Status: The pilot's script is now being written for TNT for the 2015-2016 season. Pitch: Dick Grayson, Raven, Starfire, Oracle, Hawk and Dove stand for a new generation of superheroes. TNT President Kevin Reilly has promised fidelity to the original Marv Wolfman-George Perez comic of the 1980s, action with consequences, and "a coming-of-age story for Robin, who feels like Batman has betrayed him." Odds of Success Onscreen: Fair. Reilly is correct that allowing Robin to grow up was the most surprising and commendable part of New Teen Titans, and it's an aspect unexplored in Cartoon Network's two other TV adaptations of the property. Those adaptations were the tonally mixed Teen Titans and the wildly cartoony, still running Teen Titans Go. Their existence could help or harm this more serious take: viewers raised on the cartoons might not be ready for a "grown-up" counterpart, no matter how much old-school comics fans appreciate it for matching the original. Note: There was a rumor, since debunked, that this series would be renamed Blackbirds.
T Campbell has written quite a few online comics series and selected work for Marvel, Archie and Tokyopop. His longest-running works are Fans, Penny and Aggie-- and his current project with co-writer Phil Kahn, Guilded Age.
