Amazon Is Bringing Back The Tick
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- September 2, 2014
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)
“SPOOOOOOOOON!” The battle-cry of the legendary superhero The Tick is set to be unleashed again. Back in the mid-nineties, a great cartoon series lampooning superhero tropes by the name of The Tick premiered, and it was one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons as a kid, along with our Web Content Manager Heath McKnight.
A few years later, a live-action version of the show premiered starring Patrick Warburton, and was produced by character creator Ben Edlund. The series, however, was quickly cancelled after only nine episodes, despite very positive reviews.
Now it looks like Amazon is looking to revive the series after 13 years off the air, with Edlund?producing and Warburton back in the blue suit. After People reported the revival effort, Edlund took to Twitter to confirm his involvement.
Yes for now suffice it to say the dream of a new live-action Tick is being pursued with vigor #bringbackTheTick
ben_edlund (@ben_edlund) August 31, 2014
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The Wrap is adding a few more details, Warburton worked out the deal between Sony Television (who owns the rights to the television series) and Amazon to make a new pilot for the show so he’ll definitely be reprising the role as opposed to being recast.
There’s still no word on whether the rest of the cast of David Burke, Nestor Carbonell?(the mayor in The Dark Knight and?The Dark Knight Rises),?and Liz Vassey are reprising their roles for the show, but I suspect they’ll at least be approached. Barry Sonenfeld and Larry Charles, who produced the show in 2001, also don’t seem to be attached to this new iteration.
There seems to be a movement among streaming services to bring back TV shows that were ahead of their times. Netflix brought back Arrested Development, while Yahoo rescued Dan Harmon’s Community from cancellation. What all of these shows had in common were almost fanatical yet niche followings. The ratings were low but those who watched the shows (myself included) loved them.
The landscape of television is changing, where there are far more platforms for different types of shows. Ratings are no longer the sole metric by which shows are made or broken. Even the measuring ratings have changed with Live-Plus numbers extending as far out as a week after the broadcast.
The fact that such a short-lived show like The Tick still has an active audience who fondly remember the show, can make a comeback more than a decade later, is very telling how far ahead of its time it was. It will still need to make it past the pilot stage, Zombieland the TV show didn’t, but hopefully, the series will return to the small screen. Even if that small screen is a computer monitor.
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