The premium cable channel Starz made a second-season commitment to creator Mitch Glazer’s ‘50s-set mob drama based at Miami’s Miramar Playa Hotel by ordering a 10-episode renewal before its April 6 premiere.

“Magic City is a beautifully written, superbly acted, and visually stunning series and we feel the quality of the work accomplished deserves a second season,” Starz CEO Chris Albrecht told The Hollywood Reporter.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Danny Huston and Olga Kurylenko joined the ensemble cast based on the hotel where Glazer grew up as a kid.

Starz premiered Magic City at the Miami International Film Festival and scheduled a special preview of the period drama to air after the March 30 season finale of its hit show Spartacus: Vengeance.

Starz also recently made a pact with Electus and the Weinstein Co. on MARCO POLO, a period adventure set to debut in late 2013. John Fusco signed on to write the pilot about the famous Venetian explorer who traveled to Asia in the early 13th century and met Kublai Khan. Starz ordered a 10-episode debut season with production scheduled to take place in China.

Starz also bought a pilot from Ghost House partners Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, a live-action remake of a 2001 Japanese anime series about two female assassins working in the criminal underworld.

像之前续订《风云市长》一样，Starz在剧集正式首播前已经决定续订《魔力之城》第二季。

这个充满信心的决定来自于Starz电视网的CEO Chris Albrecht和他的团队，这部50年代的时代剧集由《谍海计中计》的编剧米切·格拉泽(Mitch Glazer)来统筹全局。而刚刚确定续订的第二季将在今年开始制作，在明年进行播出。“《魔力之城》是一部剧本漂亮、表演有力而且视觉效果惊艳的剧集，我们觉得这样的艺术质量完全值得续订第二季，”Albrecht表示，就是这位CEO在去年开创了未播先续的先例续订了凯尔希·格兰莫(Kelsey Grammer)广受好评的剧集《风云市长》。“我们已经准备将这部剧集卖到超过70个国家和地区，希望通过这部剧集建立Starz电视网优质的品牌”。

剧集讲故事设定在20世纪50年代末的迈阿密，这里成为了许多追寻美国梦之人的目的地，故事讲述了黑帮、政客、戏子混杂的迈阿密第一大酒店中发生的诸事。正如卡斯特罗控制时期的古巴，The Miramar Playa Hotel也由一位权力人物所控制，他便是由杰弗里·迪恩·摩根(Jeffrey Dean Morgan)所饰演的Ike Evans，他为了实现自己的梦想，不惜将灵魂出卖给了魔鬼，那个由丹尼·赫斯顿(Danny Huston)所饰演的黑帮老大,“屠夫”Ben Diamond。“第一季的故事遵循和完整了我自己生命中创作经验，”剧集的主创Glazer动情的说，“我很激动和紧张将这个1959年的迈阿密海滩故事创作下去。”

剧集将在《魔力之城》将于4月6日晚22:00在Starz首播。