The 26-part saga chronicles an epic battle between the Anatoray and the disith nations.
The eight-part saga is one of the site's biggest hits, having been viewed more than 19 million times since its debut in July 2006.
The film itself is the last act of Mr. Burns's eight-part saga, "New York: A Documentary Film," which began in 1999 with a portrait of the city as New Amsterdam, a Dutch trading post.
This week the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis announced their first joint acquisition: Matthew Barney's "Cremaster 2: The Drones' Exposition," the fourth video installation in his planned five-part saga.
Mr. Stoppard could write a nine-part saga mixing Norse legends with a contemporary drama about nuclear proliferation (cast of 196), and the National Theater would proudly put it onstage.
Soon after this baggy tale of Belgian boyhood first came out in 1948, Simenon ditched plans for a three-part saga and changed the closing words "End of Volume One" to "The End".
In their two-part saga published last month as a part of the "Web of Spider-Man" series, the web-slinger swings into action as a member of the Brooklyn Avengers, a band of misfit crime-fighters living in a Brooklyn brownstone.
Of course there are other factors at play but the film adaptation, which came out in 2008, cemented the look but even before then, the success of Stephenie Meyer's five-part saga gave rise to our acceptance of the traditional goth/vampire look.
I'm not saying I'm now enjoying The Village (it's still bleak as bleak), but with the new series and new era, Peter Moffat's bold idea of creating an epic 42-part saga documenting 20th-century rural England through one Peak District community begins to make sense and take on a new importance.
Mr. Barney's "Cabinet of Baby Fay La Foe" (2000) is a glass-fronted wood cabinet filled with strange objects like a large, partially humanoid form and a pair of dumbbells cast in salt, elements based on those in "Cremaster 2," the most recent video in the artist's five-part saga.
Although Lucas had once imagined Star Wars as a nine-part saga, he hasn't yet decided whether he wants to make the final three movies, but he has allowed licensees to build into the narrative space on the future side of "Jedi"; the later years of Han, Luke, Leia, and the rest of the characters have been colonized by other media.
