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'Powerless' - NBC developing comedy about civilians in the DC Universe

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“Powerless is [from] Ben Queen, a writer we love who I'd worked with for many years,” Salke noted. “DC came in with a pitch and they're very committed to... This is a world where superheroes are not only just on green screen out the window of this insurance office, but they're also running into you on the street and wreaking havoc. The idea isn't that it's the creme de la creme of the superheroes. It's a world where there's a whole population of superheroes with all sorts of all challenges themselves. So you're seeing quite a range of characters in that realm in addition to our great, kind of grounded human ensemble.”
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“Oh yeah, they've namedropped everyone. I don't think they’ve said anyone's off limits.”
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“Also, they're in the background. They're wallpaper I suppose, as opposed to they're not the main characters in the show, so you may see them blowing up a building out the window or something.”
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Seems like no one is currently off-limits, but doesn't seem like heroes will actually be a major part of the week-to-week characters

More like oh look Superman fighting on TV or something

I really hope they keep the namedropping to a minimum
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01...=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+ign/all+(IGN+All)
 
Vanessa Hudgens to Star in NBC's DC Comics Comedy 'Powerless'

The Grease Live alum has been tapped to star in NBC's DC Comics comedy pilot Powerless, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The single-camera workplace comedy is set at one of the worst insurance companies in America — with the twist being that it also takes place in the universe of DC Comics. The comedy is about the reality of working life for a normal, powerless person in a world of super heroes and villains.
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Great get, imo.
 
Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical/Grease! Live) will be the star

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/vanessa-hudgens-star-nbcs-dc-868294

Hudgens will topline the pilot and portray Emily Locke, an insurance claims adjuster who loves her job because she gets to help people, Emily likes to fly under the radar and just get her work done. She finds herself increasingly exasperated by the disruptive antics of the various Super Heroes that proliferate in her city.
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Damnit Danny!
It's bad enough I have to compete with one Dan in the TV thread!
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I'll watch, but with it being NBC, I'm expecting cancellation within a season. Two max.

Hudgens is definitely a good get. She's pretty funny when we wants to be.
 
See, I'm slightly curious about this.

Part of what makes the gag work with Damage Control work is that a disproportionate number of Marvel's superheroes do hang around the one city - chiefly, New York - so it ain't that weird for them to encounter so many varying characters, and any others well out of reach can be excused with relative ease.

DC doesn't really have that to the same extent. Typically if a city has multiple superheroes, its due to them being part of the same 'family' of characters, rather than a bunch of largely disconnected casts occupying the same space. So stressing the word 'superheroes' in that context, even as an adaptation, seems a little weird to me.

Though that, combined with the obvious budget issues as well as its comedic nature, makes me wonder if the show will try to depict a more 'amateur' level superhero community. Ie, not Superman or Batman, but the various people who've been inspired and think that just because they've got superpowers, that makes them superheroes. Would be easy to dig out a bunch of D and C-listers and retcon them into wherever this'll take place, maybe make up a few as gags require them.

"So wait, you're trying to say this guy... tried to put out the fire with... more fire?"
"Yep. Thought he could choke the oxygen."
"...In an open park."
"Yep."
 
Yeah, the two posts above this post describes exactly how it's gonna play out I think. I'm glad Vanessa is starring in it. She's the main character of the show?
 
 
Kinda surprised that they incorporated the weird-ass hood/tail thing at all, given that the script just seems to slap the Crimson Fox name on a generic superheroine.
 
Slayven said:
Terrible adaption

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should have just called her the Crimson Crusader or Avengers
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I mean she doesn't look exactly like Constance or Vivian (may she rest in peace) but beggars cant be choosers. the custom looks... crimson unlike the comics which for some reason always made it look brownish.
 
Is she a villain or a hero?

Do we know any of the other c and d-listers turning up in the show?

I'm pretty excited about this.
 
This sounds weird but then you remember that a couple of regular sitcoms like goddamn FAMILY MATTERS had canonical super powers, shapeshifting, and teleportation.
 
Platy said:
Thats good that you are probably the only person on earth that cares how Crimson Fox looks like then =P
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Somebody gots to.
Madridista said:
Is she a villain or a hero?

Do we know any of the other c and d-listers turning up in the show?

I'm pretty excited about this.
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A superhero

More like F-list.

It was bothering me that I couldn't remember who she looked like, now I remember

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A cosplay Crimson Cowl.
 
Slayven said:
over and under of when it is canceled?
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I feel like this could go either way

NBC has been good with workplace comedies (The Office, Scrubs, Parks and Rec, 30 Rock) and heroes are kind of in

But this has no real known brand and NBC has had a weakened presence in comedies in general... also depends on the day
 
Penguin said:
I feel like this could go either way

NBC has been good with workplace comedies (The Office, Scrubs, Parks and Rec, 30 Rock) and heroes are kind of in

But this has no real known brand and NBC has had a weakened presence in comedies in general... also depends on the day
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Do they have a comedy night?
 
This certainly doesn't help Damage Control's chances of being picked up anytime soon, though that wasn't likely anyway given that it hadn't even gotten a pilot order yet.

Which is fine, honestly. The premise was barely workable at best in the MCU.
 
Penguin said:
Not really
They tried to make Friday happen this year

I could see em trying that here again, but we'll see
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I don't see NBC having a comedy night unless they have some more stuff in the pipe. I was gonna say too they don't really have an anchor. Maybe Superstore though. But still that's half an hour of at least 2 hours you gotta fill.
 
Sober said:
I don't see NBC having a comedy night unless they have some more stuff in the pipe. I was gonna say too they don't really have an anchor. Maybe Superstore though. But still that's half an hour of at least 2 hours you gotta fill.
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Article mentions there's two other comedies that are already ordered to series. So, yeah maybe they're going to try and build a night out of it.
 
Sober said:
I don't see NBC having a comedy night unless they have some more stuff in the pipe. I was gonna say too they don't really have an anchor. Maybe Superstore though. But still that's half an hour of at least 2 hours you gotta fill.
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Yeah getting rid of all of their anchors within a year or so of each other was a terrible idea.
 
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