LABYRINTH: The CW to Air Holy Grail Mystery Miniseries

The French medieval setting of Reign appears to agree with the CW. At the TCA’s last week, the network announced that it has acquired Labyrinth, a four-hour event series that jumps back and forth between modern and medieval France as it follows the lives of two women separated by centuries but united in their search for the Holy Grail.

The project, filmed on-location in the medieval town of Carcassonne in southwest France and Cape Town, South Africa, stars John Hurt, Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Kirby, Jessica Brown-Findlay and Tom Felton. It’s based on the best-selling 2005 novel by Kate Mosse, adapted by Adrian Hodges (“Primeval,” “My Week With Marilyn”). It’s produced by Tandem Communications (“Crossing Lines, World Without End,” “The Pillars Of The Earth”) and Film Afrika Worldwide (“Dark Tide,” “Endgame”), in association with Scott Free Films (“The Good Wife, “The Andromeda Strain”)  and Universal Production Partners.

In Carcassonne, in the year 1209, 17-year-old Alaïs (Brown-Findlay”), is given a mysterious book by her father, who claims it contains the secret of the true Grail.  Alaïs realizes that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe.  Eight centuries later, at an archeological dig in the French Pyrenees, a young volunteer named Alice Tanner (Kirby”) discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realizes she’s disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. Somehow, a link to a horrific past –and Alice’’s own past – has been revealed.

The miniseries was filmed in 2012, and has already aired in the UK and elsewhere. The CW didn’t give an airdate for the episodes, but we suspect it will fill a “rerun hole” in March or April.