It’s been a while since we’ve reported on the Starz series “American Gods,” with the show’s third season premiering earlier this year after a nearly two-year hiatus. The ratings for the third season, which just wrapped up this month, haven’t been very strong, so it should come as no big surprise that Starz has made the decision to not order up a fourth season.
“Everyone at Starz is grateful to the dedicated cast and crew, and our partners at Fremantle who brought author and executive producer Neil Gaiman’s ever-relevant story to life that speaks to the cultural climate of our country,” a Starz spokesperson told Deadline today.
Deadline also notes, “We hear there are discussions about wrapping up the Toronto-themed series to align with Gaiman’s 2001 novel as either an event series or a TV movie. However, based on the fact American Gods has seen double-digit ratings declines from season to season, any hopes of a continuation might be more smoke than fire from the premium cabler.”
Based on Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel, “American Gods” was originally developed by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, premiering in 2017. While Fuller and Green were the showrunners for that first season, Jesse Alexander took over for Season 2 and then Charles H. Eglee for Season 3.
The storyline for the series “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’s 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.”
source https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3658128/starz-officially-pulled-plug-american-gods-three-seasons/
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