It often seems to be one step forward, one step back for Marvel fans in this much-plagued Multiverse Saga era, as even as a pair of upcoming MCU TV shows land release days we’re learning that two more of them have officially been set back into the next calendar year.
As per Variety‘s write-up of the news that Loki season two and Echo are coming this October and November, respectively, it’s been confirmed that neither Agatha: Coven of Chaos nor Ironheart will be with us in 2023 after all, despite these series long having been on the docket for later this year. This info has been reported to be the case for a while, but it now seems like we can categorize this as 100 percent happening.
The extreme reshuffling of Marvel’s small-screen slate comes following president Kevin Feige’s warning that the studio would be spacing out its Disney Plus productions more than it had over 2021 and 2022 from now on. While Feige claimed this was a positive thing, to allow each of the shows a “chance to shine,” that doesn’t exactly seem to gel with the fact Echo is being dumped in one go on the platform — something that heavily suggests rumored production or story problems are more than a contributing factor to the new release plan.
No word yet on where exactly in 2024 Agatha — the WandaVision spinoff starring Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness — and Ironheart — the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever offshoot all about Dominique Thorne’s Riri Williams — will drop, but hopefully it’ll be sometime in Q1.