When she began her current television role, Catherine Bell didn’t know she’d play a witch this long.
When she began her current television role, Catherine Bell didn’t know she’d play a witch this long. Having launched the Hallmark Channel franchise with a series of TV movies, the actress returns as the magical Cassie when the weekly version of “Good Witch” starts its seventh season Sunday. While whimsy and romance remain present, the new round also has a continuing mystery involving pouches of soil that Cassie (Bell, also an executive producer of the show) and her cousins Abigail and Joy (Sarah Power and “Wynonna Earp’s” Katherine Barrell) have acquired. “Every once in a while, I’ll see one of the original movies and think, ‘Wow. We’ve come so far,’ ” the pleasant Bell noted. “The first movie was 13 years ago, which seems like a lifetime. When we started the series, we changed things a little bit.
