We’re starting to see a pattern, here: TV showrunner Bryan Fuller has stepped away from yet another much-hyped project, announcing today that he’ll no longer serve as a showrunner on Apple’s Amazing Stories reboot. This makes for the third high-profile show that the former Hannibal head has backed out of in the span…
Back in November, American Gods showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green announced that they’d be leaving the critically well-regarded Starz series after the end of its first season. At the time—and in subsequent discussions—everyone involved seems to have done their best to paint the split as amicable, with Starz…
Starz’s Neil Gaiman adaptation, American Gods, has been hit with a lot of bad news in recent weeks, with showrunners Michael Green and Bryan Fuller announcing that they’d be departing their high-profile roles on the series before its second season, and recurring guest stars Gillian Anderson and Kristin Chenoweth both…
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that TV auteur—and classic executive producer “love ’em and leave ’em type”—Bryan Fuller has lined up his next project, having signed on to help Anne Rice bring her Vampire Chronicles novels to TV. Fuller comes to the project after a single-season stint on Starz’s American Gods, which…
Beloved TV producer Bryan Fuller has stepped away from yet another high-profile project, with Variety reporting that Fuller and his co-showrunner, Michael Green, have both quit their roles on Starz’s Neil Gaiman adaptation American Gods. According to Variety, the departure comes down to arguments about money; Green…
Bryan Fuller and Michael Green pulled off something of a miracle earlier this year, successfully adapting Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, the epic novel that’s long been deemed one the most unwieldy and un-filmable projects. Their well-received fantasy drama was renewed by Starz just weeks after the series premiere, and…
In March, we reported that Bryan Fuller and Steven Spielberg were developing a reboot of classic anthology series Amazing Stories, with a number of recognizable writers set to contribute to the series—including Patton Oswalt, Kumail Nanjiani, Emily Gordon, and Jane Goldman. Now it looks like some reshuffling has…
Three seasons of a show like Hannibal seemed like more than we as a society really deserved, but we as a species are nothing if not very greedy when it comes to adaptations of very famous books that bring a revelatory level of style to an otherwise familiar story. People have been asking for more Hannibal since before…
We learned a while ago that Star Trek: Discovery will take place 10 years before the events of The Original Series, and within the original Prime timeline (sorry, J.J. Abrams). Recent dispatches out of the Alpha Quadrant have concerned the Klingons, whose newly shorn appearance has baffled fans who wonder why anyone…
“This is all too big. Too much going on at once.” That’s how Mr. Nancy starts “Come To Jesus,” the season finale of American Gods. He looks up from his sewing machine and announces, “We should start with a story.”
Kristin Chenoweth’s American Gods character doesn’t have a come-to-Jesus moment in this Sunday’s season-one finale, “Come To Jesus.” That’s because the Jesuses come to her: As Easter—or rather the Germanic goddess Ostara—she hosts a gathering of Christs on her holiday.
One-Season Wonders, Weirdos, And Wannabes considers the merits of short-lived TV shows. In this installment, Wonderfalls, which aired four of its 13 episodes in 2004.
In its third episode, American Gods already subverts expectations as nimbly as anything on television. That’s doubly surprising in a series based (reasonably faithfully, so far) on a well-known, well-loved novel, but it’s simple to explain. The unexpectedness of “Head Full Of Snow” resides not only in its action, but…
The new Starz series American Gods is based on the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name, with many characters from the book appearing in the show. The character Vulcan, however, was created by Gaiman specifically for the series. In the clip above, showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green explain what they and Gaiman…
“Let me tell you a story: Once upon a time, a man got fucked. Now, how is that for a story? Because that’s the story of black people in America.” This is the introductory speech of Anansi (Orlando Jones), or Mr. Nancy, as he’ll come to be known. It’s also how American Gods turns the lynching imagery of its premiere…
In its premiere episode, American Gods is as sweeping as the Neil Gaiman novel from which the series is adapted and as richly imaginative as co-creator Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal, but still manages to be thrillingly original. Diving into the action with inventive abandon, a gory prelude shows a ship of Vikings stranded…
The All-Father uses emoji. “This is the first time I’m saying this in an interview,” American Gods co-showrunner Michael Green divulges when talking with The A.V. Club last week. “Ian McShane: He makes fun of Instagram, Twitter. ‘Oh, that social thing I leave that to you’—he will text with emojis and GIFs. It means…
In the kind of coincidence that would make Mr. Wednesday himself chuckle, there are two major 2017 releases rooted in Nordic mythology that are being touted with a road-trip angle. Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has promised that in November, the Odinson and his “work friend” the Incredible Hulk, will trek…
Starz’s American Gods series, which is based on the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman and counts Bryan Fuller as one of its showrunners, is about a coming war between old gods that represent traditional belief systems and new gods based on modern obsessions like technology and celebrity. Given that premise, it…
If you watched previous American Gods previews and thought, “Hmm, that’s not nearly as bloody as I’d have guessed a show from Bryan Fuller would be,” Starz has just released a new trailer that should quench your thirst. Battle lines are drawn in this clip, as Wednesday (Ian McShane) enlists Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle)…