Marvel’s Most Wanted, Powerless, & Riverdale Pilots Getting Strong Early Buzz

This is the part of pilot season in which networks “hold marathon screenings of their pilots for some extra feedback before the final pickup and scheduling decisions are made.” Deadline has the scoop on which new comedies and dramas are generating positive buzz and which are not.

As for us, we are primarily interested in the industry chatter regarding three upcoming comic book-based network series: ABC’s Marvel’s Most Wanted, NBC’s Powerless, and The CW’s Riverdale.

The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spin-off, Marvel’s Most Wanted, centers on Bobbi Morse (a.k.a. Mockingbird) and Lance Hunter being on the run and forming an uneasy alliance with Dominic Fortune (Delroy Lindo). Deadline says the show “still looks like a no-brainer” for ABC. Good. Good, good, good.

Powerless — a single-camera workplace comedy set in the DC Universe, starring Vanessa Hudgens, and executive produced by A to Z creator Ben Queen — is considered one of “several early standouts” for the Peacock network.

Lastly, Riverdale, the fifth comic book-based television series produced by Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl), is “flying high” at The CW.

Which of these new show are you most looking forward to?