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" Lucy Punch has dropped out of FX&amp;#039;s troubled Powers adaptation. The Bad Teacher actress was to play the lead female role of Deena Pilgrim in the pilot. Series creator Brian Michael Bendis has insisted that her departure does not spell the end for the project. &amp;quot;Though Lucy Punch has moved on, Powers TV is not dead,&amp;quot; Bendis wrote on Facebook. &amp;quot;If it was I would tell you honest and true. New scripts have been ordered for more episodes and there will be news in May about how we are going forward. &amp;quot;The network is behind us all the way. It&amp;#039;s quite nice. It&amp;#039;s going to be a long haul but it&amp;#039;s all about quality. I desperately want the best show we can make.&amp;quot; Powers, based on the comic series by Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, is currently in limbo while FX executives make a decision on whether to commission a reshoot of its pilot episode. A decision is expected by March 1, according to actor Charles S. Dutton. FX president John Landgraf previously described the project as &amp;quot;as difficult an adaptation as [he&amp;#039;s] ever worked on&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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