Starz recently announced that the upcoming third season of Da Vinci’s Demons will be the period drama’s last. The series, which has been off the air for almost year and a half, has been a respectable performer, so the decision to end it before seeing how Season 3 does was somewhat of a surprise. It came down to having…

The model of releasing entire seasons simultaneously is continuing to gain popularity. Starz has become the latest network to employ it for the third and final season of Da Vinci's Demons and ballet-themed limited series Flesh And Bone. They will be available for Starz subscribers on Starz Play and Starz On Demand in…

Starz has set a October 24 premiere date for Season 3 of Da Vinci’s Demons, announcing it would be period drama’s final season and releasing key art. This means that Starz is yet to launch a original series that goes beyond three seasons, with Da Vinci’s Demons tying Spartacus: Blood And Sand as the pay cable…

EXCLUSIVE: Seven episodes into Da Vinci’s Demons‘ 10-episode second season run, Starz has renewed the historical fantasy series created by David S. Goyer for a third season. It will be shepherded by John Shiban who is joining as executive producer/showrunner. Goyer, who is juggling multiple film and TV projects, will…

Starz‘s fantasy drama learned the hard way last weekend just how important a lead-in can be. With the 2013 pic White House Down playing beforehand, the Season 2 premiere of Da Vinci's Demons fell 44% from its Season 1 debut last year. The Saturday night 9 PM airing on March 22 had 580,000 total viewers. Having the…

On the heels of its strong premiere last Friday, Da Vinci’s Demons, Starz’s new series from David Goyer, has been given a second season pickup. The historical fantasy about the young years of world’s greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci (Tom Riley), drew 1.04 million viewers for its debut behind the series finale of Spar…

The debut of one series scored an all-time high for Starz as another went out strong. The series premiere of Starz's Da Vinci's Demons and the series finale of Spartacus: War Of The Damned this weekend was seen by 4.8 million over multiple viewings. That’s a record weekend result for Starz Original series. With a…

The trend towards transatlantic series was further confirmed this week at Mip-TV which starts winding down today. Internationally-packaged dramas that were tubthumped here included Starz/BBC Worldwide's Da Vinci's Demons, Endemol/AMC's Low Winter Sun, Netflix/Gaumont International TV's Hemlock Grove, Starz/BBC's The Wh…

Listen to (and share) the MIPTV edition of our audio podcast Deadline Festivals & Markets Watch, featuring Deadline International Editor Nancy Tartaglione. Nancy and host David Bloom discuss trends shaping this year’s MIPTV show in Cannes, including the ongoing fight between reality and scripted drama supporters over…

Da Vinci's Demons creator David S. Goyer was in Cannes this morning to present clips from the new Starz/BBC Worldwide series that debuts April 12 in the U.S. The Batman trilogy and Man Of Steel scripter said he'd already had a lifelong interest in the famed inventor when he was approached for Da Vinci's Demons and…

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline's TCA coverage. At today's panel on Starz' new series Da Vinci's Demons, David S. Goyer, the show's creator, writer and executive producer, said that his first historical period project would be about 85% historically accurate. "He had a pretty incredible life, we didn’t have…

Starz today unveiled a trailer for its original series Da Vinci’s Demons, which is set to premiere on the network in the spring. The series penned by David S. Goyer stars Tom Riley as Leonardo Da Vinci navigating his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence. He encounters plenty of obstacles as he discovers and acts on…