Thank gods. Starz finally has a season 2 premiere date for its troubled and delayed drama series American Gods.
The supernatural series starring Ricky Whittle (The 100) as Shadow Moon and Ian McShane (Deadwood) will return on Sunday, March 10.
The new season will consist of eight episodes, just like the first.
American Gods has had a spectacularly rocky history. The show based on Neil Gaiman’s best-selling novel about a war brewing between Old Gods and New Gods was greenlit to series in 2015 under writer-producers Bryan Fuller and Michael Green. The series was originally expected to air in late 2016 but didn’t make it on the air until April, 2017, and reportedly came in over budget.
A second season was ordered a couple months later, but by November, Starz confirmed Fuller and Green were departing the show. In January, 2017, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht admitted to reporters, “We’re having some trouble getting the second season underway … It has faced many of the challenges that terrific, complex, premium shows face when trying to get successive seasons, especially when art comes before commerce.”
A month after Albrecht’s comments, Jesse Alexander (Hannibal) was announced as co-showrunner for the second season along with Gaiman. Fast forward another seven months, and Alexander was removed from the show, and the episode order was trimmed from 10 hours to 8 to help reduce the show’s budget.
More to come…
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