{"id":7787,"date":"2012-02-09T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=7787"},"modified":"2012-03-16T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T17:48:47","slug":"an-aside-no-tv-series-for-lev-grossmans-the-magicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/news\/an-aside-no-tv-series-for-lev-grossmans-the-magicians\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | No TV series for Lev Grossman’s THE MAGICIANS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>Some unfortunate news<\/a> from Grossman this morning:<\/p>\n

So January is the beginning of what \u2014 in the accursed, eternally burning nation of TV-land \u2014 is known as pilot season. That\u2019s when the networks pick some of the series they have in development and greenlight them, meaning they\u2019re actually going to cast and film a pilot episode.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an exciting time. Except if your series doesn\u2019t get greenlit.<\/p>\n

The Magicians show was not greenlit.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

From here the way forward for the show gets rockier, obviously. We\u2019re going to take the script to cable networks. We\u2019re also going to renew talks on the feature-film side. I can\u2019t say I\u2019m bitter about it. I wouldn\u2019t have played my cards differently \u2014 we got exactly the right people and exactly the right script. It would have been incredible. It still will be, if we can get it to go somewhere else.<\/p>\n

But no question, it\u2019s a big disappointment. We had a really good shot this time, and it didn\u2019t work out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Disappointing news, no doubt. I’m usually not interested in seeing my favourite novels translated into the television medium (anyone remember that terrible Dresden Files<\/em> show?), but there’s something about The Magicians<\/em> that makes me wonder whether it wouldn’t work pretty well here. Brakebills seems like the perfect setting for a episodic show set at a magicians school. It’s doubly disappointing after you read John Scalzi’s comments<\/a> on the script:<\/p>\n

I laid my hands upon the spec script for The Magicians, the proposed television series based on Lev Grossman\u2019s \u201cMagicians\u201d series of books. What\u2019s more, I read it. And without revealing anything about it, because I don\u2019t believe in spoilers and also I don\u2019t want the horrible Television Ninjas to come for me in the night, I can say the following:<\/p>\n

1. I would totally watch the hell out of this show;<\/p>\n

2. I have a strong suspicion I wouldn\u2019t be the only one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With luck, we’ll have more news on the adaptation, but things aren’t looking good. More than anything, I appreciate Grossman’s great candor through the whole process and I’m sure I ‘m not the only fan sharing in his disappointment this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some unfortunate news from Grossman this morning: So January is the beginning of what \u2014 in the accursed, eternally burning nation of TV-land \u2014 is known as pilot season. That\u2019s when the networks pick some of the series they have in development and greenlight them, meaning they\u2019re actually going to cast and film a pilot… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[89,53,35],"class_list":["post-7787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-lev-grossman","tag-television","tag-urban-fantasy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n