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[shipperx]

From TVGuide.com:

Forget vampires and werewolves! It's the witches we should be worried about.

James Marsters and Bianca Lawson have both signed on to appear in Season 2 of Lifetime's supernatural drama Witches of East End, TVGuide.com has confirmed.

Marsters, most famous for his turn as Spike the vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will play Tarkoff, a family friend of Julia Ormond's Joanna who has recently come back into her life. Producer Richard Hatem first broke the news on Twitter.

Lawson, meanwhile, will play Eva, a mysterious new character spending some time with Daniel DiTomasso's Killian. Lawson is no stranger to supernatural dramas having appeared on both Buffy and The Vampire Diaries. She most recently starred as Ms. Morell on MTV's Teen Wolf.

Witches of East End returns Sunday, July 6 at 9/8c.






i09 was helpful enough to add some information on the series:

Based on Melissa de la Cruz's New York Times best-selling novel, the series centers on the Beauchamp family, where in season one sisters Freya (Dewan Tatum) and Ingrid (Boston) discovered they are witches with ancient magical powers. With the help of their mother Joanna (Ormond) and Aunt Wendy (Amick), they learned how to cultivate their craft and work together to defeat unearthly enemies seeking revenge on their family, while keeping their abilities a secret from the town.

This season, with the portal to Asgard open, what comes through will forever change the lives of the Beauchamps. Darkness surrounds East End as a new stranger (Cooke) arrives. Joanna is still weak with poison in her blood as the Beauchamps search desperately for a cure. With the death of Penelope (Virginia Madsen), Killian (DiTomasso) and Dash's (Winter) warlock powers return

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[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

It's apparently very soapy... Gonna have to try to track down the first season, I think, so I have a hope of figuring out what's going on.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

i09 included this with the casting:

Based on Melissa de la Cruz's New York Times best-selling novel, the series centers on the Beauchamp family, where in season one sisters Freya (Dewan Tatum) and Ingrid (Boston) discovered they are witches with ancient magical powers. With the help of their mother Joanna (Ormond) and Aunt Wendy (Amick), they learned how to cultivate their craft and work together to defeat unearthly enemies seeking revenge on their family, while keeping their abilities a secret from the town.

This season, with the portal to Asgard open, what comes through will forever change the lives of the Beauchamps. Darkness surrounds East End as a new stranger (Cooke) arrives. Joanna is still weak with poison in her blood as the Beauchamps search desperately for a cure. With the death of Penelope (Virginia Madsen), Killian (DiTomasso) and Dash's (Winter) warlock powers return

[shapinglight]

Portal to Asgard? Is this some kind of Thor crossover thing?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Er...

From Petzi's explanation below... kinda. I think. Weird. (But not in a Marvel way.)

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read the first book in the series because I got a free copy from my friend Rosina Lippi. The books start out with them just being witches and then right towards the end you discover that they're all Norse gods. Rather odd and indeed soapy.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

::head tilt::