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EASTWICK: THE SERIES
Gets A Director For Its Pilot!!

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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.




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First...hahaahahaha
by ERIS
Feb 9th, 2009
12:47:55 AM
It's Desperate Housewives... with spells
by IAmMrMonkey!
Feb 9th, 2009
01:21:11 AM
Let
by Phil Connors
Feb 9th, 2009
01:32:54 AM
Let's see...
by Phil Connors
Feb 9th, 2009
01:34:46 AM
Underappreciated Movie
by Liberty Valance
Feb 9th, 2009
01:56:04 AM
No series plz
by Doc_Hudson
Feb 9th, 2009
02:53:34 AM
Cherry vomit?
by Dingbatty
Feb 9th, 2009
02:55:15 AM
Is that Juliette from Lost on the cover?
by tangcameo
Feb 9th, 2009
03:33:38 AM
I wuz thinkin the same damn thing, tangcameo!
by Cheif Brody
Feb 9th, 2009
05:47:19 AM
Yeah it looks just like Elizabeth Mitchell
by photoboy
Feb 9th, 2009
06:00:16 AM
Actually, "Eastwick" was an unaired 2002 pilot as well...
by Uga
Feb 9th, 2009
06:29:11 AM
also, Updike just died.
by HypeEndsHere
Feb 9th, 2009
07:22:35 AM
Charmed redux
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Feb 9th, 2009
08:40:16 AM
Well at least it isn't
by skimn
Feb 9th, 2009
08:54:34 AM
MrMonkey... damn you!
by beastie
Feb 9th, 2009
11:07:53 AM
Skimn, its not overlooked, it was a MASSIVE hit
by Stormwatcher
Feb 9th, 2009
05:51:07 PM
Yeah it was a big hit.
by Lashlarue
Feb 9th, 2009
07:39:31 PM
Hope they get it right this time
by CZ
Feb 9th, 2009
07:52:40 PM
At the time jack Nicholson...
by emeraldboy
Feb 10th, 2009
07:16:53 AM
that scene with Cher and..
by emeraldboy
Feb 10th, 2009
07:20:05 AM

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