Merlin!

There's a new BBC Wales production on the screen (British screens, at least). You can spot that it's the BBC as it features such luminaries as Anthony Head, Richard Wilson, Eve Myles and John Hurt (and director James Hawes). [Just as well they did have John Hurt, or it would seem to be a list of Doctor Who leftovers...]

It features the adventures of a young man, just coming into his powers, and tasked with saving the day on a weekly basis. No, not Smallville, which there are easily many parallels, not the least of which is the free mixing of continuity. This is the British version, featuring their own superhero of note:

Merlin! (No, there is no ! in the title, but you can tell there should be.)

Aside from the drawcard of it being "magic!", and being yet another version of that old classic, there isn't much yet to see (based on an entire one episode). Looks to be the same old, same old coming of age young adult style series that we've seen before (cf two paragraphs above). Hopefully something exciting will develop, but it's not "must see TV"...

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