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07-26-2013 05:05 PM |
Yeah.
I can understand why people have been comparing it to Charmed or even Eastwick, and while it is written by the same person as Eastwick, if they go with the mythology of the books, then you'll be able to see it's nothing like either of them at all. It introduces Norse Mythology.
And while it might say the girls don't know they are witches, but after some casting sides I have read, I just think they just don't remember they are witches. Like something happened, and their memories have been wiped.
Promo pic of Joanna.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2013/07...f-East-End.jpg
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/26/ju...s-of-east-end/
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Witches of East End exec producer Maggie Freidman, whose patience we hope we inherit in our next life, explained sweetly that her show is based on Melissa de la Cruz’s very popular novel of same name, and the idea is to attract the many fans of the book to the TV series, making all suggestions of a name change, however well-intended, pure horseradish. Besides, Friedman noted, the tone of her show is very different than that of the Updike-inspired ABC one. This one’s about a mother, named Joanna Beauchamp, played by Julia Ormond, whose particular curse it is that she keeps giving birth to the same two daughters, over and over again — a sort of OBGYN Groundhog Day. The daughters keep dying, which causes her to get preggers again, and so on. Friedman says it’s a metaphor for motherhood, making motherhood sounds like a perfect hell. Joanna’s sister character has it easy — she’s a cat with nine lives. That character is not in the book.
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"What makes it different from other witch shows is it's very much centered on this family," executive producer Maggie Friedman said at the network's Television Critics Association fall TV preview panel Friday. "The title is similar to Eastwick, but it's a book that is its own thing... We didn't want to change the title because we wanted to embrace it for what it is."
But the show will stray from the Melissa de la Cruz-written book on which the series is based. "It is a little bit different," Friedman said. "The Wendy character is brand-new and she's very dear to my heart. She's that crazy aunt that we all either have or wish that we had. Another big difference with the book is that when we begin, the girls don't know what they are." Instead, Friedman said, it'll be about seeing them learn who and what they are.
"Each character has their own distinct gift and curse," said Friedman, citing Joanna's immortality and the short life expectancies of her children. "Joanna doesn't want her daughters to explore their power because there's a dangerous aspect of that," Ormond said, noting that Wendy wants the opposite. Adds Amick: "It's like two parents that are at odds."
Because the senior Beauchamp sisters are essentially immortal — Amick's Wendy has nine lives — "We get to tell stories in all different time periods," Friedman said. We will also see them face the elements in a different way than prior witchy series. "On Charmed, there was the monster-of-the-week kind of thing, but this is more of an ongoing story. In the pilot, we meet a shapeshifter who looks like Joanna. We don't know who that person is, but they're out to get our family. The ongoing story is to find out who this person is and why they're going after the Beauchamps."
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