'Agent Carter' Cast Update & Spoilers: Hayley Atwell Reprises Role for Marvel TV Series

Another Marvel series will be making waves on television this year, and a female hero is crashing the boys' club, as Entertainment Weekly puts it.

According to Hero Complex, the miniseries will feature characters from the Marvel universe, complete with adventure, comedy, and intrigue. Hayley Atwell, who established the character of Agent Peggy Carter in "Captain America" is coming to the small screen to reprise her role in an eight-episode series that will debut on Tuesday.

IGN reports that Peggy Carter will be getting much of the spotlight, and in a male-dominated 1940s workplace, she's bound to have a lot of struggles.

The San Francisco Gate also reported that much of the plot of "Agent Carter" has been kept hush-hush, but it is known that events of the series will come after the war (and after her liason with Captain America) and into her fight for freedom.

The story begins with Agent Carter's work in a supersecret organization called the Strategic Scientific Reserve, that refused to see her as a highly intelligent and capable agent. But then she comes to aid an old friend, the rich playboy Howard Stark (to be played by Dominic Cooper) to help uncover the real traitors who framed him for selling arms to the enemy.

Although Atwell's Peggy Carter is a deviation from most of Marvel's films and series, she is confident that the show will be a hit, telling Entertainment Weekly, "It's absolutely vital that we're saying to Hollywood-and to the world-female-centered roles are important. They are watched. They are bankable. The audiences want them."

So why choose Agent Carter from the slew of many heroines with actual super powers? EW noted that most of the female characters already had their gigs lined up, and because Agent Carter is all intelligence and hard work, it makes her the most relatable character to be on TV.

Show writer Tara Butters said about Peggy, "We've always said her superpower is the fact that other people underestimate her. And she often uses that to her advantage, because she doesn't have superstrength."

The rest of Marvel's cinematic universe will also have Netflix welcome "Daredevil" and "AKA Jessica Jones," which will be played by Charlie Cox and Krysten Ritter, respectively.

Will you be waiting to watch Hayley Atwell reprise her role as Agent Peggy Carter? The series will debut January 6 on ABC.