This coming Tuesday sees the UK TV premier of the new US show, Eastwick . On The Hallmark Channel at 9pm, Eastwick is brought to us by ABC and based on John Updike’s novel The Witches Of Eastwick. Updike’s 1984 novel is in my view a nasty counter-feminist tale of three uninteresting suburban women who acquire magical powers when a new all powerful man appears in town. However, most of us will remember the 1987 movie The Witches of Eastwick starring Jack Nicolson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cher and Susan Sarandon which adopts the stronger more comical empowering aspects of the book and translates them into a dark, comedy which I loved. Eastwick takes the story one medium further into the realms of prime-time Television. The comic drama once again about three New England witches whose powers are awakened when a mysterious man moves to town. It is the cleaner, softer, more … There’s more →