LotS to start airing in New Zealand in March 2009
Prime adds NZ-made Seeker to merry men band
Prime has pumped up its arsenal of fantasy shows with the Disney-ABC coup, Legend of the Seeker. The Rob Tapert-produced series for ABC Studios, which is shot in Auckland and syndicated on US TV stations, will launch here next month – not on TV2, which you’d expect because of TVNZ’s output deal with Disney-ABC International Television, but as the newest entry in Prime’s line-up of family adventure hours (Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Merlin).
Legend of the Seeker’s premiere follows its renewal for a second season and will coincide with Prime bowing another US show with NZ talent, True Blood, starring Anna Paquin (in the role for which she recently won a Golden Globe), as well as its resumption of Flight of the Conchords.
“Prime is delighted to work with a studio of the calibre of Disney to bring Legend of the Seeker to New Zealand audiences,” Prime’s channel manager Karen Bieleski said when the deal was announced this afternoon.
“The series has been incredibly well received in the USA, and we know it will be right at home on Prime, where its primetime slot will fit perfectly with our popular schedule of family adventure programmes.”
The adaptation of Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth book series stars Craig Horner as a woodsman who was born to fulfil a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people – but first, with the help of a mysterious woman (Bridget Regan) and wise old wizard (Bruce Spence), he must stop an evil tyrant (Craig Parker) from enslaving the world.
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