The series was subsequently picked up by DirecTV. NBC cancelled Passions on January 16, 2007. The series also features supernatural elements, which focus mainly on town witch Tabitha Lenox ( Juliet Mills) and her doll-come-to-life, Timmy ( Josh Ryan Evans). Storylines center on the interactions among members of its multi-racial core families: the African-American Russells, the white Cranes and Bennetts, and half-Mexican half-Irish Lopez-Fitzgeralds. Reilly and produced by NBC Studios, Passions follows the lives, loves and various romantic and paranormal adventures of the residents of Harmony, a small town in New England with many secrets. Passions is an American television soap opera that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1999, to September 7, 2007, and on DirecTV's The 101 Network from September 17, 2007, to August 7, 2008. For other uses, see Passions (disambiguation).