PremieresTuesday, September 1, 2026Prime Video · United States
An international hit
No. 1Fantasy seriesUK, Ireland, Spain & Portugal
No. 3All seriesPrime Video UK
No. 3All films and seriesPrime Video UK
Chart positions: Prime Video UK, July–August 2026. No. 1 fantasy series as reported by Yahoo Entertainment, July 27, 2026.
Territory
Peak, fantasy
Peak, TV shows
Peak, all titles
Days on chart
United Kingdom
No. 1
No. 3
No. 3
38
Ireland
No. 1
No. 3
No. 4
25
Spain
No. 1
No. 4
—
44
Portugal
No. 1
No. 6
No. 7
36
Prime Video daily charts, June 21 - August 18, 2026, via FlixPatrol.
Rise of the Merlin charted in four territories on Prime Video through the summer, reaching No. 1 among fantasy series in the United Kingdom and running alongside Clarkson’s Farm on the UK charts. The Daily Mail put its appeal plainly: a story about a king holding a civilization together, drawn from a body of mythology that has barely been put on screen.
On September 1 it arrives on Prime Video in the United States.
Colin Cunningham won Best Lead Performance Dramatic Series at the 2026 Leo Awards for his work as King Vortigern.
“It’s one of the biggest swings of his Daily Wire tenure, and also the realization of a dream that predates the company by years.”
“It’s one of the biggest swings of his Daily Wire tenure, and also the realization of a dream that predates the company by years.”
— Andy Meek, Forbes
“…a surprise hit on Prime Video, soaring up the charts on word of mouth alone.”
“…a surprise hit on Prime Video, soaring up the charts on word of mouth alone.”
— Laura Fox, Daily Mail
“The Pendragon Cycle is as unrestrained as an angry Merlin, and now that audiences are finally getting to see it, they’re discovering the show is more than who produced it.”
“The Pendragon Cycle is as unrestrained as an angry Merlin, and now that audiences are finally getting to see it, they’re discovering the show is more than who produced it.”
— Jennifer Asencio, Yahoo Entertainment
“Completely blown away.”
“Completely blown away.”
— Roger Avary, Academy Award-winning co-writer of Pulp Fiction
“Brilliant new fantasy series.”
“Brilliant new fantasy series.”
— The Telegraph
“Every aspect of the mise-en-scène is top-notch.”
“Every aspect of the mise-en-scène is top-notch.”
— Catholic World Report
“This incredible actor.”
“This incredible actor.”
— Jennifer Asencio, Giant Freakin Robot
“A smash hit!”
“A smash hit!”
— GB News, July 30, 2026
“A powerhouse performance.”
“A powerhouse performance.”
— Jennifer Asencio, Giant Freakin Robot
“A spellbinding new live-action TV series.”
“A spellbinding new live-action TV series.”
— WORLD
Trailers
Official Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdiwVYnpxD4
Official Teaserhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r-GtTiyPYU
The Great Lighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsDVVLC7P_w
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin | Official Trailer | Prime Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdiwVYnpxD4
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin | Teaser Trailer | Prime Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r-GtTiyPYU
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin | The Great Light Trailer | Prime Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsDVVLC7P_w
Fast facts
Embargo
Embargoed until Tuesday, September 1, 2026
US premiere
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Platform
Prime Video (United States)
Format
Seven-part series
Runtime
56–69 minutes per episode · 7 hr 27 min total (delivered masters)
Territories beyond those listed are handled by the distributor; ask us and we will point you to the right contact.
Embargo: Embargoed until Tuesday, September 1, 2026
US premiere: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Platform: Prime Video (United States)
Format: Seven-part series
Runtime: 56–69 minutes per episode · 7 hr 27 min total (delivered masters)
Genre: Historical fantasy
Created & directed by: Jeremy Boreing
Based on: The Pendragon Cycle novels by Stephen R. Lawhead
Filmed on location in: Hungary and Italy
Synopsis
Three lengths — copy the one that fits your slot.
Logline~25 words
Generations before Arthur, in a Britain fracturing under Saxon pressure, a boy born of two worlds becomes the man who will put a sword in a stone.
Short synopsis~60 words
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is a retelling of the Arthurian legend set not in the high Medieval age of knights in shining armor, but in the wake of a Roman-occupied Britain, where the seeds of Christianity are beginning to take root in the face of spiritual and physical darkness. As barbarian invaders threaten to lay claim to the Island of the Mighty, only those with faith in the true God will prevail.
Full synopsis~150 words
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin, based on the multi-award-winning novels by Stephen R. Lawhead, is a retelling of the Arthurian legend set not in the high Medieval age of knights in shining armor, but in the wake of a Roman-occupied Britain, where the seeds of Christianity are beginning to take root in the face of spiritual and physical darkness. As barbarian invaders threaten to lay claim to the Island of the Mighty, only those with faith in the true God will prevail.
The series follows Merlin, son of the bard Taliesin and the Atlantean princess Charis, from a childhood shaped by loss through the madness that consumes him and the disappearance that gives rise to the legend. It opens on a frozen river in an ancient wilderness, where a sealskin bag carried down the rapids brings a child to a people who will not want him, and it closes on the image every version of the story has reached toward: a sword driven into a stone.
The novels
Stephen R. Lawhead is credited as a producer on the series.
The series adapts Stephen R. Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle, published beginning in the 1980s and among the most acclaimed retellings of the Arthurian material in modern fiction. Lawhead’s Britain is not the courtly Middle Ages of knights in armour but the historically grounded world of sub-Roman Britain, in the generations after the legions left. He serves as a producer on the series.
Covers courtesy of the publisher. Links go to Amazon.
The Music
Original score by Kyle McCuiston. The soundtrack album is available on Spotify and all major streaming services.
Episodes
Runtimes are the delivered episode masters, including titles and credits. Note: DailyWire+ lists each episode slightly longer — those cuts carry recap and next-episode segments.
Episode 1: Island of the Mighty (01:07:45)
Written by Jeremy Boreing · Directed by Jeremy Boreing
The age of gods is dying, and the tribes of Britain descend into chaos. One man hears a voice that will change history.
Island of the Mighty
Written by Jeremy Boreing · Directed by Jeremy Boreing
The age of gods is dying, and the tribes of Britain descend into chaos. One man hears a voice that will change history.
Episode 1 stills · 10 · print resolution
5120 × 2880 · JPGMerlin (Tom Sharp) above the valley, opening the story he calls Arthur’s: “I am the man who made him.”3840 × 2160 · JPGHafgan (Paul Clerkin) names the found child Taliesin, and foretells a kingdom of summer born in his voice.5120 × 2880 · JPGCharis (Rose Reid) takes the arena, the crowd chanting her name.3840 × 2160 · JPGTaliesin (James Arden) finds a stranger in the Chief Druid’s seat: “It is unwise to sneak up on a man while he prays.”3840 × 2160 · JPGCernunnos, the Horned Lord — “One of your gods?” “No. Much older.”3840 × 2160 · JPGA Cymry war band and a Roman Ala crest the hill before battle.5120 × 2880 · JPGCharis (Rose Reid): “I trusted a god once, long ago. I killed him.”3840 × 2160 · JPGKing Avallach (Daniel Fathers) receives his daughter, and warns of a war moving south.3840 × 2160 · JPGTaliesin (James Arden) sings the Lament of Pwyll before the court of Ynys Avallach.3840 × 2160 · JPGYnys Avallach, the Hall of the Faery King.
Episode 2: The Vision of Taliesin (01:03:45)
Written by Jeremy Boreing & Rose Reid · Directed by Jeremy Boreing
A forbidden union gives birth to a prophecy that will outlive the world that made it.
The Vision of Taliesin
Written by Jeremy Boreing & Rose Reid · Directed by Jeremy Boreing
A forbidden union gives birth to a prophecy that will outlive the world that made it.
Episode 2 stills · 10 · print resolution
3840 × 2160 · JPGElphin offers a silent curse as the guard levels its crossbows.3840 × 2160 · JPGTaliesin speaks the vision that names the episode: “I was with my Lord in the manger of oxen and asses.”3840 × 2160 · JPGMorgian: “Men are weak, Taliesin. Unwilling to pay the price for a better world.”3840 × 2160 · JPGCharis in the wood, moments before the raiders find her.3840 × 2160 · JPGCharis (Rose Reid) kneels to her father: “Allow me to go to him freely, so that I may return freely.”3840 × 2160 · JPGCharis (Rose Reid) with the Fisher King's Sword the night Taliesin climbs to her window.3840 × 2160 · JPGA baptism by firelight at the water’s edge.3840 × 2160 · JPGPendaran (Christopher Sciueref) gives Taliesin (James Arden) the torc: “Taliesin shall reside here as bard to me.”3840 × 2160 · JPGTaliesin (James Arden) and Charis (Rose Reid) on the road — “I was raised beyond those mountains.”3840 × 2160 · JPGRain in the courtyard, and the cry that follows: “Jesu!”
Episode 3: A Fatherless Child (00:56:27)
Written by Jeremy Boreing · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson
A king demands blood; revelation follows. Merlin returns to the land of the living.
A Fatherless Child
Written by Jeremy Boreing · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson
A king demands blood; revelation follows. Merlin returns to the land of the living.
Episode 3 stills · 10 · print resolution
5120 × 2880 · JPGMerlin (Tom Sharp): “They say that Merlin is mad...”3840 × 2160 · JPGVortigern’s tower, raised each day and fallen each night — the riddle he summons a fatherless child to answer.3840 × 2160 · JPGAurelius (Finney Cassidy) and Uther (Myles Clohessy): “The battle is before us.”3840 × 2160 · JPGVortigern (Colin Cunningham) as his fortress falls and his own men cry out for the king.5120 × 2880 · JPGAurelius (Finney Cassidy) in the burning fort: “Let the fox burn!”3840 × 2160 · JPGMerlin (Tom Sharp) counts the odds for Aurelius (Finney Cassidy): “700 men is not a man too many to face Hengist.”3840 × 2160 · JPG“I would have you my counselor” — Aurelius (Finney Cassidy) asks Merlin (Tom Sharp) to advise him.3840 × 2160 · JPG“I’ve never seen so many” — Uther (Myles Clohessy) and Aurelius (Finney Cassidy) watch a Saecsen raiding party.3840 × 2160 · JPG“Behold Ynys Avallach, Hall of the Faery King.”3840 × 2160 · JPG“Hello, Mother” — Merlin (Tom Sharp) comes home to Charis (Rose Reid) at the shrine.
Episode 4: The King of Maridunum (01:04:55)
Written by Ryan Whitaker · Directed by Ryan Whitaker
As Britain bleeds, Merlin must forge unity from chaos—while darkness moves behind kings and blades.
The King of Maridunum
Written by Ryan Whitaker · Directed by Ryan Whitaker
As Britain bleeds, Merlin must forge unity from chaos—while darkness moves behind kings and blades.
Episode 4 stills · 10 · print resolution
3840 × 2160 · JPGPrince Pascent (Nick Wittman), Vortigern’s son, kneels in Hengist’s camp to hold the Saecsens to their oath and win back his father’s kingdom.3840 × 2160 · JPG“Hail the Fisher King” — Avallach (Daniel Fathers) on the water.3840 × 2160 · JPGMerlin (Tom Sharp) tells his grandfather what he has seen: “Morgian, in the fire and in the stars.”3840 × 2160 · JPGMerlin, Uther and Pelleas ride for Maridunum — “built by the Romans in the heart of a plentiful valley.”3840 × 2160 · JPG"If I am a king, I'm not a very good one." Tewdrig (David Brooks) offers the torc to Merlin (Tom Sharp).3840 × 2160 · JPG“What is your business here?” — Meurig’s (Alex Arco) party halted on the road to Maridunum.3840 × 2160 · JPGAurelius (Finney Cassidy) flies into battle.3840 × 2160 · JPGMerlin (Tom Sharp) commands the storm at Morcant's stronghold.3840 × 2160 · JPGCharis (Rose Reid) risks death and exile in the Summerlands.3840 × 2160 · JPGMorgian (Emree Franklin) sends Lot to parley Hengist with a gift: “Safe travels, my son.”
Episode 5: The Price of Failure (01:09:24)
Written by Josiah Nelson · Directed by Ryan Whitaker
War brews, loyalties splinter, and Merlin’s past erupts—threatening to destroy the fragile future he fights for.
The Price of Failure
Written by Josiah Nelson · Directed by Ryan Whitaker
War brews, loyalties splinter, and Merlin’s past erupts—threatening to destroy the fragile future he fights for.
Episode 5 stills · 10 · print resolution
3840 × 2160 · JPGYoung Merlin among the Brotherhood, as Hafgan names the Great Light and the elders call it sacrilege.3840 × 2160 · JPGMorcant and Dunaut weigh the Emrys: “The Merlin died long before you and I were born.”3840 × 2160 · JPGMerlin among the Hill Folk of the Hawk, six winters as one of them.3840 × 2160 · JPG“I began to sense a purpose at work in my presence among them.”3840 × 2160 · JPGGorlas (Chick Allan): “I will fight the barbarians, but I’ve had enough of High Kings.”3840 × 2160 · JPGMerlin's (Tom Sharp) fury reaches breaking point.3840 × 2160 · JPGAurelius (Finney Cassidy) defends his claim.3840 × 2160 · JPGYgerna (Flo Thompstone) watches the duel that will determine her future.3840 × 2160 · JPG“Enough, my lord. There is nothing to be gained!” Gorlas (Chick Allan) challenges a would-be king.3840 × 2160 · JPGCustennin (Steve Varnom) pledges the North as Merlin (Tom Sharp) dines on ashes.
Episode 6: Ganieda (00:57:44)
Written by Rose Reid · Directed by Ryan Whitaker
After years in exile, Merlin returns to a divided kingdom and meets the woman who will test his destiny.
Ganieda
Written by Rose Reid · Directed by Ryan Whitaker
After years in exile, Merlin returns to a divided kingdom and meets the woman who will test his destiny.
Episode 6 stills · 10 · print resolution
5120 × 2880 · JPGGanieda, Huntress of Celyddon (Brett Cooper).3840 × 2160 · JPG“Stay” — Ganieda (Brett Cooper) and Merlin (Tom Sharp) by candlelight.5120 × 2880 · JPGMerlin (Tom Sharp) unleashes his battle awen on the Saecsen.3840 × 2160 · JPGCharis (Rose Reid) bestows the Fisher King's Sword. “Take me up.”3840 × 2160 · JPGFirelight on the painted face of Gern-y-fhain of the Hill Folk (Lynn Hunter).3840 × 2160 · JPGBare hands, bloodied, drawing the Fisher King's Sword.3840 × 2160 · JPGMerlin (Tom Sharp) blade in hand, walking away into the wood.5120 × 2880 · JPGMerlin (Tom Sharp) in pain and rage.3840 × 2160 · JPGMerlin (Tom Sharp) as death between the flames.3840 × 2160 · JPG“Put a blade in the fire!” — Merlin (Tom Sharp) as Custennin demands not to die like this.
Episode 7: The Last True Bard (01:07:16)
Written by Josiah Nelson, Ryan Whitaker & Jeremy Boreing · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson
Britain gathers for war. Merlin rises from the shadows to crown the one king who can unite them all.
The Last True Bard
Written by Josiah Nelson, Ryan Whitaker & Jeremy Boreing · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson
Britain gathers for war. Merlin rises from the shadows to crown the one king who can unite them all.
Episode 7 stills · 10 · print resolution
3840 × 2160 · JPGHengist (Thor Rosland) spies a scout on the ridge.3840 × 2160 · JPG“Jesu before me. Jesu behind. Not by my power, Jesu, but thine” — Merlin (Tom Sharp) on the eve of battle.3840 × 2160 · JPGMorgian (Emree Franklin) at Merlin’s (Tom Sharp) shoulder: “They need you now. Feel the power in your arm.”3840 × 2160 · JPGUther (Myles Clohessy) goes to ground in the melee.3840 × 2160 · JPGTewdrig (David Brooks) fights to the end.3840 × 2160 · JPGCustennin (Steve Varnom) in the press of the final battle.3840 × 2160 · JPGPelleas (Alex Laurence Phillips) holds the line.3840 × 2160 · JPGYgerna (Flo Thompstone) and Charis (Rose Reid), blade in hand, as the battle reaches them.5120 × 2880 · JPG“I am not the king of the Summer Kingdom, Morgian, and you are only the queen of air and darkness.” Merlin (Tom Sharp) remembers his calling.3840 × 2160 · JPGFirst, there is a sword. The Sword of Britain. And the sword IS Britain. The Sword in the Stone.
Episode 1: Island of the Mighty (01:07:45)
Written by Jeremy Boreing · Directed by Jeremy Boreing
The age of gods is dying, and the tribes of Britain descend into chaos. One man hears a voice that will change history.
Episode 2: The Vision of Taliesin (01:03:45)
Written by Jeremy Boreing & Rose Reid · Directed by Jeremy Boreing
A forbidden union gives birth to a prophecy that will outlive the world that made it.
Episode 3: A Fatherless Child (00:56:27)
Written by Jeremy Boreing · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson
A king demands blood; revelation follows. Merlin returns to the land of the living.
Episode 4: The King of Maridunum (01:04:55)
Written by Ryan Whitaker · Directed by Ryan Whitaker
As Britain bleeds, Merlin must forge unity from chaos—while darkness moves behind kings and blades.
Episode 5: The Price of Failure (01:09:24)
Written by Josiah Nelson · Directed by Ryan Whitaker
War brews, loyalties splinter, and Merlin’s past erupts—threatening to destroy the fragile future he fights for.
Episode 6: Ganieda (00:57:44)
Written by Rose Reid · Directed by Ryan Whitaker
After years in exile, Merlin returns to a divided kingdom and meets the woman who will test his destiny.
Episode 7: The Last True Bard (01:07:16)
Written by Josiah Nelson, Ryan Whitaker & Jeremy Boreing · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson
Britain gathers for war. Merlin rises from the shadows to crown the one king who can unite them all.
From the creator
The Pendragon Cycle is one of the most ambitious independent series ever produced. For me, it’s the culmination of a twenty-five-year vision to create culture, not just to criticize it. Lawhead understood that Christianity did not emerge into a clean or comfortable world. His is a visceral faith, taking root amid violence, ambition, and mystery. That’s the world we wanted to put on screen, without sanding down the beliefs or brutality that give it its character.
“The Pendragon Cycle is one of the most ambitious independent series ever produced. For me, it’s the culmination of a twenty-five-year vision to create culture, not just to criticize it. Lawhead understood that Christianity did not emerge into a clean or comfortable world. His is a visceral faith, taking root amid violence, ambition, and mystery. That’s the world we wanted to put on screen, without sanding down the beliefs or brutality that give it its character.”
— Jeremy Boreing, series creator
Watching audiences find this show on their own has been one of the great joys of my career. These stories are one of our great civilizational inheritances, and I’m thrilled they’re about to reach a far bigger audience here at home.
“Watching audiences find this show on their own has been one of the great joys of my career. These stories are one of our great civilizational inheritances, and I’m thrilled they’re about to reach a far bigger audience here at home.”
— Jeremy Boreing, series creator
Principal cast
Boreing cast almost entirely unknown actors by design — he never wanted an actor bigger than the project, and wanted a company for whom this was the largest thing they had ever done.
Studio portraits at 2581×3872, print resolution. Click any image to download the original.
Tom Sharp as Merlin
Rose Reid as Charis
James Arden as Taliesin
Finney Cassidy as Aurelius
Myles Clohessy as Uther
Brett Cooper as Ganieda
Alex Laurence Phillips as Pelleas
Daniel Fathers as King Avallach
Emree Franklin as Morgian
Colin Cunningham as King Vortigern
Nicholas Boulton as Morcant
Thor Rosland as Hengist
Chick Allan as Gorlas
Steve Varnom as Custennin
Flo Thompstone as Ygerna
Paul Clerkin as Hafgan
Christopher Sciueref as Pendaran
George Osborne as Lot
David Brooks as Tewdrig
Alex Arco as Meurig
Thomas Tidiman as Aldwyn
Nick Wittman as Pascent
Bertie Newman as Collen
Duran Fulton Brown as Elphin
George Prentice as Dafyd
Andrew Readman as The Wanderer
Howard Nightingall as Dunaut
Sean James Sutton as Calpurnius
Barry John Kinsella as Cuall
Matthew Scurfield as Old Man Dafyd
Nick Collis as Annubi
Daniel Considine as Magnus Maximus
William Snelling as Hen Dallpen
Travis Mills as Loeter
Filmmakers
Jeremy Boreing
Creator, Director, Executive Producer
Boreing created Rise of the Merlin, leading the writer’s room and directing the first two episodes, after more than two decades of trying to bring Lawhead’s novels to the screen. He co-founded The Daily Wire and served as its co-CEO, building it into one of the largest independent media companies in the country, before stepping away in 2025. He now runs Boreing Media and hosts The Jeremy Boreing Show.
Dallas Sonnier
Executive Producer
Sonnier is a veteran film producer and the founder of Bonfire Legend. His films Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete are genre classics. His long collaboration with Boreing and with DailyWire+ has produced hits like What is a Woman? and Am I Racist?, two of the most successful and influential documentaries of the decade.
Ryan Whitaker
Director, Executive Producer
Whitaker directed three episodes of Rise of the Merlin — The King of Maridunum, The Price of Failure, and Ganieda — wrote for the series, and executive produced it for Tirian Films, the company he co-founded after writing and directing Surprised by Oxford. He is adapting Louis L’Amour’s Flint, with Josh Holloway attached to star, and G.K. Chesterton’s The Ball and the Cross.
Jesse V. Johnson
Director
Johnson directed A Fatherless Child and the season finale, The Last True Bard. A British filmmaker who came up through the stunt world — his credits there run from Total Recall to Terminator 3 and Avatar — he is known for a run of hard-edged action pictures including Savage Dog, Accident Man, The Debt Collector, and Avengement, his sixth film with Scott Adkins.
Credits
Created by
Jeremy Boreing
Directed by
Jeremy Boreing, Jesse V. Johnson, Ryan Whitaker
Based on the novels by
Stephen R. Lawhead
Executive producers
Jeremy Boreing, Dallas Sonnier, Ryan Whitaker, Daniel Kresmery, Ben Shapiro, Caleb Robinson
Producers
Travis Mills, Jonathan Hay, Amanda Presmyk, Jonathan Halperyn, Jerilyn Esquibel, Augusto Pelliccia, Julius Nasso, Stephen R. Lawhead
Co-producers
Jesse V. Johnson, Josiah Nelson, Lee Blaylock, Rose Reid, Stevie Card, Jared Bentley, Mathis Glover, Lillian Campbell, Jeff Elmore, Robin Lippett
Filmed on location in
Hungary and Italy
Directors of photography
Kris Kimlin, Akis Konstantakopoulos, Maxime Alexandre
Production designer
Renátó Cseh
Costume designers
András Dániel Tôth, Attila Godena-Juhász
Editor
Jared Bentley
Composer
Kyle McCuiston
Casting by
David Guglielmo, CSA and Jeremy Zimmerman, CSA
Created by: Jeremy Boreing
Directed by: Jeremy Boreing, Jesse V. Johnson, Ryan Whitaker
Based on the novels by: Stephen R. Lawhead
Executive producers: Jeremy Boreing, Dallas Sonnier, Ryan Whitaker, Daniel Kresmery, Ben Shapiro, Caleb Robinson
Producers: Travis Mills, Jonathan Hay, Amanda Presmyk, Jonathan Halperyn, Jerilyn Esquibel, Augusto Pelliccia, Julius Nasso, Stephen R. Lawhead
Co-producers: Jesse V. Johnson, Josiah Nelson, Lee Blaylock, Rose Reid, Stevie Card, Jared Bentley, Mathis Glover, Lillian Campbell, Jeff Elmore, Robin Lippett
Filmed on location in: Hungary and Italy
Directors of photography: Kris Kimlin, Akis Konstantakopoulos, Maxime Alexandre
Production designer: Renátó Cseh
Costume designers: András Dániel Tôth, Attila Godena-Juhász
Editor: Jared Bentley
Composer: Kyle McCuiston
Casting by: David Guglielmo, CSA and Jeremy Zimmerman, CSA
Charis and Young Merlin among the standing stones of the sacred ring at Garth Greggyn — Episode 5.
Göböljárás, Hungary · 26 September 2023 · Wolf unit, dir. Jeremy Boreing
Production diaries
20 episodes, from the shoot through post-production.
On the Set of The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin | Production Diary 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuOzNf8WUQ4
Merlin Discovers a Mysterious Foe | The Pendragon Cycle Production Diary 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWYEU0WNTis
This Scene Was Insane... | The Pendragon Cycle Production Diary 3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uhk3odNr84
Yes, She's Still in the Show | The Pendragon Cycle Production Diary 4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtGXOmFjCA
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin | Production Diary 5https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq92RJmRdlI
How We Made This Medieval Song | The Pendragon Cycle Production Diary 6https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6vPvUKL6hQ
The Hardest Week of Filming Yet | The Pendragon Cycle Production Diary 7https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjpjj6II1ug
You're Not Ready For This Scene... | The Pendragon Cycle Production Diary 8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlnuOck_ALk
What It Takes to Tame a Bull | The Pendragon Cycle Production Diary 9https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DBxGaUjfnY
The Scene You've Been Waiting For | The Pendragon Cycle Diary 10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO63WvFFIfc
The Scene That Left the Crew Speechless | The Pendragon Cycle Diary 11https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBo5Q2ZuxEU
You Don't Want to Miss This Scene... | The Pendragon Cycle Production Diary 12https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC_CSrnBHsE
Dialect Training | The Pendragon Cycle Production Diary 13https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftW0L7BPFnE
Things Don’t Always Go To Plan on Set | Production Diary 14https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew1rM9upKXI
Action and Emotion on the Set of The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin | Production Diary 15https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28RyVzqzrtI
We Made It to the End | The Pendragon Production Diary 16https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JY2WFOO49k
Editing and Scoring The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDcHOokz9uE
Years of Work Comes Down to This | The Pendragon Cycle Production Diary 18https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfPi_V31N4
How Post-Production Brings a Medieval Epic to Lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIzrG-Aix5g
The Journey Ends Herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsFaWxlKAIM
Using these images
Credit every image Courtesy of DailyWire+.
Cleared for editorial use in coverage of The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin.
Run the caption and the credit line as given. Do not crop out or obscure a credit.
Do not alter, composite, colour-treat, or add text to the images.
Not cleared for commercial use, merchandise, advertising, or AI training.
For any other use — commercial licensing, cover treatments, or a still not in this kit — ask first. press@boreingmedia.com
Also available
Key art, character posters, print-resolution masters of the remaining stills, further unit and behind-the-scenes photography beyond the selection above, and full season screeners for credentialed press.Request access →
The Daily Wire is one of America’s largest conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, podcasts, in-depth analysis, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country and in the values of truth, virtue, and freedom. We will always fight to defend and advance them. Visit dailywire.com for more information.
Boilerplate — Boreing Media
Boreing Media is an independent venture founded by Jeremy Boreing and former Daily Wire President Jon Lewis. Its flagship property, The Jeremy Boreing Show, produces three weekly episodes covering politics, culture, and the project of building lasting American institutions. Available on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.
Already announced
September 1, 2026
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin premieres on Prime Video in the United States
Its arrival on Prime Video in the US, after a DailyWire+ run that began in January.
June–August 2026
The series charts on Prime Video in four European territories
Peaks of No. 3 on TV shows in the UK and Ireland, No. 4 in Spain, No. 6 in Portugal, measured daily via FlixPatrol between June 21 and August 18.
