Good Witch (TV series)

As with the previous seven TV movies, the series continues the spirited life of newly widowed Cassie Nightingale, the good-hearted enchantress of the fictional Middleton, with her now-teenaged daughter Grace. When new neighbors the Radfords, move in next door, they become suspicious of Cassie and her daughter. The dynamics of the series' focus would change during the six seasons, which later saw the Nightingales and Radfords become friendlier and more romantic, leading to Cassie's marrying for the second time, while at the same time shifted to stories involving its residents (including their relationships with others), an ongoing mystery, and a series of curses that tied to Cassie's lineage.

The series is filmed in Toronto, Ontario, primarily at Cinespace Film Studios' Kipling Avenue facility. Many outdoor scenes are filmed in and around Hamilton, Ontario. The Scottish Rite Freemasons Temple in Hamilton stands in for Middleton Town Hall. Street scenes in Middleton are largely filmed on King Street in Dundas Ontario, or the Westdale neighbourhood of Hamilton. Several local landmarks are often seen in the background, such as the historic Collins Hotel, Westdale High School, The Ancaster Old Mill, and the Niagara Escarpment. However, season six had the cast and crew travel to Cambridge, Ontario, to film some pivotal scenes.[9]

As producer Orly Adelson was president of ITV Studios America in 2014, ITV agreed to become the franchise's TV series distributor outside of North America.[4]

In May 2017, the show placed second for four straight weeks, behind AMC’s Breaking Bad spin-off, Better Call Saul.[10] In 2017, Mike Hale of The New York Times noted that the series has been "ignored by critics and never nominated for an Emmy or a Golden Globe (or any other major television award in the United States)." Hale continued to explain that the "Good Witch, averaging more than 2.5 million viewers on Sunday nights on the Hallmark Channel, consistently beat more talked-about shows such as Fargo, The Americans, Silicon Valley, Veep, and Pretty Little Liars." Hale called the series "a gentle, sentimental primetime fable set in an idealized Middle American small city (not an angsty suburb), is the show you find your parents or grandparents watching when you come home for a visit."[10]

In 2019, the show was one of the network's most popular original series, and the Good Witch closed its season five in first place among household ratings on Sundays.[11] The success of the series lifted the Hallmark Channel to be the highest-rated and most-watched cable network on the weekends.[11] In July 2019, Deadline reported that Hallmark Channel renewed the series for a sixth season, and Bailee Madison would be leaving the show.[12] Deadline wrote that "Madison has been on Good Witch series since it launched in 2015, so her exit is bittersweet and emotional."[13]

The show won ASCAP Award for Top Television Series at the 2018 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards.[14] In 2019, the series was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Television Series.[15]

On October 13, 2015, Hallmark released the first season of Good Witch on DVD.[16] On October 11, 2016, Hallmark released the second season of Good Witch on DVD, which included the Halloween special, "Good Witch Halloween".[17] On September 24, 2019, Hallmark released the fifth season on DVD.[18] The sixth season was released on October 13, 2020. The first five seasons are available internationally on Netflix as of March 23, 2021. Seasons 6 and 7 are available on Netflix as of September 30, 2021. As of June 11, 2023, the complete Good Witch series (and all movies) are available on Hallmark Movies Now. They are also available, in part or in whole, on other Hallmark channels throughout the year.

• Official website
• Good Witch at IMDb