No Heroics: interview with Drew Pearce

Website io9.com carries a very interesting article about No Heroics being passed by ABC, and interviews Drew Pearce on the subject. Read the full interview on the website.

So why didn't ABC pick up the pilot after ordering it in the first place?

Pearce says it was just a matter of timing: I don't actually think anything went wrong as such. I will say that it's probably not the best year to do a massive, cool, edgy, expensive single-camera genre-based network-comedy without huge starpower on a major American network. Kind of obvious, but true.

He says the U.S. version would have worked pretty similarly to the British incarnation, with a group of superheroes hanging out in a bar and trying to get on television. But it would have had a slightly larger scale and "less gay blowjobs." The American version would have had even more "geek detail" than the original, with more cool references, and there would have been little strands connecting the American bar and the British pub. In other words, both shows would have taken place in the same, shared, universe.

And it sounds like there's still a possibility that the U.S. version could find a home — maybe on Comedy Central?