Hopefully the deal with NBC replaying Merlin in the US will allow them to have bigger budgets, better effects, and better stories.

The show was entertaining and had a cool English charm and great chemistry between the actors that made it work, what's with the Michael Bay-type obsession with big budgets.The problem with many geeks is that they all consider themselves elite film and tv critics who tend to criticise just to feel important, and tend to be obsessed with technical perfection at the expense of what it's really about, and that's the characters and story, the stories are good, involving concise, exciting character interaction, humour, conflict and character evolution. The Brits have always had great tv, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, young ones, Dr Who, Mighty Boosh, Extras, the Office. The yanks always feel the need to turn every Brit masterpiece into an American version, ruining the charm (yes, with bigger budgets) let's hope Merlin avoids the taint.