'American Gods' to span six seasons?

Producer Gary Goetzman has revealed some of the first details about HBO's proposed adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Hugo Award-winning novel American Gods.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series is being planned as spanning six seasons, each consisting of between ten and 12 episodes.

Goetzman has claimed that the show will have an expected budget of $35 to $40 million for each season, and has suggested that most of the budget will be spent on visual effects.

"There are some crazy things in there," Goetzman said of plans for the show. "We'll probably be doing more effects in there than it's been done on a television series."

Despite Gaiman's previous claims that American Gods had been optioned as a film, it was confirmed in April that HBO were planning to adapt the novel into a new series.

American Gods tells the story of an ex-con called Shadow, who finds himself caught in a war between the old classic gods of mythology and the new gods of the world.

The show is expected to launch on HBO in 2013 at the earliest.