Amazon Studios has greenlit 3 of the of the shows from this year’s pilot season, with one of them being fan favorite ‘The Tick’.

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The series takes place in a world where superheroes are real, and Arthur, an accountant with no superpowers at all realizes that his city is owned by a global supervillain long-thought dead. As he struggles to uncover the conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero called The Tick.

The series stars Peter Serafinowicz as The Tick, Griffin Newman as Arthur, Jackie Earle Haley as The Terror, Valorie Curry as Dot Everest, Yara Martinez as Ms. Lint and Brendan Hines as Superion. Here is to hoping that the series will bring  my favorites Bat Manuel and Captain Liberty back into the fold.

The other 2 shows greenlit by Amazon were ‘I love Dick’ and Jonathan’s favorite ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’.

All series are set to debut in 2017.

 

Jay Baruchel (She’s Out Of My League, Goon) is nearing a deal to join the cast of Robocop. He is one of the last major players to join the upcoming remake of the 1987 sci-fi flick. The film begins shooting this September with Joel Kinnaman, Hugh Laurie, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Abbie Cornish and Jackie Earle Haley already in the cast.

Baruchel will play the head of marketing for Omnicorp, the company that is building the police cyborg. While best known for his roles in comedic movies it is definitely not his first non-comedic role. So far this film is off to a really good start.

Source: THR