Historical populationYearPop.±%1 8-10,000,000—5007,000,000—1000 7,000,000+0.0%1500 11,000,000+57.1%1861 22,182,377+101.7%1871 27,303,509+23.1%1881 28,953,480+6.0%1901 32,965,504+13.9%1911 35,845,048+8.7%1921 39,943,528+11.4%1931 41,651,000+4.3%1936 42,943,602+3.1%1951 47,515,537+10.6%1961 50,623,569+6.5%1971 54,136,547+6.9%1981 56,556,911+4.5%1991 56,778,031+0.4%2001 56,995,744+0.4%2011 59,433,744+4.3%2018 60,494,000+1.8%Source: ISTAT
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Italy, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
At the beginning of year 2017, Italy had an estimated population of 60.4 million. Its population density, at 201 inhabitants per square kilometre (520/sqmi), is higher than that of most Western European countries. However, the distribution of the population is widely uneven; the most densely populated areas are the Po Valley (that accounts for almost half of the national population) in northern Italy and the metropolitan areas of Rome and Naples in central and southern Italy, while other vast areas are very sparsely populated, like the plateaus of Basilicata, the Alps and Apennines highlands, and the island of Sardinia.
The population of the country almost doubled during the twentieth century, but the pattern of growth was extremely uneven due to large-scale internal migration from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North, a phenomenon which happened as a consequence of the Italian economic miracle of the 1950-60's. In addition, after centuries of net emigration, from the 1980's Italy has experienced large-scale immigration for the first time in modern history. According to the Italian government, there were an estimated 5,000,073 foreign nationals resident in Italy.[1]
High fertility and birth rates persisted until the 1970's, after which they started to dramatically decline, leading to rapid population aging. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, one in five Italians was over 65 years old.[2] However, as a result of the massive immigration of the last two decades, Italy has, in recent years, experienced a significant growth in birth rates.[3] The total fertility rate has also climbed from an all-time low of 1.18 children per woman in 1995 to 1.41 in 2008.[4]
Since the 1984 Lateran Treaty agreement, Italy has no official religion. However, it recognizes the role the Catholic Church plays in Italian society. 87.8% of the population identify as Catholic, 5.8% as non-believers or atheists, 2.6% as Muslims, and 3.8% adhere to other religions.
Urbanization

vt Largest cities or towns in Italy
ISTAT estimates for 31 December 2014RankNameRegionPop.RankNameRegionPop.
Rome

Milan1RomeLazio2,872,02111VeniceVeneto264,579
Naples

Turin2MilanLombardy1,337,15512VeronaVeneto260,1253NaplesCampania978,39913MessinaSicily240,4144TurinPiedmont896,77314PaduaVeneto211,2105PalermoSicily678,49215TriesteFriuli-Venezia Giulia205,4136GenoaLiguria592,50716TarantoApulia202,0167BolognaEmilia-Romagna386,18117BresciaLombardy196,0588FlorenceTuscany381,03718PratoTuscany191,0029BariApulia327,36119ParmaEmilia-Romagna190,28410CataniaSicily315,60120ModenaEmilia-Romagna185,148
70.4% of Italian population is classified as urban,[5] a relatively low figure among developed countries. During the last two decades, Italy underwent a devolution process, that eventually led to the creation of administrative metropolitan areas, in order to give major cities and their metropolitan areas a provincial status (somehow similar to PRC's direct-controlled municipality).
According to OECD,[6] the largest conurbations are:
Milan – 7.4million
Rome – 3.7million
Naples – 3.1million
Turin – 2.2million
Genetics and ethnic groups

All indigenous, or Italic, Italians have a similar genetic profile, albeit with regional differences, and in fact, in a recent study about shared genetic ancestors, were found to have one of the highest rates of endogamy out of European nations and regions. All indigenous Italians share Italic, Neolithic Farmers and Gedrosian/Greek-Anatolian ancestry; the Italic is the major cultural unifier.  While the Neolithic Farmer and Greco-Anatolian elements are highest in the centre, south and Veneto. Only the far north (Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Trentino-Alto-Adige) has some significant Gallic/Celtic ancestry and linguistic influence, while the far south (Sicily, most of Calabria, southern Apulia/Salento, coastal Campania) has some specifically Greek admixture and linguistic influence. From Tuscany to Basilicata is essentially the core Italian (Italic-Neolithic Farmer-Anatolian mixture), both genetically and linguistically (this region was historically only settled by Italic tribes and Etruscans, and has very few linguistic influence from either Gallic Celts or Greeks).
According to the founding myth of Rome, Romulus and Remus descended from the Latin kings of Alba Longa, themselves descended from Trojan prince Aeneas, who fled to the Latium after the destruction of Troy by the Greeks. If there is any truth in the myth (as there usually is), the Trojans haplogroup might have emerged in central Italy circa 1200 BCE. The Etruscans, who are thought to have originated in western Anatolia, not far from Troy, also blended with other haplogroups. Nowadays this haplogroup is the second most common subclade of in Italy, although well behind the dominant unifying genetic profile, it has a remarkably uniform distribution over all the Italian peninsula, making between 5% and 10% of the male lineages. It is found at a slightly higher frequency in Campania and Calabria due to the Greek colonies, and decreases under 5% of the population only around the Alps.
Modern Italy & Immigration

Italy used to be a country of mass emigration from the late 19th century until the 1970's. Between 1898 and 1914, the peak years of Italian diaspora, approximately 750,000 Italians emigrated each year.[7] Italian communities once thrived in the former African colonies of Eritrea (nearly 100,000 at the beginning of World War II),[8] Somalia and Libya (150,000 Italians settled in Libya, constituting about 18% of the total population).[9] All of Libya's Italians were expelled from the North African country in 1970.[10] In addition, after the annexation of Istria in 1945, up to 350,000 ethnic Italians left Titoist Yugoslavia.[11] Today, large numbers of people with full or significant Italian ancestry are found in
Brazil (25 million),[12] Argentina (20million),[13] US (17.8million),[14] France (5million),[15] Venezuela (2 million),[16][17] Uruguay (1.5million),[18] Canada (1.4million),[19]  and Australia (800,000).[20]
As a result of the profound economic and social changes induced by postwar industrialization, including low birth rates, an aging population and thus a shrinking workforce, during the 1980's Italy became to attract rising flows of foreign immigrants. The present-day figure of about 5 million foreign residents, that make up some 9% of the total population, include 97,000 children born in Italy to foreign nationals (19% of total births in Italy) in 2014, but exclude foreign nationals who have subsequently acquired Italian nationality; this applied to 106,000 people in 2014.[21][22] The official figures also exclude illegal immigrants, the so-called clandestini, whose numbers are very difficult to determine. In May 2008 The Boston Globe quoted an estimate of 670,000 for this group.[23] Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and more recently, the 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union, the main waves of migration came from the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe (especially Romania, Albania, Ukraine and Poland). The second most important area of immigration to Italy has always been the neighbouring North Africa (in particular, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia), with soaring arrivals as a consequence of the Arab Spring. Furthermore, in recent years, growing migration fluxes from the Far East (notably, China[24] and the Philippines) and Latin America (Ecuador, Peru) have been recorded. Currently, circa one million Romanians (around one tenth of them being Roma[25]) are officially registered as living in Italy, representing thus the most important individual country of origin, followed by Albanians and Moroccans with about 500,000 people each. The number of unregistered Romanians is difficult to estimate, but the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network suggested that in 2007 that there might have been half a million or more.[26][note 1] Overall, at the end of the 2000s the foreign born population of Italy was from: Europe (54%), Africa (22%), Asia (16%), the Americas (8%) and Oceania (0.06%). The distribution of immigrants is largely uneven in Italy: 84.9% of immigrants live in the northern and central parts of the country (the most economically developed areas), while only 15.1% live in the southern half of the peninsula.
There is significant cultural, linguistic, genetic, historical political diversity within the "Italian" ethnicity, enough to constitute several distinct ethnicities by some standards. When Italy unified in 1861, only 3% of the population spoke Italian,[28] even though an estimated 90% of Italians speak Italian as their L1 nowadays.[29] Groups like Friulians, Ladins, Sardinians, South Tyroleans, and Sicilians are examples of distinct peoples native to Italy.

Historical data

Life expectancy at birth from 1871 to 2015
Sources: Our World In Data and the United Nations.
1871-1950

1950-2015

Source: UN World Population Prospects[33]
Total Fertility Rate from 1850 to 1899
The total fertility rate is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period. Sources: Our World In Data and Gapminder Foundation.[34]

Vital statistics since 1900[35][36][37]

Current natural increase
[39]
Number of births from January–September 2017 =  339,799
Number of births from January–September 2018 =  327,867
Number of deaths from January–September 2017 =  489,878
Number of deaths from January–September 2018 =  475,248
Natural growth from January–September 2017 =  -150,079
Natural growth from January–September 2018 =  -147,381
Demographic statistics
Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review.[40]
One birth every 1 minute
One death every 50 seconds
Net loss of one person every 7 minutes
One net migrant every 8 minutes
The following demographic statistics are from Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Statistica[41]  and Cia World Factbook.[38]

Population
62,246,674 (July 2018 est.)
62,137,802 (July 2017 est.)
60,674,003  (Jan 2016 est.)
Age structure
0-14 years: 13.6% (male 4,326,862 /female 4,136,562)
15-24 years: 9.61% (male 2,994,651 /female 2,984,172)
25-54 years: 41.82% (male 12,845,442 /female 13,183,240)
55-64 years: 13.29% (male 4,012,640 /female 4,261,956)
65 years and over: 21.69% (male 5,817,819 /female 7,683,330) (2018 est.)
0-14 years: 13.65% (male 4,334,457/female 4,146,726)
15-24 years:: 9.66% (male 3,008,228/female 2,996,854)
25-54 years: 42.16% (male 12,933,634/female 13,265,541)
55-64 years: 12.99% (male 3,914,061/female 4,159,859)
65 years and over: 21.53% (male 5,758,197/female 7,620,245) (2017 est.)
0-14 years: 13.5% (men 4,056,156/women 3,814,070)
15-64 years: 66.3% (men 19,530,696/women 18,981,084)
65 years and over: 20.2% (men 4,903,762/women 6,840,444) (2010 est.)
Median age
total: 45.8 years. Country comparison to the world: 5th
male: 44.7 years
female: 46.9 years (2018 est.)
total: 45.5 years (2017 est.)
men: 44.4 years
women: 46.5 years
total: 44.2 years (2015 est.)
Population growth rate
0.16% (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 183th
0.19% (2017 est.)
0.03% (2016 est.)
Birth rate
8.5 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 183th
8.94 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)[42]
Death rate
10.5 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 28th
10.01 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
Net migration rate
3.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.) Country comparison to the world: 31st
4.47 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 82.3 years. Country comparison to the world: 15th
male: 79.6 years
female: 85.1 years (2017 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth
30.7 years (2014 est.)
Total fertility rate
1.39 children born/woman (Italian citizens)
1.91 children born/woman (Foreign citizens)
1.39 children born/woman (total citizens) (2014)[43]
1.45 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 206th
Infant mortality rate
total:  3.3 deaths/1,000 live births. Country comparison to the world: 210th
men:  3.5 deaths/1,000 live births
women:  3 deaths/1,000 live births (2017 est.)
Urbanization
urban population: 68% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 0.5% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Sex ratio
at birth: 1.06 men(s)/women
under 15 years: 1.05 men(s)/women
15-64 years: 1.02 men(s)/women
65 years and over: 0.74 men(s)/women
total population: 0.93 men(s)/women (2013 est.)
Maternal mortality rate
4 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.) Country comparison to the world: 178th
4.0 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
Health expenditures
9.5% of total GDP (2010)
Physicians density
4.24 physicians/1,000 population (2008)
Hospital bed density
3.6 beds/1,000 population (2009)
HIV/AIDS
Adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2009 est.)
People living with HIV/AIDS: 140,000 (2009 est.)
Deaths: fewer than 1,000 (2009 est.)
Obesity – adult prevalence rate
19.8% (2008)
Religions
Christian 80% (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic with very small groups of Jehovah's Witnesses and Protestants), Muslim (about 800,000 to 1 million), atheist and agnostic 20%
Education expenditure
4.7% of total GDP (2008)

Literacy
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.6% (2003 est.)
Nationality
noun: Italian(s)
adjective: Italian

Languages

Italy's official language is Italian. Ethnologue has estimated that there are about 55 million speakers of the language in Italy and a further 6.7million outside of the country, primarily in the neighboring countries and in the Italian diaspora worldwide.[44]
Italian, adopted by the state after the unification of Italy, is based on the Florentine variety of Tuscan and is somewhat intermediate between the Italo-Dalmatian languages and the Gallo-Romance languages. Its development was also influenced by the Germanic languages of the post-Roman invaders.
Italy is linguistically diverse, taking also into consideration the actual varieties of Italian specific to each cultural region. However, the establishment of a national education system has led to decrease in the use of the various languages spoken across the country. Standardisation was further expanded in the 1950s and 1960s, thanks to economic growth and the rise of mass media and television, since the state broadcaster RAI helped to set a standard Italian.
As a way to distance itself from the Italianization policies promoted because of nationalism, Italy recognized twelve languages as the Country's "historical language minorities",[45] which are promoted alongside Italian in their respective territories. French is co-official in the Aosta Valley, although Franco-Provencal is more commonly spoken there.[46] German has the same status in the province of South Tyrol as, in some parts of that province and in parts of the neighbouring Trentino, does Ladin.[47] Slovene[48] and Friulian are officially recognised in the provinces of Trieste, Gorizia and Udine in Venezia Giulia. The Sardinian language is recognized as co-official in Sardinia.
In these regions official documents are either bilingual (trilingual in Ladin communities), or available upon request in the co-official language. Traffic signs are also multilingual, except in the Valle d’Aosta where French toponyms are generally used, with the exception of Aosta itself, which has retained its Latin form in Italian as well as English. Attempts to Italianize them, especially during the Fascist period, have been formally abandoned. Education is possible in minority languages where such schools are operating.
UNESCO and other authories recognize many other endangered languages, which are not protected by Italian government: Piedmontese, Venetian, Ligurian, Lombard, Emilian-Romagnolo, Neapolitan and Sicilian.
Religion

Roman Catholicism is by far the largest religion in the country, although the Catholic Church is no longer officially the state religion. In 2006, 87.8% of Italy's population self-identified as Roman Catholic,[50] although only about one-third of these described themselves as active members (36.8%). In 2016, 71.1% of italian citizens self-identified as Roman Catholic,[51] .
Most Italians believe in God, or a form of a spiritual life force. According to the most recent Eurobarometer Poll 2005:[52] 74% of Italian citizens responded that 'they believe there is a God', 16% answered that 'they believe there is some sort of spirit or life force' and 6% answered that 'they do not believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force'.
There are no data collected through census.
Christianity

The Italian Catholic Church is part of the global Roman Catholic Church, under the leadership of the Pope, curia in Rome, and the Conference of Italian Bishops. In addition to Italy, two other sovereign nations are included in Italian-based dioceses, San Marino and Vatican City. There are 225 dioceses in the Italian Catholic Church, see further in this article and in the article List of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Italy. Even though by law Vatican City is not part of Italy, it is in Rome, and along with Latin, Italian is the most spoken and second language of the Roman Curia.[55]
Italy has a rich Catholic culture, especially as numerous Catholic saints, martyrs and popes were Italian themselves. Roman Catholic art in Italy especially flourished during the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods, with numerous Italian artists, such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Caravaggio, Fra Angelico, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Sandro Botticelli, Tintoretto, Titian, Raphael and Giotto. Roman Catholic architecture in Italy is equally as rich and impressive, with churches, basilicas and cathedrals such as St Peter's Basilica, Florence Cathedral and St Mark's Basilica. Roman Catholicism is the largest religion and denomination in Italy, with around 71.1% of Italians considering themselves Catholic. Italy is also home to the greatest number of cardinals in the world,[56] and is the country with the greatest number of Roman Catholic churches per capita.[57]
Even though the main Christian denomination in Italy is Roman Catholicism, there are some minorities of Protestant, Waldensian, Eastern Orthodox and other Christian churches.
In the 20th century, Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostalism, non-denominational Evangelicalism, and Mormonism were the fastest-growing Protestant churches. Immigration from Western, Central, and Eastern Africa at the beginning of the 21st century has increased the size of Baptist, Anglican, Pentecostal and Evangelical communities in Italy, while immigration from Eastern Europe has produced large Eastern Orthodox communities.
In 2006, Protestants made up 2.1% of Italy's population, and members of Eastern Orthodox churches comprised 1.2% or more than 700,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians including 180,000 Greek Orthodox,[58] 550,000 Pentecostals and Evangelists (0.8%), of whom 400,000 are members of the Assemblies of God, about 250,000 are Jehovah's Witnesses (0.4%),[59] 30,000 Waldensians,[60] 25,000 Seventh-day Adventists, 22,000 Mormons, 15,000 Baptists (plus some 5,000 Free Baptists), 7,000 Lutherans, 4,000 Methodists (affiliated with the Waldensian Church).[61]
Other religions
The longest-established religious faith in Italy is Judaism, Jews having been present in Ancient Rome before the birth of Christ. Italy has seen many influential Italian-Jews, such as Luigi Luzzatti, who took office in 1910, Ernesto Nathan served as mayor of Rome from 1907 to 1913 and Shabbethai Donnolo (died 982). During the Holocaust, Italy took in many Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. However, with the creation of the Nazi-backed puppet Italian Social Republic, about 15% of 48,000 Italian Jews were killed. This, together with the emigration that preceded and followed the Second World War, has left only a small community of around 45,000 Jews in Italy today.
Due to immigration from around the world, there has been an increase in non-Christian religions. As of 2009, there were 1.0 million Muslims in Italy[62] forming 1.6 percent of population; independent estimates put the Islamic population in Italy anywhere from 0.8 million[63] to 1.5 million.[64] Only 50,000 Italian Muslims hold Italian citizenship.
There are more than 200,000 followers of faith originating in the Indian subcontinent, including some 70,000 Sikhs with 22 gurdwaras across the country,[65] 70,000 Hindus, and 50,000 Buddhists.[66] There are an estimated some 4,900 Bahá'ís in Italy in 2005.[67]
See also
List of Italians
Italian diaspora
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Charmed is an American fantasy drama television series developed by Jennie Snyder Urman, Jessica O'Toole, and Amy Rardin. It is a reboot of The WB series of the same name, created by Constance M. Burge, which originally aired from 1998 to 2006. Charmed was ordered to pilot in January 2018 by The CW and received a series order in May 2018. The series, which premiered in the United States on October 14, 2018, follows the lives of three sisters—Macy (Madeleine Mantock), Mel (Melonie Diaz) and Maggie (Sarah Jeffery)—who, after the death of their mother, discover they are The Charmed Ones, the most powerful witches, and together they possess the "Power of Three". Each sister has a supernatural ability, which they use to help protect innocent lives from supernatural demons. On November 8, 2018, The CW ordered a 22-episode full season.
In January 2019, The CW renewed the series for a second season.[2]

Premise
Set in the fictional college town of Hilltowne, Michigan, the series begins with sisters Mel (Melonie Diaz) and Maggie Vera (Sarah Jeffery) living with their mother Marisol (Valerie Cruz), who shortly afterward is attacked and killed by an unknown demonic force.[3] Three months later, Mel and Maggie discover that they have an older half-sister, Macy Vaughn (Madeleine Mantock), who was kept a secret by their mother for years but recently moved to Hilltowne to accept a new job at the local university. After the first time the sisters are under the same roof, they unexpectedly start exhibiting new magical abilities; the eldest Macy receives the power of telekinesis, middle sister Mel can freeze time, and the youngest Maggie can hear people's thoughts. Soon afterward, their whitelighter—an advisor who protects and guides witches—Harry Greenwood (Rupert Evans) gathers all three sisters together and reveals to them that they are witches, as was their mother. Marisol had bound her daughters' powers when they were born so they could live normal lives and was in the process of unbinding those powers on the night she was murdered.[4] The sisters ultimately accept their new destiny as The Charmed Ones, the most powerful trio of witches who protect innocents and vanquish supernatural demons.[5][6]
The reboot changes several elements from the original Charmed series, including moving the fictional setting from San Francisco to Hilltowne; making the middle sister a lesbian; giving the youngest sister the power of telepathy instead of premonition; changing the family name from Halliwell to Vera; and having all three of the sisters' alliterative names begin with M instead of P.[7][8] Additionally, the reboot has a more diverse cast with different ethnicities; Mantock is of Afro-Caribbean descent, Diaz is of Latino descent, and Jeffery is African American and Indigenous Canadian. However, in the series they all play Latina sisters, with Mantock's character Macy being an Afro-Latina.[9][10]
Cast and characters
Main

Melonie Diaz as Melanie "Mel" Vera, the middle half-sister in the family.[11] A "strong-willed feminist" and "passionate, outspoken activist," Mel is a graduate student in the women's studies department at Hilltowne University.[12][13] She is a lesbian who was in a relationship with Niko (Ellen Tamaki), a detective on the Hilltowne police force.[4] Mel has the power of time-freezing, similar to the original middle sister Piper Halliwell (Holly Marie Combs) from the original series.[14]
Madeleine Mantock as Macy Vaughn, the eldest half-sister.[4] She is a "practical", "driven", "shy" and "intense science nerd".[12][15] Macy has a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and initially moves to Hilltowne, Michigan to work in the university lab. Once she arrives in town, Macy discovers that she has two younger half-sisters.[12][16] Macy has the power of telekinesis, similar to the original eldest sister Prue Halliwell (Shannen Doherty) of the original Charmed series.[17]Macy eventually discovers that she and Maggie share the same father.
Sarah Jeffery as Margarita Emilia “Maggie” Vera, the youngest half-sister.[18] She is a "bubbly", "fun-loving" and "kindhearted" freshman at Hilltowne University who was pledging a sorority.[12][19] Maggie is initially mortified to learn that she is a witch as she wants to be well-liked and fit in.[12] Maggie has the power of telepathy, the ability to read the thoughts of other people. This is one of the first differences from the original show as the original youngest sister Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano) from the original series initially had the power of premonition.[16][20]
Ser'Darius Blain as Galvin Burdette, a molecular geneticist who works at the Hilltowne University lab with Macy Vaughn. He is "outgoing" and "generous", and is the first person who befriends Macy when she moves to Hilltowne.[12][21]
Ellen Tamaki as Niko Hamada, a "smart" and "determined" detective with the Hilltowne police department. She was dating Mel Vera until Mel used a spell to reverse time so that they never met to protect Niko.[12][22][23]
Rupert Evans as Harry Greenwood, the sisters' Whitelighter – a guardian angel who protects and guides witches.[11] In his former life, Harry was an actor in London before being recruited into the British Secret Service, where he later died and was chosen to become a Whitelighter.[12] In the first episode, Harry initially poses as a professor and the chair of the women's studies department at Hilltowne University, until he gathers all three sisters together to reunite them of their destiny as the Charmed Ones. It is revealed that he doesn't remember his life when he was a human.[5]
Nick Hargrove as Parker Caine, a friend of Maggie Vera. He is the president of the Phi Delta Upsilon fraternity. He and Maggie become friends after he defends her from a rude customer at her waitressing job.[24] He is later revealed to be a half-demon sent by his father to wreak havoc on the sisters.
Recurring
Valerie Cruz as Marisol Vera, the sisters' biological mother and a witch. Marisol had bound each of her daughters' powers when they were born so they could lead normal lives. In the first episode, Marisol was in the process of unbinding their powers when she was attacked and killed by an unknown demon. She also posess the power of premonition[4][5]
Craig Parker as Alastair Caine, CEO of Morningstar Biotech and a benefactor of the Hilltowne University laboratory, where Macy works.[25]
Constantine Rousouli as Hunter Caine, a demonic assassin, the eldest son of Alastair Caine and the older half-brother of Parker Caine.
Virginia Williams as Charity Callahan, a powerful Elder and a friend to Harry and the late Marisol. She occasionally helps the Charmed Ones and Harry on their missions. Her younger sister, Fiona, supposedly committed suicide after falling under the sway of the S'Arcana.
Natalie Hall as Lucy, Maggie's sorority sister and the president of Kappa Tau Kappa sorority. She was also Parker's ex-girlfriend.
Brendon Zub as Detective Tripp Bailey, Niko's detective partner. He was killed by head trauma when a pipe broke and flew to his head. Charity hung Trip's body at the warehouse and left evidence of the Halloween murders to put the blame on Trip so that their involvement would be avoided.
Guest
Aleyse Shannon as Jada Shields, a whitelighter-witch who is affiliated with the S'Arcana and has a flirtatious rapport with Mel. She claims to be a former ally of the late Marisol.
Rya Kihlstedt as Dr. Julia Wagner, the new lab manager of the Hilltowne University Laboratory. She is Alastair Caine's ex-wife and Parker's human mother.
Leah Lewis as Angela Wu, a student at Hilltowne University who is a victim of sexual harassment and later becomes possessed by a demon.
Charlie Gillespie as Brian, Maggie Vera's "on-again off-again" boyfriend who she went to high school with.[12][22][26]
Episodes

Production
Development
A reboot of the original series had been announced since October 2013, when it was originally being developed for CBS by Party of Five co-creator Christopher Keyser and Sydney Sidner. The pilot script was going to center "around four sisters who discover their destiny    – to battle against the forces of evil using their witchcraft."[39] However, CBS ultimately decided not to move forward with the reboot.[40] On January 5, 2017, it was announced that The CW network was developing a new reboot of Charmed by Jane the Virgin showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman for the 2017–18 television season.[41] Both Urman and director Brad Silberling were approached in 2016 by CBS Television Studios (who own the rights to Charmed) to work on a reboot of the show.[42] The original pilot script was going to be set in 1976 about three witches (Tina, Paige and Annie), who are not related but are brought together to fight evil in a small New England town.[43] At the time, The CW president Mark Pedowitz stated that the reboot would not be a prequel to the original series, but described it as "a self-contained, self-sustained" and "very standalone show."[44] However, on February 3, 2017, The Hollywood Reporter announced that the reboot would be redeveloped and delayed until the 2018–19 season, as the pilot draft script "didn't come in the way the network had hoped" and that Urman, who had prior commitments with Jane the Virgin, did not have enough time to fully commit to the reboot for the 2017–18 season.[45] Pedowitz gave an update on the reboot during the Television Critics Association summer press tour in August 2017, saying that it was still in the redevelopment process and that the network was waiting to see what Urman had come up with for the redeveloped script.[46]
On January 25, 2018, The CW officially ordered the Charmed reboot to pilot.[47] The redeveloped script was changed to be set in the present day and was described by The CW as "a fierce, funny, feminist reboot" centered on "three sisters in a college town who, after the tragic death of their mother, are stunned to discover they are witches."[48] The description also stated that the reboot would revolve around the sisters "vanquishing supernatural demons" and "tearing down the patriarchy," while "maintaining familial bonds."[47] In an interview with the Metro newspaper, Silberling stated that the appeal of the reboot is to be "fun and contemporary" with its timely social observations.[42] The pilot episode was written by Jane the Virgin writers Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin, and was based on a story by Urman. All three women are also executive producers of the reboot alongside Silberling, Ben Silverman, Howard Owens, and Carter Covington.[1][12][49] The pilot episode was also directed by Silberling.[49] On May 11, The CW picked up the pilot and ordered the Charmed reboot to series.[50] A preview trailer was released after The CW's upfronts presentation on May 17, followed by videos of first-look scenes.[51][52] On October 8, 2018, The CW ordered five additional scripts for the first season.[53][54]
On November 8, 2018, it was announced that The CW had ordered an additional nine episodes of the series, bringing the first season total up to twenty-two episodes.[55]
On January 31, 2019, The CW renewed the series for a second season.[56]
Casting
On February 7, 2018, TVLine revealed the reboot's casting details, with the three sisters bearing the unofficial names of Macy, Mel and Madison Pruitt.[16] The casting details revealed that all ethnicities were being sought for each of the roles; and that one of the sisters would be a lesbian, a major change from the original Charmed series.[16] TVLine also revealed that casting was underway for the trio's "devilishly handsome" advisor/whitelighter Harry, Macy's "documentary filmmaker-boyfriend" Galvin, Madison's "sensitive loner ex-beau" Brian, and Mel's detective girlfriend Soo Jin.[16] Madison's name was later changed to Maggie, the sisters' family name was changed to Vera, and Soo Jin's name was changed to Niko.[7][11]
In mid-February 2018, Ser'Darius Blain was the first to be cast as Galvin,[57] followed by film actress Melonie Diaz as the middle sister Mel,[13] and former Shades of Blue actress Sarah Jeffery as the youngest sister Maggie.[7][19] Later that month, former The Man in the High Castle British actor Rupert Evans was cast as Harry.[58] In early March 2018, former Into the Badlands British actress Madeleine Mantock was cast as the eldest sister Macy.[15] Charlie Gillespie and Ellen Tamaki were the last to be cast in the roles of Brian and Niko, respectively.[22] The three lead actresses playing the Vera sisters are of different ethnicities; Mantock is of Afro-Caribbean descent, Diaz is of Latino descent, and Jeffery is an African American and Indigenous Canadian. However, in the series they all play Latino sisters, with Mantock's character Macy being an Afro-Latina.[9][10] Executive producer Brad Silberling stated that the Vera sisters are "very different in terms of personalities and ethnicities" to the Halliwell sisters of the original series, who were all straight white women.[42] The CW's president Mark Pedowitz stated that the network was pleased with the choice of casting and the way executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman "reimagined" the series.[59] In October 2018, it was announced that Nick Hargrove was cast as Parker initially in a recurring capacity and later promoted to a series regular.[24]
Filming
Charmed is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. The pilot episode was filmed from March 19 to April 7, 2018.[42][60][61] Filming for the remainder of the first season began on August 13, 2018.[62][63]
Broadcast
In the United States, Charmed premiered on The CW on October 14, 2018.[64] It airs on Sunday nights at 9:00 pm, with Supergirl as its lead-in at 8:00 pm. The pairing of Charmed and Supergirl returned the network to original programming on Sunday evenings for the first time since the 2008–09 television season.[5] The CW president Mark Pedowitz explained, "We wanted to have an established show on Sunday night. We wanted name value with Charmed on there. We felt that it was two shows that are empowered women. We were making a statement that we were not kidding, that we're not phoning it in on Sunday night, that we were going to compete."[65]
In Canada, Charmed premiered on the W Network the same day as the US broadcast,[66] while in Greece and Spain it premiered the following day on Cosmote Cinema 4HD and HBO España, respectively.[67][68] In Australia, Charmed premiered on 10 Peach on October 16, 2018.[69] In the Middle East and North Africa, it premiered on October 24, 2018, on beIN Series 1HD.[70] In Brazil the series premiered exclusively on the Globoplay streaming platform, the first episode of the series became available on October 26, 2018 and the following episodes are released weekly on the platform.[71] In Belgium, the show will air on RTL,[72] while in Turkey it will air on Digiturk.[73] In the United Kingdom, Charmed will be shown on E4.[74] In India, it is aired on Zee Cafe.
Reception
Ratings

Critical response
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 66% approval rating with an average rating of 6.34/10, based on 29 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Charmed's updates are as fun as they are surprisingly feminist – and with a sharper focus, it could conjure up an even stronger show than the one that came before it".[84] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 55 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[85]
Controversies
Original cast and fan reactions
Shortly after the pilot's announcement in January 2018, Holly Marie Combs, a cast member from the original Charmed series, took to Twitter and criticized The CW's decision to reboot the show without any input from the original cast or crew. Combs claimed to have an issue with The CW's "reimagining" of Charmed as the network, formerly known as The WB, chose not to renew the show in 2006 for a ninth season.  Combs accused The CW of trying to cash in on the Charmed name and concept, while "capitalizing" on the original cast and crew's hard work.[86] Combs also took issue with the network's description of a "feminist" reboot, which she felt implied the original series was not, by sarcastically tweeting: "Guess we forgot to do that the first go around. Hmph."[87] Combs then implied that the reboot should have a new title, as she felt that it is a brand new show with no ties to the original Charmed. She tweeted that television reboots or remakes "usually have storylines so similar to the original that they are legally required to use the same title and buy the rights to that title", further adding, "If it's not similar than [sic] it's just another show. A new show with a new title."[88]
Another original cast member, Shannen Doherty, gave a more positive approach to the reboot on Twitter, stating that it was a testament to the original that a reboot was even being considered. She further added that she was "intrigued by the idea that a new generation might be comforted, inspired like you all were. Charmed helped us all in some way."[89] However, Doherty admitted that she did take issue with The CW's description of a "feminist" reboot, by tweeting that their wording was "terrible and a bit offensive," but understood that "everyone makes mistakes."[90] Rose McGowan was also positive towards the reboot and showed her support to the new lead actresses by tweeting "fly girls, fly." McGowan also added that she has no issues with the reboot and wished "everyone the best."[91]
News of the reboot was met with a mixed response from fans of the original series. Some fans were positive about the reboot, while others were not impressed about the changes made to the series.[86][89] Following the reboot announcement, fans took to Twitter and began to share the #StopCharmedReboot hashtag in attempts to prevent The CW from moving forward with the pilot.[92][93] The CW's president Mark Pedowitz stated that he would like the fans to give the reboot a chance, telling fans that "before you make a decision, watch the series."[94] In an interview with HuffPost in May 2018, Combs spoke up about the reboot again, this time criticizing the show's marketing and the casting of younger actors. She stated that although she appreciates "the jobs and opportunities the Charmed reboot has created," she "will never understand what is fierce, funny, or feminist in creating a show that basically says the original actresses are too old to do a job they did 12 years ago."[95][96]
Accusations of colorism
While the series has been praised for its diversity by casting three women of color in the lead roles, it has also received backlash for being promoted as a Latina-led series while only one of the leads identifies as Latina.[97][98][99] Mantock, who learned Spanish for the role, said of the matter, "I'm open with the writers and trying to be respectful because I'm Afro-Caribbean. I'm not actually Afro-Latina and I want to make that inquiry because Melanie [Diaz] is actually the only person in her real life who is Latina." Jeffery further explained, "I know that we are representing the Latina community. I actually am African-American. I'm not Latina, which is a common misconception." Samantha Chavarria felt that, "the latest reveals around the cast's ethnicities do highlight the very real fact that in their effort to promote a reboot, the CW used colorism and exploitation to spark our excitement and interest."[99] Conversely, Patrick Gomez of EW was more forgiving of the casting because the actresses were unknown and that a search into their ethnicities would’ve been inappropriate, adding, "I hope people celebrate the fact that an African-American and an Afro-Caribbean woman are being cast as 'Latinas' because Afro-Latinx people are not given even a fraction of the visibility they should have in on-camera representations of Latinx people."[100] Princess Weekes of The Mary Sue affirmed Chavarria's assessment of The CW's use of colorism, but felt that the actresses weren't to blame. "When the creatives realized they’d cast two black actresses who were not Latina in this show, they should have changed the narrative to reflect that."[97]

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