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It's almost fall TV season, which means just one thing — it's time to start second guessing the TV networks. Many new shows will be introduced, and most of them will die an ignominious death. More »
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How can you get through television's Thanksgiving lull? We're here to help. There are half-kaiju, half-teenager rebels, walking dinosaur skeletons, a team of superhero sidekicks, and Jewel Staite romancing Flash Gordon. Plus Chuck, Walking Dead and Sanctuary. It'll be okay. More »
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The big-screen adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona's Marvel comic Runaways will begin filming next spring in Los Angeles. Its production moniker, "Small Faces," is a reference to the British band who had a hit single entitled "Runaway." More »
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Drew Pearce brought a welcome Tick-inspired snark to superhero comedy No Heroics. So it's fantastic news that he's going to co-write the movie version of Brian K. Vaughn's ground-breaking comic The Runaways. [Deadline] More »
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Superheroes drink in a bar, try to get on TV, and have really weird/bad sex. Britain's No Heroics sounds like a perfect U.S. sitcom, but ABC passed. We asked creator Drew Pearce about it. More »
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No Heroics, the British sitcom that proved superheroes can be just as raunchy and insecure as the rest of us, is coming to the U.S.. But ABC's version won't be a Life On Mars-style remake. Original creator Drew Pearce says he'll be involved in the new version, and it'll stay true to the U.K. version. We'll have more details from Pearce about how the U.S. branch of our favorite superhero watering hole will work soon. More »
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With the increasingly bloated cast of NBC’s Heroes and a pub full of powers in No Heroics, it might seem like there’s hardly room for another set of caped characters on TV. But BBC1 has given Joe Ahearne the go-ahead to pen Superpowers, a show inspired by his love of Marvel comics. And the one-time Doctor Who director assures the viewing public that his isn’t going to be like all the other superhero shows. More »
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Last week, we talked to No Heroics' Drew Pearce and let you know both how awesome the British sitcom is and how much of a true superhero geek Pearce is, under his cool and calm television professional exterior. This week, we're letting you see proof of both of those things for yourself with a look at all of the in-jokes hidden amongst the show's sets, guided by Pearce himself. You'll want this place to become your local, too, when you see some of the drinks on offer. More »
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We've told you about No Heroics before - the hilarious British sitcom that makes you realize that superheroes are just as screwed up as the rest of us, if not moreso. If you're not convinced that this should be your new favorite sitcom yet, we talked to show creator Drew Pearce about the show's history, his geek influences, fan fic and a lot more. We've even got some potential news about the chances of the show appearing in the US. So read on and discover why you too will soon believe that a man can fly... and then need to go for a drink afterwards to calm down. More »
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You know what today's superheroes need? They need to be more edgy and "bad"... as D-list superhero The Hotness explains in this awesome clip from the latest episode of British superhero sitcom No Heroics. Watching the Hotness try to explain that he's a good guy, but he's also a bad boy — but he's really good at being bad — or something — is refreshing after watching a whole hour of Dark Peter on last night's Heroes. In this episode, the Hotness has decided to try and boost his crappy image by going to a superheroic strip bar full of Wonder Womans. More »
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Third-tier superhero The Hotness finally gets lucky with a super-groupie... but she wants to roleplay being rescued, in this bizarrely funny scene from No Heroics, the new ITV superhero sitcom which aired last night in Britain. The really funny part about this scene is that you can sort of relate to the horror of trying to role-play your real-life job in bed. No Heroics turns out to be much more about work, and specifically the absurd nastiness of working in the entertainment industry, than anything else. More »
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Here's the first trailer for No Heroics, the sitcom about superheroes hanging out in a bar that we mentioned the other day. It looks like a lovely mix of Mystery Men and The Specials, with genuinely funny, neurotic characters. I like the fact that the characters are funny for other reasons besides their superpowers, including their healthy supply of sexual neuroses. Let's hope No Heroics does for supers what The Office did for office-based comedies. Additional reporting by Lauren Davis. More »
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Could fantastical stories save the sitcom from extinction? First the Sunny In Philadelphia guys start working on a comedy called Boldly Going Nowhere, about life on a starship between missions. And now Britain's ITV2 is launching a new sitcom about off-duty superheroes called No Heroics. How long before we see an American version of this show? Maybe it'll help that it's based, weirdly, on the U.S. mega-comedy Friends. More »
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