The first trailer for American Gods, the highly-anticipated upcoming Starz series based on Neil Gaiman's book, "stars Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon and Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday. The video also offered a brief but heavily stylized look at Crispin Glover," Deadline reported. The show that is slated for a January 2017 debut.
On a Comic-Con panel last week, "executive producer/showrunner Bryan Fuller introduced new castmember Kristen Chenoweth (she will play Easter) who showed up to join Gaiman, fellow EP/showrunner Michael Green, director David Slade and Whittle, McShane, Pablo Schreiber (Mad Sweeney), Yetide Badaki (Bilquis) and Bruce Langley (Technical Boy)," Deadline wrote.
"I think they're doing a remarkable job," Gaiman told Deadline. "The book itself exists almost entirely from Shadow's point of view. So one of the first things that we're doing is going we don't have to make a TV series that only exists from Shadow's point of view. We can watch what happens to Mad Sweeney. We can watch what happened to Laura before she died. We can watch what happened to Laura after she died. We can go off and do things with people. Stuff is happening. I think they've definitely taken the right approach in just how you open something like this up."
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Victor Hugo's Les Misérables "is set to make its television debut," Indiewire reported. The project is a co-production between BBC Studios and Lookout Point for BBC One in association with Weinstein Television. Andrew Davies (War & Peace) is writing the script.
"Les Miserables is a huge iconic title," Davies said. "Most of us are familiar with the musical version which only offers a fragmentary outline of its story. I am thrilled to have the opportunity of doing real justice to Victor Hugo at last by adapting his masterpiece in a six-hour version for the BBC, with the same team who made War & Peace."
Harvey Weinstein said Les Mis is one of his favorite musicals, but the miniseries will be "completely different and an intense and serious drama that will find contemporary relevance to what's going on in the world today."