Does This Suit of Armour Makes Me Look Fat?
Move over monsters and vampires, retract your dentures, go hide in your coffins with your favourite Edward Cullen's poster blu tacked to the lid and a crate of Tru-Blood. Hollywood's done with you.
Why? Because THEY' VE GOT KNIGHTS.
The new genre show has arrived. Knights are the new black this year. And I'm not talking kiddie stuff like BBC's Merlin. I'm talking mean, bloodthirsty, oversexed, machavelian medieval buggers.
Two series are gathering a pretty good buzz on the other side of the pond, and now that's I've Wikipedia-ed both of them and followed all the various links I have to say I'm pretty excited too.
First there's Camelot, which is going to reinvent the Arthurian's legend. It's been described as an "adult drama" based on romance and politics. Apparently it has an excellent cast to boot.
But Camelot may finds itself soon eclipsed by HBO new power horse: Game of Thrones.
I have never read the books this show is derived from but I have to say the trailer looks pretty impressive - Lords of The Rings impressive, and just like LoTR, Sean Bean is in the cast (and if that's a badger over yer shoulders mate, the Wildlife Trust is gonna be well pissed). According to the Guardian "It's a world of prophecies, exiled princesses, talking crows and magical trees. There's lots of death and lots of sex; the world is relentlessly bleak and war is hell. Showrunner David Beinoff said a crappy tagline for it would be: "The Sopranos in Middle Earth". Besides Buffy writer Jane Espenson is part of the wiritng team, so we should get some cracking dialogue. It's been shot in Ireland and Scotland so it should look really lovely too.
I don't know what you guys think, it but it sounds like potentialy seriously good telly to me.
Now, where's mah sword?