There's a lot more to look forward to from Marvel Television in the near future. Beyond Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter on ABC and Daredevil and Jessica Jones on Netflix, the company has at least eight other shows in various stages of development.

Some, like Netflix's Luke Cage and potentially ABC's Marvel's Most Wanted , will be debuting later in 2016. Others, like the two comedies Marvel is developing with ABC and FOX's X-Men-universe-set series Hellfire , are still early in the development process. What's clear is that Marvel TV is actively looking to expand its slate on the small screen, and that studios, networks and audiences are open to more.Coming off the wave of recent information about the various shows Marvel is working on and with Agent Carter newly back on the air, I hopped on the phone with Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb. We discussed using these different projects to explore various facets of the Marvel universe, what decision-making goes into determining spinoffs and crossovers, and what the company's interest is in developing non-MCU TV series.

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I don't know that we would call it "supernatural." As with everything that happens in the Marvel Universe, it's very science-based. As we more and more discover things about the Marvel Universe, it's very exciting to see what's going to happen, particularly when we're looking at a time period where the world has just discovered the atomic bomb. I'm sure to a lot of the world that looked supernatural. So what Carter is doing is caught very much up in something that will have a tremendous impact on the Marvel Universe. At the same time, she's got to rescue the world as they know it.You're not going to love my response, but #ItsAllConnected. [Laughs] That's all I can really say. As we've often said, to the world at large, Marvel looks like a giant octopus that's out to swallow the galaxy -- which, by the way, we are. But we are in fact a rather small and intimate company. Agent Carter happens to be the only project that we actually coproduce with the Marvel Studios [film] side. So having Louis D'Esposito, who was very involved in the Agent Carter short, through this season and into last season, this is a way that we communicate with one another. So what's going on in the movie division and what's going on in the TV division is something which is constantly a state of sharing and making things work.We don't do things for the sake of doing them; we do them because it makes a richer experience for the viewer and for our fans and hope that you can enjoy Carter without ever understanding that there could be a larger implication and you can enjoy the show because it does touch on things that are cool and coming and that kind of thing. Personally, I love the show because it's got great writing and an awesome cast.Tara [Butters] and Michele [Fazekas], who are the showrunners, when we first sat down, they had this great line, which was that Los Angeles is a place where everyone goes to reinvent themselves. The idea that so much of who Peggy is and how much she was tied to the memory of Steve really still lived in New York. For us to be able to open up the show and open up her personal life and to actually let her move on beyond the great love of her life so that she could still be the same, independent, kick-ass woman that we love, it really felt like changing the scenery and coming to LA would give us a very exciting backdrop.When you couple that with the time period, which was -- this is when the jet propulsion labs and those kinds of places were popping up in Southern California -- the world was starting to discover a new kind of technology and a new kind of scientific exploration, that gives us a place where her SSR group really does belong. And being able to work with Hayley [Atwell] and James [D'arcy] and Enver [Gjokaj] and then some other surprises that are still to come, it's going to be a very exciting season.Well, a lot of that is from the original source material and trying to figure out the best way. The most important thing from our standpoint is, how does it affect Coulson? How does it affect Daisy? How does it affect Agent May? It's those kinds of places that we start, not just "what would be cool." Clearly, there's more to the story with Grant Ward, and when we come back in March everyone will find out exactly where that's headed.Again, you're putting me in the awkward place of having to spill the beans. We've yet to disclose to anybody what that show is, although the notion of calling the show "Marvel's Most Wanted" should give you the sense that it's going to be very different from SHIELD and that what Jeff Bell and Paul [Zbyszewski] have created is really unexpected. That's about all I can tell you right now. Our hope is that we'll be on in the fall and folks will get to see another side of the Marvel Universe.A lot of that has to do with Adrianne [Palicki] and Nick [Blood] and the chemistry between the two of them. But without giving away what the show's about, it's really hard for me to be able to explain it.Well, I think that people have to understand that, unlike the movie studio, which sets out to make the movies and hope people like them, the television division works in a different way, which is that we work in conjunction with a network. So it's the network that determines whether or not we're going to move forward, and the network decides that based on how many people are watching the show. So in many ways it all comes down to the viewer. As we've found out so far, it's been a very exciting time for Marvel Television.We have Agents of SHIELD going into the second half of its third season; Agent Carter returning for a second season; we are in production on Luke Cage, which is really our fourth show with Netflix, because we've already completed the second season of Daredevil; and we still have Iron Fist to go and Defenders and Jessica Jones: [Season] 2 . So that just speaks to this wonderful partnership that we have with Netflix and how much their viewers are enjoying streaming Marvel content on Netflix. And the same thing holds true over at ABC. They're really happy with Marvel, and hopefully with Marvel's Most Wanted we'll be able to expand that footprint. That would be fantastic.You know, for us, it's very much a fugitive story that is about a man who is falsely imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. That's what grounds it. That's what makes it real. And then, oh, by the way, he's really strong, and he's got bulletproof skin. So I think those are the two things that go together, that really make it a very different kind of show.We're still working things out.Just that we're talking to some really interesting folks. That's all I can say right now. [Laughs]Again, I'm going back to #ItsAllConnected. Let me put it this way, there's nothing that we've done that doesn't allow for that to happen. Everyone that's in the Netflix shows is certainly aware of what's going on in the larger MCU. We do talk about the Avengers characters. We've mentioned SHIELD. It's those kinds of things that tell us they're in the same world. As I've said from the beginning, I think it's more important that we get to establish some of these characters.It's part of the reason why people ask us, "Is Daredevil going to be in Jessica Jones?" and our answer was, we really would like each of these characters to establish themselves and their casts without the audience being distracted by another hero from a different show. It centers much in the same kind of way that once they got past The Avengers, you started seeing more and more of the characters crossing over into -- even if they were just cameos like when Captain America was in Thor 2. Sorry, "spoiler" if you haven't seen that, but c'mon. But it's that kind of seeing things to show that it is all connected.One of the things that I really admire about the Marvel motion pictures is that, in one year, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which was a taut political thriller, and Guardians of the Galaxy, which was a cosmic comedy, came out, and they could not be more different, and yet they both felt very Marvel. I feel very much the same way about Agents of SHIELD and Daredevil. They may feel very different, but the one thing that, at the end of the day, is that they both begin with that big red block, and that makes a difference not only to the storytelling but to the people that are telling the stories.The one thing that I will say is that, if Clark Gregg has his way, he's going to have an opportunity to be able to not only meet Iron Fist but maybe fight him. So I have to keep that in mind. And I'm not talking about Agent Coulson; I'm talking about Clark Gregg himself.These are projects that we are very much involved with, as with anything that's on television that has Marvel's name on it. But it should not come as a surprise to anybody, these are Marvel's Fox properties, and as such we are involved, but they are the characters that Fox has mapped out in that particular universe. So the idea that they're not is MCU is just based on the fact that the realities of where the X-Men universe is in relationship to the MCU. There isn't any other part of it that's -- the short answer is, that was not our decision.I think one of the things we're very proud of is, everything that we've talked about today is the result of what's happened in the last three years. It really speaks to the incredible showrunners and writers that have come on-board the team here at Marvel Television, and really the fans themselves, who have embraced these shows and continue to tell people at networks that they want more Marvel.He is so remarkably talented, and it's just a real pleasure. His vision of what that show is, is nothing short of astonishing.

Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Follow her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz