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Dwayne McDuffie's Damage Control In Development At ABC For A New TV Show
The Hollywood Reporter had the word that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report's Ben Karlin is developing a TV series for ABC based on Damage Control, the Marvel comic create by the late, great Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colon. And that ABC has ordered a script for a half-hour, single-camera comedy. The comic focussed on the[...]
Could Joe The Inhuman From Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD Be Inferno From The Comics?
Could Joe become a slightly easier-to-do-on-TV version of Inferno? Although the story moved on from his capture last night, could he return in a big way? Mindless speculation, of course… This is Dante Pertuz, from the Inhumans Created by Charles Soule and Joe Madueira, he first appeared in Inhuman #1, as a newly formed Inhuman after[...]
Mr. Robot Launches In The UK On Amazon Prime
Robot, and subsequently one of the most pirated TV shows this year, is going 100% legal in Britain, Germany and Austria as the Amazon Prime service in these respective countries has snapped it up. Mr Robot, the hacking conspiracy drama starring Scott Snyder-lookalike Rami Malek and Christian Slater, will have all ten series available for streaming[...]
A Sneak Peek At Jessica Jones, From Baltimore Summit
Retailers at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit got a very sneak peek at the new Jessica Jones TV show from Marvel and Netflix…. Along with the reminder that the Alias comic it is based on is available, complete, with a new trade dress – and a new name to match.See more from the Baltimore Summit, right[...]
Did Charlie Brooker Know? Or Did He Just Get Very Lucky?
The first episode of British sci-fi anthology TV show Black Mirror, by Charlie Brooker for Channel 4, is infamously gross. Spoilers below. Titled The National Anthem, the plot begins with the kidnap of a much loved British princess, as a blackmail threat is delivered to the British government It states that if the Princess is not to be killed, the Prime[...]
One Million Moms Demand The Muppets Be Taken Off The Air
In an e-mail send to their probably-far-fewer-than-a-million subscribers, the One Million Moms activist group in concerned about the new version of The Muppets TV show, airing on ABC from next week. The mature version of "The Muppets" will cover a range of topics from sex to drugs Miss Piggy came out as a pro-choice feminist during[...]
The Superhero Dojo: 5 Quick Hacks To Fix The GI Joe Franchise
Now which one do you think wasn't based on an action thriller novel? I'll give you a clue, it's the one that sucked so bad Bruce Willis' soul ejaculated out of his body on live television from sheer embarrassment. But there is no guarantee these GI Joe books would be taken seriously within the genre is[...]
Warren Ellis Explains How RED Could Be Remade For International TV
All Rights Reserved. It has recently been announced that NBC is developing a TV series based on the Red films, that were based on Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner's comic book for Wildstorm. Which gave Ellis the opportunity in his mailing list to wax about how he could see Red being developed as an international format, unique for[...]
The Secret World of Comiket – Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh
Parody, fan fiction and even porn parodies of well-known series are only a tiny fraction of doujin manga being created, with the publishers mostly turning a blind eye because they're considered parodies, not to mention a training ground for future professionals. From a sociological point of view, it's particularly interesting to me that the level of[...]