Collider TV Talk - ABC Cancels Agent Carter, Castle and The Muppets
On this episode of
Collider TV
Talk (May
16th, 2016)
Josh Macuga,
David Griffin,
Sinéad de
Vries,
Sasha Perl-Raver and
Kara Warner discuss the following:
-ABC cancels
Agent Carter,
Castle,
Nashville and
The Muppet Show
-CBS green-lights MacGuyver and
Training Day
-Joel Kinnaman to star in Netflix series
Altered Carbon
-Supergirl moves to
The CW
-Superhero rundown
-Highlights and lowlights
-Streaming spotlight: Narcos
-Josh's Pick:
The Wonder Years
Last week
ABC went all
French Revolution and put the guillotine to Agent Carter, Castle, Nashville AND
The Muppets Show. After a disappointing season 2 of Agent Carter, it wasn’t a shock that we wouldn’t see
Hayley Atwell reprise her role, but 8 year vet Castle fell victim to contracts and loss of a main cast member; the
Muppets got zero traction and even less marketing, with Nashville getting the guitar, I mean axe, at the
Disney owned studio shocking a lot of fans
.
In the wake of all the cancellations last week,
CBS, the most watched network, pulled the plug on the last
CSI franchise,
CSI:
Cyber, but greenlit a reboot of MacGuyver and a series spinoff of the
Antoine Fuqua movie Training Day. MacGuyver will star
Lucas Till of
X-Men fame as the man with the ability to make bombs out of household items which, thankfully, inspired the likes of MacGruber. Training Day on the other hand stars
Bill Paxton playing the
Denzel Washington type role in the series with newcomer
Justin Cornwell taking on the
Ethan Hawke, young cop, role.
As reported by
Variety,
Joel Kinnaman has signed on to star in the Netflix series, Altered Carbon. The series is based on the
Richard K. Morgan novel that takes place in the
25th century, where the human mind has been digitized and souls are transferable. Kinnaman will play
Takeshi Kovacs, a former interstellar warrior who was put into “storage” and later downloaded into the future.
Game of Thrones’
Miguel Sapochnik, who directed
Season 5’s critically acclaimed episode Hardhome, will tackle the first episode with
Laeta Kalogridis, who wrote
Terminator Genisys and
Shutter Island, writing the series and serving as showrunner.
SUPERHERO RUNDOWN
We talked last week on TV
Talk about the possibility of
Supergirl heading from CBS to The CW and last week it was made official. According to
The Hollywood Reporter, Supergirl will make her way to The CW and move production to
Vancouver where
Greg Berlanti’s
Arrow and
The Flash call home.
Krysten Ritter, who plays
Marvel’s Jessica Jones, sat down with
Digital Spy last week letting us in on some of the goings on in
Marvel’s Netflix TV
Universe. The superhero with a love of cheap whiskey and sexual soirees said
Jessica Jones season 2 would shoot immediately after
The Defenders and also that she can’t say if she’s shot anything for
Luke Cage.
Not only did ABC go ahead and cancel everything last week including
Christmas, they also crushed fans of Marvel’s
Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D. when they didn’t pick up
Marvel’s Most Wanted, the much anticipated spin-off of the adventures of Bobbi and
Lance played by
Adrianne Palicki and
Nick Blood. The two left the series during a tearful bar scene and fans have been clamoring for their return, but apparently ABC didn’t hear their pleas.
And finally in some happy news,
Powerless, a DC
Comics comedy about regular folks dealing with the damage left behind by superheroes is a go at
NBC. The cast includes,
Alan Tudyk,
Danny Pudi,
Christina Kirk and
Vanessa Hudgens. Hudgens will play
Emily, an insurance adjuster left to clean up the mess left behind by the superheros and the villains who love to try and kill them and in the process destroy cities.
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