10 Hyped 2020 TV Shows ALREADY Cancelled

3. Judge Dredd: Mega City One

Back in 2018, Rebellion, the company that owns the rights to 2000 AD comics, announced that they would be self-producing a TV series for the publisher's figurehead dystopian lawman Judge Dredd within the next two years. Since then, however, things have been pretty quiet on the Mega City One series.

Part of that has to do with the fact that Rebellion are a video game developer not a TV studio (they are best known for making games in the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series), so were making a hugely ambitious step to try and get a blockbuster TV show off the ground by 2020.

The show has been developed with the help of Mark Stern, who, as an executive at SyFy, was responsible for commissioning the likes of Battlestar Galactica, and has long-term Dredd writer Rob Williams attached as lead writer.

Williams and team are reported to have written two whole seasons of material, which explores the wider world of Mega City One's bleak urban world with Dredd himself just a minor player, but no further developments have been made.

Rebellion are apparently still planning on going ahead with production eventually and have bought some land in Oxford to act as their studio. It still feels a long way off, though. Mega City One is not likely to arrive before 2025, if ever, let alone 2020.