This is cool! Marvel Comics has a new television division to make TV shows revolving around Marvel characters.
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Marvel Entertainment is launching a TV division,Marvel Television, and has appointed “Heroes” and “Smallville” writer-producer Jeph Loeb to run it. As EVP and head of television, Loeb will work alongside Dan Buckley, publisher & president of the print, animation & digital divisions of Marvel Worldwideto adapt Marvel characters and stories to television as both live-action and animation series. Additionally, Loeb will oversee the development and distribution of live-action, animated and direct-to-DVD series. Loeb was previously a Marvel-exclusive comic book writer and also worked on the show “Lost”. Marvel’s rival, “DC Comics”, has built a primetime presence through its deal at “Warner Bros. TV”, that has spawned such series as “Smallville” and “Human Target”.
