David Nutter's worked on every genre TV show from X-Files to Supernatural to The Sarah Connor Chronicles. So what drew him to Eastwick, the latest version of John Updike's classic novel? Find out after the jump.

"I read the script," said Nutter, "Every year I get pilot scripts to read, fortunately, and this one was so clever, so smart, so funny and so rich. I always ask myself, ‘What's a show that can be enduring, what's a show that will endure. When I read this screenplay and spent time with Maggie I said, ‘Not only is this screenplay something that can explode but also the talent behind it, there's really something in the reserve there. She's really got something special.'

"I'm a hopeless romantic, he continued, "The things that draw me most are things about families, things about fractured families – the two brothers going after their dad on Supernatural; a single mom and son on Sarah Connor Chronicles; the young man in Smallville who was born an orphan and doesn't know where he's headed; the kids on Roswell. This is a situation too: you have three sets of women and they're all trying to find themselves. And you see that the characters have a journey that they're going to be going on, and there's places for them to go that makes it very entertaining."

"It's not going to be as loud [as the movie], and it's not going to be Charmed, in any way. It's going to be much more grounded, much more subtle in some respects, and it's one that has to be more accessible to an audience. We need to – and I think we accomplished this in the pilot – to make this a kind of real-world setting. A place that's not a magic place but a real place that people can actually relate to and also see themselves in, because in these economic conditions we have to depend on each other and try to find that strength and power in our own selves as well. But also too, with the longer form, television-situation things can take a lot more time. The devil's seduction of the three women can take a lot more time and can be a lot more fun in how he gets there because he's the snake that's going to be winding through this story and he's going to get what he wants at some point."