JUST BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH ...

3 times a charm? Let's hope so for ABC's attempt to bring another adaption of the 1984 novel by John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick, to life on television with Eastwick, premiering Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009. Now, you probably recall the 1987 film featuring Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jack Nicholson. But, what you might not know (I didn't), that a television adaption had been attempted twice before. In 1992, NBC took a shot at it with The Witches of Eastwick. And in 2002, FOX tried their hand at it with Eastwick. Neither went beyond their respective pilots, even though they both had strong casts.

For some bizarre reasoning, the names of the characters are changed for this series. Has it been too long for folks to remember the novel or film? A sequel to the novel came out in 2008, The Widows of Eastwick. Are the characters re-invented altogether?? Screenwriters just looove to muck around with original works ... I still don't get why. Or ... and I like this one the best ... is this a way to break some curse to getting this adaptation on TV??? Only ratings will tell.

Regardless, the basic plot remains: Three very frustrated women have their very different lives turned upside-down, when a mysterious stranger comes to their sleepy little town of Eastwick. Roxie, the free-spirited blonde, is an artist and single mom raising her teenage daughter following the death of her husband. Joanna, the meek brunette, is a reporter who has a bit of problem properly expressing herself. and Kat, the worn out redhead, is a nurse and mom of 5 children with a lazy, out-of-work husband. And, last but not least, the wealthy and charming Mr. Darryl Van Horne, who sets out to seduce these 3 women in some rather unconventional ways.

Now, I was a HUGE fan of ABC Family's Kyle XY, so out of all the interesting cast members here, I am looking forward to seeing Matt Dallas as Chad, Roxie's boytoy.

• Roxie Torcoletti - Rebecca Romijn (the wickedly beautiful Mystique from X-Men - X-Men 2: X-Men United - X-Men: The Last Stand, Godsend, Femme Fatale, and the 2002 version of Rollerball)
• Joanna Frankel - Lindsay Price (Stephen King's The Dead Zone tv series)
• Kat Gardener - Jamie Ray Newman (Tess from this past season of Eureka, Heroes: Villains, Medium, Stargate: Atlantis, Supernatural, and look for her in the upcoming film, The Gauntlet)
• Darryl Van Horne - actor, producer, director, writer, composer, Paul Gross (The Trojan Horse, the original BBC version of The Eleventh Hour, H2O, 1997 version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Ray Bradbury Theater)
• Bun - Veronica Cartwright (sorta reprising her role from the film The Witches of Eastwick, The Invasion, Invasion tv series, Touched by an Angel, Scary Movie 2, The Last Man on Planet Earth, The X-Files, Sliders, American Gothic, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance, False Identity, The Right Stuff, Nightmares, Alien, 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, The Twilight Zone,  Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, and upcoming in a Charlotte Perkins Gillman adaptation - The Yellow Wallpaper)
• Mia Torcoletti - Ashley Benson (Supernatural, 13 Going on 30)
• Penny Higgins - Sara Rue (Nightmare at the End of the Hall, The Ring)
• Raymond Gardener - Jon Bernthal (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian)
• Will S, t. David - Johann Urb (the 2008 version of Knight Rider, Toxic, and the upcoming film - 2012)
• Chad - Matt Dallas (Kyle XY, Camp Daze, Way of the Vampire, and the upcoming film - As Good as Dead)
• Gus - Christian Alexander (Medium)
• Fidel - Torsten Voges (Dimples)
• Amy Gardener - newcomer, Mia Hayes

Eastwick premieres tonight on ABC. For more wicked fun, check out the Official ABC website:

http://abc.go.com/shows/eastwick