It’s been a long and winding 14-year road, but Neil Gaiman’s epic fantasy novel American Gods will finally get a dramatic interpretation as Starz has given a "straight to series" commitment to Fremantle Media for TV series based on Gaiman’s saga of a war between the ancient deities and the new gods of our technological and materialistic society.  Gaiman will serve as an executive producer on the series, which has been written and adapted by Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) and Michael Green (Kings—see "Fuller and Green on 'American Gods'").

HBO first got serious about adapting the Hugo-winning American Gods (see "'American Gods' Wins Hugo Award”) back in 2011 and had ambitious plans for a six-year adaptation (see "'American Gods' Is Six Seasons"), but the project languished until last year when Fremantle acquired the rights and began developing American Gods with Gaiman as a producer (see "'American Gods' Headed to TV").

Obviously pleased with the new developments, Gaiman was quoted by Deadline, "I am thrilled, ‎scared, delighted, nervous and a ball of glorious anticipation.  The team that is going to bring the world of American Gods to the screen has been assembled like the master criminals in a caper movie:  I’m relieved and confident that my baby is in good hands.  Now we finally move to the exciting business that fans have been doing for the last dozen years: casting our Shadow, our Wednesday, our Laura…"