Charmed broadcasters and DVD releases
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The television series Charmed is broadcast in many countries around the world, and several seasons have been released on DVD.
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[edit] Syndication
The series was originally shown on the WB television network in the United States and on CTV in Canada, with independent station SunTV (originally Toronto 1) picking up the series' 8th season after CTV decided against continuing its broadcast.
Currently, the show is licensed to a number of networks in North America, with the major carriers being TNT and Canada's Showcase Diva. TNT airs four different episodes each weekday at 8:00am, 9:00am, 4:00pm & 5:00pm E/P.[1] Showcase Diva airs a single episode twice each weekday at Noon & 7:00pm ET (9:00am & 4:00pm PT).[2] Charmed is shown in the province of Quebec in French on VRAK.TV Mondays at 9:00pm ET (21h00) with repeats Friday at 6:00pm ET (18h00) and Saturday at 8:00pm ET (20h00).[3]
Outside of North America, Charmed is broadcast in a high number of other countries and television networks, each with their own schedule for the series, and sometimes with their own title for the series. Countries where Charmed airs include the following:
- Argentina: Charmed is aired subtitled on the cable channel Sony Entertainment Television in primetime, and reruns of the first three seasons of the series are aired from Monday to Friday in the afternoon.
- Australia: Network Ten (free-to-air channel) finished airing Season 7. They have acquired the rights to the 8th Season, and plan to show them later in the year. Meanwhile, TV1 (on Austar and Foxtel) shows season 5 at the moment
- Belgium: Charmed reruns and new seasons always air on Kanaal Twee.
- Bosnia: Charmed is aired on Pink channel everyday.
- Croatia: Charmed is aired on Nova TV.
- Denmark: Season 8 was recently finished on TV3. Charmed is named "Heksene fra Warren Manor" (Danish), which translated means "The witches from Warren Manor". The name was briefly changed to "Charmed" a few years back and then changed back again.
- Finland: Charmed is aired on Nelonen (Channel 4). Its Finnish name is "Siskoni on noita", which when translated back to English is "My Sister is a Witch". Nelonen is currently airing re-runs of the Season 1. They show it every Sunday at 13.30. Last episode of Season 7 aired in June 2006.
- France: Charmed (season 8) is aired on M6 every saturday.
- Germany: Seasons 1 through 7 have been aired on Pro 7 under the title "Charmed - Zauberhafte Hexen", the latter phrase meaning "Magical Witches" (or, ambiguously, "Enchanting Witches"). Season 8 is currently running every Tuesday at 8.15pm. The German dub was also bought by Austrian ORF1.
- Greece: Star Channel is currently showing Season 8 every Sunday at 16:30.
- Hungary: The show was bought in 2003 by TV2, starting in a weekly primetime slot, but in later seasons removed to a daily, afternoon timeslot. After the broadcast of Season 7, reruns were started weekly in 2005, but they were abandoned after Season 3's Wrestling with Demons not to cause a conflict with Season 8 episodes starting to air daily from September 4th 2006 [1], with the series finale aired October 3rd and no news on the continuation of the reruns. The show's title in Hungarian is Bűbájos boszorkák [2], roughly meaning "Charming witches".
- India: Season 8 of Charmed is currently running on Star World.
- Indonesia: Charmed Season 7 is currently running on SCTV.
- Ireland: Charmed is aired terrestrially on TV3.
- Italy: Charmed (in Italian "Streghe", which means "witches") is primarily shown on Rai Due which has begun showing season 8 on June 15 every Thursday at 9 pm with 3 episodes per night. Series Finale "Forever Charmed" aired on August 3rd 2006. Charmed is on rerun on FOX(showing season 1 to 6) and La7(showing season 1 to 4).
- Lebanon: The show airs on Star World, Tuesdays at 21:00 p.m and the last episode aired on 13 June 2006 . It also airs on Showtime Arabia's TV Land (Season 5 till now) and on MBC 4 (Season 4 till now).
- Macedonia: "Волшебнички" (Charmed) airs on A1 TV, every night at 23:30, and it's currently airing the 7th season.
- Malaysia: Season 7 is currently running on ntv7 every Wednesday at 11.15 p.m.
- Malta: Charmed can be viewed on Thursdays at 9pm or Saturday at 10pm on Living TV. It is also shown on Living TV from noon till 2pm and repeated at 5pm-7pm daily.
- Mexico: Charmed is being aired subtitled on the cable channel Sony Entertainment Television airing season eight on saturdays at 10:00am and airing random reruns of seasons 1 through 7 monday through friday at 3:00pm and 3:00am. Local channel 5 and 4 from Televisa showed seasons 1 through 5 in spanish, it has actually been cancelled on those channels.
- Middle East & North Africa: Charmed airs on satellite from the major networks, on the Showtime Arabia satellite Pay-TV network via TV Land, as well as on Star World, via the Arab Digital Distribution platform. On Free to Air satellite, it's broadcasting on the MBC network's MBC 4 channel.
- Netherlands: Season 8 was being aired Friday nights at 8.30pm on NET 5, the last 8 episodes will be aired in the fall of 2006.
- New Zealand: Charmed Has Finished on TV 3 and Season 6 is Current Screening on Sundays and Repeating on Mondays on Sky1.
- Norway: TV3 has finished its season 8 screening. Reruns of all seasons are shown on ZTV.
- Poland: Polsat is showing Season 1 every Saturday.
- Portugal: TVI is showing Season 7 every night subtitled, Season 8 will be shown later on this year.
- Philippines: It airs on Studio 23 every Monday since March 1999, all year long with a complete repeat of the current season every year until the new season airs, which is usually end of March or early April. Season 8 currently airs every Mondays at 7:30 p.m. on Studio 23 and every Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. and repeats of the last episode aired every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m., Saturday at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday at 12:00 p.m. on Star World, an Australasia-wide cable channel. Season 8 was just finished on both broadcasters, currently only Studio 23 reruns of the selected episodes of season 7 and full season 8 episodes starting September 22, friday at 8:20 p.m. No annoucement yet over Star World.
- Serbia: Charmed is aired on Pink channel everyday as Čari (Literally Charms). It ended season 7 in December, 2005.
- Singapore: Season 8 of Charmed can be viewed on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 every Friday at 8.30pm. Charmed can also be viewed on Star World (cable TV) Tuesday nights at 8:00pm.
- Slovenia: Charmed is aired on Kanal A as Čarovnice (literally Witches). Now airing season 5 every Saturday and Sunday.
- Spain: new seasons are aired by Telecinco and older seasons are currently repeated by Cosmopolitan, FDF and Cuatro.
- Sweden: The final episode of Charmed aired September 10th on TV3. In Sweden Charmed is called Förhäxad, which can be translated to both Bewitched or Charmed. One episode from Seasons 1 - 8 is broadcast every Saturday evening.
- Switzerland: SF2 is showing seasons 1 to 8.
- Turkey: Charmed is aired on Dizimax channel. Season 1-7 is broadcasted everyday.
- United Kingdom and Ireland: Charmed can be seen daily on satellite and cable channel Living TV as well as Channel 6. Terrestrial channel Five airs Seasons 1-7 on Saturdays; Channel 4 has bought the rights for Season 8 on normal British terrestrial television, and will be showing it every Sunday, repeats will be shown on Saturday.[4]
- Venezuela: The seventh season of the show is currently aired on RCTV in the afternoon.
[edit] DVDs
DVDs of Charmed were released no earlier than 2005, mostly due to licensing issues with the commercial songs in the individual episodes.
The first seven Charmed DVD sets contain no special features whatsoever, in accordance with Paramount's "no extras" policy,[5] and much to the chagrin of both the fans and of Charmed executive producer, Brad Kern, who has stated many times that his continuing efforts to persuade Paramount to include any extras were unsuccessful.[6] In 2006, Paramount's television DVD department was taken over by CBS, resulting in a promise that the last Charmed DVD box set will contain extras (see below for known release dates).[7]
Issue #12 of Charmed magazine includes an interview with Brad Kern, which contains info on the Season 8 extras. He said they would like to get at least 90 minutes of extras, which "would include episode commentaries, hopefully bloopers, set tours," making it an extensive extras package. Kern is also pushing for the unaired pilot (starring Lori Rom as Phoebe Halliwell) to be included as part of the extras; however, it is experiencing some legal problems at the moment.[8].
On 16 November 2006, a Book of Shadows DVD box set will be released in Australia, featuring Seasons 1-7. Each season will be on one page, with an extra page reserved for the release of Season 8 DVDs.[9]
[edit] Release dates
The first season was released initially in North America. Australia, The United Kingdom, New Zealand and The Netherlands are in the lead in terms of DVD release dates.
[edit] Cover art
Cover art for most seasons is the same for most Regions. Only the covers for Seasons 3, 5 and 7 have been changed for their Region 1 releases.
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[edit] References
- ^ TNT Daily Schedule. TNT.tv. Retrieved on 2006-10-28.
- ^ Showcase Diva daily schedule. Showcase.ca. Retrieved on 2006-10-28.
- ^ VRAK.TV daily schedule. VRAK.tv. Retrieved on 2006-11-09.
- ^ Wilkes, Neil. "Channel 4 picks up final 'Charmed' season", Digitalspy.com, 2006-04-07. Retrieved on 2006-06-06.
- ^ Lambert, David. "Final word from extras on Charmed", TVShowsOnDVD.com, 2004-10-01. Retrieved on 2006-06-06.
- ^ Lacey, Gord. "Brad Kern Interview", TVShowsOnDVD.com, 2006-02-27. Retrieved on 2006-06-06.
- ^ Lacey, Gord. "CBS works some magic - Extras on Season 8", TVShowsOnDVD.com, 2006-04-04. Retrieved on 2006-06-06.
- ^ Lacey, Gord. "Charmed magazine talks about Season 8 Extras", TVShowsOnDVD.com, 2006-08-10. Retrieved on 2006-08-09.
- ^ a b Charmed - Book Of Shadows DVD Collection (Region 4). ezedvd.com.au. Retrieved on 2006-10-12.
- ^ "Charmed - The Complete Seventh Season (Region 1)", TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved on 2006-11-01.
- ^ R2 Release Schema. DVD-Home.nl. Retrieved on 2006-08-19.
- ^ DVD news. AntonioGenna.net. Retrieved on 2006-11-10.
- ^ a b Charmed - Season 8, Teil 1. Weltbild.de. Retrieved on 2006-11-11.
- ^ Lacey, Gord. "Season 7 Artwork (Region 1)", TVShowsOnDVD.com, 2006-10-28. Retrieved on 2006-10-28.
[edit] External links
- Region 1 DVD News for Charmed TVShowsOnDVD.com
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