ABC Ups ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND's Episode Count

Alice's adventure in WONDERLAND may go on for a bit longer than originally expected.

Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that ABC has increased ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND's episode count from 13, to somewhere between there and 22.

The OUAT spin-off was billed as a limited series, which hasn't changed. EW notes that the series' plot is entirely self-contained in the first season - creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis have the entire story planned out, and these additional episodes were ordered to tell it as originally planned.

"We really want to tell the story without having to worry about how to stretch it for five years," Kitsis told EW today. "The upfront order will be it for the season."

"This is not meant to be a 22-episode season," Horowitz said. "Whatever it ends up being, we'll have told a complete story, with a beginning, middle and end."

For EW's original announcement and explanation, click here.

In "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland," Alice (Sophie Lowe) in Victorian England tells the story of a strange new land that exists-where else?-on the other side of a rabbit hole where you can find an invisible cat, a hookah-smoking caterpillar and playing cards that can talk. Doctors think she's crazy and try to "cure" her with a treatment to forget it all.

While she may be ready to forget it all, put everything, including the genie she loved and lost, Cyrus (Peter Gadiot), she knows it's all real, and she is saved just in time by the sardonic Knave of Hearts (Michael Socha) and irrepressible White Rabbit (John Lithgow). They then head down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, where nothing is impossible.

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