Da Vinci's Demons on FOX cancelled after just 3 seasons; third and final 'bittersweet' 'ending to Leonardo's journey' will start end of October.

After not living up to expectations the FOX (DStv 125 / StarSat 131) drama Da Vinci's Demons with Tom Riley has been cancelled with the upcoming delayed 3rd season which will suddenly be its last.

The third season of Da Vinci's Demons revolving around the fictionalised life of a young Leonardo Da Vinci will start at the end of October with John Shiban who took over the reigns as executive producer in the place of creator David Goyer who is out.

There will be a final 10-episode third season, produced by Adjacent Pictures, making the underwhelming Da Vinci's Demons from FOX International Channels (FIC) the latest TV show not to survive the 2014/2015 TV season.

The 3rd and final season of Da Vinci's Demons will start at the end of October more than 17 months after the 2nd season finale.

"While ending Leonardo's journey is bittersweet for me, I'm happy we're ending the story on a high note," says David Goyer said.

"Leonardo was famous for his mirror-writing, and there's a symmetry to the entire series - between the first episode and the final one - that I think the maestro would have appreciated."

"I want to thank our dedicated fans around the world for viewing and engaging with such passion," says David Goyer. "And I want to thank Tom Riley for turning in a consistently brilliant performance. It's no small feat to portray a genius, but Tom did it with grace and humor. I hope everyone enjoys these final episodes as much as we enjoyed making them."

"David Goyer brought us a plan to portray the unknown early years of a genius and we think the fans will enjoy this final chapter which segues into the da Vinci that history knows," says Carmi Zlotnik, the managing director of Starz, the TV channel showing Da Vinci's Demons in the United States while its shown on FOX in the rest of the world.

"John Shiban has done a tremendous job of building on past seasons and by showing how da Vinci matures as his challenges grow."

The final season of Da Vinci's Demons will find Leonardo da Vinci trying to protect the city of Otranto attacked by Ottoman invaders, using some of his own inventions against him as he has to try and come up with new ones.

"To fight those who seek to destroy everything he loves, Leonardo must align with old foes, repair broken friendships, discover hidden secrets, and resume a dangerous quest, all while knowing that he is his own worst enemy."

Da Vinci's Demons going to Peru and Machu Picchu in South America in the second season starting in April on FOX in South Africa.

The second season of drama Da Vinci's Demons will start in April in South Africa on FOX (DStv 125 / StarSat 130) soon after the season starts on 22 March in the United States, although FOX International Channels Africa (FIC Africa) can't provide an exact starting date yet.

In the second season of Da Vinci's Demons with Tom Riley as Leonardo da Vinci, the show will see the character visit Peru and Machu Picchu while the Incas were at the height of their civilization in South America (albeit recreated on a Swansea sound stage).

New Da Vinci inventions viewers will see include a submarine.

Tom Riley told FOX International Channels that "we've got some really good, exciting new people coming to shake things up. And the characters that already exist are all going to be thrown together in strange combinations anyway, so you're going to see people interacting who you haven't seen interacting before".

"We spent a lot of time in the New World, so we have recreated a one of the hottest countries in the world in one of the coldest. So we had to spend quite a lot of time in very little clothes looking like we were sweaty and hot and trying to hide our cold breath. So that was pretty challenging this season," said Tom Riley.

"The show splits in the second season. We see the characters in various different geographical locations, different emotional locations, and Lucrezia is sort of the glue that holds it all together".

BREAKING. Da Vinci's Demons coming to Fox Entertainment on TopTV from April when it starts in America.

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I can break the news and reveal that the first really big, buzzy, and brand-new TV drama for 2013, Da Vinci's Demons will be coming to South Africa with viewers who will only be able to see it on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) on TopTV from April.

Meanwhile I'm waiting for a South African broadcaster (Anyone? Anyone?) to tell me that they have secured the broadcasting rights to the new 2013 drama series Vikings which History for South Africa doesn't seem to have any plans to show and which will start early in March in America, as well as the cool-looking new 2013 science fiction series Defiance which will also be starting in April in America.

But back to Da Vinci's Demons. Fox International Channels (FIC) has the exclusive broadcasting rights for Africa and South Africa to this new suspense and mystery filled new drama chronicling the exploits and "missing years" of a young Leonardo Da Vinci.

After I wrote about it yesterday and that Da Vinci's Demons will most likely come to either Fox Entertainment or FX on TopTV in the first half of 2013, I've just been told that "Da Vinci's Demons is set to start broadcasting in April on Fox Entertainment".

Since Da Vinci's Demons will start in April on the Starz TV channel in America, it means that South African viewers are going to get to see the hot-looking drama series filled with fun, Florence and all kinds of "f" words within days of the series' American premiere similar to The Walking Dead and Falling Skies.

The first season of this brand-new fantasy series with Tom Riley as the 25 year old Leonardo will have 8 episodes and was filmed during the latter part of last year in Wales.

Da Vinci's Demons has an overall mystery (a murder mystery involving a secret cult) as it fills in those "missing pages" that's not included in Leonardo Da Vinci's memoirs - that of a kind of maverickey inventor, thinker, free-spirited Renaissance man and womanising bedder during a time when thought and science was seen as an enemy of religion.

FIRST LOOK. Da Vinci's Demons - Could it be 2013's hottest new TV drama, and earmarked for a Fox channel on TopTV?

It looks a little bit MacGuyver, a little bit Elementary, a little bit Merlin, with elements of Game of Thrones, Camelot and The Borgias - the very hot-looking, brand-new TV drama Da Vinci's Demons which might turn out to be 2013 best new, big-buzz TV drama - one which South African viewers will most likely only be able to see on a Fox channel on TopTV early in 2013.

Fox - either Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) or FX (TopTV 110) - will likely be the TV channel for the highly-anticipated new drama series Da Vinci's Demons for South African TV viewers early in 2013. Episodes will most probably be rolled out close on the heels of them being shown on the Starz channel in America where it will start in April this year.

Now the first real teaser trailer of Da Vinci's Demons with Tom Riley as Leonardo has been revealed, and yes, there's gratuitous nudity. From the trailer it's clear however that Da Vinci's Demons also has a lot of action, intrigue in the form of hooded figures and a cult, as well as great special effects, and a very believable rendering of the historical city of Florence.

Fox International Channels (FIC) has the exclusive broadcasting rights for this new historical fantasy series which was filmed in Wales and the first season of Da Vinci's Demons will have 8 episodes. 

Da Vinci's Demons revolves around the life of a 25 year old Leonardo Da Vinci as a young Renaissance artist and inventor, trying to solve an overarching mystery.

Da Vinci's Demons is a co-production between BBC Worldwide and the Starz TV channel in America. Under the terms of the deal with FIC however, FIC will be the exclusive first window pay-TV broadcaster of Da Vinci's Demons in FIC territories outside of the United States and Canada - such as South Africa and Africa.

That means that Da Vinci's Demons will most likely be earmarked to be shown on one of the two Fox TV channels on TopTV, similar to Falling Skies and The Walking Dead.