Daredevil was “critical” to the rise and success of Marvel Television according to Jeph Loeb.
With Daredevil season 3 in the works, and shows like The Punisher and The Defenders soon on the way, Marvel Television’s Jeph Loeb has talked about just how important that first Netflix show was.
Setting the scene, Loeb said to Variety, “The first episode of Daredevil started shooting three years ago. At that time we had Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter on ABC, and that was it.” Marvel are now in some level of production on 14 different series
“It was a critical show for a lot of reasons — not just that we were on a different platform,” said Loeb. “Oddly enough, Netflix was a very young network at the time. It’s hard to imagine because their growth has been spectacularly high. I remember going in when we first talked to them, and they basically had House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black and Lilyhammer. And all we said was, ‘We think we can do better than Lilyhammer.’ And by the way, big shout-out to all you Lilyhammer fans.”
The rise of Netflix and Marvel Television seem to have gone hand in hand, and there is no doubt that Marvel’s TV department wouldn’t be where it is today without the success Daredevil found when it initially dropped back in 2015.
Originally published July 20, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
