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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Magicians (Television program). Season one.

Title:

The magicians. Season one / McNamara Moving Company ; Man Sewing Dinosaur ; Groundswell Productions ; Universal Cable Productions ; produced by Mitch Engel ; created for television by Sera Gamble & John McNamara.

Publisher, Date:

Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2016]

Description:

4 videodiscs (572 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

Based on Lev Grossman's New York Times best seller, this centers on Quentin, a brilliant grad student chosen to attend Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his twenty something friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real, and poses a grave danger to humanity.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

College graduates -- Drama.

Magic -- Drama.

Secret societies -- New York (State) -- Drama.

Genre:

Fantasy television programs.

Fiction television programs.

Horror television programs.

Television series.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Engel, Mitch, 1958- television producer.

Gamble, Sera, creator, television producer.

McNamara, John, 1962- creator, television producer.

Ralph, Jason, actor.

Maeve, Stella, actor.

Dudley, Olivia Taylor, actor.

Appleman, Hale, 1986- actor.

Gupta, Arjun (Actor), actor.

Bishil, Summer, 1988- actor.

London, Michael, television producer.

Williams, Janice (Producer), television producer.

Based on (work): Grossman, Lev. Magicians.

McNamara Moving Company, production company.

Man Sewing Dinosaur, production company.

Groundswell Productions, production company.

Universal Cable Productions, production company.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Magicians. Season 1.

Magicians. First season.

Notes:

Title from container.

Based on "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman.

Widescreen.

Special features: deleted scenes ; gag reel ; The world of The Magicians.

Executive producers, Mike Cahill, Michael London, Janice Williams, John McNamara, Sera Gamble.

Jason Ralph, Stella Maeve, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Hale Appleman, Arjun Gupta, Summer Bishil.

Originally aired on television in 2015-2016.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation, Dolby Digital 5.1

English dialogue; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

Unauthorized magic ; The source of magic ; Consequences of advanced spellcasting -- The world in the walls ; Mendings, major and minor ; Impractical applications ; The Mayakovsky circumstance -- The strangled heart ; The writing room ; Homecoming -- Remedial battle magic ; Thirty-nine graves ; Have you brought me little cakes?

ISBN:

0025192350443

Publisher Number:

61178010

Other Number:

951223036

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

597868

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

DVD TV Magician