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I find it odd that there's so little fantasy TV. This is probably about to change, in the wake of the success of The Witcher and (at least while it was showing) Game of Thrones, but at present there's every kind of sf you might want to imagine, from The Expanse to the gonzo superhero/fantasy crossover stuff like Legends of Tomorrow. And indeed, some of the sf does verge over into fantasy.
But there's a huge genre of high-fantasy secondary-world stuff out there, the core of fantasy - Feist, Wurts, Gemmel, Le Guin, Abercrombie, Brust, Hobb/Lindholm, Kay, Lackey, Gladstone, Jemisen, and so on and on - which just seems to be untouched. There's a Pratchett series and a Tolkien series coming, which will improve things, but that's barely scratching the surface. Where's the Riftwar series? Waterdeep?
Some of it can probably be put down to genre snobbishness, and some more to the idea that fantasy is expensive, since it needs special effects and so forth. And maybe it's hard to make fantasy that people will take seriously, although I think Game of Thrones shows that there's appetite, even if they buggered up the ending.
But there's a huge genre of high-fantasy secondary-world stuff out there, the core of fantasy - Feist, Wurts, Gemmel, Le Guin, Abercrombie, Brust, Hobb/Lindholm, Kay, Lackey, Gladstone, Jemisen, and so on and on - which just seems to be untouched. There's a Pratchett series and a Tolkien series coming, which will improve things, but that's barely scratching the surface. Where's the Riftwar series? Waterdeep?
Some of it can probably be put down to genre snobbishness, and some more to the idea that fantasy is expensive, since it needs special effects and so forth. And maybe it's hard to make fantasy that people will take seriously, although I think Game of Thrones shows that there's appetite, even if they buggered up the ending.