Question: Is Shannen Doherty going to come back for the series finale of Charmed?
Answer: I have it on good authority that she will be back… once hell freezes over. "There's no shot [of her returning]," insists executive producer Brad Kern. "I just don't think… [Hesitating] I just… [Nervous laughter]… in the abstract, it would be fabulous to try to get Shannen back for the last episode, but it just doesn't seem — for a lot of reasons — that it's something that we could ever pursue."
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Question: Anything juicy about the Charmed series finale?
Answer: It'll be a two-part episode, the first of which, according to exec producer Brad Kern, will focus on "the big battle that we've been building toward this season and, really, all eight years, and the last episode I would describe as a Valentine to the fans."
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The Charmed ones have officially turned their last trick. Multiple sources confirm that execs behind the new CW network have decided to pull the plug on the eight-year drama. The final episode will air Sunday, May 21.
Ironically, executive producer Brad Kern was holed up in an editing bay all day Thursday and missed a call from the president of Spelling Entertainment giving him the official cancellation news. But it's not like it came as a surprise; he says he always intended to write this season's last episode as a series finale. "It's been a hell of a run," he says, "but all good things must come to an end."
Details of the final episode are being kept under wraps, but fan favorite Brian Krause will likely be back. And what ab
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Question: Anything new on Charmed?
Answer: Brian Krause was back on the set last week… as a visitor. (I know, I'm a big tease.) But I hear Brad Kern is doing everything in his power to bring Leo back before the series, er, season ends in May.
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With its Jan. 22 broadcast, WB's Charmed (Sundays at 8 pm/ET) — which premiered Oct. 7, 1998 — becomes the longest-running television series boasting all female leads, having bewitched viewers for more years than such estrogen-heavy fare as Laverne & Shirley, Designing Women and Sex and the City. To mark the milestone, TVGuide.com sat down with executive producer Brad Kern to assess the show's assets, assay the avidness of its fans and conjure up a peek at its future — no matter how (gulp!) finite it may be.
TVGuide.com: Regarding the milestone you've achieved, how does one even stumble upon such a factoid?
Brad Kern: I don't know. I kept pressing the publicity
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