Despite those mixed "Highlander: Endgame" reviews, it looks like the producers have finally taken notice of what the fans have wanted by returning the immortal franchise to TV (rather than the big screen) late in 2004.

UK magazine Impact just ran an interview with David Abramowitz, the man who was a guiding hand for many of the "Highlander" TV series' best seasons and reveals that he has been asked to write a four-hour mini-series which looks set to start filming in April - with a set of international filming locations and a set of newer characters.

The lead role won't be a 'MacLeod', but rather a 'Mackenzie' (though the appearance of familiar faces isn't *completely* ruled out). It's expected to have major swordwork from the first moment, something missing from the earlier spin-off 'The Raven'. The mini-series is provisionally entitled 'Archangel' though that has nothing to do with a previous "Highlander" episode of the same name.

Abramowitz says "Everyone connected thinks 'I am the Highlander' but it's a perfect vehicle for me to write. I like writing action adventure, I like sword and sorcery and it gives me a vehicle to do various kinds of talmudic discussions in a good story-telling way and there's nothing else on television that I could do it with. I have a thirty-four page outline. The grand theme of the piece is... it's a question we've done before, but done differently here... is redemption truly possible?".

The issue of Impact with the interview hit newsstands in the UK this week.