Final numbers are in for the 2 hour premiere of Legend of the Seeker:
In its first week on the air, Disney-ABC’s Legend of the Seeker scored a 2.9 live plus same day household rating, with more than 4.1 million viewers tuning in the for the fantasy hour’s two-hour premiere on Saturday, Nov. 1 and Sunday, Nov. 2. That’s 53% higher than the premiere rating of syndication’s last major first-run action hour, NBC’s She Spies, which debuted at a 1.9 in 2002.
Even though we don’t yet have BOUNTY or BRENNIDON numbers yet, it looks like the show is catching fire. Through Tuesday BRENNIDON was #1 for Sci-Fi show downloads on iTunes - today it’s still #3 right behind HEROES and TERMINATOR!
CASTING NEWS
Renato Bartolomei
Aussie actor Renato Bartolomei has been cast in the role of Demmin Nass. Renato is known on Aussie TV and appeared on Xena.
In the books Demmin Nass was the right hand of Darken Rahl, the lightning of the Master’s dark thoughts, a good friend of his since they were boys, and a man as big as any in D’Hara. He was killed at the hands of Kahlan Amnell after invoking the Con Dar.
This should probably put him appearing somewhere around (if not in) episode 10 “Denna.”
Delaware Online posted a short story about the show on their website.
A Local paper in Las Vegas sat down and chatted with Terry Goodkind & Sam Raimi last month about the series.
It’s not that the original stories weren’t of interest to Raimi, who says when he read them, “I was just swept away like I am during the best of the original William Shatner ‘Star Trek’ episodes.” Or to his producing partner, Rob Tapert, with whom he made “Xena” and “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” as well as the shorter-lived “Cleopatra 2525″ and “Jack of All Trades.” The changes, they say, were made simply because no one writes books with stories that have a beginning, middle and end every 50 pages or so.
“The most important thing, at least for me, is that we remain true to the heart and soul of the characters,” Raimi says. “What they represent, what they stand for, the good things that they’re fighting for … those will all be intact.”
Goodkind, who’s currently writing a mainstream, contemporary thriller set for release next fall, says he’d been approached about the TV or movie rights for years. He compares his decision to hand over the books to Raimi and Tapert to Zedd’s entrusting Richard with the Sword of Truth.
Zedd did this, he says, not because he thinks Richard is “always going to make the same decisions he would make, or that he’s always going to be right, or that he’s always going to succeed,” but rather “because he knows he’s a person of integrity who will always do his best.”
“While they may not do things that I always agree with, or that I would have done that way,” Goodkind says of Raimi and Tapert, “I know that they’re doing it with the best of intentions, and they’re doing their best job.”
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Finally here are 2 new (to us!) video interviews w/ Bridget and Craig when there were in the US promoting the show!
Good Morning America
KTLA
- I think Craig has ants in his pants.
