Based on Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth books, this series is done by the same people that did Hercules and Xena, which at least had enough quality to stick around a while.
I have no doubt there is no way this series can capture all of the books (there are at least 10), but as they drop in quality rather drastically, if they just managed to capture the first two or three books in two or three seasons worth of shows, it would be very cool.
Oh, and it's got the guy that played Haldir in it
http://www.legendoftheseeker.com