The Amazing Spider-Man is an American-Action Superhero television series, based off of the Marvel superhero Spider-Man, premiering on the CW Television Network on July 1, 2016. Featuring Dylan Sprayberry, Emilia McCarthy, Colin Ford, Sally Field, Jadin Gould, and Jake Abel as the initial Main Cast of the series, which follows the life of Peter Parker, a teenage boy that is bitten by a genetically enhanced spider and gains superhuman abilities, and uses them to fight crime, as the masked vigilante, Spider-Man."