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On one hand, you could say Joss Whedon had about as auspicious a Marvel Studios debut as possible when he wrote and directed "The Avengers." The blockbuster superhero team-up was really the first of its kind, bringing together disparate elements of a shared timeline and cementing the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the juggernaut blockbuster franchise we know it as today. It also made $1.5 billion, which helps. On the other hand, you could also argue that Whedon's foray into the MCU started in about as inauspicious a way as possible.

That's because Whedon's first MCU project cost an old friend millions. The director came to "The Avengers" after Zak Penn had already written a script. But Whedon decided to disregard the existing screenplay almost entirely, rewriting it from scratch and, in the process, establishing his comedic sensibility — previously on full display...

The MCU has a rich history that began with the release of Iron Man in 2008, and it continues to expand with many new characters joining the franchise.

However, despite its massive success, there are certain individuals who have been blacklisted by the head of Marvel Studios, ruling out their return to the franchise, regardless of the success of their past projects.

Kevin Feige has been quite transparent about his preferences for collaboration, and unfortunately, two individuals have ended up in the category of those he prefers not to work with. In the book MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, authors Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzalez, and Gavin Edwards investigate the behind-the-scenes issues at Marvel Studios that led to Feige banning Joss Whedon and Edward Norton from future MCU projects.

If the Inhumans could be rehabilitated, apparently everyone in MCU history was on Feige’s call list. Except Edward Norton, the franchise’s first Bruce Banner,...

At this point, MCU has a long history. Starting with ‘Iron Man’ released in 2008 the cinematic universe keeps expanding and we can look forward to plenty of new faces joining the franchise.

Still, despite its enormous success, we can also definitely rule out some faces possibly forever since the head of Marvel Studios blacklisted them despite the success of their projects.

Feige has been pretty open in the past regarding who he likes to work with and who he doesn’t like to work with, and two names, unfortunately, found themselves in the latter category.

In the book ‘MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios,’ authors Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzalez, and Gavin Edwards explore behind-the-scenes problems at Marvel Studios that resulted in Kevin Feige banning two individuals from future MCU projects. The individuals in question are Joss Whedon and Edward Norton.

If the Inhumans could be rehabilitated, apparently everyone in MCU...

Since the Infinity Stones saga ended, Marvel has tried to expand the stories on the television screen. The MCU has flourished on the small screen, as it allows more room and time for character development.

The studio has found critical success, and the quality of the stories was not affected by the change. However, as several series came under the expanded universe of Marvel, Disney is still far from making one of their most beloved shows part of the current MCU timeline—Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

So far the series is beyond the canon events of the MCU (Source: Agents of the S.H.I.E.L.D.)

Why has Disney not made Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. canon yet?

Marvel has released a spate of TV shows in the last few years. So far, all of them have hit the mark and...

Will Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. return with a new series? ( Photo Credit – IMDb )

The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s series experienced initial acclaim with productions such as WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki, marking a significant journey into television in recent times. However, subsequent series exhibited a rapid descent into formulaic narratives, eliciting viewer fatigue towards Disney+ offerings. A notable shift emerged with the revelation to revive cherished pre-Disney+ era shows, notably X-Men: The Animated Series and Daredevil. These continuations, as evidenced by X-Men ’97 and Daredevil: Born Again, have reignited audience interest. Consequently, there exists a palpable sense of anticipation among audiences for the potential revival of another cherished Marvel Television program, named Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

In a recent interview promoting X-Men ’97, Brad Winderbaum, Marvel Studios‘ Head of Television, deliberated on the potential resurgence of classic Marvel productions such as Spider-Man: The Animated Series or Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D....

During a recent interview with Agents of Fandom, Marvel Studios Head of Television, Brad Winderbaum, teased that Marvel might want to return to the “Agents of S.H. I.E.L.D.” It premiered on A.B.C. in Sep. 2013 and concluded with its seventh and final season in Aug. 2020.) show after they film “Daredevil: Born Again.”

According to C.B.R., Winderbaum told Agents of Fandom, “We’re in production on Daredevil: Born Again in New York. They’re shooting as we speak. I’m seeing text messages come up from the set. “Agents of S.H. I.E.L.D.” is probably the next show that [we’re] going to kind of revisit and revive… a really strong… and one of my favorite pockets of our universe and our fandom. And… you never know is the answer!”

Now, this does not mean that an “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” return is imminent, but it does show that they are indeed...

Joss Whedon's decision to create Agents of Shield explains why its connection to the Marvel Cinematic Universe was doomed from the beginning. Marvel Studios never wanted Agents of Shield to happen and preferred Whedon to focus on Avengers 2. The lack of reference to Agents of Shield in the main franchise confirms that it is not part of the Sacred Timeline, but still exists in an alternate reality.

The Avengers' director Joss Whedon's decision to make Agents of Shield explains why its connection to the Marvel Cinematic Universe was doomed from the beginning. Long before the debut of Disney+, which now exclusively houses Marvel Studios small screen projects, the Marvel TV branch existed. The idea was that shows like Agents of Shield and Agent Carter, both airing on ABC, expanded the storytelling that the franchise was doing on the big screen. However, while the series routinely referred to the events of their movie counterparts,...

Marvel Studios initially didn't want Agents of Shield to be made, despite positive response, leading to a successful seven-season run. The creation of Agents of Shield sparked debate and influenced the approach to Disney+ shows a decade later. Marvel Studios' lack of experience with television hurt the MCU in the long run, but they plan to create a dedicated television team and learn from Agents of Shield's success.

A decade after the premiere of Agents of Shield, Marvel Studios’ thoughts on the spin-off have finally been revealed. The show is notably the MCU’s first-ever television series, paving the way for future Netflix and Disney+ series. Following The Avengers character Phil Coulson and the life of other agents from the organization Shield, the show successfully garnered acclaim and a following that the recent MCU shows have struggled to replicate.

Besides following a traditional television format of a pilot and multiple seasons,...

It always bothers me when Joss Whedon is referred to as being the chief creative force behind "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," and not just because of everything that's come out about his workplace misconduct and toxic behavior since 2017. While he did, in fact, develop the Marvel Television show with his brother Jed Whedon and sister-in-law Maurissa Tancharoen, it was the latter duo who sculpted the series into one of the best projects to emerge from the House of Ideas since the Marvel Cinematic Universe began its industry-changing run.

Of course, circa 2012, "Joss is Boss" was a tenant among Joss Whedon fans. Having already created the fan-favorite series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and cult space Western show "Firefly," the multi-hyphenate only fortified his genre credentials that year by helming the McU's hugely popular "The Avengers." That basically gave Whedon carte blanche to do whatever he wanted in the Marvel universe, which included...

Joss Whedon is apparently not a good person. You've heard this, we've heard this, everyone has heard this. Another thing that everyone knows is how deeply ingrained he is not only in popular culture but in successful and beloved popular culture. Whedon's writing credits include "Toy Story," "Firefly," and "Marvel's Avengers." His directing credits include the latter of those two projects, as well as "The Office" and "Glee." See what we're saying? Before Hollywood realized that he was a financial taboo, Whedon was everywhere. 

You'll notice, too, that his credits often came in clumps. Whedon tended to serve as both writer and director on his projects. The man valued his creative control, wherever he could find it. So it might be surprising, then, to know that he valued the opposite for his service to "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," a series for which he is credited as a co-creator and an executive producer.

Warning: contains (mild) spoilers for the Agents of Shield finale.

Emergency call handling is one of the highest-stress jobs that take place in an office environment. Handlers need to keep their head as they extract information from panicked and injured callers, who are often in dangerous situations. There can be highs, like the first call taken by Iain de Caestecker’s lead in BBC One thriller The Control Room – over the phone, Gabe talks a scared couple through the emergency roadside delivery of their child and they name the baby after him, their own angel Gabriel. The lows of the job are intense, particularly for Gabe who one day receives a call that unravels his life.

At the start of The Control Room, Gabe’s isn’t much of a life at all, de Caestecker tells Den of Geek over Zoom. “From the very start, I don’t think his...

The Nevers should be a triumphant TV homecoming for Joss Whedon. It’s the first series in more than a decade solely created by the man responsible for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. (He co-created Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. back in 2013 with brother Jed Whedon and sister-in-law Maurissa Tancharoen, and wasn’t really involved past the pilot episode.) It is his first dance with premium cable, after spending the earlier phase of his career working for broadcast networks with either low budgets or minimal faith in his ideas.

It appears that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was planting much more than a fun Easter egg in Season 4, when it put Anton Ivanov’s severed head inside a jar.

Based on new intel from one of the ABC series’ executive producers, it sounds like the groundwork was indeed being laid, in late Season 4, for the introduction of the highly unusual-looking Marvel villain known as M.O.D.O.K. Fans at the time speculated as much, seeing as Watchdogs leader Ivanov (played by Zach McGowan) had told Aida his Lmd body was “only designed for killing” — and M.O.D.O.K. stands...

If you thought that Agent Carter alum Enver Gjokaj would only be making a glorified cameo during Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s final season, that misdirect was 100-percent on purpose.

“The plan was always for him to come on for more than one [episode] but to make it feel like [just] one, so that we could surprise people,” exec producer Jeffrey Bell told TVLine at a press event for the series finale.

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To the very end, the Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. producers were good sports about the knocks the show has taken over its seven-season ABC run.

Heck, executive producer Jeffrey Bell, while doing press for the Aug. 12 series finale, sported an “After a Rocky Start…” T-shirt — which he said was a nod to the left-handed compliment that seemed to open even the most laudatory of the show’s reviews over the years.

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Spoiler Alert: This article contains details of tonight’s doubleheader Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series finale.

“Cool.”

That’s the last word spoken tonight in the very last episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Clark Gregg’s Phil Coulson flies off from the superspy HQ in a new version of his very special cherry red 1962 Chevrolet Corvette L.O.L.A., which stands for Levitating Over Land Automobile.

“It also indicates, as you noted, we handed the baton nicely to Daisy,” EP Jed Whedon says of the Chloe Bennett portrayed Inhuman character. “You really get the sense that she’s now doing what he did,” the S.H.I.E.Ld. co-showrunner adds “She’s found a lost person who has potential and she’s building a family and she’s taken his role. To see him get in L.O.L.A is then the promise...

(Warning: The following story contains Major spoilers for the two-part series finale of ABC’s “Agents of Shield” on Wednesday.)

Unless the McU decides to go back into the past again, it’s likely that Wednesday’s series finale of “Agents of Shield” represented the final appearance for Clark Gregg’s Phil Coulson.

Aside from Robert Downey Jr. or Chris Evans, Gregg has probably appeared the most in the McU between his small roles in Marvel’s batch of films, where he primarily existed to serve as the connective tissue between all the various films, and his starring gig on “Marvel’s Agents of Shield,” Marvel’s first crack at extending its universe to the small screen.

It’s been a wild journey for Gregg, who has been brought back from the dead, twice (though the second time it was as a Life Model Decoy), played an evil doppelganger version...

(Warning: The following story contains Major spoilers for the two-part series finale of ABC’s “Agents of Shield” on Wednesday.)

It may have taken until midway through the show’s series finale, but Fitz finally showed up in “Agents of Shield’s” final season and put an end to the season-long mystery of just where the other half of FitzSimmons while the rest of the team was hopping through time.

“We knew we were gonna have a challenge with building a story for Fitz this season,” co-showrunner Jed Whedon told TheWrap. Because of scheduling conflicts, Iain De Caestecker had very limited availability for the final season, which led the Marvel TV series to work in a story that saw Fitz stay behind, in an unknown location, while the Shield team was trying to prevent the Chronicoms from messing up the timeline (spoiler: they were not very successful).

But since “Agents of Shield...

The following contains major spoilers from the series finale of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Deciding on the series-ending fates of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was not a daunting task, but a fun one, says one of the Marvel drama’s showrunners.

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When it came to figuring out who would end up where, doing what, and with whom in the series finale’s closing sequence,...

Better late than never…?

At the close of the series’ penultimate hour, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. welcomed back Leopold Fitz, who save for a smattering of new flashbacks had been conspicuously missing throughout the final season.

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On-screen, original cast member Iain De Caestecker’s absence had been explained by the fact that Fitz needed to hide from and plot against the all-knowing Chronicoms.

Spoiler Alert: This article contains details of tonight’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. seventh and final season premiere.

Exclusive: “I want to say that because this was our last season and because there was an underlying nostalgia, we really went for it with stories,” says Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. executive producer and co-showrunner Jeffrey Bell of the final season of the ABC superspy drama that kicked off tonight. “I mean, we took chances. There’s a lot of fun things that we would’ve never attempted earlier in the show and I’m really curious to see how fans respond to some of those bolder choices.”

“There are some bold choices, that’s for sure,” notes fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. Ep and co-showrunner Maurissa Tancharoen with a trace of no small amount of secrets to be revealed in her voice.

Back for its seventh and...

“Never Have I Ever” star Darren Barnet has landed a guest star role on the Season 7 premiere of ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” Variety has learned exclusively.

In the show’s final season opener, titled “The New Deal,” Coulson (Clark Gregg) and the agents are thrust back in time to 1931 New York City, where they encounter Barnet’s character. It’s unclear how many episodes Barnet will be featured in the role, although his character could have a lasting impact on the “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” universe.

Fan favorite Patton Oswalt also returns to the series in an unspecified new role; in past seasons, Oswalt has portrayed iterations of the Koenig siblings, a family with close ties to S.H.I.E.L.D.

Barnet is most recently known for his portrayal of teen heartthrob Paxton Hall-Yoshida on Netflix’s comedy series, co-created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher.

In July, Variety reported that the...

Two of ABC’s live-action Marvel series (was there really a third?) will collide when the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cross paths with a character from the gone-too-soon Agent Carter during the former’s seventh and final season.

Enver Gjokaj, whose Daniel Sousa was an agent with the Strategic Scientific Reserve (Ssr) on Agent Carter, will reprise that role as a guest star during S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s 13-episode farewell run, which kicks off Wednesday, May 27 at 10/9.

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ABC is looking to remain the network to beat this summer. 

After earning the title of summer's No. 1 network for the first time in 24 years in 2019, ABC will once again kick off Summer Fun & Games with the premieres of returning series Holey Moley II: The Sequel, To Tell the Truth, Celebrity Family Feud, Press Your Luck, and Match Game.

The network also announced the premiere date for the farewell season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and a new series from ABC News, The Genetic Detective.

S.H.I.E.L.D. returns for its seventh and final season on Wednesday, May 27 (10:00 - 11:00 p.m. Edt).

Coulson and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are thrust backward in time and stranded in 1931 New York City.

With the all-new Zephyr set to time-jump at any moment, the team must hurry to find out exactly what happened.

If they fail, it would mean disaster for the past, present and future of the world.

Sneak Peek new footage from the the seventh and final season of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", based on the Marvel Comics, set in the 'Marvel Cinematic Universe', produced by ABC Studios, Marvel Television, and Mutant Enemy Productions, with Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen and Jeffrey Bell as showrunners, set to begin airing 13 new episodes, mid-2020 on ABC:

Principal cast members include Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley and Jeff Ward from previous seasons, using time travel to explore the history of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.'.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 7...

Michael Ahr Aug 2, 2019

We spoke to the Agents of Shield showrunners to get a better idea of what it is we really saw in the surprising season 6 finale.

This interview contains spoilers for Agents of Shield season 6.

The Agents of Shield finale left us with a lot of questions, and while we did our best to explain the ending ourselves, we had to at least make an attempt at getting some answers from showrunners Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, and Jeff Bell. They were noticeably tight-lipped with some of our probing inquiries, but we did succeed in getting them to speculate about audience reaction, the impacts on various characters, and the specific context of where things will begin in season 7.

Den Of Geek: How unusual that for this Agents of Shield season 6 post-mortem, you already know what’s going to happen in season 7!

Jed Whedon: Yeah! We not only know...

Tuesday marked the final day of production on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., triggering some emotional reflection from cast and showrunners.

As announced at this month’s San Diego Comic-Con, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is ending its run after Season 7, which was greenlit back in November and will air sometime in 2020. (The two-hour Season 6 finale airs this Friday on ABC.)

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The Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast and crew came to San Diego Comic-Con and premiered a new extended trailer. During the Thursday panel in Hall H the cast: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Iain De Caestecker, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Jeff Ward, were also joined by executive producers Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Jeff Bell, and Jeph Loeb.

They reflected on the show's journey by showing video recaps of each season and sharing random stories about production and casting. The whole panel had the specter of the show’s end hanging over it. Thankfully, they get to close out the show with one more season, but it's going to be sad to see Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. end, but also surprising that the show made it as far as it did. It always seemed like the McU kept throwing the show curveballs...

Just hours after Deadline exclusively revealed that Marvel’s Agent’s of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be ending after its seventh season, the ABC series took the stage at Comic-Con’s Hall H for the beginning of a long goodbye.

“This has been an incredible journey,” Agent Coulson himself Clark Gregg told the several thousands in the largest room in the Sand Diego Convention Center, adding that he was “very moved.”

Ending with a peak at the end of the current Season 6 and termed a “celebration” by Marvel TV boss and executive producer Jeph Loeb, the one-hour panel touched on every season of S.H.I.E.L.D. with stars and EPs reminiscing and offering thanks to the fans and more.

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“The people behind the cameras also contribute so much, it blows my mind,” emotionally noted Ming-Na Wen, who plays crack pilot and weapons expert Melinda May on the series.

When the Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast christened TVLine’s 2019 San Diego Comic-Con video suite on Thursday, the No. 1 topic was going to be the latest teases about Sarge’s identity.

But then the show went and announced it is ending in 2020, with Season 7! So… plans changed.

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In the video Q&a above, the cast — along with EPs Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon and Jeff Bell,...

It's been a long and successful run for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but the team will blast off for one final mission before wrapping up the series for good in 2020 after its seventh season.

Marvel TV chief Jeph Loeb broke the news to Deadline, confirming that it will allow the writers to “build a season that will tie up any threads that are there. To make sure that we come to a conclusion that’s satisfying to the fans, to the cast, to Marvel, and to ABC.”

While it's bittersweet knowing that the show is ending, it's great to know that there will be a conclusion for long-time fans.

But that also opens up the possibility of some wild twists that could render some of the characters out of commission ... for good.

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Joseph Baxter Jul 18, 2019

Marvel’s Agents of Shield will officially field its final mission, with 2020’s Season 7 now revealed to be the show’s finale.

Agents of Shield will turn in its badge to ABC after the conclusion of Season 7 in the summer of 2020!

As the cast and creative personnel prepare for today’s Agents of Shield Comic-Con panel, Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb dropped the bombshell that the series will, indeed, conclude, upon completion of next year’s seventh season, leaving what will ultimately be a 136 -episode legacy, as revealed to Deadline. As Loeb explains of the reasoning for the move:

“The simplest answer is so that we can end on our terms, really.” He continues, “How many shows do you know that just suddenly ended, and you feel like, but wait a minute, there was more. Yes, in the chronology of this is we thought Season 5 was the end.

The Marvel series “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” will conclude with its upcoming seventh season, Variety has confirmed.

“Next summer’s Season 7 will be the last for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D,” a message posted on the show’s official Twitter account read. “Thanks to our fans for allowing us to be the longest-running Marvel TV series to-date.”

The series is currently airing its sixth season on ABC and is set to hold a panel at San Diego Comic-Con in Hall H later on Thursday. It stars Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Jeff Ward.

The show was co-created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, who also serve as executive producers along with Jeffrey Bell, Jeph Loeb, and Jim Chory. The series is produced by ABC Studios and Marvel Television.

“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” Marvel’s flagship TV show set inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will end its run after its seventh season next summer, the network confirmed.

The Marvel TV series is currently in the middle of sixth season. The news comes ahead of the show’s Hall H Comic-Con panel on Friday afternoon.

“It will be bittersweet saying goodbye to Marvel Television’s flagship series,” said Jeph Loeb, executive producer and Marvel’s head of Television. “Our success is a true testament to the extraordinary fans and we remain forever indebted to them for their endless support. We want to end on a very high note and complete the incredible saga after seven amazing seasons and 136 hours of quality television.”

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Exclusive: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will end after its upcoming seventh season.

“When you know that’s what you’re doing, you can take greater risks, of life and death,” Marvel TV boss Jeph Loeb says of the conclusion of ABC’s Clark Gregg-led superspy series, which is currently in the last weeks of its explosive sixth season. “Those kinds of decisions suddenly now are real on the table because you’re not playing how do we undo this when we get to the next season. You’re playing that this is going to be the end of the story.”

A regular and often circumspect presence at Comic-Con over the past decade, Loeb will be joining Gregg, fellow cast members Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Iain De Caestecker, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley and Jeff Ward in S.H.I.E.L.D.

Four episodes into its sixth season, Marvel’s Agents of Shield finally caught up with Deke Shaw. How has Jemma and Fitz’s grandson been spending the past year, on his extended visit from the future?

In a prolonged cold open, we see Deke being quite the pistol-packing badass, skulking around gunmetal grey corridors to best and blast bad guys. The reward for his heroic efforts and witty quips? A door slides open and there’s a come-hither Daisy waiting to rush into his arms, after giving him a solid slap. But before their lips meet, most every viewer’s...

Agents of Shield checks in on a character from season 5, and the possibility of a common enemy calls Sarge’s true mission into question.

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This review contains spoilers for Agents of Shield.

Agents of Shield Season 6 Episode 4

Agents of Shield has always been able to take comedic detours without undermining its central adventure, and with the return of Deke Shaw in “Code Yellow,” the show even manages to clarify what Sarge and his team are up to while addressing a dangling character thread from season 5. There’s always been a question in our minds as to whether the man wearing Phil Coulson’s face might actually be using questionable motives to accomplish a noble goal, and his sense of curiosity this week together with the failed fight to save Agent Keller point towards a possible meeting of minds to confront a common enemy.

First, we have...

Hey,"Agents Of Shield" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed episode 3. Now that it's officially in the history books, it's time to take a look at what's about to go down in the next,new episode 4 which is due to air this Friday night, May 31, 2019. ABC was kind enough to serve up a press release for it. So, that's what we'll be using for this spoiler session. To get things started, ABC's press release revealed that episode 4 is entitled, "Code Yellow." The Co-Creator and executive producer for this show Maurissa Tancharoen is actually going to show up as a guest star in this episode. It sounds like episode 4 will feature some very interesting and quite serious scenes as Yo-Yo and Keller finally decide to go public with their fling. The human race gets threatened and more. We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Yo-Yo and Keller situation.

Michael Ahr May 28, 2019

As Agents of Shield season 6 continues its space storyline, Anthony Michael Hall's character takes a villainous shape.

When Agents of Shield season 6 was still in production it was announced that Anthony Michael Hall would be joining the cast, but nothing was shared about what role he would play. Now, Marvel has revealed that Hall will play an antagonist in the deep space storyline in which Fitz finds himself on a casino planet being charged with time-related crimes by a team of Chronicom hunters.

Hall will play none other than Mr. Kitson himself, for whom the casino planet is named, and the press release describes him as "the fiendish ruler of an alien empire." Based on the character portrait at the top of this article, Hall almost looks like a crime boss, and given the turn of events on his namesake planet in "Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson,...

This does not bode well. The planet where several Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. heroes just got into all kinds of trouble is actually named after someone, and we’re about to meet him. Also, another of Enoch’s kind will be entering the mix.

In exclusive photos above and below, TVLine has your first look at new characters played by Anthony Michael Hall (The Dead Zone) and Sherri Saum (The Fosters). Hall has been cast as Mr. Kitson, the fiendish ruler of the alien gaming empire where Fitz and Enoch tried to cheat the tables and Jemma and Daisy found themselves “tripping balls.

Michael Ahr Dave Vitagliano May 26, 2019

Our genre television podcast hosts talk to Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, and Jeff Bell about Agents of Shield season 6.

When we spoke to Agents of Shield executive producers Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, and Jeff Bell about season 6, the premiere had not yet arrived, so there was a limited amount of information they could share. But now that we're a few episodes in, it's kind of interesting to listen to what they had to say on Sci Fi Fidelity in a new context, especially now that it's clear there are no McU tie-ins to Avengers: Infinity War or Avengers: Endgame.

As Bell mentioned in the interview (as previously published), "We were told we were going to be out in the summer, but then sometimes things get moved up, and if we had tried to tie into the time issues that come up with Endgame and then we suddenly got moved up,...

Michael Ahr May 10, 2019

Executive producers Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, and Jeff Bell talk about the journey ahead in Agents of Shield season 6.

This Agents of Shield interview is spoiler-free for season 6.

Marvel’s Agents of Shield season 6 premieres tonight, and everyone is anxious to find out what the aftermath is for the team that lost two of its finest members, one permanently. We mentioned in our spoiler-free review that the action and suspense start straight out of the gate, but we wanted to see what the executive producers could tell us about the story to come. Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, and Jeff Bell joined us to talk to us about what to expect.

Den Of Geek: We hear that Agents of Shield season 6 is separate from the events of Avengers: Endgame. Do you find that this late in the game it’s more difficult or unnecessary to connect to the McU?...

Don Kaye Mar 30, 2019

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s cast and showrunners were on hand to world premiere the 6th season opener.

This article may contain spoilers for the Season 6 premiere of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fans got a treat on Saturday (March 30) at WonderCon in Anaheim as the show’s sixth season opener was world premiered in the Anaheim Convention Center’s arena -- nearly a month and a half before the now-confirmed broadcast premiere date of May 10.

Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb was ringmaster for the proceedings as usual, and after getting the audience to chant the premiere date repeatedly, he brought out showrunners Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, executive producer Jeff Bell, and stars Clark Gregg, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley plus newly promoter series regular Jeff Ward...

WonderCon returns to the Anaheim Convention Center from March 29-31, bringing some of the biggest superhero and other genre-specific television to Southern California. To keep up with all of the happenings of the weekend, Variety has compiled a list of the screenings and panels attending the event. Keep an eye on this page as it will be updated as more networks release their schedules.

Friday, March 29:

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Panelists for the upcoming second season of the coming of age superhero show include stars Olivia Holt, Aubrey Joseph, Emma Lahana, and executive producer/showrunner Joe Pokaski. Head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb will moderate the panel. An extended sneak peak will be shown ahead of the April 4th Season 2 premiere.

Legion (6:00-7.00 p.m., Room North 200A, FX) Cast members Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Navid Negahban, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder and Lauren Tsai, along with executive producers Noah Hawley,...

“Your job is to put together a team you trust,” Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) tells Mack (Henry Simmons), S.H.I.E.L.D.’s new Director, in the first Season 6 trailer for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “If you think about everything you’re up against all at once, you’ll crack.” Sage advice — especially from a ghost.

Just after those words are spoken in this first look at the upcoming new episodes, a none-too-subtle graphic takes over the screen: Agent Coulson Is Dead. The ailing team leader last was seen at the end of the Season 5 finale, titled “The End,” retiring to Tahiti to spend his final days.

Also touched on in the new trailer for ABC’s superhero tale is the fate of Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) — who, we are reminded, is “frozen out in deep space somewhere.” But before you can...

Jamie Andrew Jan 7, 2019

We speculate as to how the events of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame might shape the future of Shield in seasons 6 and 7...

This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

Warning: contains spoilers for Agents of Shield season 5 and Avengers: Infinity War.

At exactly the same time as Thanos was clicking his fingers to erase half of the universe's inhabitants, some meta reflection of this righteous and clinically brutal act was happening in the offices of Disney and Marvel. The Marvel Cinematic Universe and its TV cousins was over-populated, and beginning to atrophy. Only a cull could ensure fresh growth and re-growth across the universe.

While Thanos' cull was - as far as we're aware - wholly arbitrary, Disney was a little more Darwinian in the pursuit of its aims. Only the weakest, the worst, and the least-watched would taste oblivion.

For a tense time near the turn of last summer,...

I’ve got some great news for those of you who are still fans of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC has renewed the Marvel series for a seventh season!

Network executives must like the direction that the series is going in the upcoming Sixth season. It’s been about six month since Season 6 was announced.

Season 7 is a long way off so we can’t really speculate at this point where it might be headed. Hell, we don’t even really know what to expect from Season 6 yet! It’s not supposed to even air until summer of 2019. It will also only consist of 13 episodes. I imagine Season 7 will have the same amount of episodes.

I’m not a huge fan of this show but there are aspects of it that I enjoy and I’m curious to see how the story for these characters end up playing out.

ABC has renewed “Marvel’s Agents of Shield” for a seventh season.

The move comes just six months after the superhero drama was picked up for a sixth season, which has yet to premiere.

The series stars Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons, Henry Simmons as Agent Alphonso “Mack” MacKenzie and Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez.

It was co-created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, who also serve as executive producers along with Jeffrey Bell, Jeph Loeb, and Jim Chory. The series is produced by ABC Studios and Marvel Television.

Not listed by ABC for season 7 is Clark Gregg, who has starred as Agent Phil Colson throughout the series.

ABC is also developing a Marvel project with “Wonder Woman” scribe Allan Heinberg that will focus on female superheroes. That project,...

ABC has handed out an early renewal to “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” picking up the series for a seventh season, the network announced on Friday.

The news comes months ahead of the drama’s sixth outing, which was pushed to Summer 2019 earlier this year. At the time, it caused some speculation about the aging show’s future, but the network insisted the move did not reflect a lack of confidence in the show or portend an imminent cancellation.

“By putting it in the summer, we feel like we’re going to be able to super-serve the fanbase that loves that show, and hopefully give it an opportunity to continue on longer than it would if it lived in season,” ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey told reporters earlier this year when the news was first announced, adding that she believed the most recent season to...

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog became a huge hit in 2008 from Joss Whedon's Mutant Enemy Productions.

Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day in a three-part romantic comedy musical web series, Whedon claims to have earned more from Dr. Horrible than from writing the first Avengers film. Fans swear by Dr. Horrible, and we think you should too.

The series aired in three parts, creating an iconic miniseries that we know and love today. The show combines the perfect mix of heart, comedy, and star power to create a cult classic that has expanded into a series beyond a cult classic -- it's the true epitome of geek culture.

The series follows the eponymous evil villain, Dr. Horrible, through his quest to join the Evil League of Evil and win the heart of his crush, Penny.

However, he is consistently thwarted by the handsome, buff superhero Captain Hammer,...