Paul Gross, Rebecca Romijn
If you never saw the 1987 movie The Witches of Eastwick, starring Jack Nicholson, or read the John Updike novel, ABC is offering a fresh rendition with Eastwick.
Set in the fictional Rhode Island town of Eastwick, ABC's new series follows three women on the cusp of discovering that they're more powerful than they ever dreamed. Their quirky acts of persuasion, premonition and, let's just say, tapping into Mother Earth, bring the mysterious Darryl to town.
VIDEO: Meet the Cast of Eastwick
While Paul Gross has some Nicholson-sized shoes to fill, his version of Darryl Van Horne may be just as evil, if not more. Gross stars opposite Rebecca Romijn, Lindsay Price and Jaime Ray Newman.
How will Darryl seduce the lovely ladies of Eastwick?
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Dean Winters, Marc Blucas and Jaime Ray Newman
Amid a bevy of pilot casting announcements, ABC has tapped Dean Winters — aka 30 Rock's Dennis-the-Beeper King — to play the father of an abducted girl in Happy Town, a mystery about a small town shaken by the return of a serial kidnapper.
The Alphabet network's See Cate Run pilot, meanwhile, has cast Marc Blucas (Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Riley) as ...
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John Updike
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike, a literary legend whose novel The Witches of Eastwick was adapted into a hit 1987 film starring Jack Nicholson, has died. He was 76.
Updike was most celebrated for his five Rabbit novels, which chronicled the life and death of a former high school basketball player.
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ABC is hoping to conjure up some magic — and ratings — with The Witches of Eastwick.The Alphabet has greenlit a new series based on the 1987 film of the same name, Variety reports. No word yet on the cast, but chances are slim for Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon to reprise their roles from the movie, which is based on the John Updike novel about three women who turn to witchcraft to rectify their futile love lives. As a result, a devil (Nicholson) is conjured and tries to seduce all three.ABC's venture marks the third time networks have attempted to adapt the flick to the small screen. Carlton Cuse, now of Lost, first tried in 1992 for NBC, and 10 years later, Lori Loughlin, Marcia Cross and Kelly Rutherford were tapped for Fox's Eastwick, which centered on the trio's sons.Dawson's Creek scribe Maggie Friedman will pen the pilot script. — Joyce Eng
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A very enjoyable episode indeed. It was interesting to see the gang battling a foe they really couldn't do anything to stop — and for that foe to be of this world, rather than alien or technological. It sort of reminded me of some of the better X-Files "creature" stories, though "Small Worlds" had the added element of filling in some of the Captain Jack backstory.In an eerie take on a bird-watching expedition, Estelle, an elderly woman with a thing for fairies, catches a few on film in the woods. Jack (after an unsettled, shirtless night spent at HQ) drags Gwen to see Estelle present her images. It seems that the two old friends have an ongoing debate as to whether fairies are good or evil, Estelle preferring to believe that they are kind and harmless (boy was she proven wrong), Jack recognizing them for old, restless earth spirits. When Gwen sees a faded photo of what looks like Jack, he explains that it was actually his father, and that his father and Estelle were inseparable...
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