series, however Abernethy states that, despite this, "the writers tend to explore the sibling dynamics to keep the show from growing redundant".[21] Christel Loar, also of PopMatters, agrees that "episodes go beyond the demon-of-the-week formula to tap into the relationships of the characters and their...flaws. Charmed...succeeded by combining sisterhood with the supernatural". She also claims that the Halliwells' struggle for normal lives, "stability, and a sense of self is one of the reasons Charmed strikes such a chord with its viewers".[22] Leigh H. Edwards, during the fourth season, asserts that the show effectively "explores some big questions (free will... who is running the universe)", whilst paying attention to domestic issues including sibling rivalry, absent parents and love troubles.[23]
Reviewing the final season, EW's Aubry D'Arminio asserted "A FITTING FINALE?... There's nothing like watching our witchy sisters kick evil's tail once and for all". She also described the lack of bonus features on the DVDs as "criminal considering it was TV's longest-running [all-female lead] show".[24] In PopMatters' conclusion of the last season, Jon Langmead argued that the series' run had many appealing elements including "smart casting", and "an attention to relationship drama that was smarter and more nuanced than it ever received credit for":[25]
Largely because of its Aaron Spelling-pedigree, Charmed rarely got notice for, more often than not, being smarter and more entertaining than much of its competition. It never got the critical nods ... but Charmed had plenty to offer and was often much better than it needed to be.—PopMatters, December 4, 2007
Charmed proved to be a success early on, with the series' premiere episode "Something Wicca This Way Comes" pulling in more than 7.7 million viewers. The show was ranked the #2 rated show on The WB network (tied with Dawson's Creek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer) with an average of 5.5 million viewers per episode. The show was also extremely successful during its second season with an average of 4.8 million per episode and again tying with Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the #2 slot; during the show's third season, it again placed second, with an average of 4.9 million viewers per episode.
Season | Season premiere | Season finale | TV season | Viewer rank (#) | Network rank (#) | Viewers (in millions) |
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1 | October 7, 1998 | May 26, 1999 | 1998–1999 | 118[26] | 2 | 5.4 |
2 | September 30, 1999 | May 18, 2000 | 1999–2000 | 120[27] | 2 | 4.8 |
3 | October 5, 2000 | May 17, 2001 | 2000–2001 | 117[28] | 2 | 4.9 |
4 | October 4, 2001 | May 16, 2002 | 2001–2002 | 129[29] | 6 | 4.2 |
5 | September 22, 2002 | May 11, 2003 | 2002–2003 | 128[30] | 4 | 4.5 |
6 | September 28, 2003 | May 16, 2004 | 2003–2004 | 154[31] | 5 | 4.3 |
7 | September 12, 2004 | May 22, 2005 | 2004–2005 | 132[32] | 7 | 3.5 |
8 | September 25, 2005 | May 21, 2006 | 2005–2006 | 132[33] | 5 | 3.6 |
1–8 | October 7, 1998 | May 21, 2006 | 1998–2006 | 128 | 4 | 4.4 |
Charmed has gathered several awards and nominations.[34] The series was nominated for four Saturn Awards during its run, including Best Network Television Series for its first season and two nominations for lead actress Shannen Doherty. Rose McGowan won a Family Television Award in 2005 for Favorite Sister, whilst co-star Alyssa Milano has been nominated for a Kids' Choice Award and Teen Choice Award. McGowan, after having also appeared in feature film Grindhouse, also won a Spike Award for Femme Fatale in 2007. Charmed won two ASCAP Awards for its music composers, Tim Truman and Jay Gruska, and has received recognition for its young actors, having been nominated for five Young Artist Awards, with guest star Alex Black winning once for his role in the fourth season episode "Lost and Bound". The series has also received further nominations from the International Horror Guild, TV Guide Awards, Teen Choice Awards, amongst others.
In 2006, Spelling Television and series producer Brad Kern claimed Charmed was the longest running hour-long series in television history featuring all-female leads.[3][35][36][37][38] The record applies only to hour-long television series with multiple female leads (The Facts Of Life being the longest running 30-minute show with all-female leads, and Murder She Wrote being the longest running hour-long show but with a singular female lead).[3] Kern stated "It's a remarkable accomplishment... It's something we're all immensely proud of",[3] whilst lead actress Rose McGowan described it as "a huge achievement".[36] However, this record has now been surpassed with Desperate Housewives (also with multiple female leads) reaching eight seasons but producing more episodes.
In 2000, Cult TV Awards placed Charmed within its top 50 cult television series of the century at number four.[39] In 2007, AOL Television ranked each Charmed One within its top fifteen of the greatest witches in television history—Paige twelfth, Prue ninth, Phoebe seventh and Piper third.[40] In 2008, the characters appeared again on AOL TV Squad's list of the 20 Top TV Witches, but Paige had moved to thirteenth, Prue had moved to tenth, and Phoebe and Piper remained at seventh and third respectively.[41] Despite its longevity, a loyal following and critical acclaim, some of the stars of the show have claimed it was never promoted very extensively by The WB (especially in comparison to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which ran on the same network for five years). Just before the series finale, Combs said that they'd "never been treated that well" by The WB, and McGowan said that the network considered them its "ugly stepchild."[42]
Ever since the show quit airing on The WB, TNT airs two episodes every weekday morning at 8 am and 9 am Eastern. For many years, it aired a third episode at 10 am Eastern, but this ended around 2009. WE tv recently began airing two episodes each weeknight at 6 pm and 7 pm Eastern
Cosmo TV airs one episode every weekday morning.
Other countries where Charmed airs include the following:
International syndication | |||
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Country / Region | Name | Television Network | Dubbing / Subtitles |
Albania | Shtrigat (English: "The Witches") | Digitalb | Albanian subtitles |
Argentina | Charmed | Sony Entertainment Television[43] | Spanish subtitles |
Austria | Charmed – Zauberhafte Hexen (English: "Charmed – Magical Witches") | ORF1,[44] ProSieben Austria[45] | German |
Australia | Charmed | Network Ten (1999–2007),[46] Eleven (2012-), Sci Fi,[47] Fox Classics | None |
Belgium | Charmed | 2BE[48] | Dutch subtitles |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Čini (English: "Spells") | Pink BH | Bosnian subtitles |
Brazil | Charmed (Liv and Sony Entertainment Television), Jovens Bruxas (English: "Young Witches")(Band) | Sony Entertainment Television,[49] People+Arts,[50] Band | Portuguese subtitles (Liv and Sony Entertainment Television), Portuguese dubbing (Band) |
Brunei | Charmed | RTB TV3 | None |
Bulgaria | Чародейките"(Charodeikite; English: "Charmed") | Diema[51] | Bulgarian |
Canada | Charmed | Cosmopolitan TV | None |
Croatia | Čarobnice (English: "Sorceresses") | Nova TV | Croatian subtitles |
Cyprus | Οι μάγισσες του Σαν Φρανσίσκο (English: "The Witches of San Francisco") | Sigma TV[52] | Greek subtitles |
Czech Republic | Čarodějky (English: "The Witches") | Prima TV, Prima COOL, Prima love, Nova TV, Nova Cinema | Czech dubbing |
Denmark | Heksene fra Warren Manor (English: "The Witches from Warren Manor") | TV3[53] | Danish subtitles |
Estonia | Võluvägi (English: "Witchcraft") | Kanal 11 | Estonian subtitles |
Finland | Siskoni on Noita (English: "My Sister Is A Witch") | Nelonen | Finnish subtitles |
France | Charmed | Métropole 6,[54] Téva, W9. | French |
Germany | Charmed – Zauberhafte Hexen (English: "Charmed – Magical Witches") | ProSieben,[55] Kabel Eins, Sixx | German dubbing |
Greece | Οι Μάγισσες (English: "The Witches") | Star Channel[56] | Greek subtitles |
Hong Kong | 聖女魔咒 | TVB Pearl | Hong Kong Cantonese subtitles |
Hong Kong | Charmed | STAR TV World | None |
Hungary | Bűbájos Boszorkák (English: "Charming Witches") | TV2 | Hungarian |
Iceland | Heillanornir (English: "Charming Witches") | SkjárEinn | Icelandic subtitles |
Indonesia | Charmed | JakTV Kompas TV Indovision |
Indonesian subtitles |
Ireland | Charmed | TV3 | None |
Israel | מכושפות (English: "Enchanted") | Channel 3 | Hebrew subtitles |
Italy | Streghe (English: "Witches") | Fox,[57] Rai Due, AXN Sci Fi | Italian dubbing |
Japan | チャームド | NHK, AXN | Japanese dubbing |
Latin America | Charmed | Sony Entertainment Television[58] | Spanish subtitles |
Latvia | “Amulets” (English: "Charm") | LNT, SET, LMK, Muz-TV Baltic | Latvian dubbing,on SET Latvian subtitles |
Lithuania | San Francisko Raganos (English: "Witches of San Francisco") | LNK,[59] TV1 | Lithuanian dubbing |
Macedonia | Волшебнички (English:"Witches") | А1[60] | Macedonian subtitles |
Malaysia | Charmed | TV3 | None |
Mauritius | Charmed | Mcb 1 | French |
Malta | Charmed | Living TV[61] | None |
Mexico | Hechiceras (English: "Witches") | Canal 5 | Spanish |
Netherlands | Charmed | NET 5[62] | Dutch subtitles |
New Zealand | Charmed | Terrestrial: TV3 (first run) Cable: BOX (re-runs) Cable: Vibe (re-runs) |
None |
Norway | Charmed (English:) | TV3[63] | Norwegian subtitles |
Pakistan | Charmed | Star World | None |
Philippines | Charmed | Velvet, AXN Beyond | None |
Poland | Czarodziejki (English: "Witches") | Hallmark, Polsat, Fox Life, Sci Fi Channel | Polish |
Portugal | As Feiticeiras (English: "The Witches") | AXN[64] | Portuguese subtitles |
Puerto Rico | Charmed Hechiceras (English: "Sorceresses") – (2009–2010) |
TNT (Seasons 1–8) WAPA (Seasons 1–8) |
Spanish dubbing |
Russia | Зачарованные (Zacharovannyie [zətɕɪˈrovənnɨjə], "Charmed") | STS, Muz-TV | Russian dubbing |
Singapore | Charmed | TCS Fifth Frequency | Singapore Mandarin subtitles |
Serbia | Čari, Чари (English: "Charms") | Pink, Prva | Serbian subtitles |
Slovakia | Čarodejnice (English: "Witches") | Markíza[65] | Slovak dubbing |
Slovenia | Čarovnice (English: "Witches") | Kanal A | Slovene |
South Africa | Charmed | M-Net Series, SABC 3, SABC 1 | None |
South Korea | 참드 | ChDonga | unknown |
Spain | Embrujadas (English: "Bewitched") | Telecinco (first running), Cuatro (re-running), Cosmopolitan[66] | Spanish dubbing |
Sweden | Förhäxad (English: "Bewitched") | TV3 | Swedish subtitles |
Switzerland | Charmed – Zauberhafte Hexen (English: "Charmed – Magical Witches") | ProSieben Schweiz, SF2[67] | German |
Taiwan | 聖女魔咒 (English: "Divine Girls & Magical Spells") | Taiwan Television | Taiwanese Mandarin subtitles |
Thailand | N/A | True Series[68] | Thai subtitles |
Turkey | Charmed | DiziMax[69] | Turkish |
Saudi Arabia | Charmed | MBC 4[70] | Arabic subtitles |
Ukraine | Всі жінки відьми (Vsi zhinky vidmy), English: "All Women Are Witches") | 1+1, TET | Ukrainian dubbing |
United Kingdom | Charmed | Terrestrial: Five (seasons 1–7), Channel 4 (season 8) Cable: Trouble, Living TV,[61] E4, CBS Drama |
None |
Charmed | TNT (reruns), WE tv (reruns), The WB (orig. network) (October 7, 1998 - May 21, 2006) | ||
Vietnam | Phép Thuật (English: "Magic") | Terrestrial: VTV1, VTV3 Cable: VCTV7 |
Vietnamese dubbing |
TNT has released full episodes of Charmed for viewing with their "DramaVision" video player on the network website.[71] As of February 14, 2009, the new TheWB.com website (Web streaming successor to The WB) did not offer the shows.
Netflix has released the full series via their Instant Streaming as of July 1st 2011.
Charmed's executive producers Brad Kern, Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent developed a one-hour pilot episode for The WB Television Network in early 2005, entitled Mermaid. It was written by Kern and filmed in Miami during Charmed's seventh season, at the same time as "Something Wicca This Way Goes?".[72][73]
As work progressed on the fifth season's double-episode premier, "A Witch's Tail", the theme of mermaids was recognized to have potential for its own series,[74] even though the episode was never meant to be a backdoor pilot for a television spin-off.
The series plot[75][76] is centred on a mermaid, Nikki, who is rescued by a young man when she washes ashore in Miami. Her savior, Matt Johnson, is a lawyer living with a roommate and engaged to the daughter of his boss. Initially, he is in utter disbelief of Nikki's nature, until it is proven true. According to the series mythology, mermaids are a race of creatures whose evolution took place underwater. The mermaids originate from a sunken city and have supernatural abilities, including superhuman strength and agility, as well as being able to see in the dark, read emotions and have a connection with other sea creatures. However, another race of creatures who began their existence underwater, but have since adapted onto dry land, include Luger who is hunting Nikki. Nikki, meanwhile, attempts to enact a normal life by working as a waitress at a local restaurant while living with Matt and his roommate. She begins assisting Matt in his attempts to help people: as the villainous Luger assesses, mermaids are drawn to protecting the innocent, it's "in their blood".
During the casting process, Kern "looked in London and New York and New Zealand, Hollywood, Florida, Melbourne and Sydney" and, after interviewing around 300 people, discovered "a fresh new face" in Australian Nathalie Kelley who played the lead role of Nikki. Geoff Stults was then cast as Matt, and Roger Daltrey as principal antagonist Eric Luger.[77] Brandon Quinn, who later went on to play Homeland Security Agent Murphy in Charmed's eighth season, played Matt's "goofy best friend" in Mermaid.[78] He spoke of his roles in both series:
[In Mermaid] I was the party man...in the pilot, I had no job; I was a permanent bachelor. And when Brad [Kern] told me about [Agent Murphy], he was, like, 'He's a Homeland Security agent, he's 180 degrees opposite from what you played in my pilot this year, but I really think you could do it.' And I was, like, 'Wow, thanks for trusting me with Agent Murphy.'
Additionally cast in main roles were Ana Ortiz[79] (who went on to star in Ugly Betty) and Beatrice Rosen[80] who, along with Quinn, developed a recurring role in Charmed's eighth season as Maya Holmes, an innocent whose image Piper Halliwell inadvertently uses as her false identity 'Jenny Bennett'.
The pilot was considered to have a good chance of being picked up, but when The WB and UPN merged into The CW, the resulting network passed on the show. Speaking on the failure of the series to be picked up, Kern also revealed that 20th Century Fox and Fox Entertainment Group "decided at the last second to cut the budget in half", which resulted in the number of shooting days to be reduced, thus decreasing the quality of the pilot in being able to "'sell' the concept".[81]
On March 15, 2010, Zenescope Entertainment announced that it had acquired the rights, from Fox Consumer Products, to publish comic books and graphic novels based on Charmed.[82][83][84] Author Paul Ruditis was hired as lead writer of the project with Zenescope's Raven Gregory co-authoring with him for the first three issues. Dave Hoover was hired to do the interior artwork while David Seidman was hired as the series' main cover artist, however many other artists will contribute various variant covers for the series.
The new series takes place roughly "a year and a half" after "Forever Charmed", to allow time for "Piper, Phoebe, and Paige time to have some of those kids we all saw in the flash-forwards during the series finale."[citation needed] Because "Forever Charmed" provided a "serene happy ending for the characters, not a great set up for continuing their story", Raven and Ruditis "address that on page one of issue one and then shake things up a bit."[citation needed] Familiar characters will appear in the first few issues, but the writers wish to try to strike a balance that does not alienate potential new readers.[85]
In the first issue we see that each sister is now living happily with their husbands and has entered into motherhood and while magic still plays a role in their lives, they are currently demon free and perusing other endeavours. Piper is hoping to finally open her own restaurant while Phoebe is preparing to return to work as an advice columnist after giving birth to her first daughter, Prue. Paige is still working as a whitelighter but is balancing that job with being a mother of two twin girls. However, the Charmed Ones must soon face up to the fact that their normal happy lives are about to be disturbed by the forces of evil when they discover that all of their past innocents are in danger.
The comic became an instant success with the first issue has sold out of its initial 17,000 copy print run in under three weeks and has mostly received mixed to positive reviews from critics and fans.
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Born | Holly Marie Combs (1973-12-03) December 3, 1973 (age 38) San Diego, California, U.S. |
Other names | Holly Donoho |
Occupation | Actress/Producer |
Years active | 1985–present |
Spouse | Bryan Travis Smith (1993–1997) David W. Donoho (2004–2011; 3 children) |
Holly Marie Combs (born December 3, 1973)[1] is an American film and television actress and producer whose roles have included a portrayal in Charmed as Piper Halliwell and another in Picket Fences, where she received a Young Artist Award for her role, as Kimberly Brock.[2][3] She now stars in the ABC Family original series Pretty Little Liars as Ella Montgomery.
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Combs was born in San Diego, California. At the time of her birth, her mother, Lauralei Combs (née Berckhem), was sixteen years old and her father was seventeen.[4] Combs' biological parents married, but the two split up after two years,[5] feeling they were too young to make a marriage work. While Combs was learning to walk, she hit her head on a marble table, resulting in a scar over her right eyebrow. She went through many different homes with her mother, often having very little privacy, while her mother attempted to pursue an acting career. When Combs was seven, she and her mother moved to New York City. She was 12 when her mother married her stepfather. In New York City, Combs attended Beekman Hill Elementary and then the Professional Children's School.
Although she had a number of minor roles in the late 1980s, including a brief speaking part in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July, Combs' major acting debut arrived in the 1992 TV drama series Picket Fences. She auditioned for the role of Kimberly while she was in New York. The casting agent told her that she wasn't right for the part because she "didn't have a big enough heart." Combs retorted, "If you're looking for someone with a big heart, what the hell are you doing in New York?" She was later called back and offered the job.[4] Picket Fences ran for four years, winning Combs critical acclaim and a Young Artist award.[2][3]
In 1992, Combs made her appearance in Simple Men, Chain of Desire, and Dr. Giggles, in which she plays its protagonist, the 19-year-old daughter of Cliff De Young's character and girlfriend of Glenn Quinn's character, Jennifer Campbell.
In 1996, she starred alongside Alyson Hannigan and Tangi Miller in a pilot called Friends for Life. The pilot wasn't picked up.
In 1997, she played real-life convicted murderess Diane Zamora in the television movie Swearing Allegiance, a far cry from her other good-girl roles. Combs was with her friend Shannen Doherty when Doherty was given the pilot script for Charmed. Doherty took Combs along to the audition when Combs said she wanted to take part in the audition. Combs auditioned for the role of Prue Halliwell and Doherty for Piper Halliwell, but they ended up switching roles. Alyssa Milano and Combs both became producers for Charmed in the fifth season.[6] For the first three seasons of Charmed (which debuted in 1998 and was a hit TV series, ending in May 2006), Combs played the second oldest of the three sisters. When the eldest, Doherty, left after the third season and Rose McGowan joined the cast for the fourth season, Combs played the eldest sister for the remaining five seasons of the show. All the while she was the youngest of all four actresses.
In 2008, Combs signed a contract with Lifetime Television to produce and star in a new TV series, Mistresses which was originally scheduled to air in January 2009, but was not picked up.[7][8]
Combs made her television comeback in June 2010 on ABC Family's new show Pretty Little Liars. Combs plays Ella Montgomery, the mother of main character Aria Montgomery (played by Lucy Hale). The new series premiered on ABC Family June 8, 2010.[9] Pretty Little Liars has been extended for another 12 episodes, making Season 1 a total of 22 episodes and currently in its third season.
Combs attended Anaheim Comic Con with former Charmed co-stars Shannen Doherty (Prue) and Victor Webster (Coop) on April 17, 2010.
In 1993, Combs married Bryan Travis Smith, they divorced in 1997.[10] She then went on to marry former Charmed key-grip and long-time boyfriend David Donoho on February 14, 2004. They are the parents of three sons: Finley Arthur Donoho, (born April 26, 2004), Riley Edward Donoho, (born October 26, 2006) and Kelley James Donoho, (born May 26, 2009), all born by caesarian section (with Kelley being an emergency C-section). Combs kept her third pregnancy a secret due to it being high risk with a delivery at 35 weeks.[11] Combs filed for divorce for her second marriage in November 2011 citing irreconcilable differences.[12]
Combs smoked cigarettes from the age of fifteen until giving up when she was pregnant with her first child.[13]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1985 | Walls of Glass | Abby Hall | Classmate |
1988 | Sweet Hearts Dance | Dens Boon | |
1989 | New York Stories | Helena, Costume Party Girl | |
1989 | Born on the Fourth of July | Jenny Turner | |
1990 | Hotel Terror | Kristen Vast | Unreleased |
1991 | Nobody Can Hear You Scream | Melinda Ashwood | |
1992 | Simple Men | Kim Fields | |
1992 | Dr. Giggles | Jennifer Campbell | |
1992 | Chain Of Desire | Diana Richards | |
1994 | A Perfect Stranger | Amanda Hale | |
1994 | Island City | Erin Sloan | |
1995 | A Reason To Believe | Sharon Digby | |
1995 | Speed Dating | Pam Thomas | Unreleased |
1995 | Evil in the Basement | Karen Ford | |
1996 | Sins of Silence | Sophie DiMattio | |
1997 | Our Mother's Murder | Alex Morell | |
1997 | Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder | Diane Zamora | |
2001 | Ocean's Eleven | Herself | Uncredited |
2002 | Search For Odysseus | Bethany Campbell | Unreleased |
2003 | See Jane Date | Natasha Nutley | |
2007 | Panic Button | Katherine Alden | aka Point of Entry |
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1990 | Guiding Light | Louisa Young | 2 episodes |
1991, 1994 | As the World Turns | Denise Jones | 5 episodes |
1991 | Rockenwagner | Emma Jacobs-Smith | Unaired TV pilot |
1992 | Mr Right | Penny Lenz | Unaired TV pilot |
1992–1996 | Picket Fences | Kimberly Brock | Received Young Actor's Award for role |
1996 | Friends for Life | Claire Webber | Unaired TV pilot |
1997 | Relativity | Anne Pryce | Guest star: season 1, episode 14 |
1998–2006 | Charmed | Piper Halliwell | Main role |
2009 | Mistresses | Janey Satterfield | Unaired pilot |
2010–present | Pretty Little Liars | Ella Montgomery | Aria's mother |
Year | Title | Notes |
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2001–2006 | Charmed | Seasons 5–8 |
2009 | Mistresses | Co-producer |
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2009 | Mistresses | Idea |
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Born | Anthony Salvatore Iadanza (1951-04-21) April 21, 1951 (age 61) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor, television personality, tap dancer, boxer, teacher |
Years active | 1978–present |
Spouse | Rhonda Yeoman Iadanza (1970-1974; 2 children) Tracy Robinson (1986-2011; 2 children) |
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Tony Danza (born Antonio Salvatore Iadanza, April 21, 1951) is an American actor best known for starring on the TV series Taxi and Who's the Boss?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series for his work on the 1997 sitcom The Tony Danza Show.
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Danza was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents Anne Cammisa Iadanza (1925–1993) and Matty Iadanza (1920–1983), both of whom died from cancer.[1] Matty Iadanza worked as a garbage man in Brooklyn.[2] Danza's family was of Italian ancestry. He has a younger brother, Matty Jr. (born 1954), a Los Angeles restaurant owner.[3] When Danza was 14, he and his family relocated to Malverne, New York on Long Island. Danza attended Malverne High School, graduating in 1968.[4] In the first episode of his show "Teach: Tony Danza", Danza describes himself as a "bad student" in high school. Danza earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1972 from the University of Dubuque,[5] which he attended on a wrestling scholarship. It was during his first year of college that he got the Robert Crumb Keep on Truckin' tattoo on his upper right arm. In a 1985 interview in Us Weekly magazine, Danza remarked, "I was playing pool with a guy who had all these tattoos, and I wanted to be friends."[6] Danza sports a "Keep Punching" boxing gloves tattoo on his right shoulder.[7] In college, Danza met and married his first wife. Danza was a professional boxer with a 9-3 record, with all of his fights, wins and losses, ending by knockout.[8]
Shortly after his college graduation, Danza was discovered by a producer at a boxing gymnasium in New York.[9] He then earned a spot on the television show Taxi. In 1986, Danza married for the second time, to Tracy Robinson. The couple separated in 2006 and filed for divorce on March 10, 2011.[10] They have two daughters, Katherine (born 1987) and Emily (born 1993). In 2005, Tony Danza became a grandfather when his son Marc and his son's wife, Julie, had a son, Nicholas. In 2008, Danza and his son Marc published a cookbook, Don't Fill Up on the Antipasto: Tony Danza's Father-Son Cookbook.[11]
Danza is better known for his characters named 'Tony' in Taxi (1978–1983), in which he played cab driver and part-time boxer, "Tony Banta". On Who's the Boss? (1984–1992), Danza portrayed a retired baseball player working as a housekeeper and single father, "Tony Micelli."
Danza also starred in the short-lived sitcoms Hudson Street (1995) and The Tony Danza Show (1997), not to be confused with his talk show of the same name. He had a role in the TV drama Family Law from 2000 until 2002. He took his first role, a nonspeaking part as a poker player in National Lampoon's Animal House.
He was nominated for an Emmy Award[12] for a guest-starring 1998 role in the TV series The Practice. His movie debut was in the comedy The Hollywood Knights (1980), which was followed by Going Ape! (1981). He received critical acclaim for his performance in the 1999 Broadway revival of the Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh. In 2002, Danza released his debut album The House I Live In as a 1950s-style crooner.[13]
Danza hosted his own TV talk show, The Tony Danza Show, that was produced each weekday morning in his hometown of New York and was syndicated across the US. On May 9, 2005, during a go-kart race with NASCAR star Rusty Wallace, who was a guest on the show, Danza's kart flipped after Wallace accidentally bumped him.[14] Neither he nor Wallace was wearing a helmet at the time. Danza returned to go-kart racing on October 20, 2005, to challenge IndyCar driver Danica Patrick, but his brakes malfunctioned and he skidded into a wall, unharmed. His daytime talk show ended in May 2006; the last live episode aired on May 26, 2006.[citation needed]
He starred on Broadway as "Max Bialystock" in The Producers, from December 19, 2006, to March 11, 2007[15] and reprised his role at the Paris Las Vegas from August 13, 2007,[16] to February 9, 2008.[17]
In September 2008, it was reported that Danza would host the 4th season of The Contender, which was filmed in Singapore and began airing in December 2008 on the Versus TV sports channel.[18] In August 2009, it was reported that Danza would appear in a new A&E reality show Teach: Tony Danza, in which he would co-instruct a 10th Grade English class at Northeast High School in Philadelphia. The series was filmed during the 2009-2010 school year and premiered on October 1, 2010.
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Alternative names | Iadanza, Anthony Salvatore |
Short description | American actor and former boxer |
Date of birth | April 21, 1951 |
Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
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