'Ms. Marvel' Receives Broadcast Run On ABC In August
'Ms. Marvel' Receives Broadcast Run On ABC In August
It's Kamala Khan's first adventures that make for the first Marvel Disney+ series to head to traditional TV
It’s time for some Khanventional television. ABC announced Friday that it will air all six episodes of the Disney+ Marvel Studios series Ms. Marvel in August.
However, it’s not going to be a weekly timeslot that effectively bides time in the midst of the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes, but does get them closer to the college football season. The episodes will encompass the entire Saturday nights, with the first three episodes on August 5, and the final three on August 12, from 8-11 PM ET/PT.
In the series, Iman Vellani plays Kamala Khan a Muslim American teenager growing up in Jersey City. Kamala is a superhero mega fan with an oversized imagination with an affinity for Captain Marvel. She feels she doesn’t fit anywhere until she gets superpowers. The series originally premiered on Disney+ last June 8 and ended that July 13. Previously, ABC aired the first episode of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series on November 8, 2019 (with Disney Channel and Freeform) to hype Disney+’s launch. Subsequently, they aired the first two episodes of Andor, “Kassa” and “That Would Be Me” on November 23, 2022, which went elsewhere for the succeeding days of Thanksgiving weekend. In February 2023, Chapter 1 of The Mandalorian aired on the network.
Ms. Marvel is the first Disney+ Marvel series to make its way to linear television, and marks Marvel series’ return to ABC since the end of Agents of SHIELD in 2020, exactly three years ago to the day that Ms. Marvel airs its back half on the network. Khan’s next MCU appearance, the Captain Marvel sequel The Marvels, would have been in its second and third weekends before it moved from July 28 to November 10 in February.
Source: TVLine