Neil Gaiman calls reports of American Gods' problems "fairly hysterical"

TheWrap

The British author brushed off the troubled production on the Starz series that saw two showrunner changes and a two-year delay between seasons. “There was a certain amount of — hysteria is an unfair word — but there were definitely some reports that I thought were fairly hysterical,” Gaiman, who serves as an executive producer told The Wrap. “This is some of the stuff that happens.” Gaiman said "it would've been great" if original showrunners Michael Green and Bryan Fuller, who were reportedly fired, had stayed. Their replacement, Jesse Alexander, was also sidelined. At the TV press tour, Gaiman said Alexander was merely a bridge to make sure Season 2 was finished. “He showran and ran the writers room and then sort of faded away,” he said. “What Jesse was hired to do, was take a show that was an ongoing show, that had been commissioned that suddenly didn’t have two showrunners, and pick up that ball that was now dropped and get it over the finish line.”

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