The new American TV drama, Black Sails, which is being produced by Michael Bay for the Starz TV channel in America (the home of Spartacus) is currently in pre-production in Cape Town in South Africa where sets are being erected with possibly as well one or two boats to be built for this brand-new pirate drama.
Black Sails will start on Starz in early 2014 and is a "prequel" of sorts of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island - set 20 years before the events of the book and following Captain Flint and new crew member John Silver as they fight for survival of the New Providence Island - a paradise filled with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers. The first season of Black Sails will have at least 8 episodes.
Before Black Sails set sail however, viewers will get to see Crossbones next year as a new pirate period drama in which Tom Lowe is an undercover assassin sent to go and kill Blackbeard, the feared pirate. The closer the character gets, the more he can't help but admire the ideals of the pirate whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds and no law.
Then there is Republic of Pirates - yet another new TV drama coming next year from NBC, and don't forget the other pirate drama Port Royal which Fox International Channels (FIC) is working on.
