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Feature: Charmed as per TV Zone Magazine.
Sixth Sense

Head writer and executive producer Brad Kern explains all about the Season Six trilogy, while Eric Dane, who plays millionaire Jason Dean, talks about his exciting new role.
Demons, fairies, nymphs, leprechauns – they’re all part of the job for Brad Kern. The Charmed executive producer and head writer has just emerged from a two-hour production meeting during which details of yet another new sixth season episode were ironed out. In Kern’s last chat with TV Zone (Special #53) he gave readers a glimpse of what they could look forward to this year up to and including Story Eight, The Sword and The City. As far as what’s still to come, he has this to say.

“Per the network’s request we’ve divided this season into three parts. By the time you read this we will have aired the two-hour season finale right through to and including Episode 10. We’re off for, I think, four or five weeks during Christmas, and then return in January and air stories 11 through 16. This is followed by another break of four or five weeks and then we’re back with episodes 17-22. The design of the season is to create mini-cliffhangers at the end of each ‘semester’ if you will. So episodes 10 and 16 will be mini-cliffhangers as will the season finale.

“Little Monsteris [Episode 9] is our version of the Beauty and the Beast story. It’s also one of my favourites in which little Wyatt becomes friends with a demon baby. However, is this the child that grows up to kill Wyatt in the future? If that’s the case then what do our sisters do with him? They can’t vanquish a baby. He’s cute, although he has a slithery reptile-like tongue, and Wyatt likes him. So we have some fun with the whole issue of nature versus nurture and not only can we turn this other child good but also make certain that Wyatt remains good.

“All this leads up to episode 10 [Chris- Crossed],” continues Kern. “In it, Chris’s [Drew Fuller] girlfriend, or who he thinks is his girlfriend, travels back in Time in order to return him to the future. Bianca [Marisol Nichols] is, in fact, a magical assassin, and whoever sent her doesn’t want Chris to change history and stop the forces of Evil from getting Wyatt. This episode is a lot like Season Three’s Pre-Witched, where we cut back and forth between The Charmed Ones as they were then and six months before they found out that they were witches. This time around, we switch between Chris, Bianca and The Charmed Ones in the present with Chris and Bianca and a very dark and chaotic San Francisco of the future. There’s a major revelation at the end of act three that sets the course for the second third of this season.”


The conclusion to this interview is in TV Zone issue#171
January 2004
ships from Dec 31 2003

[~charmin*shele~]

i can't wait till sunday !! YAY new epy !! pages.prodigy.net/indianahawkeye/newpage26/2.gif [/img]

[~*~Kit_The_Kat~*~]

IT'S OFFICIAL ***** CHARMED HAS BEEN PICKED UP FOR A SEVENTH SEASON *****

A 'Charmed' Life for the WB
Fri Jan 16, 3:51 AM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters TV to My Yahoo!



LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Aaron Spelling's drama "Charmed" continues to cast a spell over the WB.



The network has picked up the veteran series for the 2004-05 season, which will be the show's seventh.


"Charmed," which has survived several scheduling changes and the replacement of Shannen Doherty with Rose McGowan, has become a solid anchor for the WB on Sunday, averaging 5.3 million viewers in its most recent airing. Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs also star.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

[~*~Kit_The_Kat~*~]

I hope you don't mind Dark Emperess, but breaking news or possible news that contain spoilers are supposed to be posted here instead of episode spoilers topics..... to that end, I've deleted the original post you made regarding the possibility of Prue's return from the finale episode area and re-posted your post here so everyone will be able to read it here and be able to read the spoiler and episode with no "breaks" in the flow of the posts there..... I should have mentioned that this topic was here for you to post late breaking or spoiler news.... sorry.

Dark said:

[glow=red,2,300]OK, just to let you know, I didn't read the spoiler!! But, I have heard RUMORS (nothing is substantiated, at least, not for me) that Prue may be on the finale. I also heard that there is a chance that they will kill off Chris. I'm just posting this for anyone and everyone's information. I will not read the spoilers. Sorry.[/glow]

[~*~Kit_The_Kat~*~]

"Lucky Charmed"
by Kathie Huddleston
Sci Fi Magazine
An interview with Brad Kern

A Spellbinding Seventh Season of Charmed On The WB Proves That Audiences Still Believe in Magic

Picture yourself back in 1998. A little known show called Charmed is set to debut in a fall lineup that includes The X-Files, 3rd Rock From The Sun and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Would you have guessed that six years later, Charmed would still be going strong and the others would be just so much TV history?

There is only one real answer to the series survival…and it's magic.

The kind of magic that happens when you take a solid family drama about sisters who just happen to be witches, and stir the pot with the star power of Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan, remembering to mix in a healthy dose of good writing. It all adds up to a deceptively entertaining hour with punch.

At the helm of Charmed is executive producer Brad Kern, a man who cut his teeth on Hill Street Blues, Remington Steele and The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr.

"Charmed is a show of exploring and imagination," say Kern. "A show of sisters and family, and dealing with love and loss, and being bound together with their secret, but learning and growing up together and staying together, in spite of the challenges they face in the family. I think that the family values that come across are all positive and all good. That's the core of the show. And then after that is magic. I think that's why we're still on the air. It's not the genre first. Genre-first shows, generally speaking, I don't think last as long. People watch TV shows because of characters they can relate to and fall in love with, and I think that's been our strength, which is in no small part because of the stars."

Charmed has weathered Thursday nights against Must See TV, and complaints from the Bible Belt that anything to do with magic must be bad, and changes both behind and in front of the camera. Through it all the series has fostered favorable demographics, decent ratings and a strong fan following.

"Steven Bochco [Hill Street Blues] said that you can go for dramatic, almost melodramatic, if in the same episode you off set it with a little more wacky story. And you can go a little wackier with the story if you offset that with a more dramatic story. I've remembered that, and tried to apply that whenever possible to Charmed, so that we can keep that tenuous balance that makes this entertaining but also relatable," says Kern.

However, at the beginning of last season, Kern wasn't confident there would be a seventh season.

"The mandate I laid out for all the writers, was that the sixth season is going to be a challenge to stay fresh in story and character, but we must try, and if the show is to be canceled, we don't want it to be because the stories were stale or the characters flat. I think the writers did a terrific job pushing the boundaries and coming up with a good spectrum of shows that the audience seemed to like. The network generally had a difficult year, and we weren't immune to the general decline the network suffered. But we absolutely held our own, and did actually improve in some demographics."

Kern and company also managed to hold their own creatively, spinning a web of stories that brought Piper and Leo back together, if for a moment, but long enough to conceive a second child. Phoebe also lost her active powers.

"At the end of last season, with Leo's mentor, Gideon, trying to kill his son and succeeding in killing his future son, although he was born again, if you will…they're all going to be rocked. Their moral compass is going to be imbalanced, because collectively they can't not react to the fact that the best of the good, Gideon, tried to do something so horrible to their children," says Kern. "It was an absolute betrayal. And their whole journey and fight has been good over evil. They're going to be questioning that at the beginning of the season. Leo especially is going to be rocked by it, and it's going to require a lot of healing for the healer to bring him back into the fold. And that's going to have to happen before he and Piper have a chance to get back together," he says. "In the first part of the season the Charmed Ones are going to step back from the bigger good-vs-evil battles. They've saved the world one too many times as far as they're concerned, and they haven't really been rewarded with it. They've been reward with it by betrayal. They're going to try and go back to their roots, dealing with a smaller batch of stories. Helping some innocents. The micro, not the macro. But as the season progresses there will be a looming threat. I call it the new power on the horizon that will force them back into bigger battles.

As for Paige, she's going to try and save the Magic School, which is being shut down. She'll meet some resistance from the parents and the faculty. "So in her own unorthodox, kind of wacky approach, she will be bringing Magic School to the 21st century."

Phoebe is still without her active powers, and is having a rough time dealing with Gideon's betrayal. "She's going to decide to take time away from her Ask Phoebe column for a short while to try to figure out what her priorities are. Does she want her powers back? Or doesn't she? She'll have a funny twist, though, because there is a surprise in who she ends up inadvertently hiring to be her ghost writer."

Assuming things go well this year, Kern believes there may well be an eighth season.

"Alyssa said it best in another interview, where she said, 'We just want to out with our best foot forward. If our best foot forward earns us one more year, fine. That's great. If our best foot forward doesn't then we don't want to come back for another year and drift through another season.' So, yeah, if we have another strong year and we challenge ourselves to write interesting and fresh material, and the girls respond to it and enjoy it themselves and put their best feet forward, I think there's no reason to think we won't go to an eighth season. But I hope we'll know sooner rather than later, so if this is to be our last season we can reward the loyal audience with a well thought out conclusion to the series. I have in my mind an idea about how I would do that, but it requires several months of setting up."

Until then, "we're in lofty territory in the seventh season, especially with a genre show. So we're humble and grateful to still be on the air this many years. And we'll just put our best foot forward and let the ratings gods decide our future.

[~*~Kit_The_Kat~*~]

Here's the link at DDF.com to where Drew Fuller confirms his not coming back to Charmed. He posted it in the comments area two days ago.

[~*~Kit_The_Kat~*~]

Here's a picture of Vadim Dale (Outback Jack), it's been rumored for quite some time that he might be making a guest appearance on Charmed this season.... I can't confirm it at this time..... yet, but by the looks of different things I've read including an article written 8/16/04. That Vadim has had "talks" with Spelling and has recently moved from Australia to L.A. Kinda makes you wonder huh? I'll update as info becomes available.

[~*~Kit_The_Kat~*~]

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

THE SCOOP IS OUT THERE

Kerr Smith —

best known for his role as Dawson's Creek's token gay, Jack McPhee — is joining the cast of Charmed as a love interest for, um, a girl. Specifically, leading lady Rose McGowan. A show spokeswoman describes Smith's character as a homeland-security agent (Agent Brody)who believes in the supernatural. Says the rep: "He's sort of like Fox Mulder from The X-Files." He'll debut in October and, if my hunch is correct, start making eyes at fellow newcomer Nick Lachey by November sweeps ~ jokes TV Guide.

[wildcat14]

if anyone noticed it looks like elise is back

[~*~Kit_The_Kat~*~]

Rebecca Balding who plays "Elise Rothman" Phoebe's boss at The Bay Mirror, has had that recurring role since her appearance as that character in the episode "The Fifth Halliwheel" (episode # 4.16) 21 March 2002 (original air date). She more than likely will continue to play that role (as a supporting actress to Phoebe) until that character is no longer needed just to keep up continuity ~ (yes, I actually said that word in relation to "Charmed"). I realize Rebecca made her first appearance in Charmed as Aviva's "Aunt Jackie" in episode: "The Fourth Sister" (episode # 1.7) 18 November 1998 (original air date). I guess the "powers that be" realized she (Rebecca) was a good actress to portray "Elise", so they decided to bring her back to play the character she has now. I don't forsee her going anywhere any time soon.

[wildcat14]

thanks for clearing that up kat

[~*~Kit_The_Kat~*~]

"Reunion for Charmed's Piper and Leo?"
by Daniel R. Coleridge
TV Guide Online
An interview with Brian Krause


Since 2000, former soap stud Brian Krause has played Leo Wyatt, the Halliwell sisters' handyman who became their whitelighter, otherwise known as a guardian angel. Over the years, Krause has played out lotsa drama on the WB witchfest – and we ain't just talkin' about his short-lived off-screen relationship with Alyssa Milano following his divorce. As Leo, he's endured a rocky marriage to that cranky Piper (Holly Marie Combs) that looked finito last season. But there's hope for the supernatural spouses yet in Season 7, which kicks off Sunday night. Read on for the magical details....

TV Guide Online: Leo was promoted last season to an elder whitelighter, wasn't he?
Brian Krause: Right. One of the other elders, Gideon, was bad and I terminated him. So then I made the choice to come back down from the clouds to be more proactive in protecting my children and the charmed ones. I haven't turned my back on the elders, but I keep a warier eye on what's good and what's bad now.

TVGO: Leo and Piper had to split up when he went away.
Krause: Yes. Since I wasn't going to be around and we couldn't be together, I wanted her to live a life free of pain.

TVGO: Did they ever get divorced? Is their marriage even legal since Leo's a heavenly being?
Krause: I don't think there was ever an official divorce ‹ I guess we did. That's one of the things I'm not clear on. [Laughs] I didn't get any papers! I don't think there was a settlement and I don't know how Leo finds money to buy clothes or anything like that. I guess the witches have a trust fund or a good 401K. None of us can use our powers for personal gain, though. We can only protect people.

TVGO: That bites. I'd rather be a bad witch and have fun.
Krause: Then we'd have to vanquish you!

TVGO: I dare you to try. So anyhoo, where does Leo pick up this season?
Krause: I've gone out on my own hunting demons, hunting whoever is after my child and trying to terminate them. I'm no longer following the rules of the elders. I'm kind of making up my own rules now. There's constant attacks against the charmed ones and my son, so I'm trying to stop all that and put an end to all evilness. The nice thing is my character is not so soft anymore. I'm now more badass. I'm not just orbing places or healing people, I can blow stuff up!

TVGO: Leo and Piper are getting back together, right?
Krause: I haven't read that in a script yet, but I would imagine it'll happen. Leo wants to be with Piper and she wants to be with him. And we're around each other more now that I'm not "up there." We were close and intimate one night at the end of last season....

TVGO: Hope Leo doesn't mind that she'd been with other men.
Krause: She went on a couple of dates last year. Leo was pretty jealous – 'cause it's his wife! It's not like we broke up because we didn't get along; it was circumstances. I want her to be happy, but no touchy-touchy with other guys!

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Yet another Brian interview..... compliments of TheWB:

''I was 'the' pie guy!''

On what The Charmed Ones are really like:
"You want dirt? You want me to be the fall guy? No way! Okay, I will tell you Alyssa is the biggest flirt. She loves everybody."

On the break-up:
"Leo wants his family back. Period. They didn't break-up because they wanted to break-up, they broke up due to circumstances, which, sucks whether it's TV or real life, you know."

On life before Leo:
"I've done a lot of different jobs. Driving a bakery truck was pretty goofy. Crawling under houses wasn't fun. Roofing, electrical? Those aren't so bad, but driving a bakery truck pretty much sucked. I was 'the' pie guy!'"

On diaper duty:
"Leo and I are both family oriented. When my son was in diapers, I was pretty quick, pretty darn quick. I'd whip off that puppy, get the baby wipe going, the whole thing, all in the dark mind you. You know what? I do not ever want to have to do that again."

On last season:
"Drew brought a lot of fresh energy to the set. He's a huge flirt, although, I don't mean to say he was a big flirt with me, okay, make sure you get that right."

On being Dear Answer Boy:
"These three women [Alyssa, Rose and Holly] are pretty strong women. They do not come to me for advice! They've had to learn on their own how not to be pushed around, so I don't think any of them need advice from me or anybody else really."

On keeping secrets:
"I like racing cars. People [at The WB] would prefer I do something safer, like, golf, but, I am sorry, I could get killed with a golf ball much easier than I could strapped into a race car. Of course, I wouldn't know this first hand because I don't do anything dangerous, right? I like my job way too much! I'm perfectly content with speeding on city streets."

[~*~Kit_The_Kat~*~]

You've all heard the old saying... "Gone but not forgotten".... well, in the episode coming up "Someone to Witch Over Me", the old saying applies, but with a twist.... Drew may make an appearance so he may not be "gone" after all...... tune in for further details later....

[blondie]

in addition to what kit said, at charmedpo3.com she has a link to part of the shooting script for "someone to witch over me" and its a got a part for chris (drew). so hopefully it will happen and make a lot of people happy.