"This is not a kind of wizardly, scraggly old grey-bearded, pointed-hatty guy, but a romantic, a statesman, a spiritual man," says Sam Neill, defensively. Neill plays the title role in Merlin, based ...

Running on BBC One from 2008 to 2012 and launching the careers of actors like Colin Morgan and Katie McGrath, fantasy drama Merlin was a pretty big hit on the small screen – but did you know that once ...

He's already given us the fantasy film "Legend" and a British folk hero in "Robin Hood." Now "Alien" director Ridley Scott might be giving us his take on Arthurian wizard Merlin. While the Merlin ...