‘Black Sails’ Season 4 Poster and Premiere Date Revealed

Black Sails Season 4 Poster
Poster for season four of Starz’ ‘Black Sails.’

The fourth and final season of Starz’ Black Sails will premiere on Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 9pm ET/PT. Along with announcing the series’ final premiere date, the network released the season four poster featuring a skull covered in gold. Black Sails‘ fourth season will consist of 10 one-hour episodes, with the action taking place in the West Indies.

The popular pirate series was created by Jonathan E. Steinberg (Jericho) and Robert Levine (Touch). Steinberg, Levine, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Chris Symes, Brad Caleb Kane, and Dan Shotz executive produce. The final season will star Toby Stephens as the brilliant and unstoppable Captain Flint; Hannah New as Eleanor Guthrie; Luke Arnold as the classic character John Silver in the years before his well-known feats; Jessica Parker Kennedy as Max, a former prostitute with an eye towards advancement; Tom Hopper as Billy Bones of Treasure Island fame; Ray Stevenson as the iconic pirate Blackbeard; and Luke Roberts as the governor Woodes Rogers.

Black Sails has been averaging 3.6 million viewers over its first three seasons. The series earned Emmy Awards for its sound editing and visual effects as well as the 2016 GLAAD Award for Outstanding Drama Series.

The Plot: Black Sails takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, and follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint (Stephens). The 10-episode fourth season of the stand-out high seas drama brings fans to the heroic conclusion of the Treasure Island prequel, and finds our pirates at war in the West Indies. The shores of New Providence Island have never been bloodier, but the closer civilization comes to defeat, the more desperately, and destructively, it will fight back.