{"id":681899,"date":"2026-07-09T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681899\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:39:13","slug":"the-jimmy-olsen-tv-series-casts-gorilla-grodd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681899\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jimmy Olsen TV Series Casts Gorilla Grodd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-jimmy-olsen-tv-series-casts-gorilla-grodd.jpg\" data-caption=\"ABC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-jimmy-olsen-tv-series-casts-gorilla-grodd.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"the-jimmy-olsen-tv-series-casts-gorilla-grodd\"\/><\/a>ABC<\/p>\n<p>Actor, comedian and LifeAccordingToJimmy YouTube channel creator Jimmy Tatro (\u201cHome Economics\u201d) is in talks to star as Gorilla Grodd in the upcoming Jimmy Olsen TV series at DC Studios.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinsneider.com\/p\/dc-crime-series-gorilla-grodd-actor-found-james-gunn-superman-spinoff-daily-planet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The InSneider<\/a> broke the news and the trades subsequently confirmed it, but not further details were revealed and the show still has yet to receive a formal green light.<\/p>\n<p>The crime-mystery-comedy anthology series follows on from James Gunn\u2019s \u201cSuperman\u201d films and focuses on Skyler Gisondo\u2019s Jimmy Olsen and others at the Daily Planet investigating various supervillains<\/p>\n<p>The series, which has been previously rumored to be going by the titles of \u201cDC Crime\u201d and \u201cAmerican Villain,\u201d would also serve as an introduction to several other DC Comics metahuman characters.<\/p>\n<p>The show reportedly has \u201cAmerican Vandal\u201d co-creators Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda on board to write, executive produce and serve as showrunners. That would partly explain Tatro\u2019s casting, as he had a role on \u201cAmerican Vandal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gunn and Peter Safran will executive produce the show, which will mark Gorilla Grodd\u2019s live-action DCU debut after briefly popping up in \u201cCreature Commandos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/a-look-at-why-playstation-is-killing-off-discs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Look At Why PlayStation Is Killing Off Discs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC Actor, comedian and LifeAccordingToJimmy YouTube channel creator Jimmy Tatro (\u201cHome Economics\u201d) is in talks to star as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[94966,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}