Charmed pilot (confused)??

Question

i just started renting charmed from netflix. but since i had today off i was on tvtome.com and looked up charmed and it said that there was another women named lori rim who played phoebe in the pilot episode. but what i don't understand is the netflix pilot episode i watched was played with alyssa malano as phoebe. did they just re-tape the whole pilot episode to have alyssa malano as phoebe? and also where can i watch this episode i tried youtube but it just shows thee credits and tnt.tv only shows random episodes? thanks (easy 10 points i know lol)

Answer 1

ohhh vanessa's good.....thats all I got

Answer 2

Ok i have watched every episode of charmed like a 100 times so that is saying alot.. i even own the 8 season of it too. but to answer your questions...

Yes, another girl did play phoebe for the pilot, but when they got alyssa malano, they thought that the cemistry was much better between the 3 "sisters". So they refilmed the episode and aired it.

and if you are trying to watch it online i would try out tvliveshows.com they have alot of shows and movies playing there but no garentees

Answer 3

It was actually Lori Rom not Rim.  She left before the show aried for "personal reasons".  You can watch a clip on youtube but there is a song playing over it so there is no dialog.  It does show scenes from the pilot just not the whole thing.