{"id":99656,"date":"2025-05-14T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99656\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T02:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:38:08","slug":"marvel-officially-confirms-their-new-tv-strategy-and-its-what-they-should-have-done-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99656\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Officially Confirms Their New TV Strategy (And It’s What They Should Have Done All Along)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel Studios<\/a> isn\u2019t blind to the fact that TV viewers don\u2019t want \u201chomework.\u201d As of May\u2019s Thunderbolts*, the Marvel Cinematic Universe encompasses 36 movies, nearly two dozen television series, and eight short films, most of which are canon<\/a>. With the Kevin Feige-led Marvel Studios absorbing the shuttered Marvel Television division in 2019 and relaunching it as the brand<\/a> for such series as Agatha All Along, Daredevil: Born Again, and Ironheart, it was, essentially, Marvel\u2019s way of communicating: It\u2019s all connected, but you don\u2019t have to watch it all. <\/p>\n

Whereas limited series like 2021\u2019s WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier fed into the feature film side of the MCU with headliners like Elizabeth Olsen\u2019s Scarlet Witch, Paul Bettany\u2019s Vision, Anthony Mackie\u2019s Falcon, and Sebastian Stan\u2019s Bucky Barnes, the approach Marvel is taking to TV now is more traditional<\/a>. That means annual seasons of shows featuring characters earmarked for the TV corner of the universe, with one or two live-action shows a year and two animated shows a year. <\/p>\n

\u201cProducing shows with marquee names, it made it really challenging to produce second seasons; the margins on TV are smaller,\u201d Brad Winderbaum, Head of Streaming, Television and Animation at Marvel Studios, told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> during Disney\u2019s upfronts presentation. \u201cLooking to the future, does it mean that we won\u2019t have big Avengers names? No. They may not be the titular character of the show, but they can still make appearances.\u201d <\/p>\n

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RELATED: Marvel Reveals Look at an Iconic New Avengers Villain\u2019s MCU Debut in Ironheart<\/a><\/p>\n

While series like Loki and Hawkeye were more rooted in the MCU with marquee characters like Tom Hiddleston\u2019s Loki and Jeremy Renner\u2019s Clint Barton, Marvel rolled out the Marvel Spotlight banner with Echo to spotlight more standalone and \u201cgrounded, character-driven stories\u201d and the Special Presentation for one-offs like Werewolf by Night or the upcoming Daredevil spinoff featuring Jon Bernthal\u2019s Punisher. <\/p>\n

Ironheart (June 24) and Wonder Man (December 2025) were made before the pivot and will be the last of the old model, with Marvel moving toward a season-per-year approach as of Daredevil: Born Again. The currently-shooting second season has been set to premiere in March 2026<\/a>, one year after the first season of Marvel Studios\u2019 Daredevil revival debuted on Disney+. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou should be able to watch these shows on their own, without knowing the overall MCU story,\u201d Winderbaum said. \u201cBut if it\u2019s not connected, it\u2019s severing what makes the MCU the MCU.\u201d <\/p>\n

Explaining the Marvel Television and Marvel Animation branding being used to differentiate from Marvel Studios\u2019 films, Winderbaum said last year, \u201cThere was a lot of pressure post-Avengers: Endgame on the public to feel obligated to watch absolutely everything in order to watch anything. Part of the rebranding was a signal to the general audience that we\u2019re creating a lot of options, and you can follow your tastes within this brand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome will be more comedic, some will be more dramatic, some will be animated, some will be live-action,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cMarvel is more than just one thing \u2014 it is actually many different genres that just happened to coexist in a single narrative.\u201d <\/p>\n

Winderbaum continued, \u201cThe characters still live and breathe in the same universe, but the interconnectivity is not so rigid that you need to watch Project A to understand Project B. The hope is that, like the comics, you can just pop in anywhere and have a satisfying experience. We\u2019re trying to dispel the idea that you need to do any kind of setup work to watch anything else.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Studios isn\u2019t blind to the fact that TV viewers don\u2019t want \u201chomework.\u201d As of May\u2019s Thunderbolts*, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,15576,4516,46274,3943,968,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-99656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","10":"tag-marvel-studios","11":"tag-marvel-television","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-regular-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114503870506423254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}