ABC extends Marvel's 'SHIELD'
The agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will fight for a full season.
ABC is extending Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the network's first primetime series based on Marvel comics, despite solid if unspectacular ratings.
The move is not at all surprising, as it represents ABC's highest-profile fall launch and a big collaboration between ABC and Marvel, both units of Walt Disney Co. The show premiered Sept. 24 with a big 12.1 million viewers in same-day viewing, and marked fall's highest-rated debut among young-adult viewers. But that figure had dropped to fewer than 8 million for this week's third installment.
New series typically get a 13-episode order for fall; in success, nine additional episodes are produced to fill out (with repeats) an entire season. S.H.I.E.L.D. marks ABC's first full-season extension; NBC already has given a thumbs-up to Monday drama The Blacklist. And ABC's Lucky 7 and CBS's We Are Men have been canceled.
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