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It looks like ABC’s “The Witches of Eastwick” pilot is getting a pick-up.

If it doesn’t, it will end David Nutter’s streak. The last 14 pilots Nutter directed became series.

Nutter’s pilots have included everything from “Roswell,” “Dark Angel,” “Millennium” and “The Mentalist” to “Smallville,” “Supernatural,” “Tarzan,” “Without A Trace,” “Jack & Bobby,” “Traveler,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and “Dr.Vegas.”

For the big screen, Nutter directed the 1998 Katie Holmes-James Marsden thriller “Disturbing Behavior.”

Maggie Friedman, a veteran of “Dawson’s Creek,” “Wasteland,” “Once & Again,” “Jack & Bobby” and “Related,” wrote the pilot and will oversee the series, based on John Updike’s novel about a trio of young women seduced by Satan.

The same book, of course, formed the basis of a 1987 George Miller movie starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon and Cher.

This is TV's second crack at an "Eastwick" pilot. In 1992, writer-producers Carlton Cuse and Jeffrey Boam mounted an NBC version starred Catherine Mary Stewart, Julia Campbell, Ally Walker and Michael Siberri.

Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.