SXSW 2017 – American Gods is a new STARZ show based on Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name. We were able to attend an advanced screening of the pilot episode, along with a panel with the cast and crew, which we covered here.

A first look has been revealed of Orlando Jones as Mr. Nancy on the upcoming Starz television series American Gods, based on the 2001 best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman.

Check out the image here below of Jones (Sleepy Hollow) as Mr. Nancy, aka Anansi, the African trickster spider/man god.

Bryan Fuller recently chatted about where things stand on American Gods, the TV adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name that we recently found out was moving to Starz with Fuller and Michael Green acting as showrunners.

Fuller talked about when we might see it arrive on TV, how faithful to the book the show will be, and how involved Gaiman will be in the production. You can see what he had to say below.

Back in November we found out the depressing news that the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s hit book American Gods was no longer in development at HBO—likely due to (or at least impacted by) their decision to go all-in with the Damon Lindelof series The Leftovers.

Now American Gods has found a new home. It’s been announced that FreemantleMedia has acquired the rights to the project, though it’s not yet known what channel you can expect to see the show on yet.

Continue reading for more, including a quote from Gaiman on what happened with HBO and how the deal with Freemantle came to be.