In advance of the Canadian broadcast premiere of the highly anticipated STARZ Original Series, Black Sails, Super Channel, Canada’s only national English pay television network, is pleased to offer a free preview of the premiere episode, available now to subscribers and non-subscribers alike, at www.superchannel.ca/freeview/
Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver (Luke Arnold). Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
Toby Stephens (Die Another Day, Vexed) is joined by Zach McGowan (Shameless) as rival Captain Charles Vane; Hannah New (Maleficent) as Eleanor Guthrie, a determined young woman who runs the smuggling operation on New Providence and Canadian actress Jessica Parker Kennedy (The Secret Circle, 50/50, In Time) as Max, a tortured young prostitute who sees the dark side of New Providence.
Black Sails is executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form (The Purge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). The series was created by showrunner and executive producer Jonathan Steinberg (creator Jericho, Human Target) and co-executive producer Robert Levine (Touch). Production is currently underway on the 10-episode second season at Cape Town Studios in Cape Town, South Africa.
