THE MAGICIANS Gets January Return

THE MAGICIANS’ fifth season will launch Wednesday, January 15, Syfy announced.

Per the network, “Last season, magic was saved, but at a terrible cost: the life of Quentin Coldwater, who died heroically to save his friends— and the world. Julia, Alice, Eliot, Margo, Penny and their friends (and frenemies) must learn to navigate a world without him. Now, a new threat has arisen: in freeing magic, the balance tipped the other way and there’s too damn much of it, and as the excess builds, an apocalypse looms. Can the magicians get their shit together to save the world without Q?”

The series, based on the novels by Lev Grossman, stars Stella Maeve, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Hale Appleman, Arjun Gupta, Summer Bishil, Rick Worthy, Jade Tailor, Brittany Curran, and Trevor Einhorn. John McNamara, Sera Gamble, Henry Alonso Myers, and Chris Fisher serve as executive producers.

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THE MAGICIANS: Syfy Orders Series Based on Best-Selling Books

Syfy has ordered THE MAGICIANS to series, the network announced. The first season will consist of 12 episodes.

Per Syfy, THE MAGICIANS — which is based upon Lev Grossman’s best-selling books — the series “stars Jason Ralph (A Most Violent Year, Aquarius) as Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant grad student who enrolls in Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his 20-something friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real – and poses grave danger to humanity.  Stella Maeve (Chicago P.D.), Hale Appleman (Teeth), Arjun Gupta (Nurse Jackie) and Summer Bishil (Towelhead, Lucky 7) also star in this one hour drama.”

THE MAGICIANS comes from AQUARIUS’ John McNamara and former SUPERNATURAL showrunner Sera Gamble.

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