Doctor Who Director Promises His Superhero Show Won’t Be “Heroes”

With the increasingly bloated cast of NBC ’s Heroes and a pothouse full of power in No Heroics , it might seem like there ’s scarcely elbow room for another set of caped character on TV . But BBC1 has given Joe Ahearne the go - ahead to write Superpowers , a show inspired by his love of Marvel comics . And the one - metre Dr. Who director assures the see world that his is n’t going to be like all the other superhero show . Ahearne told British amusement newspaper The Stage that he plans to do a more classic interpretation of the superhero genre than is currently on British television :

“ It is a new and original superhero idea which is not a send - up . All the super hero stuff that is on TV in this area – ITV ’s No Heroics , My Hero – British TV is happy to do if it is a send - up , but no one has done it for real . There is a picky gimmick in mine , which I wo n’t give away , but it means it will be refreshed every episode , ” he give away .

But the show wo n’t be a superpowered Georgia home boy opera , either . rather , each episode will follow the account of a single individual from beginning to end . And aboveboard , after the many and meandering plotlines of this season ’s Heroes , a superhero anthology sounds like a breath of clean aviation . And if Ahearne can bring in the same sort of sensibilities to superheroes that he brought to vampire in the Ultraviolet miniseries , we could be in for something special . BBC1 plans Marvel comedian - inspired superhero series[The Stage viaCoventry Telegraph ]

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