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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 4475226" data-attributes="member: 18182">As already pointed out, this show is based off of a fantasy novel series by Terry Goodkind, "The Sword of Truth".  They are pretty popular, but I stopped reading after the third book or so.  The first book, "Wizard's First Rule" is incredibly awesome.  But the next few books where simply the same plot with a different bad guy, and got boring.  Later books in the series may have overcome this, I don't know.There doesn't seem to be much info on the new tv show out there, but from what I have seen it looks very promising.  Visit<a href="http://www.legendoftheseeker.com" target="_blank">Legend Of The Seeker</a>to see from neat promos and some cast pics.  The two leads are good actors but relative unknowns.  The wizard Zedd is portrayed by Bruce Spence, who has a long history of short but fun roles from Mad Max to the Matrix to Star Wars (prequels) to Lord of the Rings and more.  Spence is fun to watch and a good pic for Zedd (a great character).It starts on ABC Nov. 1st.  In Idaho it is generally getting crappy timeslots, which isn't a good sign . . . not so much on the quality of the series, but the network's faith in it.  I'll be there, hoping for a new awesome fantasy tv series!</blockquote>