Here's a list of 32 famous actors who've played a wizard, witch or magician in some great movies and TV shows.

Penn Jillette, of magic duo Penn and Teller, will be joining the live action movie adaptation of the Borderlands games in a small role.

Benedict Cumberbatch has found another magical role, with Colin Trevorrow set to direct the actor in War Magician.

Note: This interview contains full spoilers for the series finale of The Magicians. The Magicians is over. With the airing of the Season 5 finale, “Fillory and Further,” five years of insanely cool magic, shocking twists, emotional breakdowns, and yes, f-bombs galore has come to an end. It wasn’t exactly supposed to go this way. If it were up to The Magicians showrunners Sera Gamble, John McNamara, and Henry Alonso Myers, the show would have continued. But Syfy saw it differently, and in the midst of production on Season 5, word came down that this would probably be …

One day before I got on the phone to interview actress Jade Tailor, her show was cancelled. The Syfy series The Magicians is currently in the midst of its fifth season, having successfully remained fresh and invigorating for five straight years despite blowing past its source material and, at the end of Season 4, losing its lead actor. Despite all this, and despite the fans’ knowledge that these writers could easily have kept this show interesting for years to come, Syfy decided to pull the plug. As a result, The Magicians will come to a somewhat abrupt end as its …

Spoilers for The Magicians Season 5 Episode 7, “Cello Squirrel Daffodil,” follow below. If you’ve been watching The Magicians this season and wondering “who is The Dark King?”, you got your answer in tonight’s episode. The Magicians Season 5 Episode 7, “Cello Squirrel Daffodil,” finally put a name to that incredibly pretty face of The Dark King (played by Sean Maguire), and it’s one you might find familiar: Rupert Chatwin. However, given how dense the story of The Magicians is and how many Chatwins there are, you may need a bit of a refresher on what we …

Extremely bad news for all The Magicians fans out there: the Syfy series has been cancelled after five seasons. The Season 5 finale that airs on April 1st will serve as a series finale, as Syfy has opted not to move forward with another season. While those of you intimately familiar with how The Magicians is made may be panicking right now because you know the show wrapped production last year, as it turns out the showrunners had a inkling this could be the end. As a result, the Season 5 finale was written so it could also potentially serve …

The Magicians focuses on epic fantasy quests, but the relationships between characters can be just as important to the story.

We decided to put one fantasy world into another, and assign the main characters of Syfy's The Magicians a Dungeons & Dragons moral alignment.

Over the last five seasons of its run on Syfy, The Magicians has had a number of standout episodes. They were either musical in nature, or had some crazy bottle-episode premise, or involved a major character’s death. But the third episode of Season 5 is special for a very different reason, and I wanted to speak with the co-showrunner and the episode’s writer, Sera Gamble, about how it all came together. Over these first few episodes of Season 5, the Magicians characters have been dealing with the fallout of Quentin’s (Jason Ralph) death at the …

Ever since the Season 3 episode “A Life in a Day,” fans of the Syfy series The Magicians have been eager to see how the show might address—or seize upon, even—the idea of a relationship between Quentin (Jason Ralph) and Eliot (Hale Appleman). The notion of that relationship ever happening went out the window at the end of Season 4, when Quentin sacrificed his life for his friends and Ralph exited the show, leaving Eliot despondent over losing the chance to ever explore a relationship with Quentin. That’s no doubt why Quentin’s death hit especially hard …

For the past five years, actor Hale Appleman has had the opportunity—and the challenge—of playing one of the most complex characters on the terrific Syfy series The Magicians. And for The Magicians, a show full of complicated people, that’s saying something. The journey of Eliot Waugh has been one riddled with extreme ups and downs. Eliot is at once the most charismatic person in the room, and also one of the saddest. He has been a strident heroic force of good, and a vessel for a literal monster. Introduced as the “life of the party,” Appleman has …

To be perfectly honest, I was not looking forward to The Magicians Season 5. The Syfy series has long been one of my favorite shows on television, even moreso when it started leaving Lev Grossman’s phenomenal source material behind and began carving out its own path. But the Season 4 finale, in which the show’s lead character Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) sacrificed himself to save his friends and thus exited the series, broke my heart. The hero of this story, the character who so deeply drew me into the world of The Magicians and made me fall in …

There have been many friendships in The Magicians over the years, but not all of them were wonderful. Here are the best and the worst of them.

One of Parks & Rec's best running gags were the ridiculous murals in Pawnee City Hall. Here's a small detail you probably missed.

Magician Criss Angel reveals that his 5-year-old son's cancer has returned after a brief remission, and he's raising money for other children.

Fans of the SYFY series The Magicians can rejoice today. The network has released a full trailer for the show’s fifth season, and it looks to be having more fun and saving more world. But this time, it will stick, we’re promised. The series, which focuses on a group of friends who discover and hone their magical skills in order to fight off the evil creatures aiming to bring this world of magic to destruction, is based on Lev Grossman’s best-selling trilogy of novels. Generating strong critical reviews over its first four seasons, The Magicians has …

Syfy releases the first trailer for the action-packed fifth season of The Magicians and confirms the new season will premiere in January.

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The Magicians is one of the crown jewels in Syfy's lineup. These are the 10 best-rated episodes according to IMDB.