Where are all the superhero and comic book related television shows? We know Hollywood still has interest in bring characters to the big screen with The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel (which has been pushed back to June 2013, by the way).

When Disney purchased Marvel, that opened the door for ABC to produce superhero TV shows. Marvel previously announced that Hulk and A.K.A. Jessica Jones were in development for ABC but there hasn't been much in terms of an update.

According to io9, it turns out that a couple more shows on being worked on. Cloak & Dagger had a brief mention before but now is moving forward. We also have confirmation of a Mockingbird show...for ABC Family. All four are in development which explains why there is no sign of any on ABC's Fall schedule.

Hulk is to bring us back to Bruce Banner's younger days before his identity was public knowledge. There will also be a focus on Bruce and Betty's love story while Bruce is dealing with the threat of the uncontrollable beast inside. A.K.A. Jessica Jones sounds to be reminiscent to the Alias series with Luke Cage and Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel) as supporting characters. Cloak & Dagger will have the two in a post-Katrina New Orleans. Mockingbird will focus on the story of Bobbi Morse, a science major in Silicon Valley recruited by a top spy agency. Jeph Loeb referred to it as "Alias meets Felicity."

On the animated side, Ultimate Spider-Man is still set for 2012 and have J.K. Simmons back as J. Jonah Jameson and Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson. An animated series was announced for Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men (with Cassaday as a creative consultant). There will be also be a Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. series involving Paul Dini and will feature Hulk, Red Hulk, Scar, A-Bomb and She-Hulk.

Now we only have to wait for these shows to be completed so we can get our superhero television fix.

just want more avengers cartoon honestly 

I really want AKA Jessica Jones to be good.

we'll see if any of these are good...

It's nice that they're giving their female characters show to star on.  Mockingibird has me VERY happy.
But I don't know about quality.

"Alias meets Felicity". Yeah, sign me up. *sarcasm* OK, I am hating already but why can't they just produce a blasted comic based TV show that isn't overtly soap opera? I will have to reserve my judgment though, and hope for the best. Just glad our comic characters are getting some screen time. However I hope that doesn't mean the screen time will be wasted time. Fingers crossed.

I'm surprised Marvel is even thinking of doing something unrelated to The Avengers.

Might be good,but we'll just have to wait and see I suppose.

Very surprised by the choices made

All for more Marvel shows, but Cloak & Dagger and Mockingbird would be waaaaaaaay down on my list of choices.

Jessica Jones sounds super interesting, and Cloak and Dagger has potential to be good, but I'm not sure that regardless of the quality of any of these, they'll find an audience. 
Mockingbird is the one that sticks out.  She JUST had her own series with Marvel that got cancelled because it wasn't selling.  I'm not sure her popularity will increase in a TV show format.

Wonder how they'll be able to make Cloak & Dagger fit on ABC Family.

i will watch all shows except mockingbird she no th that interesting of a character to me .

Why, of all characters, do you you give Mockingbird a show? 
 
Black Widow, Spider-Woman, She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, these are women characters you give a whole show to. Not Mockingbird, a C-lister at best. 

im still a strong believer that marvels needs to do more straight to dvd like like planet hulk. that was awesome  and dc is cranking those out like every other month.   than they can hop on the band wagon of raking in special edition boxsets and what not    but id defiently watch these shows. Avengers EMH is a good show its obviously aimed at younglings but still watchable   still cant compare to the xmen/spiderman/iron man/silver surfer/fantastic four series     black panther came close haha

So excited for Cloak and Dagger series :D I hope they don`t mess them up .

Okay, Spider-Man makes sense and I can understand a Hulk cartoon plus I'm excited that Red Hulk will appear along with She-Hulk. But all the others seem so random. I'd rather see a Captain America cartoon set in WWII showing us the untold stories we didn't see in the movie or something along those lines, they have a supporting cast from the movie already and they could introduce other Cap villains like Master Man and Zemo as well. But instead we get Mockingbird? Seriously? O_o But hey, at least we're getting a new X-Men series, not like they haven't had plenty of cartoons.... <_<

salkdfnj;lksad;lsadjfa ASTONISHING X-MEN CARTOON. OH MY GOD MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. 

...Well, Marvel is kind of stepping out of the box when it comes to decisions for television shows.

live action hero shows never translate well for me, so i am more than likely going to pass on just about all of those. i hope the x-men one is good and if it is doesn't get canceled after one damn season. as for the animated spider-man; it is the principle reason why i knew disney buying marvel would be bad. they canceled the good spider-man show and now are replacing it with an overly childish show by the sounds of it (which fail after three years maximum). breaking the fourth wall? super cameos? something about a toaster? spider-ham? no one ever liked spider-ham, i never even read anything and i can tell you it's not good. maybe it'll somehow be amazing, i have no idea, but i sincerely doubt it. disney hasn't made an even remotely tolerable animated show in a decade. and now that their hands are in this.. here's to hoping.

@Gambit1024 said:

Why, of all characters, do you you give Mockingbird a show? Black Widow, Spider-Woman, She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, these are women characters you give a whole show to. Not Mockingbird, a C-lister at best.

I kind of agree with this. I mean, Mockingbird may not be a "C lister" but I certainly think there are better candidates for a television series. I would say Ms. Marvel before Mockingbird! :)

Oh man. I'm definitely looking forward to the Astonishing X-Men animated series. I have watched the X-Men anime and it was great. Can't wait for more X-action.

Can Cloak and Dagger have a lasting ongoing first?

Mockingbird? I'd rather Rihanna play Jean Grey in the next film.

Astonishing X-Men? O_o and Cloak and Dagger? O_o OMFG yes! :D Finally :D
 
I could now die happy :]

...Well, Marvel is kind of stepping out of the box when it comes to decisions for television shows.

just want more avengers cartoon honestly 

I thought I read that Hulk was a team up cartoon show, about Hulk (in Brave and Bold style) teaming up with various characters like Red Hulk or A-Bomb, or whatever.  Still sounds good.  Will that be connected or interfere with the Avengers cartoon?  (or is this a live action show?)
 
More cartoons!

A Mockingbird show comes as a surprise. I like her a lot but she's not the most popular Marvel female. I wouldn't be surprised if the show doesn't do well but I hope it does. She deserves more exposure. The Cloak & Dagger show sounds cool as well.  
 
Personally I want a live action show more than an animated one but I'll settle for whatever as long as its good

It would be nice to see a superhero show that is NOT on one of the major networks. ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX are so limited in terms of the content they can show, you know that any show will probably pale in comparison to whatever's on Showtime, HBO or AMC.  Seriously, how awesome would a Jessica Jones show based on the Alias series be if it was on AMC?
 
That being said, it'll be interesting how Powers does on FX.

@Gambit1024 said:

Why, of all characters, do you you give Mockingbird a show? Black Widow, Spider-Woman, She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, these are women characters you give a whole show to. Not Mockingbird, a C-lister at best.

I kind of agree with this. I mean, Mockingbird may not be a "C lister" but I certainly think there are better candidates for a television series. I would say Ms. Marvel before Mockingbird! :)

@iLLituracy said:

...Well, Marvel is kind of stepping out of the box when it comes to decisions for television shows.

ASTONISHING X-MEN.  Are you not excited?

I want them to continue Wolverine and the X-men 
 
such an awesome show

@The Dark Huntress said:

@iLLituracy said:

...Well, Marvel is kind of stepping out of the box when it comes to decisions for television shows.

ASTONISHING X-MEN.  Are you not excited?

As a comic book fan I know it won't live up to the book and bitch about it for the rest of my life.

Mockingbird without Hawkeye makes no sense. She is not that popular.

Can anyone tell me who is making the media decisions for animated and live shows, is it Marvel or Disney.

ABC Family? Pass.

Cool

Hope to see a Jim McCann written episode of Mockingbird.

OMFG FKJSANFKNASKJFBSAKJFNASKFJBNSDLKFMNDKJFNSDNF  BEST NEWS OUT OF SDCC!!! 
 
I FEEL TO CRY

As long as Red She-Hulk isn't in the picture I like the idea of a new Hulk animated series. I hope the writers also know that The Hulk isn't just a 2 dimensional character anymore so I don't want to see any more "Eat Green" crap. lol