{"id":4685,"date":"2014-09-12T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=4685"},"modified":"2014-09-17T00:32:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:32:14","slug":"new-nightwing-and-teen-titans-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/new-nightwing-and-teen-titans-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"New Nightwing and Teen Titans TV Series Coming to TNT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nightwing.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nightwing.jpg\" alt=\"Nightwing\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nightwing.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nightwing-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nightwing-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears Warner Bros. is continuing to expand their TV universe with a live-action <strong>Teen Titans<\/strong> series planned for TNT. The pilot, which will star Batman&#8217;s sidekick Dick Grayson (aka Nightwing) leading a band of DC heroes, will be simply dubbed <em>Titans<\/em>. The premise of the show is being resurrected from the Teen Titans animated series from 2003-06 with the same characters, only now they&#8217;re ditching the &#8220;teen&#8221; label in favor of a more adult approach to the fledgling band of heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Says DC and Warner Bros. in the reported synopsis, &#8220;Based on characters from DC Comics, Titans revolves around a group of young superheroes-to-be who are recruited from every corner of the DC universe. The action-themed drama centers on Dick Grayson, who emerges from the shadow of Batman to become Nightwing, the leader of a fearless band of new superheroes including Starfire, Raven and more. The show is described as a dramatic adventure series that will explore and celebrate one of the most popular comic book titles ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Akiva Goldsman of <em>Fringe<\/em> and <em>I Am Legend<\/em> is the writer\/executive producer, with Warner Horizon Television producing.<\/p>\n<p>If greenlit to series, Titans will add to the DC Comics primetime TV surge.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us, are you excited about the prospect of a potential Teen Titans series? Which superhero would you like to see get his or her own series next? Sound off in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nightwing2.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nightwing2.jpg\" alt=\"Nightwing\" width=\"1280\" height=\"965\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nightwing2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nightwing2-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears Warner Bros. is continuing to expand their TV universe with a live-action Teen Titans series planned for TNT. The pilot, which will star Batman&#8217;s sidekick Dick Grayson (aka Nightwing) leading a band of DC heroes, will be simply dubbed Titans. The premise of the show is being resurrected from the Teen Titans animated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":4695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,388,558],"tags":[3145,112,822,121,392,579,793,823],"yst_prominent_words":[6306,8182,5880,5959,11037,11035,11038,7641,11039,5852,6017,11036,7934,11033,7297,11034,8079,7057,8176,8124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}