{"id":7345,"date":"2016-09-28T07:42:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T11:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T17:02:58","slug":"the-tick-greenlit-by-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/the-tick-greenlit-by-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tick Greenlit by Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE: Three new series have been greenlit to become Amazon originals, including the superhero-themed <em>The Tick<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot for <em>The Tick<\/em> stars Peter Serafinowicz (<em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>), Griffin Newman (<em>Vinyl<\/em>), Jackie Earle Haley (<em>Watchmen<\/em>), Valorie Curry (<em>House of Lies<\/em>), Yara Martinez (<em>Jane the Virgin<\/em>) and Brendan Hines (<em>Scorpion<\/em>). The show centers on an underdog accountant with zero powers who comes to realize his city is owned by a global super villain long-thought dead. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Tick<\/em> is executive produced by Ben Edlund (<em>Supernatural<\/em>), Barry Josephson (<em>Bones<\/em>) and Barry Sonnenfeld (<em>A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em>), directed by Wally Pfister (<em>The Dark Knight<\/em>) and written by Edlund. <em>The Tick<\/em> is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television.<\/p>\n<p>Also getting a green light are<em> I Love Dick<\/em>, based on the renowned feminist novel about a couple\u2019s marital struggles in the artistic and academic community of Marfa, Texas, and <em>Jean-Claude Van Johnson<\/em>, where martial arts film star Jean-Claude Van Damme operates under the alias of \u201cJean-Claude Van Johnson\u201d to serve as the most dangerous undercover private contractor in the world. The new series will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in 2017 in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria and Japan for Amazon Prime members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese pilots were vast in scope, disruptive in tone, challenging in story and sometimes even funny,\u201d said Joe Lewis, the head of half-hour series\u00a0at\u00a0Amazon Studios. \u201cIt\u2019s rewarding to see customers embrace them in such a huge way. We can\u2019t wait to premiere these series next year on Prime Video.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE: Three new series have been greenlit to become Amazon originals, including the superhero-themed The Tick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":7346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[210,941,942,943],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-amazon","tag-i-love-dick","tag-jean-claude-van-johnson","tag-the-tick"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Tick Greenlit by Amazon - TVUSA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SEATTLE: Three new series have been greenlit to become Amazon originals, including the superhero-themed The Tick.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/the-tick-greenlit-by-amazon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Tick Greenlit by Amazon - 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