Titus Welliver is set to reprise his role from Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel announced Thursday.
In Item 47, which was released on The Avengers Blu-ray, the Lost alum played...
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ABC has ordered a full season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. It's the network's first show to get picked up for a full season this fall.
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Question: So we had the first cancellation of the season with Lucky 7 after two showings. There are no tears from me as I never watched it. My question is: On what planet did anyone ever perceive this show's premise to be interesting or sustainable? Out of the hundreds of pilots, it is sometimes hard to believe someone at ABC thought this was one of the best. What do you think is next? — Rob
Matt Roush: Next for ABC, or next in the long annals of "what were they thinking" pilots? (That sound you hear is ABC kicking itself for not keeping Body of Proof around as a back-up, because for the time being, Scandal repeats will be airing in place of the unlucky 7.) To be fair, Lucky was based on a more successful British series, The Syndicate, but something clearly got lost in translation. (Same thing must have happened regarding ABC's equally mediocre Betrayal, based on a Dutch series and adapted by the same exec producer, who's batting 0 for 2 right now.) Your point about the sustainability of a pilot's premise is a good one, and comes up frequently when analyzing the failure of shows as disparate as last season's Last Resort and (though it may be premature) this season's Hostages — more on that one later. But from the moment many of us saw clips of Lucky 7 at last spring's upfront presentation, it felt like nothing we could imagine almost anyone would want to see. And we were right.
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[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Tuesday's episode of S.H.I.E.L.D. Read at your own risk!]
Despite the producers' insistence that Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would wait to introduce elements from the films, the second episode was chock-full of some very specific references -- and an appearance by...
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Among last week's more encouraging TV signs: On the first Tuesday of the official fall season, it felt a bit like a return to the good (or at least simpler) old days when network TV was the dominant game in town, and crowded time periods could support more than one hit. In prime time's starting position of 8/7c, there appear to be three blockbusters duking it out:
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