Eastwick

13 November 2009

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Eastwick - welcome to the magical if disturbing world of Eastwick, the sexy new comedy-drama series

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.

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