Having spent 15 years in FOX’s cancellation graveyard, cult live-action comedy The Tick has been resurrected for a potential series, with Amazon ordering a pilot for a new take on Ben Edlund‘s comic book character, Deadline reports:
Edlund, who created the 2001 lbenedlundive-action Fox comedy as well as the 1994 animated series, is back as writer and executive producer as is fellow original exec producer Barry Josephson. Griffin Newman (Vinyl) is set to play Arthur Everest, and Valorie Curry (House of Lies, The Following) has been cast as his sister Dot Everest in the pilot, I have learned.
In the new incarnation, the blue suit-wearing Tick is recovering from a memory loss. He ends up re-teaming with Arthur to fight evil. Newman’s Arthur, played in the Fox series by David Burke, had been labeled as a schizophrenic because of his statements that evil plans to rule the city, and no one believes him until he runs into Tick. Curry’s Dot Everest is a nurse who loves her brother Arthur to death and worries about him.
susan ros says
That is great! My husband did spfx on it and we always thought it was the funniest show and should be given a chance!