Now that Doctor Who has , to all intents and purpose , left our screen until 2010 ( Yes , I roll in the hay that SciFi still has a few episodes left of the current season , and that there are four specials starting this December ) , you may be wondering what can satiate the void left behind ? Under the jumping , we look at the two shows hoping to do just that very thing – One for American audiences , and one for the UK .
Talking to the UK ’s Daily Telegraph newspaper , BBC Wales ’ Head of Drama Julie Gardner – the person responsible for give the current Dr. Who the green lightness – lecture about her joy at the time traveler being able to take a semi - sabbatical through 2009 :
Is n’t it a marvellous thing ? Our master motivating for giving Doctor Who a break is that we want the audience to remember how much they love it . issue forth 2010 , we need people to be cheering its getting even .
She also bring up how she wants Britain to pass its Saturday dark while commend how much they like jumping around the universe in the Tardis :
While the Doctor ’s away , I ’m waiting for Merlin to take over my Saturday nights .
Merlin ? Just another example of what British television administrator have taken to ring “ Three - Generational Television . ” That is , television that adult can watch with their parent and their children , and everyone enjoys it equally . With the overwhelming success of Who , 3GTV has become the new Holy Grail of British broadcasting , with interracial consequence ( Robin Hood , for example ) . Everyone want to total up with the novel genre hit for child and grown - ups alike … and both British and American software engineer are hop-skip to catch Doctor Who ’s lightning in a feeding bottle with these two new fall shows .
Originallyannounced over a class ago , the BBC ’s new Saturday evening serial Merlin comes from the same people who brought you Hex , the little - remembered ( and with good grounds ) British rip - off of Buffy The Vampire Slayer . Focusing on the early life of Britain ’s most powerful prestidigitator as well as the before long - to - be - King Arthur , the young series stars Anthony Head ( Buffy ’s Giles , currently light up British screen in the crime drama The Invisibles ) as well as various Doctor Who guest wiz . The official verbal description of the series go away a little something like this :
Merlin take to life a young legend for a modern consultation . Merlin is an exciting , hr - long fantasy series fructify in the mythic metropolis of Camelot – but inspired by 21st Century storytelling . Before Merlin ( Colin Morgan , Doctor Who ) and Arthur ( Bradley James , Lewis ) became caption , they were challenging untried men front for adventure , hoping to live up to their fellowship ’s expectations , discovering dear and finding their own true fate , making fault along the room . The innovative , action - packed drama has cross - generational collection and paint a picture of Merlin and Arthur ’s early life that audiences have never witnessed before .
That ’s veracious : It ’s Excalibur : The former Years . Here ’s hope that that “ inspired by twenty-first Century storytelling ” line does n’t mean that we ’re going to hear a Coldplay song when Arthur gets dump by some Camelot babe because he ’s too one-time - fashioned or whatever .
While British audiences are looking back to the days of yore , American audiences will be looking back even further when Primeval last take a crap it to US shore via BBC America . We’vealready introducedthis time - traveling mish - mash of conversant elements – They ’re scientists ! Who move in clock time ! And deal with the sick clip - displaced monster that number into the present day by accident ! Led by a military personnel haunt by the mystic disappearance of his married woman ! – that BBC America are go to put in their Torchwood / Doctor Who Saturday evening expansion slot , hoping to copy the achiever of those two shows , but if you ’re disquieted that it sounds too like to shows that you ’re already watching , take heed to show starDouglas Henshall :
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“ It ’s the one question I ’ve been getting take about the most : people comparing the show to that Doctor , ” Douglas Henshall , who stars as an evolutionary zoologist who deals with creature from the past times and the future , read in an consultation at the Television Critics Association ’s press tour in Beverly Hills , Calif. , this week .
Henshall has instead been comparing the show to The A - Team . “ I was mainly trying to head off the comparison of the show we do n’t want to cite , and so I picked something very dissimilar , and our show is more of an supporting players like that show was , ” he said .
So , less screwdrivers and more have a go at it it when a plan arrive together , then . And drugging people ’s Milk River to get them onboard sheet .
Merlin starts in the crepuscule on BBC One , with Primeval starting August 13th on BBC America .
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