They are, of course, being nudged together by an unseen hand there are no coincidences in this sort of story, only the tendrils of supernatural destiny. In a hamlet “at the edge of New England,” three women, each with a yearning burning inside of her, awaken to unsuspected powers after simultaneously wishing on a fountain during a dress-up-as-pilgrims-or-witches fall fair. It is something less than magical, but it’s pleasant and pretty and easy to watch. NBC made a pilot in 1989 and Fox one in 2002 - and I promise you these are the last dates you’ll have to read in this review - but this is the first to grow from a pilot into a series. In August 2010, it was "pick of the week" in The Times, where the journalist speculated the show would get a cult following.“Eastwick,” which premieres tonight on ABC, represents a third attempt to turn the 1987 film of the 1984 John Updike novel “The Witches of Eastwick” into a TV show. The premiere episode also became one of the highest-viewed pilots of a supernatural series based on witches, even beating cult favorite Charmed (7.70 million viewers). Winning the 10pm hour time slot, against CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It remained the highest viewed telecast on ABC at the Wednesday 10pm hour until ABC's new telecast series "Revenge" premiered and scored a 3.3 adults 18-49 rating and 10.02 million viewers. The pilot episode, which achieved 8.53 million viewers. Filming of the pilot began in August 2009, when all characters had been cast, Matt Dallas being the last to be cast on July 30.Įastwick was one of the eighty-four shows canceled during the 2009-10 season.Īfter the series was canceled on November 9, Kristin of E! Online held an online campaign for endangered shows in which Eastwick won the poll with 54.5% of the vote, the creator Maggie Friedman, was said to be furious with how the show was mishandled on the network, particularly with its timeslot and the irregular airings of the later episodes with little to no promotion.Īlthough the brilleant Eastwick was short-lived, the supernatural drama became a favorite for fans of the occult. Studios backlot, using the same town square as The WB's series, Gilmore Girls. The series was filmed on the Warner Bros. While the book was created by John Updike, the series was conceived by Maggie Friedman, who wanted to create a show about female empowerment. The series is based on the 1984 novel and film counterpart, The Witches of Eastwick. The series finale airing February 14, 2010, achieved 201,000 on Hallmark, the highest of the series. The United Kingdom were the first to see episodes eleven and thirteen, the series finale, as the United States left those two episodes unaired. The sixth episode pulled in 194,000 viewers and then an additional 110,000 at 11pm, totalling 304,000. The pilot episode gathered 157,000 viewers on Hallmark Channel, following episodes usually got the top spot for the channel of the week. The show premiered in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2009. I’ll take witch hazel over wisteria any day." The New York Post described Eastwick as the best new fall show of 2009, giving it a Grade A-, the highest score for any of the new shows graded.Įastwick saw better success internationally than in the United States. Eastwick is allegory and knows it, so it can be plausibly silly and over-the-top, and hint at real issues - women in the workplace, gender politics at home - without trying too hard. Metacritic has gives the series a score of 50% based on the pilot episode, Entertainment Weekly gave the pilot episode a B, stating the show "plays like Desperate Housewives if the Wisteria Lane ladies liked prestidigitation instead of poker." The Boston Globe gave the show a more positive review: its writer still compared it to Desperate Housewives, but said, "Desperate Housewives is frustrating because it can’t seem to decide what it is: murder mystery, silly farce, or realistic look at domestic woes. Eastwick opened with initially mixed reviews.
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