ABC Greenlights Whedon's "S.H.I.E.L.D." TV Series

[CBR News]

When Joss Whedon signed on to direct "The Avengers 2," his contract also called for him to develop a Marvel-themed television series. We now know that show is "S.H.I.E.L.D." for ABC.


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[devinofthedead]

Can't wait! I feel like this is an awesome idea for a show. Especially with Joss!

[BrotherUnitNo_4]

This is potentially VERY awesome.

[HapersRow]

Marvel TV's first live-action project makes this have a lot of presure to be a success. I won't be getting my hopes up.

[Adamar]

I'm hoping for the best! Really hope they bring some smaller, lesser know heroes to the forefront.

[BrotherUnitNo_4]

I think Disney should just scrap the planned Mockingbird TV show for ABC Family and just bring her here.

[C. Earl]

A SHIELD series could be exceedingly cool

[Alex]

If they do the thing where they pretend they live in a world super heroes don't exsist to save money, this will fail.

[Deep_Sleeper]

This show can be very, very cool. I hope it is. I admit, I was hoping the show would be the Runaways.

[Zawisza]

This is potentially VERY awesome.

Yes. Yes it is. Some much potential to just pick and choose and bake up an awesome potential pie. . .

[darknessatnoon]

More about the military industrial complex from Whedon.

[adam.walters]

Exciting. Wondering who the main cast will be. Hoping for at least Maria Hill from the movie universe to give some solid tie.

[santino27]

Seems like the 'safest' of the many suggested options, but I'm definitely going to watch. Would love to see the show introduce some of the other players in the marvel-verse (Mockingbird, Spider-woman, etc.)

[Jared]

If it's in the movie-verse, I don't see how it will work that well without the three most interesting and popular SHIELD people...beyond maybe sporadic appearances, there's no way they're getting Jackson, Johannson, or Renner on a regular TV series. Even Cobie Smoulders still has a gig.

A separate SHIELD-verse for the show...well without the superheroes how is it not just another spy show? They can't even do a helicarrier justice on a TV budget, compared to what we saw in Avengers.

I still say the smartest play for Marvel is to just wait for DD to expire and develop a show on that. Or do Heroes for Hire.

[GothamLord]

I really dont understand why people cant see certain actors in this being willing to make guest appearances. Bruce Willis did a spot on Friends years ago. Jackson loves his Fury character. He'll make cameos if they want him too. HIMYM is coming to a end here in likely another season. Cobie's got the job if she wants it, its going to likely take a year or so of development before there is even a chance of seeing the SHIELD show on the network and thats a rush job.