Starz's SPARTACUS will End Run After Upcoming Season

The Hollywood Reporter, the drama "Stars SPARTACUS" ends his run for the upcoming third season. Steven S. Weeknight, show runner for the series THR revealed that the decision to end the show was one of the factors in the wholesale slaughter at the end of last season.

The series stars, Liam McIntyre is a 10-episode season, titled War of the Damned which will end in January 2013 have Premiere. Production is now under way in New Zealand. Weeknight wrote the series finale.

The latest season of the series, Spartacus Vengeance, averaged over 6 million viewers every week. The program is distributed in more than 150 countries. The second season ended with the unexpected death of six main characters, including Lucy Lawless' Lucretius.

When asked why the decision was made to end the show after next season, said Weeknight THR, hocking, is not, it is bit outrageous to end a show when it is doing better than ever before. It's courageous step, and we talked about it with Stars. How long do you run a show?

 It run until you can squeeze every last bit out of it revenue or have it end on a high note? The was part of the decision at the end of the show The idea of ending the show when you are up and the audience still wants more, rather than pulling it up to fade starts and you kind of limp to the finish line. Iive always thought that five seasons was the perfect number, you have enough time to tell a great story, but it is not so much real estate you get a little loose in the middle to start this is at the end of the season early.

The show runner on Spartacus is a bit of an unusual duck, we have always had an ending  It is the story written So we know where we were shooting knew before that my original thought was to go to this show was five minutes seven seasons.

 But we realize the actual story is very scattershot. the rebels went to the north-south-east-west-then north again-then broke up- got back together--we thought that instead of repeating ourselves with wave of Roman Senators go after another Spartacus defeated always goes after Spartacus, defeated at the beginning, why not actually condense the story, give the juiciest parts of Marcus Crassus Simon Murrells It's like The Princess Bride. cut all the bits and only the best, most fabulous fairy-East, we can at the end of the series.