Tales from the Neverending Story
originally aired on HBO
Tales from the Neverending Story is a single-season TV series loosely based on Michael Ende's 1979 novel. The overall story in the series explored the origin story of how Bastian discovers Fantasia from an even greater point of divergence from the novel than the 1984, 1990, and 1994 Warner Bros. films had previously depicted. The concept of Yin and yang is introduced by altering the nature of the Childlike Empress's relationship with Xayide. The first two television movies were released on DVD and VHS in 2002, followed by a complete series box set in 2004.