‘Human Target’ cancelled, ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Locke & Key’ not picked up for TV
This has not been a good week for comics on TV.
On Tuesday, Fox announced that it was canceling [[[Human Target]]] (starring Mark Valley, Chi McBride, and Jackie Earl Haley and based on the DC Comics character created by Len Wein, Carmine Infantino, and Dick Giordano) after two seasons, and also declined to pick up Locke & Key, the pilot from Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (the minds behind Fringe and the Star Trek reboot) based on the IDW comic from Joe Hill.
Now word has come from Deadline Hollywood that NBC will not be picking up [[[Wonder Woman]]], the series that would have been produced by David E. Kelley and starred Adrianne Palacki as the amazing Amazon.
Between these developments, and Smallville ending its decade long run tonight, we are suddenly going from a lot of comics adaptations in broadcast prime time to none at all for the first time since 1996– and that was when Sabrina the Teenage Witch first aired.
Right now, all eyes are on whether Disney’s fabled corporate synergy will mean sister companies Marvel and ABC will go ahead with a new version of Hulk with Guillermo del Toro and David Eick, and/or AKA Jessica Jones with Melissa Rosenberg– or whether they’ll be shunted to ABC Family or some such solution.
Any chance “Powers” will make it onto F/x any time soon?
Powers is still in the casting phase. I would say the earliest it makes it to series is December.
Hooray for NBC!
Diana, put the goddamn skirt back on!
Out of all the shows coming up the one I look foward to the most is marvel’s AKA Jessica Jones, based of one of my favorite obscure comic book super heroines. The book, called Alias, seems much more adaptable to prime time telivision than most anything else and the main lead would be a stong and relatable female character.
ps. so glad they canned that wonder woman show, it looked like a kids parody.