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" Marvel&amp;#039;s head of television Jeph Loeb has addressed the fate of Guillermo del Toro&amp;#039;s stalled Hulk TV series. Loeb told Ain&amp;#039;t It Cool News that the success of Mark Ruffalo&amp;#039;s portrayal of Bruce Banner in The Avengers led to del Toro&amp;#039;s project being put on hold.  &amp;quot;Guillermo del Toro came in and talked to us about doing a Hulk show and when Guillermo del Toro comes and wants to do a show about your pinkie, you are going to want to do it,&amp;quot; Loeb said. &amp;quot;But it was just a case that once we saw what Joss Whedon and Mark Ruffalo were creating in The Avengers, that was a better solution.&amp;quot; A television series based on Marvel super-heroine Jessica Jones has also also been in development since 2010. Loeb explained that the adaptation &amp;quot;didn&amp;#039;t quite fit with the ABC model&amp;quot; but added that Marvel &amp;quot;still believes in that show in a major way&amp;quot;. Marvel&amp;#039;s Agents of SHIELD currently airs on ABC in the US and on Channel 4 in the UK. &amp;amp;gt; Guillermo del Toro&amp;#039;s Hulk TV show &amp;quot;on pause&amp;quot;, says Marvel - Comic-Con Watch Joss Whedon talk The Avengers franchise and female superheroes with Digital Spy below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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