FOXWhat's big and blue and making a comeback? The Tick. Spoon! The Tick is officially coming back to life, according to Patrick Warburton.
Everybody loves a good superhero show and everybody loves a good TV series revival, so it just makes perfect sense that Warburton's zany hero will be coming back to your screens soon. Warburton, who can next be seen opposite The Good Wife and True Blood veteran Carrie Preston in NBC's midseason comedy Crowded, will once again don the blue suit. When? That remains to be seen, but it's happening, according to Warburton.
"We're doing it," Warburton told E! News when asked about revival rumors. And it's going to be on Amazon, he told us.
"Yeah. The deal that I made with NBC was to have a carve out so I could do The Tick," Warburton told us on the red carpet at NBC's 2015 Upfronts. "It's sort of a new day and age where you can do multiple projects...I said, I love this show, but I also have to have the opportunity to do The Tick because The Tick is a true love of mine and they said OK."
In September 2014, The Tick creator Ben Edlund tweeted, "Yes for now suffice it to say the dream of a new live-action Tick is being pursued with vigor #bringbackTheTick."
The Tick originally ran for nine episodes from 2001-2002. The serie was based on Edlund's comic book, which also spawned a cartoon series that ran from 1996-1998.
As for Crowded, Warburton's new NBC series, it's something of a change for the Seinfeld and Rules of Engagement veteran.
"Well, I'm really looking forward to diving into this one more than any of the other shows I've been involved with, and the reason is that I'm integrated with the full family here. There's a great father dynamic with Stacy Keach, a great husband-wife dynamic with Carrie Preston, [and I've] got these two daughters that are just super fun and amazing. In other shows I've done, I've sort of sequestered in areas, this one we're all together and there's this family dynamic and I think it's very current. It looks like one of the best opportunities I've ever had in a multicamera format," he said.
But the series, which sees two adult children and some grandparents moving into Warburton's character's house, isn't as crowded as Warburton's real life. "We've got 10 people living under our roof. I've got my in-laws, four dogs, four kids—" he said. "I look at this show Crowded and I say, 'By whose standards? Not ours.'"
So there's plenty of source material to make for "easy" pitches. "This s--t really went down, throw it in," he said.
Crowded is set to debut on NBC during midseason.
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