Starz wins bidding war for supernatural crime drama Bone Parish. News Posted by By Paul M July 1, 2026 Starz has entered development on Bone Parish, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Cullen Bunn and Jonas Scharf, after winning a bidding war for the rights. Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson executive produces through his G-Unit Film & Television banner, extending his long running relationship with the network. The series is set in the underworld of New Orleans, where the Winters family builds an empire around a drug crafted from the ashes of the dead that grants users visions of the past. Jackson said the project drew him in because it mixes crime and family with something genuinely dark and supernatural, telling the show explores what happens when the world of the living collides with the world of the dead. Diane Ademu-John, known for Dune: Prophecy, and Declan de Barra, known for The Witcher: Blood Origin, will co-showrun and executive produce. BOOM! Studios, which published the original graphic novel, will also executive produce through Stephen Christy and Mette Norkjaer. Starz original programming president Kathryn Busby called it a departure for the network, saying the series is steeped in horror while staying grounded in the family and crime storytelling audiences expect. Discover more TV Soap Operas TV Shows & Programs TV Medical Shows Bone Parish joins an expanding roster of Jackson projects at Starz, which include the boxing drama Fightland, premiering July 31, and the Power franchise's newest instalments, Power: Origins and Power: Legacy. Bunn is also known for the horror comic Harrow County.

Starz is developing The Wolf King, the Surrey author's BookTok romantasy sensation. News Posted by By Paul M June 27, 2026 Starz has acquired rights to Lauren Palphreyman's romantasy trilogy The Wolf King and is bringing back Tanya Saracho to develop it as a drama series. Saracho, best known as creator and showrunner of Vida, which ran on Starz for three seasons from 2018 to 2020, will executive produce and run the show. Palphreyman, a Surrey-based British author who built her following through serial fiction on Wattpad before crossing over to traditional publishing, will also executive produce. Starz has optioned all three books in the series: The Wolf King, The Night Prince, and The Wolf Queen, the latter of which publishes in November 2026. TV Shows & Programs The books follow Princess Aurora, kidnapped by a werewolf alpha and thrown into a war between humans and wolves, where she ends up entangled in a love triangle. It's a fairly standard set of romantasy coordinates, but Palphreyman has executed them well enough to land on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, accumulate over 70 million reads on Wattpad across her fiction, and get named among BookTok's favourite romantasy reads on Amazon. Her earlier series Cupid's Match was developed as a pilot for The CW but didn't proceed to series. Saracho told the trade press she'd been championing the book since finding it as an indie release and called returning to Starz "a full-circle moment." Starz has been building in this space, with Outlander as its most obvious long-running precedent in Scottish-flavoured fantasy romance. The Wolf King is still in active development, with no series order, cast or premiere date yet confirmed. Discover more TV Shows & Programs DVD & Video Rentals TV & Video