--- description: Jessica Jones will premiere before the end of 2015 title: Marvel Will Release a New Netflix Show Every 6 Months image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfded1fb3096012bd/69885ce4524fc06c5edf3c9f/marvel-daredevil.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Marvel Will Release a New Netflix Show Every 6 Months  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Jul 28, 2015 8:20 PM CUT  Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock in the Netflix Original Series “Marvel’s Daredevil” Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock in the Netflix Original Series “Marvel’s Daredevil”Barry Wetcher— Netflix, Inc.  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Jul 28, 2015 8:20 PM CUT Though the next Marvel film, _Captain America: Civil War_, won’t premiere until May, more Marvel heroes are coming to your streaming queue—and soon. Netflix [announced](http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tv/netflix-news-more-superheroes-no-skin-on-kimmy/ "undefined") at the Television Critics Association summer meeting on Tuesday that it will be rolling out a new Marvel superhero series every six months. Marvel and Netflix teamed up to bring five separate shows to the streaming service, focusing on a group of comic book heroes called The Defenders, a street-level Avengers team. The first in the series, _Daredevil_, premiered in April. Jessica Jones will be the next superhero to get a Netflix treatment before the end of 2015, followed by Iron Fist and Luke Cage, according to the Associated Press. After each has starred in their own series, all four will join forces for a _Defenders_ show. The announcement comes as anticipation for _Jessica Jones_, the first female superhero to headline her own Marvel project, grows. “I’ve been coming to Comic-Con for 12 years, and I think a lot of fans here have been eager to see more women onscreen for a long time,” Dawn Keiser, a 30-year-old Californian told TIME at San Diego Comic-Con in early July. “I was really happy to see the characters Karen and Claire become these heroes on _Daredevil_, but I really can’t wait for _Jessica Jones_ to be the hero of her own show.” Krysten Ritter, star of _Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23_, will portray the first major female character with superpowers in a Marvel Studios project. Though _Captain America_ character Peggy Carter stars in a 1940s-set _Agent Carter_ on ABC, she has no powers—nor does Black Widow, the only female Avenger in the films. The first Marvel female superhero movie, _Captain Marvel_, won’t hit screens until 2018. If the tone of _Daredevil_ is any indication, _Jessica Jones_ and the other Marvel Netflix shows will be much darker and bloodier than the one audiences know from films like _Iron Man_ and _The Avengers_. \[[_AP_](http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tv/netflix-news-more-superheroes-no-skin-on-kimmy/ "undefined")\] ### 11 Roles You Probably Didn't Realize Marvel Stars Also Played  James Spader as the voice of Ultron in The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Dr. Daniel Jackson in Stargate Marvel/Disney; MGM  Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America in The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Jake Wyler in Not Another Teen Movie Marvel/Disney; Columbia  Paul Bettany as Vision in The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Charles Herman in A Beautiful Mind Marvel/Disney; Universal  Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron and David "Dave" Lizewski/Kick-Ass in Kick-Ass Marvel/Disney; Lionsgate  Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in Daredevil and Tristan Thorn in Stardust Marvel/Disney/Netflix; Paramount  Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk in Daredevil and Edgar the bug in Men in Black Marvel/Disney/Netflix; Columbia  Elden Henson as Foggy Bottom in Daredevil and Fulton Reed in the Mighty Ducks trilogy. Marvel/Disney/Netflix; Buena Vista  Stellan Skarsgård as Dr. Erik Selvig in Thor and Bootstrap Bill Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Marvel/Disney; Buena Vista  Christopher Eccleston as Malekith in Thor: The Dark World and the Ninth Doctor in Doctor Who Marvel/Disney; BBC  Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser in Guardians of the Galaxy and Roy Walker/The Black Bandit in The Fall Marvel/Disney; Roadside Attractions  Bonus: Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue in The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Gollum in The Lord of the Rings Marvel/Disney; New Line Cinema ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3975704/marvel-netflix-6-months/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3975704/marvel-netflix-6-months/"},"headline":"Marvel Will Release a New Netflix Show Every 6 Months","datePublished":"2015-07-28T20:20:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:16.540Z","description":"Jessica Jones will premiere before the end of 2015","url":"https://time.com/3975704/marvel-netflix-6-months/","keywords":["Television","Netflix","Marvel"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfded1fb3096012bd/69885ce4524fc06c5edf3c9f/marvel-daredevil.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfded1fb3096012bd/69885ce4524fc06c5edf3c9f/marvel-daredevil.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL","caption":"MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL","creditText":"Barry Wetcher— Netflix, Inc.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3975704/marvel-netflix-6-months/","name":"Marvel Will Release a New Netflix Show Every 6 Months"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Understanding the Marvel Cinematic Universe","description":"How do we get from Iron Man to The Avengers? 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