Possible S3 premiere date and upcoming SFX magazine issue 200
According to Merlin's Keep possible date for the premiere of Merlin S3 is Sept 11(Unconfirmed).
I think its either Sept 11 or Sept 18. The BBC press release so saf has info on week 35.
Here is their note
Possible Season 3 Start Date News:
"This isn't confirmed yet by the BBC Press Office website so please remember that if you re-post it. We have reliable information that the third season will start airing on BBC One a week earlier than the previous two seasons. If that's the case the first episode will air Week 37, which is September 11 through September 17, instead of Week 38. The exact start date should be confirmed in the next few weeks. It's not yet known if the two-part premiere will air as separate episodes on different days, or together as some sort of ninety minute television movie event.
Meanwhile SFX issue 200 HERE, which comes out Wednesday, Aug 25th, will have a four page article and pics on Merlin S3. Includes interviews from Colin, ASH and J Murphy.
"The cast of Merlin is bigging up series three of the show in the latest SFX magazine: “It’s war. Full-blown war,” says Anhony Head with the kind of zeal his character, Uther, saves for burning witches “It’s huge. I have to say, some of the effects are amazing. When you see a huge, flaming catapult shot rolling down the street, it’s like, ‘Oh my god!’ Big, big stuff.”
Colin Morgan adds: “Bad things are happening. There are some big things coming up. The third series is set a year in the future. We get straight into the action and we don’t really hold back on a lot of the confrontations, and the changes in the characters are evident right from the very beginning. Friendships are being forged and broken and reborn and burned again. And that’s within the first couple of episodes; really within eight pages of the first script.”
But it’s not all doom and gloom. “It’s still a family show. Kids can still watch it,” says producer Julian Murphy. “We’re careful about what we do. People watch it on different levels… We also keep a lot of humour. We still do episodic comedy stories. There’s a fantastic story where a goblin appears - played by Mark Williams - which is probably the funniest episode we’ve ever made. But we are a little bit darker than when we started, without a shadow of doubt.”
Read loads more of this four-page feature on series three of Merlin (and see some fabulous images we’re allowed to put online yet) in SFX200, out next Wednesday."
I think its either Sept 11 or Sept 18. The BBC press release so saf has info on week 35.
Here is their note
Possible Season 3 Start Date News:
"This isn't confirmed yet by the BBC Press Office website so please remember that if you re-post it. We have reliable information that the third season will start airing on BBC One a week earlier than the previous two seasons. If that's the case the first episode will air Week 37, which is September 11 through September 17, instead of Week 38. The exact start date should be confirmed in the next few weeks. It's not yet known if the two-part premiere will air as separate episodes on different days, or together as some sort of ninety minute television movie event.
Meanwhile SFX issue 200 HERE, which comes out Wednesday, Aug 25th, will have a four page article and pics on Merlin S3. Includes interviews from Colin, ASH and J Murphy.
"The cast of Merlin is bigging up series three of the show in the latest SFX magazine: “It’s war. Full-blown war,” says Anhony Head with the kind of zeal his character, Uther, saves for burning witches “It’s huge. I have to say, some of the effects are amazing. When you see a huge, flaming catapult shot rolling down the street, it’s like, ‘Oh my god!’ Big, big stuff.”
Colin Morgan adds: “Bad things are happening. There are some big things coming up. The third series is set a year in the future. We get straight into the action and we don’t really hold back on a lot of the confrontations, and the changes in the characters are evident right from the very beginning. Friendships are being forged and broken and reborn and burned again. And that’s within the first couple of episodes; really within eight pages of the first script.”
But it’s not all doom and gloom. “It’s still a family show. Kids can still watch it,” says producer Julian Murphy. “We’re careful about what we do. People watch it on different levels… We also keep a lot of humour. We still do episodic comedy stories. There’s a fantastic story where a goblin appears - played by Mark Williams - which is probably the funniest episode we’ve ever made. But we are a little bit darker than when we started, without a shadow of doubt.”
Read loads more of this four-page feature on series three of Merlin (and see some fabulous images we’re allowed to put online yet) in SFX200, out next Wednesday."