It turns out that Merlin isn't real. He is, in fact, a big fat hoax, made up by a writer who had run out of things to say and was getting desperate. "Geoffrey of Monmouth" sounds as if he should be a ...

The BBC's lavish adaptation of the Arthurian legend has now arrived on our screens, depicting Merlin the sorcerer as a young lad moving into adulthood. But the character is no stranger to television, ...