The BBC have a brilliant new Saturday night fantasy drama for the autumn and winter - Atlantis. This is the third Saturday night fantasy series the BBC has made in recent years, following on from Robin Hood (2006-2009) and Merlin (2008-2012).
The first episode of thirteen in this brand new BBC series, Atlantis, started last Saturday night on BBC1 with the second episode being shown tonight - after another brilliant BBC series, Strictly Come Dancing - on the same channel.
The series is filmed in Wales and Morocco. A 155,000sq ft warehouse, a former cold store building near Chepstow, was converted into a vast TV studio to house the sets and filming of Atlantis. Filming of the first series began on 1 April 2013 and will conclude on 2 November 2013.
Americans will be able to watch the series, which is shown in the US this autumn as part of Supernatural Saturday.
The first episode last week - The Earth Bull - pulled in a respectable 5.8 million viewers and it was praised the TV reviews in the newspapers.
A young man named Jason - an ordinary young man in 21st Century Britain - is searching for his father. He gets into a mini-submarine and goes to the seabed in search of his father's missing vessel when suddenly some sort of tunnel opens up before him, sucking him in. He then comes to on a beach. He thinks he is still in England - until he sees people wearing old-fashioned clothing. He explores the strange world he has suddenly turned up in, a world which looks like Ancient Greece. He upsets a little, two-headed lizard in a market, which chases him until he manages to kill it. Then he is chased by some sword-wielded soldiers who want to arrest him for killing the lizard. He runs into the house of a young man named Pythagoras, who hide him from the soldiers. Pythagoras lives in the house with an older man named Hercules. Pythagoras tells Jason where he is - the lost city of Atlantis, a world of mythical creatures, soothsaying oracles and palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants. But it seems the newcomer has chosen the wrong time to arrive in the fabled realm, and Jason soon finds himself at the mercy of a deadly annual ritual which involves a Minotaur, from which there is no escape.
And so Jason, Pythagoras and Hercules have had the first of many adventures together....
It was great fun to watch, so tonight I'm looking forward to watching episode 2 - A Girl By Any Other Name.
Despite their newfound fame after battling the Minotaur, the boys are still penniless and hungry. When an old man asks them to find his missing daughter, things seem on the up, but it soon becomes clear that their task will not be an easy one; she has been taken by the Maenads, fanatical worshippers of the god Dionysus.
With the hopes and life of the old man fading, it is a race against time that Jason cannot turn his back on. But just when their perilous task seems at an end, he comes face-to-face with a stranger named Medusa.
The first episode of thirteen in this brand new BBC series, Atlantis, started last Saturday night on BBC1 with the second episode being shown tonight - after another brilliant BBC series, Strictly Come Dancing - on the same channel.
The series is filmed in Wales and Morocco. A 155,000sq ft warehouse, a former cold store building near Chepstow, was converted into a vast TV studio to house the sets and filming of Atlantis. Filming of the first series began on 1 April 2013 and will conclude on 2 November 2013.
Americans will be able to watch the series, which is shown in the US this autumn as part of Supernatural Saturday.
The first episode last week - The Earth Bull - pulled in a respectable 5.8 million viewers and it was praised the TV reviews in the newspapers.
A young man named Jason - an ordinary young man in 21st Century Britain - is searching for his father. He gets into a mini-submarine and goes to the seabed in search of his father's missing vessel when suddenly some sort of tunnel opens up before him, sucking him in. He then comes to on a beach. He thinks he is still in England - until he sees people wearing old-fashioned clothing. He explores the strange world he has suddenly turned up in, a world which looks like Ancient Greece. He upsets a little, two-headed lizard in a market, which chases him until he manages to kill it. Then he is chased by some sword-wielded soldiers who want to arrest him for killing the lizard. He runs into the house of a young man named Pythagoras, who hide him from the soldiers. Pythagoras lives in the house with an older man named Hercules. Pythagoras tells Jason where he is - the lost city of Atlantis, a world of mythical creatures, soothsaying oracles and palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants. But it seems the newcomer has chosen the wrong time to arrive in the fabled realm, and Jason soon finds himself at the mercy of a deadly annual ritual which involves a Minotaur, from which there is no escape.
And so Jason, Pythagoras and Hercules have had the first of many adventures together....
It was great fun to watch, so tonight I'm looking forward to watching episode 2 - A Girl By Any Other Name.
Despite their newfound fame after battling the Minotaur, the boys are still penniless and hungry. When an old man asks them to find his missing daughter, things seem on the up, but it soon becomes clear that their task will not be an easy one; she has been taken by the Maenads, fanatical worshippers of the god Dionysus.
With the hopes and life of the old man fading, it is a race against time that Jason cannot turn his back on. But just when their perilous task seems at an end, he comes face-to-face with a stranger named Medusa.
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