Starz Gives ‘Black Sails’ a Fourth Season Renewal

Black Sails Renewed for Season 4
Toby Stephens (as Captain Flint) and Tom Hopper (as Billy Bones) in ‘Black Sails’

Great news for fans of the pirate adventure series Black Sails. Starz has renewed the show for a fourth season. Season three recently wrapped production and will air its 10 new episodes in 2016.

Season four will begin shooting this fall in South Africa.

Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine created the action-adventure series, with Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Chris Symes, and Dan Shotz executive producing. The cast is led by Toby Stephens as Captain Flint with Hannah New as smuggler Eleanor Guthrie, Luke Arnold as John Silver, and Jessica Parker Kennedy playing a young prostitute named Max. Tom Hopper stars as Billy Bones and Zach McGowan is Captain Charles Vane. New to season three is Ray Stevenson who plays one of the most famous pirates in history, Blackbeard.

Black Sails has been averaging 4.5 million viewers over seasons one and two.

A Look Back: The Plot of Season 2

Season two begins where we left off—The Walrus crew is stranded, with an army of Spanish soldiers standing between them and the precious Urca gold. And with their crimes against their brethren no longer a secret, Flint and Silver must join forces in a desperate bid for survival.

Meanwhile, Eleanor Guthrie struggles to maintain her grip on Nassau, as a new breed of pirate arrives in the form of Ned Low, a man for whom violence isn’t just a tool … it’s a pastime. As blood is spilled, and tensions mount, Charles Vane must decide which he values more: Eleanor’s life, or the respect of his men. And unbeknownst to all of them, a prize of immeasurable value has already been smuggled onto the island … one whose discovery will alter the very landscape of their world, and force everyone in Nassau toward the ultimate judgment: are they men, or are they monsters?