History Trivia / The10thKingdom

* BillingDisplacement: At the beginning of The 10th Kingdom, Ann-Margret is listed among actors who appear throughout the entire miniseries, yet she doesn't actually appear until the very end. The same goes for Camryn Manheim as Snow White, who, other than a DreamSequence, appears only in part four.
* DawsonCasting: Sally Peep announces that she's just turned eighteen. Creator/LucyPunch was already twenty-three. Averted with Daniel Lapaine, who was one year younger than Wendell is said to be.

** South African actress Moira Lister puts on a Mid Atlantic accent to play Virginia's grandmother.

** Daniel Lapaine is an Australian putting on an English accent as Prince Wendell.
** Dianne Wiest is American likewise using RP for the Queen. [[spoiler: TheReveal however is that she actually is a New Yorker who travelled into the Nine Kingdoms and was tutored by the English-accented Evil Queen. When she's dying, she reverts to her natural accent]].

** Camryn Manheim certainly isn't the first one you'd think of to play Snow White, which was invoked by producers.

** Creator/KimberlyWilliamsPaisley dislikes working in TV due to the fast-paced nature of it, but accepted the role of Virginia in order to work with Creator/DianneWiest, Jimmy Nail and Creator/RutgerHauer.

** Dianne Wiest, usually kindly mother figures plays the BigBad herself - the wicked queen.

** Ed O'Neill as the bloodthirsty Troll King is certainly different. While it is a somewhat comedic role, the king is notably more serious and effective than his bumbling children.

** Ed O’Neill was first considered to play Tony, but O’Neill feared he’d make the part too similar to Al Bundy on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' and asked to play the Troll King instead.
** As originally scripted, and featured in the novelisation, Virginia would’ve encountered Clay Face in the Swamp Witch’s house instead of Acorn. However, Jimmy Nail proved unavailable for further shooting, which led to the expansion of Warwick Davis’ role as Acorn.

* {{Novelization}}: Seeing as it was based on an earlier version of the screenplay, it suffered from invalidated script syndrome, but this did allow for things which would have been intriguing had they made it into the miniseries (such as the Queen telling the Dog Prince a "bedtime story" about how she came to end up in prison, the literal burying of the magic axe, Virginia's RecurringDreams about Wolf, or an interesting variation on the Swamp Witch's cottage scene with Clay Face rather than Acorn). Other sections have some surprisingly deep explorations of character and motivation, such as the longer conversations between Virginia and the Huntsman, Virginia and the Queen, Virginia and Snow White, or Virginia and Tony about her mother; or where they hear in Little Lamb Village about the Trolls ravaging the kingdom and Tony, who accidentally golded Wendell, feels responsible. And some [[AllThereInTheManual explanations]] for otherwise headscratching moments are included, such as the old woman in the forest and the Cupid girl in Kissing Town both being Snow White in disguise, and smaller details not mentioned in the sereis such as Cinderella being the maternal grandmother of Wendall.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The novelization is now out of print.

** As originally scripted, and featured in the novelisation, Virginia would’ve encountered Clayface in the Swamp Witch’s house instead of Acorn. However, Jimmy Nail proved unavailable for further shooting, which led to the expansion of Warwick Davis’ role as Acorn.

** Ed O'Neill as the bloodthirsty Troll King is certainly different. While it is a somewhat comedic role, the king is notably more serious and effective than his bumbling children.