Dredd TV Show: 8 Reasons Why It MUST Happen

Where would any classic comic character be without his arch-enemies? Fortunately, a guy like Joseph Dredd makes plenty of those along the way and many of his nemeses would go down a storm on TV.

Lena Heady's Ma-Ma was a worth adversary for the Judges, but much greater challenges lie in wait with the 2000 AD series' rogues gallery and it would be a tragedy if Urban never got the chance to go chin-to-chin with them.

Judge Death - an immortal killing machine from another dimension - is a candidate for the greatest comic book villain never to appear in live-action form. He's essentially the Joker to Dredd's Batman and prime candidate for the proposed TV show's big bad.

Then we have Mean Machine Angel, a cybernetically-enhanced member of the Cursed Earth's most notorious crime family. He appeared in 1995's Sly Stallone-fronted Judge Dredd and was one of the only things about the film that wasn't terrible.

Adding diversity to the rogues gallery is Sabbat the Necromagus, an alien being with the power to bring about a zombie apocalypse. Judges versus the walking dead? Who wouldn't want to see that on TV?

Dredd's deranged test tube brother Rico would also need to make an appearance in the potential TV show at some point, given that their famous encounter is the stuff of comic book legend, while the despotic madman Chief Judge Caligula provides a different breed of villain for screenwriters to interpret.

There are enough bad guys in the 2000 AD vault to fill at least 10 seasons of Dredd and the diverse nature of the threats the Judge has come up against would be enough to differentiate each series and fill it with unique challenges for our protagonist.