Holly Marie Combs Joins Lifetime’s ‘Mistresses’
Charmed fans have some great news to stand up and cheer about now. Actress Holly Marie Combs (first on right in photo), better known to the devoted as middle sister turned oldest sister Piper Halliwell, has been cast in an upcoming pilot from Lifetime called Mistresses.
The new drama is based on a U.K. series that follows four college friends in their thirties. Combs’ character is a stay-at-home mother named Jane who left her career for the joys of domesticity.
Also joining the series are Brooke Burns (Miss/Guided) as straightforward lawyer Shannon and Rochelle Aytes (Drive) as famous soap-opera actress Ava.
That’s one, two, three. So far, so good, but I wonder what actress will get the fourth role in the title quartet. Whoever it turns out to be, she’ll have excellent company, so I hope the pilot is well received and gets picked up for a full-fledged series.
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5 opinions for Holly Marie Combs Joins Lifetime’s ‘Mistresses’
Brandon
Jul 30, 2008 at 12:42 am
Was the show picked up? Is it going to be a series?? I need to know. I love Holly Marie Combs so much!
Brandon
Jul 30, 2008 at 12:43 am
Was the show picked up? I need to know. I love Holly Marie Combs.
Chandra
Jul 31, 2008 at 12:51 am
Brandon, it’s too early to know if the show was picked up since they probably haven’t even finished preparing the preliminary pilot episode.
tricia
Aug 7, 2008 at 8:30 pm
does anyone know or have an idea when the pilot will be airing?
Chandra
Aug 7, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Nobody knows at this point because the show hasn’t been approved yet to become a full series. The general process goes like this:
(1) Someone pitches a potential show to a network.
(2) The network gives the go-ahead to create a pilot (or not).
(3) The pilot is put together.
(4) The network reviews the pilot and decides whether or not to green-light a full-fledged series.
(5) If approved, the series is produced.
(6) When the network assigns a time slot, viewers get to see the pilot, which is often redone, and the rest of the series.
As far as I know, Holly’s *potential* series is still at Stage 3. Just because she’s been hired to film a pilot does not mean the pilot will lead to a complete series. Many pilots go nowhere at all past that one episode.
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