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After a long run that took the comic giant into the live-action small-screen business, Jeph Loeb is leaving Marvel Television. The four-time Eisner Award winner and Heroes co-EP will exit the home of the concluding Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. and the upcoming Helstrom by the end of the year, sources close to the Marvel…

For decades, the success of a TV series had been measured by its longevity. The standard series regular contracts are for six years, which has been considered a threshold for a show to be deemed reasonably successful. Netflix might be rewriting the rulebook with a business model that involves shows often running for…

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Chory, the long-time co-head of Marvel Television, has left the company. We hear that he departed several weeks ago and that it was his decision to leave. Chory oversaw physical production for Marvel TV, which has expanded rapidly over the past five years, going from 0 to 10 live-action series currently…

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Stewart (Shooter), Floriana Lima (Supergirl) and Giorgia Whigham (Scream) have been cast as new series regulars for the upcoming second season of Marvel’s The Punisher on Netflix. The Punisher stars Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, a former Marine who’s out to punish the criminals responsible for his…

Ahead of its upcoming Season 1 finale, Fox has renewed The Gifted, its family adventure series set in Marvel's X-Men universe, for a second season. The announcement was made during Fox’s portion of the winter TCA press tour. The renewal was fully expected. Because The Gifted is designed for limited runs, there was no…

The saga of the screen adaptation of Marvel’s Inhumans has finally gotten a public assessment, with Imax CEO Rich Gelfond blaming its disappointing reception, at least in theaters, on a “misalignment of customer expectations.” Corporate-speak translation: movie ticket buyers realized they had paid top dollar for a TV…

Marvel Television SVP of Original Programming, Karim Zreik, told the Edinburgh International Television Festival today that the company “for sure” is looking at “more female-skewed shows” and has something in development with ABC right now. While he didn’t divulge much more, he offered that it’s a “Jessica Jones-esque&#8221…

Marvel Television and Netflix’s footprint in the state of New York has grown to include an additional 23 episodes of its series to be shot in the state by the end of 2017 raising its overall count to 135 episodes. According to the Governor’s Office of Motion Picture & Television Development, this represents the…

As we close the book on another broadcast development season, here is Deadline's annual honor roll of those who excelled at the 2017 upfronts. Also included is a list of pods and independent production companies with multiple series on broadcast and cable. Greg Berlanti is in expansion mode. With two new broadcast…

ABC has given a green light to Marvel’s Inhumans, a live-action TV series from Marvel Television. It will premiere on the network in fall 2017. This is the other shoe to drop after Disney this spring pulled a planned Inhumans feature film from its July 12, 2019 release date. Several movies in the series has been…

Sometimes the most important super heroes are the ones behind the scene. Marvel Television is heading to the half-hour live-action comedy arena with Damage Control, a single-camera comedy project based on the Marvel Comics books, which has received a put pilot commitment from ABC. Developed for TV by former Daily Show …

Comic-Con has now posted this year’s complete schedule, and because we care, we’ve decided to take it further by giving you a rundown of everything that has been announced through Sunday so far. Similar to last year, we’re also making it more organized with separated TV and film schedules – see the film schedule here…