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Rene Echevarria, Travis BeachamCast
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- American Gods
Season Two
Showrunner: Jesse Alexander, Neil Gaiman
Cast: Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane,
Emily Browning
Release date: Early 2019
After Bryan Fuller and Michael Green’s
ambitious Season One hit screens in 2017,
the show hit a number of roadblocks.
Firstly, those two showrunners left, with
cast members Gillian Anderson and
Kristin Chenoweth following them. Jesse
Alexander was brought in as the new
showrunner, with Neil Gaiman stepping up
to a more hands-on role, apparently keen
to bring it more in line with his book. But
soon Alexander too was ‘demoted’.
So what of Season Two? It’s still making
its way to the screen, via reshoots and
rewrites. Nonetheless, Gaiman and the
producers remain passionate about the
show, and promise that the behind-the-
scenes troubles won’t compromise the
show’s quality of the episodes themselves.
Season Two will see the series introduce
much-loved book character Sam Black
Crow (Devery Jacobs) and introduce New
Media, played by Kahyun Kim, to fill the
empty shoes of Anderson’s Media. With
McShane’s Wednesday now revealed as
the god Odin as he rallies the older gods
to stand against the new, it looks like the
action can start to kick off in Season Two.- Prime fantasy
Amazon has enjoyed working with
Gaiman so much that it has signed him up
to a deal to develop TV content with them.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it
comes to its upcoming fantasy shows.
Amazon had already previously
announced its Lord Of The Rings TV
series, which is set to run for five seasons
and is looking likely to launch in 2021,
under the stewardship of showrunners JD
Payne and Patrick McKay.
On top of that Amazon is also working
on bringing Stephen King’s Dark Tower
series to the small screen, as well as
adapting Robert Jordan’s The Wheel Of
Time book series, which will be developed
and overseen by Rafe Judkins.- Good Omens41. Good Omens
Frankly, that cast list barely scratches the surface. Good Omens boasts everyone
from Jack Whitehall and Miranda Richardson to three quarters of The League Of Gentlemen.
They even have double Oscar winner Frances McDormand playing God, because it turns out
that when Neil Gaiman is adapting his much loved book, co-written with the late, magnificent
Terry Pratchett, everyone wants to make sure it’s done right. Telling its story across six
episodes, Good Omens reportedly maintains its British sense of humour, as a demon and an
angel (Tennant and Sheen respectively) both set out to stop the apocalypse. The teaser trailer
assures us that Crowley and Aziraphale’s not-quite-friendship will be at the heart of the
adventure, but everything else is being kept tightly under wraps – for now.
Showrunner
neil GaimanCast
David Tennant, Michael sheen,
Jon hamm, Anna Maxwell MartinRelease date
2019