I feel a little bad that my only reaction upon reading news of the cancellation of Legend of the Seeker was, "What, that's still on the air?"

The fantasy-adventure, developed by Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert from Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth novels, debuted in November 2008 as ABC Studios' first move into broadcast syndication. Now in its second season, the future of Seeker already looked grim when in March the Tribune Company, whose stations are the show's primary markets, decided not to pick up a third season. Still, there was an outside possibility that, if enough other stations were willing to carry the series, another season could be produced.

But today Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello confirmed the ax has indeed fallen on Seeker which, based on the episode or two I'd seen, felt like a throwback to '90s fantasy-adventures Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess (both of which were produced by Raimi and Tapert). The series follows the journey of a young woods guide, a wizard and a mysterious woman as they try to stop the ruler of D'Hara from releasing an ancient and terrible power.