The Tick Is Coming Back To TV

The other day I was on the subway and I started thinking about how awesome The Tick was. Both the animated and live action versions of the tale of the dumb blue superhero were amazing. Patrick Warburton was particularly incredible playing the title role. But, alas like most good shows, it was cancelled way to early. Amazon has ordered a pilot of a new live-action Tick incarnation to stream as part of its ever increasing original content. The bad news, Warburton won't be back to be the Tick. Griffin Newman will play Arthur Everest and Valorie Curry will be Dot but that's the only casting info we have. It will also be written and directed by the creator of the original series, Ben Edlund. The press release says,

In the new incarnation, the blue suit-wearing Tick is recovering from a memory loss. He ends up re-teaming with Arthur to fight evil. Newman’s Arthur, played in the Fox series by David Burke, had been labeled as a schizophrenic because of his statements that evil plans to rule the city, and no one believes him until he runs into Tick. Curry’s Dot Everest is a nurse who loves her brother Arthur to death and worries about him.

But who on God's green Earth can compare to Warburton? It's going to be tough casting that. You want something new, not someone just doing a Warburton impression. We'll see.