It's official: NBC takes a pass on Wonder Woman

[jemboy2004]

I know, I know... I'm a broken record... but I just have to see if I evoke
any more "thumbs up" for the recent WW animated movie... I loved it
and my thoughts are if the same movie was live-action... it would've
killed... now it's just about already buried in superhero history.

I loved the animated Wonder Woman movie too! But many complained about that too so..... I'll hold judgement of this until I see it for myself.

Also not all who seen it hated it or thought it was bad. I read were many liked this pilot, it was in one of the article on the screening's.

Werewolf the things you mentioned were not in the pilot as a matter of a fact people were complaining DEK went a 180 and it was too voilet. So first she's too girly then too voilet. Can't make Wonder Woman for some people because many want Lynda Carter's WW back, which was good for it's time.

[Wee67]

I'd think it was a lot more messy for stations to invest in a TV show
as it's a set of shows to commit to buying (?)...
while movies seem to be more of a consolidated gamble.

Oddly enough, movies are actually much more of a gamble than TV shows. So much more money goes into making, marketing, etc., a major movie. AND it all comes down to that first weekend. If it does well, all that money, the year or two it took to make it, the promotion plans prove worth it. If it fails in those short three days, entire careers can be ruined.

With TV, it tkaes a little less monetary commitment. Also, the process has feedback and can be re-written or re-tooled. ABC's recent semi-hit 'Body of Proof' did not do well in testing, but people seemed to like Dana Delaney. The made changes and the show took a different turn by the 4th episode. Its doing pretty well for ABC (especiall compared to the many 10pm stinkers they've had).

Keeping with what I know, Disney was down this quarter, mainly based on the failure of one movie- "Mars Needs Moms." Yet, ABC's prime-time line-up has been mostly miss over the past few years and they continued to keep people on for while (the head of of ABC Entertainment was just replaced, but will most likely not have much of an impact until this fall at the earliest.)

[Cosmicman]

Yeah, this was dog **** from the start.

[Random Axe]

Good news.

Something I haven't read and something that baffles me is how did DC and WB allow it to go so far? If NBC, the main suitor for this concept, passed on picking this up why didn't the DC officials crush this in the beginning? It sounds like it was a longshot anyway. If for some insane reason the network decided to give this a try it would have been a complete embarrassment to DC and to the legacy of WW. How could DC have allowed that possibility?

Of course given recent comic editorial decisions, I guess I know the answer...

[Steeler80]

Maybe that means the next stop is the big screen. Once DC sees how well Marvel did Thor and the Norse Gods maybe they'll try their hand at Amazons.

I hope so. Green Lantern (and the next Batman) aside, DC has really lagged behind Marvel when it comes to bringing characters to the big screen.

[huedell]

Oddly enough, movies are actually much more of a gamble than TV shows. So much more money goes into making, marketing, etc., a major movie. AND it all comes down to that first weekend. If it does well, all that money, the year or two it took to make it, the promotion plans prove worth it. If it fails in those short three days, entire careers can be ruined.

With TV, it tkaes a little less monetary commitment. Also, the process has feedback and can be re-written or re-tooled. ABC's recent semi-hit 'Body of Proof' did not do well in testing, but people seemed to like Dana Delaney. The made changes and the show took a different turn by the 4th episode. Its doing pretty well for ABC (especiall compared to the many 10pm stinkers they've had).

Keeping with what I know, Disney was down this quarter, mainly based on the failure of one movie- "Mars Needs Moms." Yet, ABC's prime-time line-up has been mostly miss over the past few years and they continued to keep people on for while (the head of of ABC Entertainment was just replaced, but will most likely not have much of an impact until this fall at the earliest.)

TV series are a weird bird to me. All interesting info. Thanks.