Camelot in April – Starz Jamie Campbell Bower, Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green

Alright all you fans of Arthurian legend, its time for a revamp! Deadline.com reported that a new Starz drama has set its premiere date. Friday, April 1st Camelot will debut at 10 PM (That’s the usual time slot for <em>Spartacus: Blood and Sand). Despite its name, I do not think the “10-episode retelling of the classic medieval tale of King Arthur” is a musical, so you can wipe that sweat off your brow.

The best part is the cast. Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love, Flashforward) is Merlin (How do you feel about that, Sam Neill?), Jamie Campbell Bower (The Twilight Saga‘s Caius, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Game of Thrones) is Arthur, and Eva Green (Casino Royal, The Golden Compass, Franklyn) is “the darkly powerful Morgan”.

Filmed in Ireland, the mini-series comes to us from from the makers of The Tudors, according to an Eva Green fansite, and is based upon Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur. Why don’t they ever base these things on my favorite, T.H. White’s Once and Future King?