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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.
We still don't know when both the sixth and seventh books in his series, The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring will be published, but there was a rumor in January that HBO was eyeing a renewal for both Season 7 and Season 8, although they only issued a Season 7 renewal in April.