Tales from the Neverending Story is a one season-only TV series that is loosely based on Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story, produced and distributed by Muse Entertainment, and aired on HBO in 2002. It was aired as 4 two-hour television movies in the US and as a TV series of 13 one-hour episodes in the UK. The series was released on DVD in 2001. Departing from the canon of the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, the overall story in the series explored the origin story of how Bastian discovers Fantasia from an even greater point of divergence from Michael Ende's novel... than the 1984 and 1990 Warner Brothers films had previously depicted. Events from the novel occur out of order, and specific plot points are reversed between characters. For example; In the novel, and films it is Bastian who enters the world of Fantasia, but here it is Atreyu who enters our world. The concept of Yin and yang is introduced by altering the nature of the Childlike Empress's relationship with bastien. In the series they are sisters with opposing ideologies.
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| On the air: | October 1, 2001-January 1, 2002 |
| Number of seasons: | 1 |
| Network: | HBO |
| Genre: | Fantasy |