Once upon a time, Neil Gaiman‘s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel American Gods was set to be adapted into a new TV series for HBO. But sadly that didn’t work out, leaving the project to search for a new home.

Eventually the project found a new production company to back it in FreemantleMedia, but the question of what channel the show might air on remained. Now comes word that American Gods has found a new home at Starz, and that Bryan Fuller and Michael Green will serve as showrunners.

Fuller has previously written and produced for shows like Star Trek: Voyager, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Heroes, and Hannibal. Green’s past television writing and producing credits include Smallville, Everwood, Heroes, Kings, and The River. He also worked on the screenplay for 2011’s Green Lantern movie, and is or has worked on the scripts for upcoming titles Prometheus 2, Blade Runner 2, and The Flash movie.

Of the announcement, Gaiman said:

With Fuller adding:

It was once thought—and still may be at least somewhat true—that HBO decided not to make American Gods when they committed fully to Damon Lindelof’s new series, The Leftovers. HBO head Michael Lombardi, however, has been asked why they chose not to make it, and he said it was mainly because they simply couldn’t, after multiple writers/attempts, get the script to the level they needed it to be to make their quality of show.

This could be something to be nervous about if you’re a fan. Gaiman’s story is a complex one, and it could be that it’s just not one that translates well to from book-to-TV. HBO was also said to be developing it for a potential six seasons, so hopefully Fuller, Green, and Starz concentrate on making one or two seasons as good as they can be to start and then worry about the future after that.

A timeline for when me might see American Gods on Starz is not yet known.

[Source: TV By The Numbers]