Premières: January 6, ABC Marvel continue to dominate your screens with their second in-house series produced for television. Agents Of SHIELD got off to a rocky start, directly spinning out of the Avengers films but never quite managing to match their spectacle on the smaller screen and budget. This year's second season saw a marked improvement, however, and sets things up nicely for their next venture. Agent Carter will skip back a few decades to fill in the early years of SHIELD, primarily the post-war escapades of Hayley Atwell's Peggy Carter and Dominic Cooper's Howard Stark (yes, Tony's dad) from the Captain America films. An Agent Carter short film accompanied the DVD release of The Winter Solider, and this picks up where that left off. Debuting off the back of an episode of Agents Of SHIELD in the New Year, Agent Carter will reportedly see the eponymous heroine balancing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark whilst navigating life as a single woman in 1940s America. So like, period superhero spy Sex And The City?
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