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The Wheel of Time turns… into a “cutting-edge TV series”
"Look for the official announcement coming soon from a major studio."

by Andrew Cunningham - Apr 29, 2016 1:58pm MDT
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Cover art for the first Wheel of Time novel.
Tor Books
After a rough false start, it looks like Robert Jordan's fantasy epic The Wheel of Time will be coming to television after all. The news was delivered on the series' Google+ page by Jordan's widow, Harriet McDougal, who owns the copyright to the novels and has controlled the franchise's direction since Jordan's death in 2007.

We have few details about the project at this point, aside from assurances that a "major studio" will have more to share soon:

Wanted to share with you exciting news about The Wheel of Time. Legal issues have been resolved. The Wheel of Time will become a cutting edge TV series! I couldn’t be more pleased. Look for the official announcement coming soon from a major studio —Harriet
Optioning The Wheel of Time makes sense, given the appetite for TV adaptations of dense, sprawling fantasy series. HBO's Game of Thrones and Starz's Outlander have both been successful, and Wheel of Time is a firmly established property that has the added benefit of actually being a finished story already.

The main Wheel of Time story spans 14 books, though it was originally planned as a 6- and then 12-book series. Jordan lived to complete the first 11 novels, and McDougal chose Brandon Sanderson to finish the series based on Jordan's notes and finished pages. Red Eagle Entertainment produced and aired an awkward "pilot" of a possible TV series aired on FXX with little fanfare in early 2015 but quickly drew McDougal's ire. Whether the poorly conceived pilot episode will have anything to do with the finished series is anyone's guess.