As part of the Starz portion of the TCA Press Tour, President and CEO Chris Albrecht took some time to talk about the shows they currently have in production, and what their upcoming slate will look like.  During the interview, he spoke about how they decide what original programming will be done for Starz and what will be done for Encore, the production challenges of the Michael Bay pirate series Black Sails (currently in pre-production in South Africa), how they came to the decision to end Spartacus, their desire to continue to work with that show’s creator Steven DeKnight, and when Black Sails, Da Vinci’s Demons, Marco Polo and Noir could hit the air.  Check out what he had to say after the jump.

Sam Raimi has kept himself quite busy on the feature film side of things, but at the end of September, the writer/director/producer had sold three different TV series to three different networks. Now it looks like we can add another one onto the list as THR reports Starz, the company behind the recent successful epic series Spartacus: Blood & Sand, just picked up a live-action series remake of the Japanese anime Noir.  Continued after the jump: