Black Sails (TV series)

*Black Sails*
Black Sails
Genre	Period drama; Action-adventure;
Created by	Jonathan E. Steinberg; Robert Levine;
Starring	Toby Stephens; Hannah New; Luke Arnold; Jessica Parker Kennedy; Tom Hopper; Zach McGowan; Toby Schmitz; Clara Paget; Mark Ryan; Hakeem Kae-Kazim; Sean Cameron Michael; Louise Barnes; Rupert Penry-Jones; Luke Roberts; Ray Stevenson; David Wilmot; Harriet Walter;
Composer	Bear McCreary
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	38 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Michael Bay; Brad Fuller; Andrew Form; Jonathan E. Steinberg; Chris Symes; Robert Levine; Michael Chernuchin; Dan Shotz; Brad Caleb Kane;
Producers	Nina Heyns; Jonathan Brytus; Erik Henry;
Production locations	Cape Town, South Africa
Cinematography	Lukas Ettlin; Jules O'Loughlin; David Luther; Gavin Struthers;
Editors	Joe Hobeck; Paul Trejo; John Coniglio;
Running time	49–71 minutes
Production companies	Platinum Dunes; Quaker Moving Pictures;
Original release
Network	Starz
Release	January 25, 2014 –; April 2, 2017

Black Sails is an American historical adventure television series set on New Providence Island and written to be a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. The series was created by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine for Starz. It debuted online for free on YouTube and other various streaming platform and video-on-demand services on January 18, 2014. The debut on cable television followed a week later on January 25, 2014. Steinberg is executive producer, alongside Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, while Michael Angeli, Doris Egan, and Levine are co-executive producers. The show features treasure-seeking pirates fending off British government attempts to stop them.

On July 26, 2013, Starz renewed the show for a ten-episode second season, which premiered on January 24, 2015. The early renewal, six months before the first season premiered, was based on the positive fan reaction to the show at the San Diego Comic-Con. The series was renewed for a third season on October 12, 2014, and a fourth season on July 31, 2015, both before the respective previous seasons had premiered. On July 20, 2016, Starz announced that the series' fourth season would be its last; the season premiered on January 29, 2017, and the series concluded on April 2, 2017.

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