Starz has ordered Sweetbitter – based on the bestselling novel by Stephanie Danler – straight to series. Sweetbitter follows 22-year-old Tess who, shortly after arriving in New York City, lands a job at a celebrated downtown restaurant. Swiftly introduced to the world of drugs, alcohol, love, lust, dive bars, and fine dining, she learns to […]
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Starz Launching Monday Night Documentary Slate!
Beginning Monday, September 18th, Starz will be running never-before-seen documentaries on Monday nights – docs on climate change, giants, hikers and food waste and more. The first documentary scheduled is The Age of Consequences which investigates the impacts of climate change, resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability.
Obsessable Teaser: The Girlfriend Experience: Season 2!
Starz has released a new teaser for season two of The Girlfriend Experience leading up to its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. It gives us a glimpse of the two storylines it will be pursuing and is a bit on the odd side. Season two of The Girlfriend Experience premieres on November 5th.
Stephenie Meyer Supernatural Series The Rook Headed to Starz!
Lionsgate and Liberty global are partnering to produce a new supernatural series from Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer for Starz. The Rook follows ‘a young woman pursued by shadowy paranormal adversaries while grappling with extraordinary abilities of her own.’ The series will air on the STARZ platform in the U.S. beginning next year. At the same […]
Steven Soderberg’s The Girlfriend Experience Returns In November!
Starz has announced the premiere date and the basic premise for season two of Steven Soderberg’s The Girlfriend Experience. TGE will have two separate arcs in season two – set in Washington DC as 2018 mid-term elections approach, and in New Mexico where a woman who has entered the Witness Protection Program finds herself unable […]
Stuck In The Past Trailer: Outlander: Season Three!
Even after twenty years in her present, Clare still longs to find out what happened to Jamie – and, if possible, to return to him. Complicating things are her marriage to Frank and their daughter, Brianna. Outlander returns to Starz on Sunday, September 10th (8/7C).
Outlander Season 3 Premiere Date Announced!
Outlander Season Three finds Claire and Jamie separated by centuries and continents – her in the 1960s and him in the 1700s. But true love is never lost… The thirteen episode third season of Outlander will premiere on Sunday, September 10th.
American Gods: Come To Jesus Moments!
The first season finale of American Gods (Starz, Sundays, 9/8C) is the kind of flourish that has been set up from the opening moments of the series premiere when we learned how Odin became aware of the New World. There are key moments for virtually every key character and several plot arcs converge in unexpected […]
Mr. Wednesday Produces Second Season for American Gods!
American Gods – the elegantly odd series based on Neil Gaiman’s epic war-of-the-gods novel – has been renewed for a second season. The series (and the novel) follows ex-con Shadow Moon and the mysterious Mr. Wednesday on a road trip across America to recruit old gods (Czernobog, Biquilz, Anubis) from many mythologies to his side […]
First Look Photo: Starz’s Howards End
Kenneth Lonergan’s first television adaptation – an adaptation of the classic E.M. Forester novel Howard’s End – is now in production in London. This four-part limited series is the story of two independent and unconventional sisters and the men in their lives seeking love and meaning as they navigate an ever-changing world. Starz has released […]
American Gods: Mr. Wednesday Hires A Bodyguard!
Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods takes all manner of clichés and bends them and twists them until they emerge all shiny and new. It’s a new mythology; it’s a road trip; it’s a mismatched buddy movie, and more. And it’s absolutely brilliant. Bryan Fuller has produced legendary TV like Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies and Hannibal – […]