Agents brings Marvel universe to small screen
The circle between superhero movies and their companion TV shows continues to close. Marvel Comics’ big-budget movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier looms over the not-so-distant horizon, and Marvel’s TV show, Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D., is marking the occasion with a galaxy of guest stars this week.
Bill Paxton appears as Agent Garrett, alongside Saffron Burrows as Agent Hand and Titus Welliver as Agent Blake.
The episode, follows Agent Coulson’s (Clark Gregg) team as they close in on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s nemesis, The Clairvoyant.
First, though, they have to deal with the dastardly Deathlok, who has vowed to destroy anyone who threatens to unmask his master’s identity.
B.J. Britt appears as Agent Triplett and veteran character actor Brad Dourif appears as a new character, Thomas Nash.
As for the prospect for future tie-ins between the TV show and Marvel’s expanding universe of superhero movies, S.H.I.E.L.D. co-executive producer and movie director Joss Whedon insisted at the season’s outset that a little goes a long way.
“It’s a fluid process,” Whedon explained. “It’s a fun opportunity, but it’s not the reason behind the show. We don’t want just to be an Easter-egg farm. We want people to come back because of our characters, not because of some connection to the movie universe.”
8 p.m., CTV, ABC
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And baby makes three. Scott Bakula appears in a potential NCIS spinoff series set in New Orleans, as special agent Dwayne Cassius Pride — no, we’re not making that up — in the conclusion of NCIS’s twohour pilot episode, which first aired last week.
The hour finds Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and Pride in the Big Easy, where they close in on the infamous Privileged Killer.
Bakula got top billing in Star Trek: Enterprise and Quantum Leap.
Parent network CBS will decide in May whether
NCIS: New Orleans joins
NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles on the fall schedule.
8 p.m. Global, CBS