Switch: The Witching Hour

#1

darkestboy

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Posted May 30, 2012 @ 9:34 AM

From here ... http://www.digitalsp...ama-switch.html

Lacey Turner (EastEnders, Being Human) will star in the series, which will follow four female flatmates who are secretly witches.

She is joined by Nina Toussaint-White (Doctor Who), Hannah Tointon (The Inbetweeners) and Phoebe Fox (Black Mirror).

Turner will play "immaculately dressed" careerist Stella, while Toussaint-White has been cast as "sexy and stylish" fashionista Jude.

The group's moral compass Grace will be played by Fox, with Tointon starring as the "restless" and "spontaneous" Hannah.

The 'Witches of Camden' must face the challenges of living in contemporary London, as well as their sworn enemies the 'Witches of Kensington', Alexa, India, Romola and Remy.

Switch has been written by Chloe Moss (Prisoners' Wives) and Tim Price (Secret Diary of a Call Girl).

"Switch is a contemporary series about friendship with a spell-binding twist," said ITV's Laura Mackie. "Chloe and Tim have created four fun-loving, free-spirited characters and we're delighted with the direction the series takes."

Produced by Being Human's Philip Trethowan and executive produced by Touchpaper's Rob Pursey, six 60-minute episodes of Switch will go into production in London, Cardiff and Bristol for 11 weeks from April 2012.

Some filming pictures can be seen here

And some more major spoiler can be read here ...

Spoiler

SFX magazine has said that ITV2 will air the series in October.

Edited by darkestboy, May 30, 2012 @ 9:43 AM.

#2

Webbermon

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Posted May 30, 2012 @ 9:57 AM

The power of four, will surely not bore....The power of four, will surely not bore.. :rolleyes:

#3

darkestboy

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Posted May 30, 2012 @ 9:58 AM

Haha, I love it.

It does sound good though.

Turner seems to be developing a thing for cult TV with Being Human, Frankensteins Wedding, Bedlam and this.

#4

Blisters

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Posted Jun 3, 2012 @ 2:57 PM

I'm gonna have to give this a watch because Lacey Turner was possibly the best thing to happen to Eastenders in years and is utterly fantastic. Very excited to see her play a witch (and someone immaculately dressed)... Nina Toussaint-White was also in Eastenders for a while and her character dated Lacey's character's husband for a bit but she wasn't as impressive.

This being on ITV2 however, doesn't fill me with hope. They don't exactly have a great selection of programming, and I can't actually remember the time they went for anything non-scripted bar TOWIE.

#5

darkestboy

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Posted Jun 4, 2012 @ 8:31 AM

The only other show I watched on ITV2 was Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. They tried a cult show back in 2009 with Trinity, which was godawful and canned after one series. Hopefully, Switch will be both successful and actually worth watching. It does have the same producers from Being Human working on it, so that should be encouraging, right?

#6

darkestboy

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Posted Aug 8, 2012 @ 8:16 AM

Interview with Lacey Turner here

She mentions Switch but nothing really spoilery.

More detailed synopsis of the series courtesy of ITV2 Media

Edited by darkestboy, Aug 8, 2012 @ 8:29 AM.

#7

under the el

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Posted Aug 17, 2012 @ 9:24 PM

The power of four, will surely not bore....The power of four, will surely not bore.. :rolleyes:

I'll be watching. Please let this be better than Charmed, which lost my interest after the first couple of seasons. Let these witches have fun with their magic, and actually take an interest in it. The Halliwells only cracked the Book of Shadows when they really needed to.