ABC have renewed Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and have also officially ordered the new series Marvel's Agent Carter for the next TV season.

The renewal for SHIELD was presumed to be a slam dunk, but ABC, per usual, hadn't renewed any of their shows until the last minute. [ Click here for ABC's many other renewals today, including Once Upon a Time, Castle and Revenge].

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Meanwhile, ABC and Marvel had been staying pretty quiet on Agent Carter, even as word began swirling that the show was likely to become a reality, bypassing the pilot stage. This wasn't as notable as it might be, given there already was a mini-pilot of sorts, via the Agent Carter Marvel One-Shot released last fall on the Iron Man 3 Blu-ray. Hayley Atwell will reprise her role from the Captain America films in the series, which will help show the establishment of SHIELD. Dominic Cooper is expected to have a recurring role as Howard Stark.Word is, Agent Carter will likely have a shorter episode order than SHIELD, airing in the middle of the season in SHIELD's timeslot, in-between the fall and spring runs of that series. We'll likely get confirmation on that next week, as ABC present their schedule at their Upfront.The number of comic book TV series is about to increase dramatically, as Agent Carter's order comes on the heels of NBC ordering Constantine, CW ordering The Flash and iZombie and FOX ordering Gotham this week.