When Marvel, Tribune Entertainment and Fireworks Entertainment were first sued by 20th Century Fox over the new Mutant X TV show (“No, it’s really not about the X-Men. Really!”), there was concern expressed by the plaintiff that it was going to dilute the audience for its (so far successful) movie franchise.
The Tribune website expresses, most vehemently, We want you to know that MUTANT_X is not based on the “X-Men” property and is not in any way related to, licensed or approved by, or associated with the motion picture “X-Men” or Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
It seems to have made little difference anyway. WGN is running it at 4 p.m. CDT on Saturdays. The local WB station is running it at Noon on Sundays. Neither is what I’d call a “hot” time slot. I predict imminent vanishing, alongside Cleopatra 2020.
We watched the WGN play. Not a bad show. Not a good show. A definite C+, and deserving of its time slots (comparable to The Lost World and The Beast Master, for example, in sophistication and time slot).
I find it mildly depressing that sf makes for bad TV as well as good, and in pretty good obedience to Sturgeon’s Law.
Hardly worth suing over, frankly.