ComicCon: Fifth Series Of Merlin Confirmed

The Merlin panel at ComicCon saw the release of a brand new trailer for Season Four, showing highlights like an epic battle between Arthur and Merlin and their friend-turned-foe Morgana, an evil dragon rising from the depths to destroy Camelot and a fight for the crown between Arthur and his father Uther. Better still was that at the panel, the team behind the show confirmed another series had been commisioned by the BBC ahead of this year's run. Consisting of 13 episodes as each of the other seasons has, Series Five will apparently be more focused on "slow-burning character arcs" that bring each of the protagonists ever closer to their legendary destinies. Hopefully, it won't be too long until Arthur takes his rightful place on the throne, namely because the series finales have been getting quite repetitive of late, possibly due to the fact that their writers cannot press the format forward enough. We should have a new trailer for the series very soon, but for now you can remain sane in the knowledge that Merlin will return this October and again in Autumn 2012!