Ben Silverman Archives

'Charmed' Season 1, Episode 21 "Red Rain" Pours Down All Over The Vera Sisters [PREVIEW]
With the Power of Three, they are stronger together… even if they have no idea what they're really up against. Credit: CW The CW's Charmed stars Melonie Diaz as Melanie Vera, Sarah Jeffery as Maggie Vera, Madeleine Mantock as Macy Vaughn, Ser'Darius Blain as Galvin Burdette, Ellen Tamaki as Niko Hamada, Nick Hargrove as Parker, and Rupert Evans as Harry Greenwood. Based on the original series, the CW's Charmed stems from CBS Television Studios in[...]
Charmed: 'High Castle's' Rupert Evans Cast as New [SPOILER]
His character Harry is described as "a professor, handsome, grandiose, a raconteur with an infuriating charm and a mysterious interest in the three sisters." Which is an incredibly wordy way of saying that he's their "Whitelighter": a guardian angel who protects and guides good witches and helps nurture future Whitelighters. If Charmed receives a series order, it's[...]
Lore Season 2: Amazon Renews Real Life Horror Podcast Adaptation
We are thrilled to be back on Prime Video." – Ben Silverman and Howard Owens (statement) Credit: Amazon Created in 2015 by Mahnke, Lore is an award-winning, podcast that uses a "campfire/scary stories" structure to examine the dark side of human nature What makes Mahnke's podcast truly unique is that he relies solely on non-fiction, historical events that[...]
Holly Marie Combs Isn't Too 'Charmed' with CW Reboot
Just No" While Combs is concerned with protecting the creative integrity of the original series and that the network is only looking to cash in on the current social climate, it was the positioning of the pilot as a "feminist" version of Charmed that particularly irked her: The new Charmed pilot comes from Jane the Virgin creator/showrunner[...]
CW Orders "Funny, Feminist" Charmed Reboot, Drama Dead Inside Pilots
The new Charmed pilot comes from Jane the Virgin creator/showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman and executive producer Ben Silverman; alongside writers/co-executive producers Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin, and pilot director Brad Silberling Dead Inside stems from writer Katie Lovejoy and producer Bill Lawrence. Here's an overview of both pilot orders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdsWmJDRB5QVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Charmed[...]
Podcasts 'Sword And Scale' And 'Up And Vanished' Set For Series
Following up on the critical success of their series adaptation of Aaron Mahnke's real-life horror podcast Lore, Ben Silverman's Propagate is looking to bring two more podcasts to series television: Sword and Scale and Up and Vanished.  No television or streaming partners have been announced just yet; though Up and Vanished is expected to be marketed to streaming[...]
Enter Amazon's The Museum of 'Lore'…If You Dare! (VIDEO)
Both The Atlantic and Entertainment Weekly listed the show as a top podcast in 2016. The cast for this season of Lore includes Robert Patrick, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Adam Goldberg, Holland Roden, Colm Feore and Campbell Scott. The series hails from executive producers Ben Silverman, Howard T Owens, Gale Anne Hurd, Brett-Patrick Jenkins, Glen Morgan, Jon[...]