Starz Releases Teaser and Poster for Upcoming 'Ash vs. Evil Dead' TV Series

10:21 PM EDT 4/4/2015

Starz has just released a first-look video teaser and promo poster [via IGN] for the 10-episode first season of Ash vs. Evil Dead, which is tentatively set for a late 2015 premiere. The studio's plot outline for the upcoming TV series reads: “Campbell reprises his role as Ash, the aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons – personal and literal.”Read more

Lucy Lawless Joins Cast of Starz's ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’

3:21 PM EDT 3/10/2015

Lucy Lawless, 46, best known for playing the title role in the long-running TV series Xena: Warrior Princess and for her character roles in the Battlestar Galactica and the Spartacus trilogy series is cast as Ruby in Starz's upcoming Ash vs. Evil Dead, the TV series sequel to The Evil Dead film franchise created by Sam Raimi. Lawless will be portraying Ruby, described only as “a mysterious figure who's on a quest to stop the evil outbreak and believes that Ash is the one who's the cause of it.”Read more