{"id":78699,"date":"2017-02-23T14:34:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2017\/02\/23\/starz-premiere-american-gods-series-april-30\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:32:38","slug":"starz-premiere-american-gods-series-april-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/starz-premiere-american-gods-series-april-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Starz To Premiere ‘American Gods’ Series On April 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starz To Premiere ‘American Gods’ Series On April 30<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

February 23, 2017<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Starz has announced that the highly-anticipated eight-episode first season of FremantleMedia North America produced STARZ Original Series \u201cAmerican Gods,\u201d<\/strong> adapted from Neil Gaiman\u2019s<\/strong> acclaimed contemporary fantasy novel, will make its network premiere on Sunday, April 30th at 9PM ET\/PT.<\/p>\n

American God has been translated into over 30 languages and earned numerous accolades including Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards for Best Novel. The plot posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world steadily losing believers to an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society\u2019s modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs. Its protagonist, Shadow Moon, is an ex-con who becomes bodyguard and traveling partner to Mr. Wednesday, a conman but in reality one of the older gods, on a cross-country mission to gather his forces in preparation to battle the new deities.<\/p>\n

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The cast includes Ricky Whittle<\/strong> as Shadow Moon, Ian McShane<\/strong> as Mr. Wednesday, Emily Browning<\/strong> as Laura Moon, Sean Harris<\/strong> as Mad Sweeney, Yetide Badaki<\/strong> as Bilquis, Bruce Langley<\/strong> as Technical Boy, Crispin Glover<\/strong> as Mr World, and Jonathan Tucker<\/strong> as Low Key Lyesmith.<\/p>\n

Also appearing on the series are\u00a0Orlando Jones<\/b> as Mr. Nancy, Gillian Anderson<\/strong> as Media; Kristin Chenoweth<\/strong> as Easter; Jonathan Tucker<\/strong> as Low Key Lyesmith; Cloris Leachman<\/strong> as Zorya Vechernyaya; Peter Stormare<\/strong> as Czernobog; Chris Obi<\/strong> as Anubis; Demore Barnes<\/strong> as Mr. Ibis, Corbin Bernsen<\/strong> as Vulcan and Mousa Kraish<\/strong> as The Jinn.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAmerican Gods\u201d is produced by FremantleMedia North America. Bryan Fuller<\/strong> (\u201cHannibal,\u201d \u201cPushing Daisies,\u201d \u201cHeroes\u201d) and Michael Green<\/strong> (\u201cThe River,\u201d \u201cKings,\u201d \u201cHeroes\u201d) are writers and showrunners. David Slade<\/strong> (\u201cHannibal,\u201d \u201cThe Twilight Saga: Eclipse\u201d) is directing the pilot and additional episodes. FMNA\u2019s Craig Cegielski<\/strong> and Stefanie Berk<\/strong> are executive producing the series along with Fuller, Green, Slade and Neil Gaiman<\/strong>. Senior Vice Presidents of Original Programming Marta Fernandez<\/strong> and Ken Segna<\/strong> are the Starz executives in charge of \u201cAmerican Gods.\u201d Starz retains all network pay TV and SVOD rights to the project. FremantleMedia is distributing the series worldwide.<\/p>\n