Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe to air on ABC

U.S. television network ABC has announced plans to air the documentary special "Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe" next month. The program is about the film studio dedicated to bringing Marvel Comics stories and characters to the big screen. It is to air March 18. "Marvel Studios has pioneered and broken box-office records around the world, creating a cinematic universe unlike any other in pop culture history through its blockbuster films," the network said in a release Thursday. "Beginning with 'Iron Man' in 2008 and continuing today through 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' on ABC and the theatrical release of 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' this April, the Marvel cinematic universe presents audiences with some of the most groundbreaking and dynamic storytelling that brings an unprecedented vision to the world of entertainment."