The BBC series "Merlin" is good Saturday night TV with heroes and villains, magic and mystery. Not great acting or script but the stories are well enough written to appeal to the ready made market generated by the previous successful series "Robin Hood". It also has Richard Wilson and Anthony Head as well as the voice of John Hurt. Finally each week one well known soap or TV star appears.
Unfortunately I'm of the generation that is waiting for "Camelot...it's only a model" to be uttered by Arthur. This week, if they had wanted to, they could have used both that line, had a "Knights of the Round table" song routine and had the knights all fleeing the Gryffin shouting "run away run away!!". In addition why is the theme tune not from the classic Rick Wakeman album..you know "whosoever pulleth this sword for this anvil is the true born king of ...." and then lots of keyboard wizardry.
Mind you it will give lots of parents a great line to use to justify dragging children to "Spamalot"!!
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