Following Holly Marie Combs‘ Twitter rant against The CW’s planned reboot of long-running witch series ‘Charmed’, original star Shannon Doherty has also added her opinion to the new spin. Doherty spent the weekend responding to old school fans on Twitter and expressed an interest in a new take, but like Combs, found the description released to be offensive.
First, she supported the new version and the idea that this means more leading roles for women:
Im intrigued by the idea that a new generation might be comforted, inspired like all you were. Charmed helped us all in some way
— Shannen Doherty (@DohertyShannen) January 27, 2018
Exactly. More great roles for women. That’s a huge plus.
— Shannen Doherty (@DohertyShannen) January 27, 2018
Doherty also diplomatically pointed out that ‘Charmed’ hit TV on the heels of witch movies, ‘The Craft’ and ‘Practical Magic’:
I get that but I can tell you that we were inspired by practical magic. So again, they should perhaps simply do a show inspired by Charmed
— Shannen Doherty (@DohertyShannen) January 27, 2018
Notorious Hollywood bad girl Doherty shrugged off negativity, saying that “negativity has no place in my life”:
Thank you. I love charmed. I also want it to be respected. I’m simply choosing to be constructive about it because negativity has no place in my life.
— Shannen Doherty (@DohertyShannen) January 27, 2018
But the wording of the description, that the new version is “this fierce, funny, feminist reboot of the original series” rubbed both Combs and Doherty the wrong way. The original series WAS feirce, funny and feminist! This wasn’t some show from the 1950s! The Halliwell sisters were all these things! As Combs snarkily put it, ”Guess we forgot to do that the first go around. Hmph.” But once again, Doherty took the high road, saying:
Yep. You nailed it. Their wording is terrible and a bit offensive. But, everyone makes mistakes. Perhaps with the backlash they will be more thoughtful in future.
— Shannen Doherty (@DohertyShannen) January 27, 2018
It seems that the idea of The CW bringing back ‘Charmed’ isn’t so much the issue, as the fact that it seems that they are belittling the original show.
‘Jane the Virgin’ creator/showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman and executive producer Ben Silverman, writers/co-executive producers Jessica O’Toole and Amy Rardin, and the pilot’s director Brad Silberling are responsible for the new version. The CW has only ordered a pilot, so there is no guarantee that this will actually make it to series.
We’re going to have to wait and see whether Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan want to chime in, but the fact that Doherty points out that a lot of the misunderstanding seems to simply stem from the wording chosen to announce this project seems to have simply rubbed fans and stars the wrong way.
Are you willing to give the new ‘Charmed’ a chance or is this just a bad idea?
Source: Entertainment Weekly
