Desperate House Wives

The Witches of Eastwick Anyone?

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 | Sci-fi | No Comments

Someone call Jack Nicholson and see if he would be interested in prime time TV! Otherwise I don’t think it would work. No offense to Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer but Jack made the majority of that movie. Plus, we need younger woman for the parts. Oh im sorry, what am I rambling about? Witches of Eastwick the TV show! The 1987 movie The Witches of Eastwick was based off the novel by John Updike. Would a TV series work? ABC has ordered a pilot from Warner Brothers Television which has been written by Maggie Friedman, (She wrote for ABC’s Once and Again and The WB’s Dawson’s Creek).

But can it work? What will they do? As much as this is something I wouldn’t mind watching, the plot would have to be carefully thought out. And for some reason I keep thinking: Charmed meets Desperate House Wives. How many seasons could they milk the relationship between the girls and Daryl before they kick him to the curb. Then what? The three run around as a super team of uber witches destroying evil while eyeing each others flavor of the week from across the room? I also honestly can’t see them milking out more then a season of Daryl and the girls before they boot him. Then we come back to “Then what?” another bigger badder baddie strolls onto the scene to try and woo them into a personal harem? Maybe a woman. OH ratings, I hear them coming in from the male viewers.

Im not bashing the movie or the book. Loved the movie, never read the book. (I deprive myself, I know.) Im speculating!! I personally can’t see much that could be done with it. Who knows? Im still going to check it out. If ABC buys il watch it.

OO Just thought of something. It would be REALLY interested if maybe Cher comes in and makes a guest spot. Maybe she can insinuate that Daryl used her and her friends back in the 80s. Maybe throw in something tragic like..it led to the other two dieing? Hmm the possibilities?