After years in Development Hell, and a failed attempt to make it into a movie franchise, Y, The Last Man is greenlit as a TV series.
From The Hollywood Reporter: "'Y: The Last Man' Ordered to Series at FX"
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The writer lists several reasons: It provides an opportunity to get more female showrunners and writers on the air; it puts another comic-based series on FX; the long, long string of efforts to get this made means they creators will have time to do it well.
One drawback: The TV series title isn't Y, The Last Man; it's just Y. That will be impossible to find in a search engine. The showrunners don't seem worried about that, which is just stupid.
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FX was originally going to have a series based upon Bendis' Powers comic series. The pilot sounded good but it was not picked up. The later two-season series was shown on the obscure PlayStation platform. I've watched the whole thing (on DVD), but I think it would have been better if FX had gone with the original pilot.