After an exhaustive worldwide search, Starz has found the actor to portray the gladiator warrior hero title character of its new Roman-slave action series Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Andy Whitfield. The actor joins a cast of mostly newcomers in the series slated to premiere on Starz in January 2010.

The boldest show on TV, we’re promised. So: lots of slow-motion blood. Lots of skin. Lots of stylized violence. It’s 300: the series! Will there also be acting and narrative? We don’t know yet! But you don’t want to know that. You want to know whether Lucy Lawless gets naked in it! There’s a lot—they promise the show will be boundary-pushing, even for pay cable—and a lot of is full frontal. To assist the male actors of varying endowments, they employed a prosthetic, which they nicknamed ‘the Kirk Douglas,’ for the star of the Stanley Kubrick Spartacus movie. According to one producer, “that thing gets shared around.” For professional reasons, we’re sure.

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