Monday, 18 May 2009

No Heroics: ABC Say No

Monday, 18 May 2009
A US remake of ITV2's No Heroics has been turned down by ABC, after the filmed pilot failed to entice them into commissioning a full series. British creator Drew Pearce, who was helping craft the American remake, had this to say about the failure:

"... a pilot was shot. And it turned out really well, except for the whole 'not getting picked up' part. Though it's unlikely there'll ever be a legal way to see it. I don't actually think anything went wrong as such. I will say that it's probably not the best year to do a massive, cool, edgy, expensive single-camera genre-based network-comedy without huge starpower on a major American network. Kind of obvious, but true."

So, will a second series of the British original now go ahead?

"That's still up in the air. Hopefully we'll shoot it very soon. Turns out the ultimate nemesis a modern cape can face is the global economic downturn. Wait: somebody should make a comedy about that! Second-tier superheroes who can't get any work so they take sit around a pub talking about their crappy lives? That sounds awesome! All I need is a name, a group of characters and some extremely dirty jokes..."