Board Thread:Television/@comment-11220539-20171103051010/@comment-1895174-20190207054136

KalKent wrote: LoveWaffle wrote: Not too much of a surprise. ABC barely wants to keep Agents of SHIELD as it is. Except for The CW, nobody seems interested in making new superhero TV if it's not going to a streaming service. CW has enough of a steady audience who are willing to catch their comic book shows each week. Not just their DC ones but 'Riverdale' also, so it seems ABC has already tried and failed to tap into that market (with 'Agent Carter' and 'Inhumans' getting canned, and 'Most Wanted' being shelved).

I do wonder though if Freeform are planning on expanding their end after 'Cloak & Dagger' was a hit both with its reception and ratings. The big difference being of course Freeform being cable, while CW is broadcast, and cable is being replaced by streaming for paid shows. It depends on what Disney thinks the purpose of Freeform is once they launch Disney+. The streaming service is already promising us Marvel series starring movie characters and with Feige producing. Marvel series with even less of a connection to the MCU will probably become a harder sell. They might want to use Freeform to show us something different.

Also, I think we would've heard something by now if Freeform wanted more of a Marvel presence. They would've started work on another series, looked at the pilots/scripts ABC passed on, got New Warriors back, or even aired reruns of other Marvel series. Instead, all we got is the first episode of Runaways broadcast after the Cloak & Dagger finale.