Legend of the Seeker is epic journey stuff, like all great fantasy. ![]() You can find out your own local times and station at the official LOTS website. If you’re in NYC (which is where I always dream of being), it’s 4pm Saturday on WPIX. For me, it’s KTLA (Channel 5) at Sunday, 3pm. Now it’s back for season 2, and the first new episode debuts this weekend (either November 7 or November 8, depending on your local listings). It fills that gap for me when BBC America isn’t showing Robin Hood. They’d returned to New Zealand where their previous shows were filmed, and drew from the Wizard’s First Rule novels of fantasy author Terry Goodkind to craft another terrific action hour with edge-of-the-seat appeal and really nice FX. And it too had something in common with Hercules and Xena: Raimi and Tapert. ![]() Then last year, there was a surprise on my widescreen plasma: Legend of the Seeker. And they had two things in common: Sam Raimi (that’s right, the Evil Dead/ Darkman/ Spider-Man guy) and Robert Tapert.īut the market shifted and independent programming took a beating for a few years. ![]() They were fun, action-packed, never took themselves too seriously and both were thoroughly enjoyable. My weekend afternoons were filled with two of the best, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. Back in the go-go 1990s of television syndication, everybody and his international production company was making hour-long adventure series.
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