Starz Entertainment is sampling of the first three episodes of its original dramatic series, “Magic City.” Beginning Friday, March 30, on STARZ at 11 pm et/pt,”Magic City” will be shown on the channel immediately following the season finale of series, “Spartacus: Vengeance” with a sneak preview of the series premiere episode. The first three episodes of “Magic City” will also be available on demand and online, one week in advance of the STARZ series premiere on April 6 at 10 pm et/pt.
Starz recently announced that the show had been picked up for a second season ahead of its series premiere.
Viewers can go to www.starz.com/magiccity, and direct through select STARZ affiliates to view the series and the series will also be available for viewing on the Starz Entertainment “Magic City” Facebook page at www.facebook.com/magiccity.starz, and the DIRECTV, DISH, Verizon FiOS, and Grande Communications Facebook pages.
“We are very excited to have for the first time a three-episode, sampling initiative with ‘Magic City,’ a series that looks like nothing else on television, with a gorgeous cast and a rich, cinematic feel,” said Nancy McGee, executive vice president, marketing for Starz Entertainment. “We have seen a tremendous appetite for sampling our STARZ Original series premium content, including franchise record viewership for the first episode of Spartacus: Vengeance.’ This bold, special sampling initiative will give ‘Magic City’ viewers a unique opportunity to experience the ‘magic’ of the new series. By offering up sampling of the first three episodes, viewers may fully immerse themselves in the plot of the story and the picturesque setting of circa-1960 Miami Beach.”
Set in the “Magic City” tells the story of employees and guests at the Miami’s Miramar Playa Hotel. The series stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen, “Grey’s Anatomy,” Dibbuk Box), Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Max Payne) and Danny Huston (The Kingdom, Children of Men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine). Also starring are Steven Strait (City Island), Christian Cooke (Cemetery Junction), Jessica Marais (“Packed to the Rafters”), Yul Vazquez (The A-Team, American Gangster), Dominik Garcia-Lorido (City Island), Kelly Lynch (Drugstore Cowboy, Charlie’s Angels) and Elena Satine (Just Go With It).
“Magic City” was created by Miami native and writer/executive producer Mitch Glazer (“The Recruit,” “Scrooged”). Geyer Kosinski (Changeling, The Astronaut Farmer) also executive produces the series along with co-executive producer Ed Bianchi(“Deadwood”) and Emmy Award® winning producer Dwayne Shattuck (“Mad Men”).
