If, like us at CultBox, you still have a Merlin-shaped hole in your life, you can at least console yourself with the fact that many of the cast have already gone on to great things both in the UK and across the pond.
Here is a quick round up of what they’ve been upto since departing Camelot…
Colin Morgan (Merlin)
Merlin’s titular star has been busying himself mostly with theatre work, although his movie Parked is still doing the rounds internationally as well as being available on DVD. You can look forward to seeing Colin next on the small screen in Quirke, a 1950’s set mini-series starring Gabriel Byrne as a Dublin-based pathologist, coming to BBC One this autumn.
Angel Coulby (Guinevere)
Angel entranced us with her jazz vocals as the ill-fated Jessie in Stephen Poliakoff’s BBC Two drama series Dancing on the Edge. Next up for her is The Tunnel, coming to Sky Atlantic in October; this is a remake of the Danish/Swedish crime series about a murder that occurs on the border of two nations.
Katie McGrath (Morgana)
After roles in Labyrinth and Channel 4’s Dates, Katie has landed in another magical series, having won the role of Lucy Westenra alongside Jonathan Rees-Myers in Dracula. A period piece set in Victorian London, we can expect the tale to play fast and loose with established legend. It premieres late October in the US, and hopefully soon after here on Sky Living.
Tom Hopper (Percival)
Tom has taken to the high seas as Billy Bones, along with Toby Stephens’ Captain Flint for a Treasure Island prequel titled Black Sails, now filming for the Starz network. Set twenty years before the events of the novel, there is no word on a UK broadcaster yet, although the show has already been commissioned for a second season.
Santiago Cabrera (Lancelot)
As well as boasting new Doctor Who Peter Capaldi in the cast, BBC One’s The Musketeers has cast Santiago Cabrera as Aramis. The new take on Alexandre Dumas’ classic novels will air in early 2014 and has been adapted by Primeval and Survivors writer Adrian Hodges.
Anthony Head (Uther)
As well as notching up several appearances on American series Warehouse 13, Camelot’s former King also has some movie roles in the pipeline. Most recently, we have heard his vocal talents as the villainous Mr Croup in BBC Radio 4’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere.
Eoin Macken (Gwaine)
Eoin was one of the first to land another role after the end of Merlin, and will be starring in The Night Shift on NBC. He is cast as an adrenalin junkie, former Army medic named TC Callaghan who returns from Afganistan to work the night shift at a San Antonio hospital.
John Hurt (Killgarrah, The Great Dragon)
Never short of work, the voice of the Dragon will be seen as a previously unknown incarnation of a certain Time Lord, after his unveiling at the end of Doctor Who‘s Series 7 finale, ‘The Name of the Doctor’. How he fits into the show’s continuity is still open to question, but hopefully all will be revealed on Saturday 23 November!
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