Syfy Renews ‘The Magicians’ For Season 2
Our studies at Brakebills will continue for another year. The cable network has just renewedThe Magiciansfor a second season, just three episodes into its first season. Frequently described as “Harry Potterfor grown-ups,” the fantasy drama follows a group of graduate students attending the Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy in upstate New York.
Syfy announced theMagiciansrenewal in a statement today. “Thanks to an extraordinarily gifted creative team of executive producers and our partners at Universal Cable Productions, ‘The Magicians’ has become a buzzed-about hit, enchanting fans of the novels as well as attracting new and younger audiences to Syfy,” saidDave Howe, president of Syfy and Chiller.
The second season will consist of 13 episodes to debut on an as-yet-undetermined date in 2017. Season 1 also consists of 13 episodes.The Magiciansunveiled its first episode back in December as a special preview, and then returned to Syfy in January to resume the rest of its season. The show airs Monday nights at 9/8c on Syfy. Tonight’s episode will be number four.
Based on the bestselling novels byLev Grossman,The Magiciansfollows a brilliant but depressed young man named Quentin (Jason Ralph), who’s long been obsessed with a series of children’s fantasy novels known asFillory and Further. (ThinkChronicles of Narnia.) As his college career winds down, he’s recruited into Brakebills' top-secret graduate program. There, he trains to become a magician and discovers that the world of Fillory is very real.
The Magiciansgot off to a solid start at Syfy, earning decent (though not great) ratings and attracting mostly positive (though not glowing) reviews. But it’s hardly unusual for a freshman series to take some time to find its footing, andThe Magicianslooks like it’s got plenty of potential. As showrunnerSera Gambletold /Film, the first season roughly corresponds to Grossman’s first book, and there are three books in all — plenty of source material, in other words, to sustain another few seasons of TV.
