Charmed News

AFTER THE FALL: GeekSpeakMagazine

We see what the one time Halliwell sisters and their former friends and lovers have been up to since their 8 season run ended in 2006.

An interesting article is running in this month’s edition of Geek Speak Magazine. One of our regular features each month is “After the Fall”, a look at the cast of our favorite off-air TV shows and detailing what they’ve been up to since their series ended. This month,  we’ve selected the cast of “Charmed”.

Here is the link: http://geekspeakmagazine.com/archive/issue5/features/charmed_1.htm

No SEASON TWO For Romantically Challenged

Alyssa's brand new show which only made it's debut last month has already been canceled by ABC.

ABC has reportedly cancelled a number of its shows.

Alyssa Milano's new series Romantically Challenged, which premiered last month, has not been picked up for a second season and Better Off Ted will not return to the network.

A spokesperson for ABC declined to comment.

Milano stars as Rebecca, a recent Pittsburgh divorcée trying to get back into the dating scene. She is prodded on — loudly, and without a shred of wit — by her baby sister Lisa (Kelly Stables), who is supposed to be humorous because she's sexually voracious.

'Romantically' characters 'won't pair up'

Alyssa Milano has insisted that the characters in Romantically Challenged will not start dating each other.

Milano, who plays Rebecca, explained that the comedy's creator Ricky Blitt wanted to avoid making the show too clichéd.

"No characters will end up pairing off," she told Zap2It. "That is something that Ricky Blitt has really fought for.

"He didn't want the show to fall into that cliché of, 'Oh, here's platonic friends... two of them have to end up together'. So he's fought against that."

She continued: "I don't know, if we're blessed enough to have a season six, then perhaps? But as of right now he will continue to fight that fight."

However, Milano added that she hopes her character can have a good relationship in the future.

"I hope at some point dating isn't so painful for her," she said. "And that she makes some better choices. She'd kind of got a 'bad picker' - that I call someone that just doesn't pick the right people for her... So I just hope she, I just hope my character finds love some day."

Romantically Challenged continues Mondays at 9.30/8.30c on ABC.

Alyssa Milano On Returning to TV, Loving Twitter & Being 'Romantically Challenged'

Alyssa Milano is no stranger to network television. She practically grew up before our eyes on 'Who's the Boss?,' proved how naughty she could be on 'Melrose Place,' was bewitching on 'Charmed' and played Earl's crazy third wife on 'My Name is Earl.'

Now she's trying her hand at romantic comedy ... but don't expect 'Bachelor'-style dream dates or lovey-dovey relationships on 'Romantically Challenged' (premieres Mon., April 19, 9:32PM ET on ABC). Milano plays Rebecca, a recently divorced, dating-impaired 30-something with a group of friends as tragically unlucky in love as she is.

AOL TV talked to the multifaceted Milano about returning to TV, her iconic roles, Twitter, baseball and why she says that, before marriage, she was "the worst dater on the planet."

We love having you back on TV! What's 'Romantically Challenged' all about?
The show is all about a group of friends that are really bad at dating. The essence of it, to me, is about that circle of friends that you have, that you're totally functional with, but then when you step outside of that core group and have to function outside of that group, you're totally dysfunctional.


All the characters are flawed in their own ways -- is it hard for you to play someone who's so terrible at love?
No, I can totally relate, are you kidding? [Laughs] I've never been particularly great at love. I'm married now -- and I married my best friend and he's amazing and we have a beautiful relationship -- but I was the worst dater on the planet.

[Laughs] So you can pull from personal experience a bit?
Absolutely! One of the many things that I think is so special about this show is there is not a person on the planet – even those that got married at a young age – that hasn't been romantically challenged at some point in their life or their relationship.

Your character, Rebecca, married the first man she ever dated ...
Yeah, she got married right out of high school, she's only had sex with one guy, she's just recently divorced -- I guess it's been about six months when we find her -- and she's terrified and really awkward. On the flip side of that, it's kind of exciting and intriguing to her, but I don't think we'll ever see Rebecca be smooth in the relationship department.

Is that what attracted you to the character?
This show is not a high concept show -- for the show to work, it's really gotta be about the micro-situations that these people are in, their chemistry with each other and the dynamics between the characters. I think that's true with any show to be successful, but especially true with a show that isn't high concept. It's really a slice of life, about what people go through. Looking for love is a pretty broad topic, and we can go many different places with it.

For so long, networks thought viewers needed high concept shows -- like 'Charmed,' for instance -- and now ABC has proven with shows like 'Modern Family' that sometimes simple is better.
I think people are ready to laugh again. A lot of television is about escape, and it's been like that forever, but I think people are ready to laugh. There was a time when people wanted to escape into the fantasy world, and that's when 'Charmed' was on the air, but now we're getting back to comedy, and I think that's great. I love the aspect of this show that it's a traditional multi-camera format, but Ricky Blitt is such an interesting writer that it's got a different unique comedic sensibility.


I've heard you say that Ricky was the reason you decided to do this show -- is that true?
Yeah. I'm crazy about him as a person, and I think he writes really, really well for women. He allows women to be funny, and you don't find that a lot. I had faith that he was going to put together a great writing staff; James Burrows is our director, and I've always wanted to work with him since I was a little girl. Really it was the whole package. I loved the fact that it was an ensemble show. Just little things to me ... you think, OK, for a show about people and the dating world, there's gotta be the hopeless romantic. But the fact that our hopeless romantic is actually a dude, and that it's Kyle Bornheimer, who's like the coolest, greatest, funniest guy ever ... little interesting aspects like that. It had a freshness to it that I hadn't seen in a long time.

Charmed comics set for Summer 2010 release

Big news as  The Charmed comic is set the go ahead and will be out sometime from Summer 2010. Look for the Charmed comic and sourcebook to hit store shelves from Zenescope on June 30, 2010. The comic book will pick up where the sisters left off and is thought as a 'Season 9' of Charmed.