There’s a rather odd quote from Mel in the article to the effect that the series “will be good for somebody”. I assume the Maltese tourist industry will heartily agree.
While I’m here, as no-one else has mentioned it, I’d like to recommend the novel The Religion by Tim Willocks, the centre piece of which is the siege. (The title is a reference to the Knights, who, it seems, described themselves thus). It’s very well told, though the author has the odd habit of calling individual Spanish soldiers ‘tercios’.