The United Kingdom’s ITV will begin airing No Heroics on September 10, 2008. It’s a cheeky anti-Heroes sitcom reminiscent of Mystery Men, Freshmen, and Great Lakes Avengers… If their principal setting were a bar for second-rate metahumans, and the characters made a lot of cheap sex jokes.
A preview appears below.
Looks like fun
Gave me a laugh. Hope to catch it over on this side of the pond. Reminds me of Playing for Keeps (http://www.playingforkeepsnovel.com)
Hey Comedy Central!
Pick it up! We’ll watch it! Really!
In the US, we have to Torrent it.
*goes to add it to the RSS catcher*
Looks funnier than Mystery Men
…and I liked MM. I’d love to see this over here. I just read Soon I Will Be Invincible which while not this outright a comedy was a fun take on the superhero world.
Gotta have it nowwwwwwww
Looks pretty cool, hope they stay focused and don’t turn the stories to generic sit-com junk like would happen on NBC et al.
This actually looks like a good show.
Ok, who are you and what have you done with the real ITV?
The Tick
I might have mentioned The Tick, which really developed this concept (with less reliance of crude jokes), and DC’s foundational work with the second-rate-superhero-as-gag, Ma Hunkel in the 40s and the Inferior Five in the 60s.