AKA Jessica Jones will fall in the Marvel Universe

Jessica Jones was once known as Jewel, a crime fighting hero in the Marvel universe, sharing space with the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk and other well known super heros.

Now she’s given up the cape and gone into business as a private investigator, only to find that getting out of the whole super hero thing is tougher than she thought.

She finds herself working on cases that frequently involve super heroes from the broader Marvel universe, and this is essentially the challenge for the upcoming television show: not all those heroes can be used, since other entities own the television rights to the characters.

Spider-Man, for example, is currently owned by Columbia Pictures.

Luckily, since the acquisition of Marvel by Disney, both ABC and Marvel are owned by the same parent company, so all of the characters currently still owned by Marvel are at least a possibility.

However, that doesn’t mean Disney will want the characters to cross over too much, since the Marvel Film Universe has been very lucrative so far, and they wouldn’t want to take the chance of diluting the characters.

This means that we probably won't see Iron Man or Black Widow actually appear on the television show - but they are free to explore some of the minor Marvel characters alongside newly created personalities for the show.

Clearly, whenever possible, the show will attempt to draw directly from those films. It will exist in the same story world as the films, so events there will affect the plot of AKA Jessica Jones, even if the characters are unlikely to appear directly.

"As we go along things will alter in terms of what is made available to us, but we’re definitely in that universe," Melissa Rosenberg told Hitfix during a recent interview about the release of Breaking Dawn, Part 1, which she co-wrote. "... And as much as I can, I’m going to pull everything in from there that I can use." Rosenberg went on to confirm that Tony Stark and Stark Industries will be integral to the plot of the pilot.

AKA Jessica Jones - Alias will be part of the ABC fall pilot season if it gets picked up. Unfortunately, this is not yet a sure thing. Confirmation may arrive early next year when the major networks start rounding up their pilots.

Aaron Sorkin is back with new HBO drama - More As This Story Develops

We have been guaranteed Jeff Daniels and Olivia Munn will appear on HBO, as Aaron Sorkin’s much talked about pilot has been picked up to series by the premium cable network. The drama, once known as More As This Story Develops, is without a title, but the names of the people involved more than make up for that. The show stars Daniels as a cable news anchor, as well as Emily Mortimer as the new executive producer. Sam Waterson appears as the big boss, while Olivia Munn, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr, Dev Patel, and Thomas Sadoski all play various staff members. They all hope to do good news despite commercial and corporate obstacles and their own personal issues. Deadline reports that there’s no set number of episodes that will be produce, though it’s probably safe to bet the number will be 10. I’ve been vaguely interested »

Top Gear's wild ride - 60 Minutes Interview

It works because what happens in the male mind is funny....cause absolutely nothing goes on up there.

Tron: Uprising teaser goes live

Canonically, it takes place between the betrayal of CLU which sent Kevin Flynn into exile, and the discovery of the ISOs.

CLU is attempting to rule the grid with the help of General Tesler, who seems to be the main villain for the series - since CLU needs to be dealt with by Sam Flynn later.

The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra

Getting goosebumps already...

HBO's Next Huge Series - American Gods

HBO today announced that American Gods, their new series based on the novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman will have a total of 60-70 episodes divided into six seasons.

Since it’s an HBO series, rather than a typical network-style 40 minute episode format, each episode will be an hour. That’s a lot of hours to fill, and immediately after the announcement, questions stareted to roll in from fans about how the current novel would be expanded to fill 60 hours of air-time.

The answer came late last night on Gaiman’s own Twitter feed. “And for those asking, No, 6 years of AMERICAN GODS on TV doesn't mean just the 1st book. It means I need to write the 2nd now, for a start.”

Gaiman has been planning a series of novels in the American Gods story for some time, but has so far only managed to produce a novelette sequel, and a spin-off novel.

Both of which were excellent - Anansi Boys is one of my favorite novels, but neither of which adds many hours to the American Gods storyline.

Likely, he is now planning to write a pair of trilogies, to match with the six seasons.

If you’re not familiar, the stories take place in a world where belief makes things real, and all gods are psychic products of men.

The more belief men have, the stronger the gods are, meaning that gods and their powers and strengths are constantly shifting throughout history. In the timeline of the first novel, Americans have created new gods from the things they ‘worship’ in the modern world, like The Internet. A cabal of old gods, led by the All-Father Odin set out to confront these new Gods, dragging a recently released convict - our POV character - along with them.

The series is planned to be big-budgeted and effects-heavy, not really a surprise for an HBO series featuring gods.

"There are some crazy things in there.” said Gary Goetzman, a partner in the production company, Playtone Productions, "We’ll probably be doing more effects in [American Gods] than [has ever] been done on a television series," said Goetzman.

If that’s true, then I think we figured out who George Lucas needs to talk to about producing his live-action Star Wars series. HBO just keeps rolling out good ideas, and near-film production values. It’s at the point where everytime I hear a good idea for a television show, I hope HBO takes it up.

Syfy's First Look at ALPHAS

Marketed as a mix between Leverage and the comic Powers. I say it looks like Heroes with a purpose and better budget.