Charmed has gone under some changes for the upcoming second season!
The show got new showrunners who wanted to make it feel more cinematic and serialized.
“We spent a lot of time figuring out how we can blow the roof off, blow the doors off,” one of the new showrunners, Craig Shapiro, said at New York Comic Con.
In addition, Charmed will expand and explore more into the lore and mythology of the show.
Sarah Jeffery‘s character Maggie also goes through some changes and gets more responsibity.
“She’s growing up… and I think that’s very exciting, as opposed to the sorority girl,” Sarah said.
Charmed will return in just TWO days on Friday (October 11) at 8/7c on The CW!
Sarah Jeffery lets out a big laugh during the Charmed panel at the 2019 New York Comic Con at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Sunday (October 6) in New York City.
The -year-old actress joined her on-screen sisters Madeleine Mantock and Melonie Diaz, and Rupert Evans on the stage to tease what’s ahead of the second season of the series.
According to executive producer Liz Kruger, the series will tackle darker tones in the new season, premiering this week on The CW.progresses.
“We were talking about how Harry Potter, there are all these chapters,” Liz shared. “Season 1 was the first chapter of the Charmed Ones and in the way that Harry Potter, the first movie, was an introduction to the world, things got darker as the story progressed, and as you got deeper into mythology and you learned secrets about their past and about the Whitelighters’ past.”
She added, “I think bolting down and digging into new mythology of the demon world, of the magic world, of the Whitelighter world, we’re gonna learn a lot.”
10+ pics inside of Sarah Jeffery, Melonie Diaz and Madeleine Mantock at NYCC…
Broadway actor Jordan Donica is joining the cast in a series regular role for the upcoming second season, Deadline reports.
The actor will play Jordan, a mysterious law student/amateur boxer that the Vera-Vaughn sisters meet in the new world in which they now find themselves.
Jordan has starred in such Broadway shows as The Phantom of the Opera, Hamilton, My Fair Lady, and the Lincoln Center Theater’s gala production of Camelot. He’s also appeared on television in Curb Your Enthusiasm and Blue Bloods.
Filming is currently underway and the show will return Friday, October 11th at 8pm on The CW.
The CW has announced several premiere dates for their returning and new shows coming to the fall 2019-2020 season.
The premieres will kick off at the start of October with Batwoman, starring Ruby Rose, on Sunday, October 6th. The newest superhero series will be paired with Supergirl.
Maggie is thisclose to getting a dagger in her head in this still from tonight’s all-new Charmed.
In “Ambush”, with the Elders feeling that their lives are still in danger, the sisters and Harry (Rupert Evans) band together to try and stop the evil that is happening. Mel (Melonie Diaz) and Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) become concerned when Macy (Madeleine Mantock) starts to tap more easily into her demon side.
Meanwhile, Niko (Ellen Tamaki) and Mel seem to be in a good place until Mel messes it up.
Charmed airs TONIGHT, May 5th @ 9PM ET/PT on The CW.
Star Sarah Jeffery shared a fun retrospective on her Instagram with a ton of behind-the-scenes pics from the set.
“When I tested for this role at good ol CBS Radford, I saw the deadline article for @meloniediaz ‘s casting while I was in the waiting room and went, oh wow. we definitely look like we could be sisters… for some cosmic reason it calmed my nerves a little,” Sarah confessed in the caption. “liiiittle did I know (literally I had no idea this role was going to be mine), that I’d be joining her, @missmads, @rupert_evans, @etamaki, @nickhargrove, @serdariusblain and many more for the most wild 22 episodes ever😈 and here we are at the finish line!”
She added, “Thank you to every single person who made it happen, and to every person who held me up through this batshit crazy busy season. Love you all. Cheers to #Charmed season 1!!!”
Charmed will be back for a season two in the fall on The CW.
