Starz is taking its new series, Outlander, to comic-Con 2014. Series creator and Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore, Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander novels, and cast members Catriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Graham McTavish and Lotte Verbeek will be in attendance for a panel on Friday, July 25th in room 6A at 2:15pm. […]
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Starz Developing Neil Gaiman’s American Gods for TV!
Starz is developing one of the premiere fantasy novels of the 21st Century for television – Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. This is a song we’ve heard before, but going by Starz’s record to development leading to actual programming (as with, for example, Outlander), the chances that we will actually see Gaiman’s epic novel of war […]
Starz Buys Into Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience!
Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience introduced the concept of ultra-exclusive courtesans who provided a great deal more than sex – a ‘girlfriend experience.’ Starz has greenlit an anthology series based on the concept. It will run as 13 half-hour episodes. Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman will be executive producers along with indie filmmakers Lodge Kerrigan and […]
Starz Orders Season Two of Power!
Starz has given a second season order for Curtis Jackson’s series Power. He and Courtney Kemp Agboh will return as Executive Producers for season two. See the press release, after the jump, for details.
Syfy IS Spartacus!
Syfy has acquired the U.S. basic cable rights to all thirty-nine episodes of Starz Entertainment’s Spartacus. The series will premiere on Syfy on Thursday, June 26th (10/9C) – following the second season premiere of Defiance (8/7C) and series premiere of Dominion (9/8C) – and it will be interesting to see how the very R-rated series […]
Starz Sets Outlander for August Premiere!
The much anticipated television adaptation of Donna Gabaldon’s Outlander novels is set to premiere on Starz on August 9th (9/8C). The series, which follows a married British combat nurse from 1945 who falls back in time to Scotland of 1743, is executive produced by Ronald D. Moore (“Battlestar Galactica,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Star […]
Da Vinci’s Demons Renewed for Third Season!
Da Vinci’s Demons has been given a third-season order by Starz Entertainment. The series, created and run by David S. Goyer, ‘follows the ‘untold’ story of the world’s greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, during his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence.’ It’s mix of political drama, whimsy and swashbuckling adventure has earned the series a sizable […]
Starz Sets Da Vinci’s Demons Marathons!
If you’ve fallen behind with season two of Starz’s ridiculously entertaining Da Vinci’s Demons, the network will help you catch up with not one but two marathons. If you’ve drifted away after five or six episodes, episodes six through nine will air, back-to-back on Saturday, May 24th, beginning at 8/7C. The entire second season will […]
Starz Orders Two Seasons of Seth MacFarlane Series!
Starz has ordered two ten-episode seasons of Blunt Talk from Media Rights Capital. The series, from the minds of Seth MacFarlane and Jonathan Ames, is a bout a transplanted British cable news host who uses the show as a platform to tell Americans how they should live, think and behave. Patrick Stewart will play the […]
Starz Greenlights Unique Filmmaking Competition – The Chair!
The Chair will be Starz’s first unscripted series. It’s a kind of filmmaking competition in which two directors get an identical script and each attempts to make it with their own, unique vision. Both directors will be given the same budget and both films will use locations in the same city. Both films will be […]
50-Cent’s Drama, Power, Premieres June 7th!
Power (Saturdays, 9/8C), the new drama from Starz and Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson, is slated to premiere on June 7th. The series is a crime drama set against two worlds in New York City – the glamorous New York club scene and the brutal drug trade – as club owner/drug kingpin James “Ghost” St. Patrick, […]