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Fremantle Media, whose North America’s scripted television division is responsible for the US version of The Returned, and the CW’s reboot of The Tomorrow People, has finalised a deal for the rights to Neil Gaiman’s epic novel, American Gods, about a war brewing between old and new gods.

First published in 2001, American Gods has won major awards including the Hugo and Nebula, and was reissued in a revised edition in 2011. A television version had been under negotiation with HBO,. but in November 2013, Gaiman announced, “There is an American Gods TV series in the works. It’s no longer with HBO. The moment that things are ready to be announced I am sure they will be, either legitimately or via a leak in a big Hollywood Agency mailroom.”

On his blog, Gaiman commented, “[I]t already looks like it’s going to be a smoother run developing it than it had at HBO, so I am very pleased.” Gaiman will executive produce the series along with Fremantle.