returning show! atlantis
There are some titanic changes afoot for Atlantis. When the show returns to BBC One later this year not only will time have moved on a whole year in the mysteriously unsunken mythical city, but in the real world the show will air later in the evening to reflect its new, more adult approach. “It’s a little bit darker than series one. The stakes are a bit higher,” says Mark Addy, who plays the show’s slovenly Hercules. “It’s reflective of the fact its timeslot is going to be later. If you’ve got a show that passes the watershed then expectations of it are different, so there have been changes made in the tone of the show. It’s a good shift of gear to make. They’ve reflected that in the scripts as well. In season one we had to establish what this place is, what the rules are, but now we’ve moved up a gear and it’s slightly more perilous.”