Syfy's The Magicians
Syfy is brining the Lev Grossman's bestselling trilogy, The Magicians, to tv in 2016. The only comparison here is think of Harry Potter in University.
The pilot was fun to watch, and if your a fan of Harry Potter, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and 90210 then you have found your series.
The premise of the show is about a socially awkward grad student named Quentin Coldwater (played by Jason Ralph) who gets an invitation to attend Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy. He and his fellow students soon discover that the magical universe they had read about in their childhood books is actually real and poses a danger to 'the real world".
The books are immensely popular with the last in the series opening up last summer at #1 in the best selling hardcover category on The New York Times Best Seller list. Clearly there is a following and I am eager to see how the story unravels. But for the time period, if your itching to get your magic on you will just have to pick up the books.
