> I found this at the cinescope site.
>
> Live-Action 'Tick' TV
> Series
> Ben Edlund's comic book turned
> cult favorite Fox Kids animated TV
> series, The Tick, looks to be
> making a return... as a live-action
> prime time TV series. According to
> a number of sources, the Fox TV
> network has ordered up a new
> live-action TV pilot which will be
> developed and produced through
> Barry Sonnenfeld and Barry
> Josephson's production company.
> The hoped for half-hour comedy will also be executive
> produced by Sonnenfeld and Josephson through Columbia
> TriStar Television with an eye on fall 2000.
>
> The Tick is a superhero of sorts who believes he is actually
> a really big tick, though he doesn't display any of the
> grosser attributes of the real thing. As established in the
> animated series, the Tick battles crime in "The City" with his
> partner Arthur, an accountant who wears a big moth suit.
> The Tick and Arthur share an apartment and battle all sorts
> of strange but humorous menaces even as they bump into
> other oddball superhero types.
>
> While talking to the Hollywood Reporter about the project,
> Barry Sonnenfeld revealed what he found most appealing
> about the character, saying, "It just feels incredibly smart
> and funny, like Seinfeld. I love how there's this big, hulking
> guy walking around the city, yet you'll also see him sitting at
> the next table over in a diner or something. It's just quirky."
>
> In addition, the trade reports that the concept has been in
> the works for the last year with word that a number of
> networks besides Fox interested in taking it on.
>
> Spider-Arthur-Boy


half the fun of the animated series was making fun of the other animated series (you can't tell me american maid was not a direct shot at wonderwoman). . . i think they'll lose that aspect in a live action version :P