User blog comment:123Action/A Year/@comment-5939645-20131009170135

It's fair to say that a spin-off is never going to happen. The BBC has moved on to other things.

The producers didn't tire of Merlin; the actors did. Both the producers and the BBC would have given Merlin another season, but it was Colin Morgan, Bradley James and Katie McGrath that decided not to come back. Whether they had a good reason or not, I think that the fans need to understand that. Atlantis was thrown together as a substitute because the producers had no choice.

The heart of the story was Colin Morgan and Bradley James. That's why the majority of the fans watched the show. Without them, I doubt any spin-off would work. The fans overlooked poor script writing and things that never made sense because that duo. Despite what the "More Merlin" fans want; neither Morgan nor James seem interested in coming back. I think those people are spinning their wheels. Although it's ironic, James kept saying that he was "tired of wearing his chain mail", but he's still unemployed a year later.

So, in my opinion, Merlin is over and done with. I can't say that ten years from now, someone might bring it back with new actors, but the Colin Morgan and Bradley James version is finished. I'm not saying this to be mean or to dash any hopes, I'm trying to be realistic.