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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Charmed, a dramatic series about three young sisters who wear slip dresses, complain about dating and in the premiere episode, discover they are witches. The series, which has drawn surprisingly good ratings, manages to tap into TV's current fascination with the occult (The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) while recalling the classic three-babe structure of Spelling's '70s hit Charlie's Angels. Here, Doherty would seem to fit into the Jaclyn Smith mold--easily the most beautiful one but not necessarily the sexiest. (Alyssa Milano gets the Farrah Fawcett-Majors pinup part, while Holly Marie Combs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Time, She's a Good Witch | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...pilot, and he and Reeves had developed about five years' worth of story lines. They brought Felicity to Imagine Entertainment, the production company headed by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, and Imagine took it to the WB, which, with series such as Dawson's Creek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has become the home of the teenage hit. Suddenly Abrams and Reeves were TV producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Felicity: Great Expectations | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...throwback to the mass-audience network approach of the 1960s and '70s (among its newest shows: an updated version of The Love Boat), while the WB, the more successful of the two, has targeted teenage viewers with such younger, hipper shows as Dawson's Creek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Network Starter Kit | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...Five, to employ them--and, it seems, quillions of low-budget movies to exploit their radiance and here-today star quality. Next week brings Halloween: H20, featuring Dawson's regular Michelle Williams. Then the college comedy Dead Man on Campus, with Alyson Hannigan of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The teenpix parade marches into the fall by the dozens, including Varsity Blues (with Dawson's James Van Der Beek) and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Party of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Class Of '98 | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...culture is right-in-your-face. If it isn't the cartoonish Spices rapping, "Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want," it's that other teen idol, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, declaring her love to a bewitched bloodsucker before driving a dagger through his heart. Meanwhile, in the recently released The Opposite of Sex, Christina Ricci plays a take-no-prisoners 16-year-old, one who steals and dumps a series of boyfriends, including her half brother's. On the music front, singer-actress Brandy and fellow teen phenom Monica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism: Girl Power | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

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