ABC Renews Three of Our Favorite Shows, Picks Up Four Future Favorites


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Like The CW, ABC has let some info slip out about what’s coming to us via The Alphabet next season, and so far, it’s all good. ABC in the 2013/14 season only had a few of Our Kind of Shows, but two of them were biggies: Once Upon a Time, and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Happily those have both been renewed. So has another, a new series that I really loved, Resurrection.

As of this post, we’re still waiting to hear about The Neighbors. Update: Deadline is now reporting that The Neighbors has been cancelled.

Of the new shows, there are one or two we didn’t really know about (a musical?!) and one we were really hoping for (and got!), S.H.I.E.L.D. origin series and subject of a Marvel One-Shot, Marvel’s Agent Carter. In even better news, it starsHayleyAtwell, who played the role in Captain America: The First Avenger.

Here’s the list so far, followed by descriptions of the shows, via Deadline. We’ll likely be getting much more information, and maybe even a tentative fall schedule, when ABC has its Upfront presentation next Tuesday.

Renewed: Once Upon a Time, Resurrection, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

Cancelled: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, The Neighbors

Picked Up to Series: Agent Carter, Forever, Galavant, The Whispers (formerly The Visitors)

GALAVANT (single camera)
PICKED UP TO SERIES
STUDIO: ABC Studios
TEAM: Dan Fogelman (w, ep), Chris Koch (d, ep), Alan Menken (ep), Glenn Slater (ep)
LOGLINE: A musical fairy tale that centers on handsome Prince Galavant and his quest for revenge over the king who stole his one true love.
CAST: Joshua Sasse, Timothy Omundson, Vinnie Jones, Karen David, Mallory Jansen, Luke Youngblood

FOREVER
STUDIO: Warner Bros TV
TEAM: Matthew Miller (w, ep), Dan Lin (ep), Jennifer Gwartz (ep), Brad Anderson (d)
LOGLINE: Dr. Henry Morgan is New York City’s star medical examiner, but what no one knows is Henry studies the dead for a reason: He is immortal. With the help of detective Jo Martinez, the show peels back the layers of Henry’s colorful and long life through their cases.
CAST: Ioan Gruffudd, Judd Hirsch, Alana De La Garza, Joel David Moore, Barbara Eve Harris, Donnie Keshawarz

MARVEL’S AGENT CARTER
ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES
STUDIO:
TEAM: Michele Fazekas (ep), Tara Butters (ep), Steve McFeely (ep), Christopher Marcus (ep), Jeph Loeb (ep)
LOGLINE: It’s 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life – Steve Rogers.
CAST: Hayley Atwell

THE WHISPERS (formerly THE VISITORS)
PICKED UP TO SERIES
STUDIO: ABC Studios
TEAM: Soo Hugh (w, ep), Dawn Olmstead (ep), Darryl Frank (ep), Justin Falvey (ep), Steven Spielberg (ep), Mark Romanek (d)
LOGLINE: Based on a Ray Bradbury short story, it chronicles the race against the clock to defeat an unseen alien enemy out to destroy the world using our most precious resource against us.
CAST: Lily Rabe, Barry Sloane, Derek Webster, Milo Ventimiglia, Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Catalina Denis, Kylie Rogers, Brianna Brown


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