A quick chat with Merlin star Colin Morgan (VIDEO)

A quick chat with Merlin star Colin Morgan (VIDEO)
A quick chat with Merlin star Colin Morgan (VIDEO) (Image credit: Shine)

Despite a year's worth of international success courtesy of fantasy series Merlin, star Colin Morgan says the fame itself makes him 'uncomfortable'. Colin, 23, told whatsontv.co.uk that he was shocked to find people recognising him during a recent trip to New York, almost as surprised as the first time he saw himself on the side of a bus. The laidback sorcerer's apprentice says the show's now been screened in 130 territories and the first series has just had a successful run on primetime TV in the US. "I was surprised at the reaction out there, especially in New York, to walk down the streets and to have people go, 'You, you're Colin Morgan!' And to think you're in New York, one of the biggest cities in the world... It's weird." Watch the interview with Merlin star Colin Morgan:

*Series two of Merlin is screening now on BBC One each Saturday*

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.