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The pickups of Season 2, 3 and now 4 all have come months before the previous installment had debuted. Black Sails also is the first Starz original series to go beyond 3 seasons, a high water mark previously set by Spartacus: Blood and Sand (which also did a prequel miniseries) and Da Vinciâs Demons.
So far, the show has covered more or less three books in four seasons, splitting up the hefty third novel, A Storm of Swords, into two seasons, with only a few elements bleeding in from future books. Now, to fit into seven seasons, the show would have to cram four books, two of them still unwritten, into three seasons.