Charmed is an American television series that ran for eight seasons on
The WB. It was produced by Aaron Spelling and is about three sisters who
are the world's most powerful good witches, known throughout the
supernatural community as "The Charmed Ones" but known to everyone else
as the Halliwells. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow
and evolve over the course of their lives. The Charmed Ones live
together in a manor and use their supernatural abilities to battle the
warlocks, demons and other evil forces that populate San Francisco,
California, to protect the innocent and good magical beings.
The
show was the last in its generation of supernatural-themed shows such as
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Roswell, and has many times been
noted for its mixing of multiple genres (from horror and fantasy to
comedy and even soap), as well as continuing after a number of
archetypal jump the shark moments, most famously the departure of one of
the leading actresses at the end of season three. It also had the
highest rated debut (until the debut of Smallville at 8.40 million), for
the WB Television Network, with 7.70 million viewers tuning in for the
series premiere, "Something Wicca This Way Comes".
In January
2006, with the airing of "Payback's a Witch", Charmed became the longest
running show with all-female leads, surpassing Laverne & Shirley.
The series ended its run on May 21, 2006. The Charmed series finale,
"Forever Charmed", pulled in a season high of 4.49 million viewers.
Charmed has gathered several awards and nominations. 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 Favourite 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.
NAACP Image Awards, which honors
African Americans, nominated Janice Cooke Leonard for an Outstanding
Directing in a Dramatic Series award in 2006. Charmed has also been
acknowledged abroad, having being nominated for a Spanish TP de Oro and
having won a Cable Guide Award in the United Kingdom for Favourite
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Series in 2001. Executive producer Aaron Spelling has
also won several awards for his contribution to television, including a
BAFTA for Excellence in Television, and a Producers Guild of America
Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2006, Spelling Television and
series producer Brad Kern declared Charmed as the longest running
hour-long series in television history featuring all female leads. 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",whilst lead actress Rose McGowan described it as "a huge
achievement".
In 2000, Cult TV Awards placed Charmed within its top
100 cult television series of the century at number forty-four. 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.
Despite its longevity, 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."
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