Charmed
is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, onThe WB Television Network.
The series was bought to life in 1998
by a writer called Constance M. Burge and was produced by Aaron Spelling
and his Spelling Television company, with the show
runner being writer-director Brad Kern.
This story of good witches narrates the life of the Halliwell sisters, Prue, Piper, Phoebe
and, later, Paige, the culmination of the long Warren line of powerful, good witches.
The sisters live a double life that is
to pretend to be normal in the real world and in the magical community,
whose prophesied destiny is to battle against evil beings, such as
demons and warlocks, in order to protect innocent lives from being
endangered they are known as the charmed ones.
One of the great things about being one
of the Charmed is the powers they have. Each sister possesses unique
magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to hold normal
working lives in Francisco, keeping their paranormal identities separate
and secret from their ordinary lives forms part of the series' tension
and challenges, with the exposure of magic having far-reaching consequences
on relationships, and having resulted in a number of police and FBI investigations
throughout the series.
As they say: ‘’with great power comes
great responsibility’’, the series proved how true that is. The
first episode, "Something
Wicca This Way Comes",
garnered 7.70 million viewers, breaking the record for the highest rated
debut for the Warner Brothers Network. In January 2006, producer Brad Kern
declared that Charmed was the longest running hour-long series
featuring all female leads (Murder
She Wrote having
only a singular lead, and The
Facts of Life
being a 30 minute sitcom). The series finale, "Forever Charmed",
ended with a season high of 4.49 million viewers.
Its inevitable to be unstoppable, with powers like Prue the power of telekinesis and astral projection, Piper the power to freeze time and blow things up and Phoebe the power to see the future and the past, levitation and empathy. During their fight against the forces of evil, the Source of all Evil's assassin, Shax, kills eldest sister Prue, breaking the united Power of Three. However, the charmed triple-destiny is restored with the introduction of a long-lost fourth half-sister, Paige Matthews, who is half-witch and half-whitelighter Paige is a telekinetic like Prue, but due to her whitelighter ancestry has the ability to call for objects to move where she wants them. During Seasons One to Four, the sisters' combined destiny was to vanquish theSource of All Evil, the ruler of the Underworld, and his demonic minions. Upon fulfilling their primary destiny, the Charmed Ones engaged in the Ultimate Battle; and ushered in the next generation of good witches.
