Marvel TV is officially dead, getting absorbed into Marvel Studios

Marvel TV is dead. Long live Marvel TV. After a long slow decline, Deadline reports that the studio is being shuttered, with longtime head Jeph Loeb to depart Marvel after overseeing the wind down and transition.

Practically, this won’t mean a ton, not after everything that’s already happened. A lot of Marvel TV projects have already been cancelled or are on their way out the door. Most notably, Marvel’s suite of Netflix shows — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Punisher — were wound down a while back. Cloak & Dagger was cancelled after two seasons on Freeform. The third season of Marvel’s Runaways on Hulu will be its last, and on ABC, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will wrap up after its upcoming seventh season.

Meanwhile, a few Marvel TV series that were in the pipeline have already been cancelled or stalled. A Ghost Rider show for Hulu was cancelled, and a Tigra & Dazzler animated series put on hold after the writing staff left over “creative differences,” which could mean absolutely anything.

That leaves a bunch of shows that were in development for Hulu: the live-action series Helstrom and the animated shows MODOK, Hit-Monkey, Howard the Duck and The Offenders. Officially, production of those shows will transfer over to Marvel Studios, where Kevin Feige reigns supreme, but after all this, I don’t know if they’re actually going to see the light of day. In particular, The Offenders was supposed to be a team-up with characters from all the animated shows, but I dunno if that can happen with Tigra & Dazzler going on hold.

If I had to guess, I’d say Disney started to wind down Marvel TV after it decided it was going to go all in on Disney+. After all, why should it make Marvel content available on other platforms when it can centralize it all in one place? So while we do have a lot of interesting-looking Marvel shows to look forward to — including The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision, Loki and Hawkeye — this looks like the end for anything outside of Feige’s purview.

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