The Serpent Queen won’t be returning for a 3rd season at Starz, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered.
The information comes a bit greater than a month after the season two finale aired in August. The Serpent Queen, based mostly on the guide Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda, is concerning the lifetime of Catherine de’ Medici, the sixteenth century Queen of France.
Within the second season, Catherine’s grip on energy is examined as she faces energy struggles, conflicts and betrayals whereas making an attempt to unite France. The present, created by Justin Haythe (The Lone Ranger), starred Samantha Morton as Catherine, along with Amrita Acharia, Enzo Cilenti, Ruby Bentall, Nicholas Burns, Beth Goddard, Raza Jaffrey and Danny Kirrane.
The Serpent Queen was produced in-house by Lionsgate Tv and three Arts Leisure. Francis Lawrence (The Starvation Video games) and Erwin Stoff (The Matrix) served as govt producers. The present was initially ordered straight to sequence in early 2021 when Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was aiming to program the cable community with “premium feminine” programming on the time, specializing in content material made for ladies ages 24-54 who take pleasure in tales about ladies in historical past. (The “premium feminine” time period has since been modified to “feminine ahead.”)
A by-product sequence can also be presently in growth at Starz, because the community seems to proceed its partnership with The Serpent Queen’s exec producers Haythe and Stoff. Whereas casting has but to be introduced, the present shall be targeted on Queen Elizabeth The First.