STARZ’ newest original show, Da Vinci’s Demons, premiered to a whopping 2.14 million viewers opening weekend. This takes the cake for highest ratings STARZ has seen for any of the premieres of any of their shows, a fact that was not lost on them as they immediately ordered a second season. Now, you can watch the first season with the comfort of knowing it won’t get yanked off the air after a few episodes. Production is expected to start in May of this year and season two will hit the air sometime in 2014. If you haven’t watched the show, here are my reasons why you should. Getting up to speed on the show will be a breeze since there have only been a few episodes so far. New installments of Da Vinci’s Demons arrive every Friday at 9pm.
More info on the show from the press release:
Brilliant and passionate, 25-year-old Leonardo da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist. As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time. He begins to not only see the future, but invent it.
“Da Vinci’s Demons” stars Tom Riley, who has received wide critical acclaim in the UK for his performances in theater, film and on television and was nominated by the Drama Desk Awards for his performance in the 2011 Tony® Award nominated Broadway play, “Arcadia.” Riley’s co-stars include Laura Haddock (The Inbetweeners Movie, “Honest,” Captain America: The First Avenger) who plays the celebrated beauty, LucreziaDonati; Elliot Cowan (“Marchlands,” “The Fixer,” “Lost in Austen”) who plays the shrewd de factor ruler of Florence, Lorenzo Medici; Lara Pulver (“True Blood,” “Sherlock,” “Robin Hood”), who plays his wife Clarice Orsini; and Blake Ritson (Serena, “Upstairs Downstairs”) plays the ruthless and unwavering Count GirolamoRiario, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV.
Goyer, whoserves as showrunner and directed the first two episodes of the first season, is co-writer of The Dark Knight Trilogy and screenwriter of the highly anticipated Man of Steel premiering June 2013. Goyer’s additional credits include serving as a script consultant and story developer for “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” and “Black Ops II”, the most successful video game franchise of all time. Julie Gardner is Executive Producer, along with Adjacent Productions’ Head, Jane Tranter. Tranter and Gardner have been responsible for a plethora of titles in their careers including “Doctor Who,” “Torchwood,” “Little Dorrit,” “Bleak House,” “Girl in a Café,” “Ashes to Ashes” and “State of Play.”
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See also: 7 Secrets of Da Vinci’s Demons on Fanhattan.
