Rescheduled from November 23
Four-Hour Event Starring Sean Astin, Tim Curry and David Jason, To
Premiere Sunday, March 22
ION Television, the “Positively Entertaining” general
entertainment network available to over 94 million homes, and RHI
Entertainment, the leader in the production and distribution of
groundbreaking movies, miniseries and series for television, today
announced the U.S. television premiere of The Color of Magic, a
four-hour production premiering on ION Television on Sunday,
March 22 at 7:00 p.m. ET.
Based on the first two books in best-selling author Terry Pratchett’s
hugely popular Discworld series, The Color of Magic stars
Oscar nominee Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Toy
Soldiers, Rudy), Emmy nominee Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture
Show, Kinsey) and David Jason (RHI’s Hogfather).
Additionally, Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox (Bourne trilogy, Running
with Scissors) serves as the narrator and Christopher Lee (The
Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars Episodes II and III)
takes on the vocal role of Death.
Discworld, a magical realm, has got its first tourist! Rincewind (David
Jason), an incompetent and cynical wizardry student, has recently been
expelled from Unseen University and been given the task of guiding
Twoflower (Sean Astin) through the city state of Ankh Morpork. The two
are forced to flee the city after a terrible fire and are sent on a
fantastical journey across the Disc, which is unknowingly being
controlled by a board game played by the Gods. Along the way Rincewind
encounters a few problems: firstly, as an expert coward, he doesn't feel
he's the best person to guard a naive - and extremely rich, by local
standards - tourist through one of the roughest cities in the
multiverse. Then, of course, Rincewind experiences a vicious and bloody
struggle with his arch-enemy, the power-hungry maniac Trymon (Tim
Curry). Oh, and the world is coming to an end. Can Rincewind defeat his
nemesis and save Discworld from ultimate destruction?
This critically acclaimed production, which first debuted overseas,
received rave reviews from the British press.
