Merlin is going to be awesome!
Let’s get past the boring people first, John Hurt has been cast in the BBC’s new Saturday night drama, Merlin. Hurt plays the voice of the Great Dragon that know’s Merlin’s destiny or something. We’ll work out the storylines closer to transmission.
Anyway onto more exciting news, Michelle Ryan will play the evil witch, Nimueh. This teamed up with the fact that Anthony Head is also appearing gives me hope for this show. I hear Richard Wilson is involved as well.
The series will air for 13 episodes from September on BBC one, also it will air on NBC in the States. Hopefully it will be better than Robin Hood, man that show sucks.
Doctor Who returns with Big Ratings
Doctor Who returned on Saturday with 8.4m viewers, which is much better than I think anyone suspected, especially Russell T Davies who as the showrunner was very outspoken against moving the show to an earlier 6.05pm timeslot, fearing it may cost them viewers.
It was rated the 10th most watched program for the week-ending April 6th 2008, which sounds absolutley appalling but the only shows in front of it were Coronation Street and Eastenders, which by UK law are watched by your Mum, now if you count the amount of Mother’s in the UK then no other show will have a look in.
This rating is pretty insignificant however as the first episode always gets high ratings as it usually features a new Doctor or a new companion, the big test will be how many viewers the show retains and let’s be honest, no-one would have cared if Catherine Tate fell out the tardis at the end of the last episode, while David Tennant is The Doctor, everyone is watching for Rose.
