Arnie launches The Governator TV series (VIDEO)

Arnie launches The Governator TV series (VIDEO)
Arnie launches The Governator TV series (VIDEO) (Image credit: AP/Press Association Images)

Arnold Schwarzenegger says his new TV venture features a 'superheroic guy' who gets things done without constraints like laws to thwart his action. Just three months out of office, the actor-turned-California governor is unveiling his plans for The Governator, an animated TV show he describes as a funny, action-packed, crime-fighting fantasy. "I think that a lot of times you can actually do more and accomplish more being outside of the system," Arnie revealed at the MipTV TV business conference in Cannes. "With this, it's a fantasy world where the governor has extra powers." The show features a former California governor who assembles a team of wizkids to fight crime and natural disasters out of a high-tech lair under his mansion in Brentwood, unbeknown to his own family upstairs. The Terminator star insisted the show would not be violent, in a conscious break from his cinematic past. "If you look at my movies, a lot of heads come off... this is not what this is," he said. But Arnie remained tight-lipped about whether he would be making a return to acting. "I have not committed to anything," he said. "We are concentrating on launching this series and this character, and then when that is done, then I will make the next decision."

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.