Agent Carter Producers on If They'd Return to Character

Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas "love" Peggy Carter.

By Jonathon Dornbush

Though executive producers Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas are currently working on their new ABC comedy Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, the duo are open to returning to their last ABC series, Marvel's Agent Carter.

Speaking to IGN during the Television Critics Association summer press tour about Kevin, Fazekas said the duo would absolutely be open to revisiting the character of Peggy Carter given the opportunity.

"Yes, we would do Agent Carter tomorrow, at the same time as this show. I love that show," Fazekas said.

Agent Carter ran for two seasons on ABC from 2015-2016, while the character of Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) has appeared in several Marvel Cinematic Universe films, having first debuted in Captain America: The First Avenger in 2011. Though that film ended with a time jump to modern day, Agent Carter continued following Peggy as an agent of the Strategic Scientific Reserve.

There are currently no announced plans to revisit the character, who passed during the events of Captain America: Civil War, but Hayley Atwell recently said she would love to see a Peggy Carter movie be made. The actress' recent visit with Marvel Studios co-president Louis D'Esposito spurred fans online to wonder if Atwell could return to the MCU, as did the news that the MCU will continue to explore different time periods, as Captain Marvel will be set in the 1990's, decades prior to the character's death.

Regarding whether the mix of episodic and season-long storytelling on Agent Carter influenced Kevin, which follows the titular character being enlisted by a warrior of God named Yvette (Kimberly Herbert Gregory), Fazekas said the influence goes back further to their work on The X-Files, the show during which the two met, and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.

"We did do that on [Agent] Carter, I would even back it up to how X-Files did it," Fazekas said. "X-Files had their long mythology arcs and their individual episodes, and, at their best, each episode would touch on both. You'd have the monster of the week but then some of the mythology would be in it. I felt that was brilliant how they did that.

"It's how Joss did it, we worked for Joss on Dollhouse and we were humongous admirers of his stuff," she said.

Fazekas and Butters' Kevin (Probably) Saves the World — formerly known as The Gospel of Kevin — premieres on October 3 on ABC.

Jonathon Dornbush is an Associate Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter @jmdornbush.

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