Here’s a Photo Gallery for WGN’s Salem Series

The show, which does not have an air date just yet, was created by Brannon Braga and Adam Simon.  I wonder if this will play out like Mark of the Devil: The Series?

Set in the volatile world of 17th century Massachusetts, Salem explores what really fueled the town’s infamous witch trials and dares to uncover the dark, supernatural truth cloaked behind the veil of this infamous period in American history.  In Salem, witches are real, but they are not who or what they seem to be. The show, which centers on an epic romance wrapped around this explosive revelation, delivers a bold new vision of Salem – and an even bolder new vision of witches.

In WGN America’s first original drama, Mary Sibley presides over the town of Salem as its most powerful sorceress and the wife of George Sibley, the elderly, ailing, and very wealthy head of the Selectmen of Salem. With many secrets to hide, the ruthless yet vulnerable Mary must rely on her mysterious and ageless accomplice, Tituba, to help carry out her agenda. Mary’s life is turned upside down when Salem’s native son – and Mary’s long-ago love interest – John Alden returns from years at war to find the community in the grip of witch-hunt hysteria. The level-headed, war- hardened John is a voice of reason in a village plagued by unexplained phenomena and the fear and suspicions that result. Fanning the flames of the witch panic is local aristocrat Cotton Mather, who dedicates himself to ridding Salem of evil – by any means necessary. As Mary deals with the astonishing return of her one-time beloved and the consequences of witch-hunt fever reverberate through the town, she and John are thrust into a world where horror, hysteria, and the supernatural reign.