Eastwick
Everyone could use a little magic in their life, and in a sleepy seaside town three gorgeous woman are about to discover some bewitching talents they never knew they had - but they’re also about to discover that any true pleasure comes with a price!
Welcome to the magical if disturbing world of Eastwick, the sexy new comedy-drama series that makes its exclusive UK debut on the Hallmark Channel on Tuesday 24th November
The series has an impressive pedigree: it springs from John Updike’s celebrated 1984 novel, The Witches of Eastwick, which was turned into the 1987 box-office blockbuster starring Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson.
EASTWICK: The story...
Someone mysterious is coming to the town of Eastwick - and something magical is already there in the form of three remarkable women: Roxie Torcoletti, Joanna Frankel and Kat Gardener.
Roxie is a free-spirited artist plagued by the trouble that afflicts many artists: paying the bills! She’s a widow with a teenage daughter, Mia, and the gossip about town is that Roxie actually bumped off her husband. Gossip also has it that Roxie’s toy-boy lover, Chad, has heard the rumours but doesn’t care, because Roxie’s so drop-dead gorgeous.
Joanna is a talented if gauche journalist relegated by her salacious editor, Clyde, to writing fluff pieces for the Eastwick Gazette. At least her job keeps her in close proximity to the secret object of her affections: Will, the paper’s cute photographer. Joanna also receives support from her down-to-earth best friend, Penny Higgins, the newspaper’s fact-checker.
Kat is a hardworking nurse and mother of five who’s been supporting the family singlehandedly ever since her husband, Ray, lost his job (and now just lies in a hammock, drinking beer). She’s just longing for someone to come along and take care of her for a change.
Roxie, Joanna and Kat are all strangers, but one day through a strange encounter in the town park they simultaneously make a wish by tossing a coin into a fountain and are drawn together as the magic powers inside them finally awaken. Different they may be, but the women quickly learn they have one thing in common: they all want life to be much more spectacular.
Enter the handsome, enigmatic and every-so-slightly sinister Darryl Van Horne. He arrives in town on a cloud of scandal, loaded with wealth, charisma and the determination to make the women’s wishes come true. His arrival is less welcomed by town historian Bun Waverly, who emerges from a coma to blurt a dire warning about Darryl’s intentions. Another mysterious new arrival in town is Jamie, whose presence gives Roxie cause for concern.
With Van Horne’s help, the women discover their extraordinary talents and harness them to fulfil their innermost desires. Roxie possesses the gift of second sight, Joanna can hypnotise men with her seductive eyes, and Kat becomes endowed with natural healing gifts. But as these women unleash their powers, they also discover that magic can have a flip side, and the once-peaceful and idyllic town of Eastwick will never quite be the same again.
EASTWICK: the cast...
Rebecca Romijn (Roxie Torcoletti)
X-Men, Ugly Betty star and former GQ magazine’s Woman of the Year, Rebecca Romijn (her surname is pronounced ‘Ro-mane’) was born in Berkeley, California in 1972 of Dutch-American descent. Eager to experience life and see the world, she ducked out of her college music degree to move to Paris and work as a model (it was at a fashion show that she met her former husband, ER actor John Stamos). After early work on TV shows such as Just Shoot Me!. Rebecca landed the breakthrough role of shape-shifting Mystique in the X-Men movie franchise. This led to parts in the TV series Pepper Dennis (in the title role) and as Alexis Meade in Ugly Betty. In 2007, Rebecca married fellow actor Jerry O’Connell; they have twin daughters.
Paul Gross (Darryl Van Horne)
One of Canada’s most respected and successful actors, Paul Gross was born in Calgary in 1959 and is best known to TV audiences around the globe for his winning performance as ‘Mountie’ Benton Fraser in the comedy-crime series Due South. Paul caught the acting bug while still in his teens and has an impressive resume of stage performances, including playing the title role in Hamlet at the Stratford Festival Ontario in 2000. In 2008, Gross wrote, directed and starred in Passchendaele, a drama based on his own grandfather’s experiences in the First World War, which won several Genie Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor.
Lindsay Price (Joanna Frankel)
Lipstick Jungle actress Lindsay Price was born in Arcadia, California in 1976 to a Korean father and a German-Irish mother. Early stints in the TV soaps All My Children and The Bold and the Beautiful led to the role of Janet Sosna in the original Beverly Hills 90210, and she’s since appeared in the US version of Coupling (as Jane Honda) and in Pepper Dennis (alongside her Eastwick co-star Rebecca Romijn). Like her other Eastwick co-star, Jaime Ray Newman, Lindsay is a talented singer-songwriter and her music has be used in both Coupling and Lipstick Jungle.
Jaime Ray Newman (Kat Gardener)
Jaime Ray Newman was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan in 1978 and studied acting at the prestigious Interlochen Music and Arts Camp. The musically talented Jaime earned her living as a jazz singer before landing the role of Kristina Cassadine in the TV soap General Hospital - indeed she displays her vocal skills to full effect in Eastwick. She’s had recurring roles in many other TV series, including Eureka, Lincoln Heights, Veronica Mars and E-Ring, and her film credits include Sex and Breakfast, Live! and Catch Me If You Can.
Jack Huston (Jamie)
Hot young up-and-coming actor Jack Huston was born in 1982 in London into the legendary Huston acting dynasty. His grandfather was film director John Huston and he’s the nephew of Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston. Jack has appeared in several feature films, including Factory Girl, Shrooms, Outlander, Shrink and Boogie Woogie. He’s also become part of the massive Twilight film franchise in the role of Royce King II, the vampire Rosalie’s former fiancé, and is currently shooting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Jack has also become the subject of close media attention recently as the current squeeze of TV presenter Cat Deeley.
Veronica Cartwright (Bun Waverly)
Although she’s lived for most of her life in the USA, Veronica Cartwright was born in Bristol in 1949. She had early success in classic TV series of the 1960s such as Leave It to Beaver and Daniel Boone and she appeared in Hitchcock’s horror classic The Birds as Mitch Brenner’s kid sister. But three roles dominate Veronica’s career: Lambert in Ridley Scott’s Alien, Cassandra Spender in The X-Files (for which she received two Emmy® Award nominations), and in the 1987 film version of The Witches of Eastwick as interfering busybody Felicia Alden, who suffers a ghastly revenge attack at the hands of Jack Nicholson’s Darryl van Horne.
Everyone could use a little magic in their life, and in a sleepy seaside town three gorgeous woman are about to discover some bewitching talents they never knew they had - but they’re also about to discover that any true pleasure comes with a price!
Welcome to the magical if disturbing world of Eastwick, the sexy new comedy-drama series that makes its exclusive UK debut on the Hallmark Channel on Tuesday 24th November
The series has an impressive pedigree: it springs from John Updike’s celebrated 1984 novel, The Witches of Eastwick, which was turned into the 1987 box-office blockbuster starring Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson.
EASTWICK: The story...
Someone mysterious is coming to the town of Eastwick - and something magical is already there in the form of three remarkable women: Roxie Torcoletti, Joanna Frankel and Kat Gardener.
Roxie is a free-spirited artist plagued by the trouble that afflicts many artists: paying the bills! She’s a widow with a teenage daughter, Mia, and the gossip about town is that Roxie actually bumped off her husband. Gossip also has it that Roxie’s toy-boy lover, Chad, has heard the rumours but doesn’t care, because Roxie’s so drop-dead gorgeous.
Joanna is a talented if gauche journalist relegated by her salacious editor, Clyde, to writing fluff pieces for the Eastwick Gazette. At least her job keeps her in close proximity to the secret object of her affections: Will, the paper’s cute photographer. Joanna also receives support from her down-to-earth best friend, Penny Higgins, the newspaper’s fact-checker.
Kat is a hardworking nurse and mother of five who’s been supporting the family singlehandedly ever since her husband, Ray, lost his job (and now just lies in a hammock, drinking beer). She’s just longing for someone to come along and take care of her for a change.
Roxie, Joanna and Kat are all strangers, but one day through a strange encounter in the town park they simultaneously make a wish by tossing a coin into a fountain and are drawn together as the magic powers inside them finally awaken. Different they may be, but the women quickly learn they have one thing in common: they all want life to be much more spectacular.
Enter the handsome, enigmatic and every-so-slightly sinister Darryl Van Horne. He arrives in town on a cloud of scandal, loaded with wealth, charisma and the determination to make the women’s wishes come true. His arrival is less welcomed by town historian Bun Waverly, who emerges from a coma to blurt a dire warning about Darryl’s intentions. Another mysterious new arrival in town is Jamie, whose presence gives Roxie cause for concern.
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