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The series adaptation of the first novel from Bernard Cornwell’s splendid trilogy ‘The Warlord Chronicles’ doesn’t match the original’s mastery, but has its charms

Follow Arthur Pendragon as he evolves from outcast to legendary warrior and leader.

ITV’s answer to Game of Thrones doesn’t stint on gore; disco gets the glittering treatment it deserves; Crimewatch meets Kath and Kim in a botched Australian true crime drama; and a sinister ‘creature’ stalks 1940s Korea

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The biggest issue with this ITV drama is an absence of charisma – Iain De Caestecker as Arthur and Stuart Campbell as Derfel struggle to imbue their silly material with much gravitas

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This novel adaptation is 10 hours of bloody warfare, pagan rites, horrible baddies and worse hair. Expect plenty of sex, violence, vengeance and the occasional bit of good acting

Every age reinvents Arthur in its own image and ITV’s adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s full-blooded warrior has little truck with courtly love and the Holy Grail, finds Ed Power

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For Bad Wolf’s new Arthurian epic, The Winter King, the team aimed for a tone more akin to the The West Wing than Game of Thrones. Pippa Considine reports