Merlin!

[dbskyler]

Just found out that the second series of Merlin has finally reached the U.S. and is now showing on the SyFy channel!!!

I stumbled across an ad for it by pure chance, though -- damn, it's hard to watch these shows over here! Last year it was on NBC, this year it's on SyFy . . . and unless you luck out and catch an infrequent ad at the right time as I just did, the only way you would know is if you compulsively check the schedules of every likely channel just in case they've decided to air the thing. I haven't even seen any mainstream media attention for Doctor Who's premiere here, although BBC America has been advertising the hell out of it, bless their hearts -- I'll be watching some old re-run of "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" or something completely random like that, and then suddenly in the corner it says "BBC America" and above it "Doctor Who premiere April 17." I think they've made it a permanent part of their station ID logo or something. Not that I mind!

I wondered if Merlin had been on for months already, but I found the online schedule and compared it to the episode guide, and apparently I've only missed one episode that is getting re-shown multiple times this week (as SyFy is wont to do). So yay! Of course, now I get to be non-current for TWO shows. Doctor Who will only be two weeks behind, though, while Merlin is what, over a year?

Which reminds me of my saddest tale to date on non-currency: I watched the finale of "Any Dream Will Do" where the winner was cast as Joseph in a new West End production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." I decided that since I was going to London, I would try to see the show as it would surely be up and running by then. Well, not only was it up and running by then, it turned out to have closed some time ago by then. I still don't know how far behind we were on getting that broadcast, but apparently quite awhile. Damn you John Barrowman for not aging more perceptibly! *shakes fist*

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

See, THIS is why everyone needs a TARDIS! :D

It's not a year since Merlin S2 finished - not yet (think it's about 7 or 8 months, though)...

[thisbluespirit]

:loL: I can't believe they even show the Joseph and Maria shows over there, let alone years after. That's hilarious. Not so much if you want to see Lee Mead in it, of course, I realise, but still... :lol: (Btw, the finalists all seem to be active in West Ends shows currently - it's one of the reasons these have been the only talent shows I've liked. Say what you please about ALW, but he's clearly genuinely interested in finding new actors for the West End.) In fact, it's so long ago, that they've done a Nancy and Oliver one since, and have just started one for the Wizard of Oz, last week.

I still haven't really watched Merlin. I was put off by the initial description. I'm not the greatest on Arthurian mythology, but I know enough to be going WHAT? on every new revelation. I'm a bit sorry, though - it seems to be fun. Pretty much like my reaction to Robin Hood (isn't that a bit trendy for the 13th C???) which also turned out to be ridiculous and entertaining when someone bullied me into watching it.

Still, we get the delay the other way, too. Having fallen for Angel as well as Buffy, I had to buy the videos, as there was simply no way to watch it on terrestrial TV.

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

Merlin started on SyFy on April 2. The viewership for the first season was too low for NBC to put the show back on its schedule, which is why it was moved to one of its cable subsidiaries (the same company that owns NBC owns SyFy).

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Hooray for more Merlin! If you liked the first series you'll have loads of fun.

Hmmm... the bloke form Joseph is doing Wicked now, I think? My friends went to see Wicked last week and they bought the programme and there was a mention of him there.