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‘Fringe’ Star Michael Cerveris Joins ‘Gotham’ As Professor Pyg

by Dave Elliott
'Fringe' Star Michael Cerveris Joins 'Gotham' As Professor Pyg

‘Fringe’ Star Michael Cerveris Joins ‘Gotham’ As Professor Pyg

Gotham is delving into some interesting new villains when the show returns for its 4th season, and have just announced ‘Fringe’ star Michael Cerveris will be taking the role of Professor Pyg.

For those of you unfamiliar with the character, Professor Pyg first appeared in the Batman comic books in 2007, and comes from the beautifully warped minds of Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert, during Morrison’s stellar run on the books. Pyg is a deeply disturbed individual who is obsessed with making people “perfect”… His vision of “perfection” being to lobotomize people and fuse doll-like masks to their faces, which he refers to as “Dollotrons.”

“He’s one of the weirdest, most insane characters that’s ever been in Batman,” commented Morrison about his creation. “We hear a lot about Batman facing crazy villains but we tried to make this guy seem genuinely disturbed and disconnected.” Something they very much achieved!

Michael Cerveris has starred in ‘The Good Wife’, ‘Treme’ and can be currently found on Amazon’s ‘The Tick’, but it’s his role as the omnipresent Observer in the brilliant ‘Fringe’ for which most sci-fi fans will know him.

Now we come to the sticky question of “when will ‘Gotham’ Season 4 air in the UK”… We really don’t know. Although Channel 5 do, apparently, still have the rights to Season 3, they have yet to air it due to some unknown issue holding them up. Given what a fiasco the show has been for them this year, that would point to them… probably… not picking it up again.‘Gotham’ Season 3 is now available to Netflix subscribers, BUT if Channel 5 still have first refusal rights to buy Season 4, Netflix would be unable to pick it up for immediate (i.e. next day) broadcast until Channel 5 decides what they are going to about it. Either way, ‘Gotham’ Season 4 should be on Netflix around September 2018, but I severely hope we won’t have to wait that long!

For those of you who aren’t Netflix subscribers, we do have the opportunity to win ‘Gotham’ Season 3 on DVD! Just click here.

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