Het plot van ‘Charmed’ aflevering 4×05 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Sandwich is verschenen.

LOST IN THE PAST – As Mel (Melonie Diaz) works to regain control of her powers, a conspiracy theorist hobgoblin threatens the lives of everyone at the Blue Camellia. But when Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) and Kaela (Lucy Barrett) step in to help save the present, they end up getting stuck… in the past. Also starring Rupert Evans and Jordan Donica. Rupert Evans directed the episode written by Joey Falco (#405). Original airdate 4/8/2022.

De afleveringstills van ‘Charmed’ aflevering 4×03 Unlucky Charmed zijn verschenen.

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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Charmed Season 4 Episode 2 “You Can’t Go Home Again.”]

Kaela (Lucy Barrett), the newest Charmed One, may not want anything to do with Mel (Melonie Diaz) and Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) at the beginning of the latest episode, but by the end, she changes her mind.

After Kaela’s targeted for using magic around humans — she’s still trying to gain control of her abilities — her best friend ends up nearly paying the ultimate price. But after Kaela gets a grip on her manifesting ability to save Harry (Rupert Evans) and Jordan (Jordan Donica) from a bomb and together the men save her friend’s life, she decides to stick around.

Showrunners Jeffrey Lieber, Joey Falco and Nicki Renna tease what’s ahead.

How did you want to go about bringing Kaela into the fold?
Joey Falco: Obviously we’re doing something a little different this season and than the original show did, which is since Kaela’s identity is such a mystery and her connection to the other two, what makes her part of the sisterhood, is such a mystery, something we’ll be playing out through the whole season, it creates this really different dynamic where they have to decide, how do we all fit together? How do we work together as a team when we do not even know if we’re sisters? That’s the emotional story we’re playing with. Mel is more welcoming [since] she’s come a long way over the last four years after learning her relationship with Macy, but Maggie misses her sister so much.

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De eerste teaser trailer voor het nieuwe en tweede seizoen van Kaley’s serie ‘The Flight Attendant’ is verschenen. Daarnaast is ook bekend geworden dat deze vanaf 21 april op HBO Max te zien zal zijn, de streamingsdienst is sinds deze maand ook verkrijgbaar in Nederland.

Nog 5 dagen voordat het nieuwe en tweede seizoen van ‘Bridgerton’ te zien is op Netflix en nu is er een nieuwe trailer verschenen!

Lucy was vorige week aanwezig op het 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals in Las Vegas voor de premiere van haar nieuwste film ‘Sissy’.

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Holly heeft tijdens een conventie laten weten dat er van haar verwacht werd dat ze een push-up BH zou dragen omdat haar decolleté niet groot genoeg zijn zijn in vergelijking met haar co-ster. Iets wat ze pertinent geweigerd heeft op te doen en daardoor zelf vaak geen BH aan had tijdens scenes.

“They wanted me to wear a big, padded push-up bra and I was like, ‘no,'” Holly Marie Combs said at the first-ever 90s Con on Saturday

Holly Marie Combs took a major stand while working on Charmed. During the show’s 90s Con panel on Saturday, Combs revealed she often didn’t wear a bra on set — but there’s a reason for that.

“They tried to be gentle about it, but … the messages would come down through the ranks. And then there would be, you know, that unfortunate person who had to deliver the message to you,” Combs, 48, recalled. “Usually, it was down to wardrobe. They were, like, setting these different bras in my dressing room and I was like, ‘Those belong to somebody else.’ ”

“They wanted me to wear a big, padded push-up bra and I was like, ‘no,’ hence why there are so many scenes of me not wearing a bra whatsoever,” she continued. “Which I apologize for but at the moment, at the time, it was very important.”

The panel’s host, Christy Carlson Romano, asked whether they provided an “alternative option” for her, but Combs replied: “No, nothing.” Comparing herself to her costars Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan, Combs explained that “their boobs was [sic] enough” and “not everybody needed to have” a push-up bra.

Charmed ran for eight seasons on The WB from 1998 to 2006. Created by Constance M. Burge, the series followed three sisters as they discover they are witches and ultimately choose to use their powers to fight evil forces.

Elsewhere in Saturday’s panel, Combs opened up about her frustrations with her character Piper.

“She became really exhausting around like season five, and so she mellowed out more by design and my needs … But she was growing,” she said. “She needed to mellow. Like literally, I just look at so many scenes where I’m, like, crying about [my costar] Brian [Krause’s character] again. Crying about Brian, that was my job.”

Combs also provided a hilarious tidbit about fellow series alum Shannen Doherty, who only appeared on the first three seasons before McGowan, 48, came on board. According to Combs, the 50-year-old Beverly Hills, 90210 alum was the biggest “pranker” on set.

“She did bad things and she messed with the wrong department. She messed with the transpo department,” Combs revealed.

“They actually put a fake winning lotto ticket in her trailer. Yeah, they had a war,” she said, explaining how Doherty often bought lottery tickets. “They, like, shook her trailer and made her think it was an earthquake. It got ugly. She did, like, bad toilet things, she did, like, silly spray things in cars and she took a golf cart many, many, many, many times and she would just leave.”

Lucy heeft een interview met Entertainment Weekly gehad over haar nieuwe rol in ‘Charmed’

Even when magic is involved, history has a way of repeating itself.

The original Charmed notably replaced one of its original Charmed ones, Shannen Doherty’s Prue, with half-sister Paige (Rose McGowan) when Doherty exited the series at the end of season 3. Now, as the CW reboot of the witchy series enters its fourth season, it has a new Charmed one, too.

Replacing Madeleine Mantock’s Macy, who met a tragic end in the season 3 finale, Lucy Barrett joins the series as Kaela, which is short for Michaela, maintaining the “M” theme in the same way the original series did with “P” names.

The strange parallel between the series isn’t lost on Barrett. “It’s really cool,” she tells EW. “Everything is cyclical, and it is pretty full circle. There’s definitely some magic going on.”

Barrett’s first episode, Friday’s “Not That Girl,” introduced us to Kaela, her powers of manifesting (turning her drawings and art into physical objects), and her shadowy past, which includes being left on the doorstep of a fire station as a baby and a bout with cancer.

We called up Barrett to get all the details on assuming the mantle of the new “Charmed” one, how exactly Michaela’s powers work, and whether it’ll be smooth sailing for her to become the newest member of this trio.

Can you tell us a bit more about Michaela and what kind of person she is and some of her background?
Michaela is adopted. She has known that she’s adopted since she was a baby. She was left at a fire station in Philadelphia. She’s very, very close to her parents. But she’s had a hard life. She survived leukemia, and that in and of itself has a really cool connection to the story and how she came to be a Charmed one. But with all that she’s been through, she’s a very talented artist and she has channeled her trauma and her experiences into her artwork. Her magic is through her artwork, she’s able to conjure things. She can draw anything and manifest it. Whereas Macy was very together and really smart and academic, Kaela is the opposite of that. Kaela is artistic and messy and a little bit all over the place, but super lovable. Spontaneous. Full of energy. I think people are really going to enjoy her. I got to watch the first episode the other night. She just brings this tone to the show that’s so fun and refreshing.

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De Amerikaanse TV zender Fox heeft besloten de nieuwe serie van Ser’Darius Blaine ‘The Big Leap’ geen tweede seizoen te geven door tegenvallende kijkcijfers en slechte reviews. Het gehele eerste seizoen van de serie dat uit 11 afleveringen bestaat is te bekijken via Disney+.

Fox has opted not to proceed with a second season of The Big Leap. The ballet drama-comedy, starring Scott Foley and Simone Recasner, had an 11-episode freshman run, which ended in December, with the network at the time deferring a decision on the show’s future until the spring.

It is one of two Fox freshman dramas on the bubble after soft limited runs, along with Our Kind Of People, which I hear looks promising for a second season due to a strong showing on Fox’s streamer Tubi.

With its music, stage performances and aspirational themes, The Big Leap was a favorite of Fox brass during the development process and arrived with a strong pre-launch buzz, drawing parallels to Fox’s breakout hit Glee.

But The Big Leap did not follow Glee‘s ratings trajectory. Linear ratings were soft, with the dramedy ranking as Fox’s lowest-rated series this season.

Still, Fox brass liked creatively The Big Leap, which scored a rare for a broadcast series 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The network met with The Big Leap team to hear their Season 2 pitch before making the final decision.

The Big Leap was a show-within-a-show that took viewers on a journey of self-acceptance, body-positivity and empowerment at any age. It was described as a modern tale about second chances, chasing your dreams and taking back what’s yours. The show revolved around a group of diverse, down-on-their-luck characters attempting to change their lives by participating in a potentially life-ruining reality dance show that builds to a live production of Swan Lake.

The Big Leap was produced by 20th Television and Fox Entertainment. Liz Heldens created the series inspired by the British reality series Big Ballet. She executive produced with the show’s director, Jason Winer, and Sue Naegle of Annapurna TV.

Screencaptures van ‘Charmed’ aflevering 4×01 Not That Girl zijn toegevoegd in de galerij!

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De serie Charmed, die draaide om de drie Halliwellzussen die als heksen tegen demonen vechten, was destijds een dikke hit. De serie verbrak record na record en in 1998 was het de langstlopende serie met enkel vrouwen in de hoofdrol. Impressive, right? Toch laat actrice Alyssa Milano haar kinderen de serie (nog) niet kijken.

Veel zoenscènes
Acht seizoenen lang speelde Alyssa Milano de rol van Phoebe Halliwell. Samen met actrice Holly Marie Combs (Piper Halliwell) was ze daarmee de enige die in alle 179 afleveringen van de serie te zien was. En daarin zoende ze veel mannen. No biggie, maar het is wel een van de redenen waarom Alyssa haar kinderen er nog niet naar heeft laten kijken.

“Nee, ze hebben Charmed nog niet gezien. Ze hebben Charmed om vele redenen nog niet gezien”, deelt de actrice daarover op haar TikTok-kanaal. Ze vindt de serie simpelweg nog niet geschikt voor haar 10-jarige zoon Milo en 7-jarige dochter Elizabella. “Ik zoen heel veel mannen in Charmed. Zoveel mannen die niet hun vader zijn. Zo veel mannen. Dus, nee.”

Croptops
Daarnaast is er nog een reden waarom Alyssa haar dochter de serie nog niet wil laten zien. “Mijn dochter is zeven”, begint ze, “en het enige dat ze wil dragen zijn naveltruitjes. Charmed heeft ze nog niet eens gezien. Ik vertel haar de hele tijd: ‘Nee, je wilt geen naveltruitje dragen’. Als ze Charmed kijkt, kun je je wel voorstellen dat ze daarna zegt: Mamma, jij droeg naveltuitjes’.”

Overigens is het heus niet zo dat haar kinderen nooit iets van Alyssa’s werk zien. Zo bekeek de actrice laatst de trailer van de film Brazen met haar dochter. “Uiteraard liet ik haar niet de hele film zien. Ze zei toen: ‘Mama, ik kon wel zien dat je die kus fakete’. Ik denk dat ze me een slechte actrice vond”, vertelt ze grappend.

Sarah en Melonie hebben een interview gehad met TheWrap.com over het vierde seizoen van ‘Charmed’.

‘Charmed’: Sarah Jeffery and Melonie Diaz Say Kaela’s Powers Will Be ‘Super Helpful’ in Handling New ‘Trickster’ Villain
Those powers manifest in ways that ”will surprise the audience,“ Diaz tells TheWrap

A new Charmed one has arrived. The season four premiere of The CW’s “Charmed” introduced Lucy Barrett’s Kaela, a young witch with manifestation powers. Those powers will be key in helping take down the newest big bad, according to series stars Sarah Jeffery and Melonie Diaz.

What exactly are manifestation powers? Essentially, it’s the power of seeing and creating. In the season premiere, we see that Kaela has a penchant for art, and has been drawing people and places she sees in her dreams (including Mel and Maggie). In some cases, her drawings even manifest themselves in the real world.

Though Kaela’s magic proved to be a problem for Josefina, who ate an apple that fell out of Kaela’s drawing and then became a drawing herself — simultaneously creating a negative space monster — Jeffery and Diaz tease Kaela’s abilities as “super helpful.”

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Het plot van ‘Charmed’ aflevering 4×04 Ripples is verschenen.

HOME ALONE – When Maggie’s (Sarah Jeffery) demon-hunting leads her down a dangerous path, Mel (Melonie Diaz) decides it’s time for them to take a break – and books the sisters for a weekend getaway. Meanwhile the new Charmed One (Lucy Barrett) is left in charge of the Command Center for the first time… which doesn’t go as well as anyone hopes. Joe Gallagher directed the episode written by Tommy Cook & Carolyn Townsend (#404). Original airdate 4/1/2022.