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Will American Gods Cupcakes Really Bribe Me Into Publishing An Article?

An Addison Lee van turns up at the door. A confused man not expecting to deliver a package to London suburbia steps out, I sign for it and open it quizzically. Inside is some kind of promotional press pack for American Gods, the Starz TV Series based on the Neil Gaiman novel. It's now being released on DVD and Blu Ray in the UK, and I do confess I would like to have heard the BBFC discussions around certain episodes now famous for featuring the first scripted erect members in US TV drama.

Will American Gods Cupcakes Really Bribe Me Into Publishing An Article?

SO anyway, they are clearly trying to get me to run some kind of article mentioning the release, and have sent me a copy of the Blu Ray discs (I have no Blu Ray player), a T-shirt (Medium, which is nice of theme to presume but… no), the novel (my third copy now), the first issue of the comic (also my third copy now), a mug (granted I do drink tea), a big Mad Sweeney poster (like I'd be allowed to put that up anywhere) and a Oyster card holder (I do travel on bus, train and tube, so there's that). Nevertheless I haven't exactly been swayed until… Will American Gods Cupcakes Really Bribe Me Into Publishing An Article?

…cupcakes. American Gods cupcakes. Yes, that will do admirably. So there you go, American Gods available on DVD, Blu Ray and digital platforms (by which they mean, but don't say, Amazon Prime UK) courtesy not of Starz TV but of StudioCanal and I bet I'll see their names on the title credits if I watch the show again.

Will American Gods Cupcakes Really Bribe Me Into Publishing An Article?

Cupcakes. Yeah, I'm definitely not fitting in that Medium T-shirt right now.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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