Charmed gets full season order

[Katie]

variety.com/2018/tv/news/charmed-full-season-all-american-legacies-1203023597/

The CW has ordered more episodes of all three of its new fall dramas.



“Charmed” has received a back nine order, bringing its first season to 22 episodes total. Fellow freshman shows “All American” and “Legacies” have gotten picked up for three more episodes, meaning the first season of both shows will run for 16 episodes.



“Charmed,” a reboot of the original series, stars Melonie Diaz, Sarah Jeffery, Madeleine Mantock, Ser’Darius Blain, Ellen Tamaki, Nick Hargrove, and Rupert Evans. Jessica O’Toole, Amy Rardin, Jennie Snyder Urman, Ben Silverman, Brad Silberling, Howard Owens, and Carter Covington serve as executive producers. O’Toole, Rardin, and Snyder Urman created the reboot. The series is averaging a 1.0 rating in adults 18-49 and 2.7 million viewers per episode in Live+7, on average doubling its key demo rating.



“All American” is inspired by the life of NFL player Spencer Paysinger. It follows a standout high school football player from Compton who is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High School. It stars Daniel Ezra, Taye Diggs, Samantha Logan, Bre-Z,Greta Onieogou, Monet Mazur, Michael Evans Behling, Cody Christian, Karimah Westbrook, and Jalyn Hall. April Blair, Nkechi Okoro Carroll, Greg Berlanti, and Sarah Schechter executive produce. April Blair created the series and was originally set to serve as showrunner before being replaced by Okoro Carroll shortly before the series premiere. It is averaging a 0.3 and 1 million viewers per episode in Live+7.



“Legacies” takes place in the same universe as “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Originals.” It follows the next generation of supernatural beings at The Salvatore Boarding School for the Young and Gifted. The series stars Danielle Rose Russell, Jenny Boyd, Kaylee Bryant, Quincy Fouse, Aria Shahghasemi, Peyton Alex Smith, and Matt Davis. Julie Plec, Brett Matthews, Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo executive produce. Live+7 data for the show is not yet available, but in Live+Same Day it has averaged a 0.3 and 1.1 million viewers after two episodes.

As was shared in another thread, Charmed kills it in DVR and online viewing too. YAY!!! 

So glad it got 22 episodes. 

[Tim]

Nice to see the new Charmed get a full season commitment.  Shows that the CW does have confidence in the. 

I'm glad, because I'm really enjoying it.   Looks like they're doing  Charmed right this time.

[Jean]

Yep, good it got a full 22. While rubbish Legacies only got 3 more.

Yep, the show is doing very well with digital viewing too.

[Tim]

Yeah, Legacies got a full order too.

Guess we're just gonna have to take the good with the bad here.

[Squad 51]

Heard that too. Congratz to the new Charmed then!

[BettyNewbie]

Nice to see that the naysayers are being proven wrong and that this show is being given the chance it deserves. I've been really enjoying it, so far.

[Tim]

Yeah, I'm glad too. 

It seems that so many wanted this show to fail, and it must REALLY get under their skin that it has been so well received.

[Katie]

It really must. I think this show is here to stay for a number of seasons. Remembering The CW needs to get the CBS quota and If I'm not mistaken many CBS productions are ending next year, so they'll only have Charmed and Dynasty left.

I would not be surprised it lasts for at least four seasons. Unless of course, the ratings really REALLY tank hard by May. But DVR is too good atm.

It would be nice to see how the series evolves for a number of seasons. You cannot really compare it to the original until the reboot has at least three seasons in the can. Comparing it based off just a few episodes is kinda premature.

[BettyNewbie]

Seems hard to believe, but the original show wasn't warmly-received when it first started airing. It was widely-criticized for being a "ripoff" of Buffy and The Craft, and everyone was making tasteless jokes about Shannen's casting and her being a "real witch."

But, despite all of that, a lot of people got hooked to the show and it developed a loyal, dedicated fanbase. People gave the show a chance despite the negative reviews.

Why can't the new show also be given the same chance?

[Tim]

It looks like the reboot is slowly winning people over, despite the noise that crybaby, Holly Marie Combs, is making. 

Now that a few episodes have aired, people are realizing things are not as bad as they thought they would be.  Of course, you're always gonna have some holdouts, but they are becoming the minority.

[Melinda Halliwell]

Yeah, it's better to watch a show first I find then make your own judgment based on what you think of it instead of just agreeing what other people think or what you've seen said online then if you don't like it you don't watch it again and if you do then you do because as you said, Tim, viewers could miss out on something good which isn't that bad potentially.

[Jean]

I think you really need to make your own judgment, if you have never seen it, you really cannot know for sure, even going by what others say online.

It is why I never believe a word a critic says about a film, I need to see it first to make my own judgment.

That said, the Charmed reboot needs to complete one season, before we truly have a sense of what it will be like. But even then, I'll say when this series reaches Season 3, then we'll know for sure how good or bad it is. Shows can start off great and go bad, and the original series was known to be like this.

[Tim]

So far, I'm enjoying this reboot.

[Melinda Halliwell]

There are aspects of this show I prefer more than original Charmed like consequences and death sticking plus no whitelighter relationship and aspects of old Charmed I like better I.e it taking six episodes to accept Paige rather than one episode Macy and having Quake as a proper hangout for the sisters but then I have been giving this a reboot a chance and will continue on to do so still.

[Tim]

There are aspects of this show I prefer more than original Charmed like consequences and death sticking

Yeah, this is one thing I like about the reboot.  Here, death actually counts.