Huge news for Agents of SHIELD fans. Not only is a third season
of the action-adventure series pretty much guaranteed, but Marvel is
quietly developing a spinoff for ABC.
We’re told a spinoff is being developed by SHIELD executive producer Jeffrey Bell (Angel, The X-Files) and SHIELD writer Paul Zbyszewski (Lost, Hawaii Five-0).
We don’t know is which characters from the current series
will be moving over to the proposed spinoff – so let the speculation
being on that. There won’t be an implanted pilot episode this season
directly setting up the spinoff, either (like how CW launched The Flash out of Arrow). However, story elements that are still to come on SHIELD this year will
be used to lay the groundwork for the potential new series. So by the
end of the season – assuming the details for this project haven’t
already leaked, which is rather unlikely – the spinoff concept should be
clear.
Under the best-case scenario, the spinoff would hit ABC as
soon as this fall. But there are other timing possibilities too,
including midseason. Of course, the spinoff also might not even happen.
Not only is SHIELD not yet officially renewed, but ABC has yet
to select which of its crop of pilots will receive series orders
– decisions that could impact the SHIELD spinoff plan.
SHIELD currently averages 7.4 million viewers and a
2.8 rating among adults 18-49, when including seven days of DVR
playback. If greenlit, the spinoff would expand Marvel’s TV empire yet
again. On ABC there’s SHIELD and Agent Carter (that
latter, we’re told, has about a roughly 60 percent chance of returning
for a second season). Plus the studio has its multi-title Netflix slate
in the pipeline which launches tomorrow with Daredevil. ABC does not comment on current development, and Marvel had no comment.
So which character(s) do you think Marvel is eyeing for the SHIELD spinoff?
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