{"id":2307,"date":"2011-01-09T02:43:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T02:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2011-01-09T02:43:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T02:43:06","slug":"wonder-woman-tv-series-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/wonder-woman-tv-series-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"WONDER WOMAN TV Series Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/storage\/Wonder%20Woman%20POSTPONED.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1294505443298\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>David E. Kelley<\/strong>&#8216;s TV reboot of <strong><em>Wonder Woman<\/em><\/strong> from  Warner Bros. TV has been postponed.\u00a0Deadline is reporting that the  series has been shelved because it did not land a deal at a broadcast  network because of what has been noted as &#8220;unfortunate timing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley, creator of the hit show,\u00a0<em>The Practice<\/em> has been  interested in developing this contemporary take on Wonder Woman for some  time. In September he had a meeting with te DC team who also had  expressed interest in launching a new Wonder Woman TV franchise. Kelley  immediately began working on aspec \u00a0script for the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night the script was shopped to the broadcast networks.  Fox and ABC passed and the CW simply could not afford the show. The only  reason they went to Fox with the project is out of courtesy, it had  never really been considered a fit for the network. It is said that  ABC&#8217;s decision to pass was more politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder Woman is a strong empowered woman, which seemed like a good  fit for ABC, but supposedly a potential DC-Marvel clash got in the way.  Disney (which owns ABC) acquired Marvel last year for $4 billion, and  ABC and Marvel have been busy developing Marvel properties, including a\u00a0<em><strong>Hulk<\/strong><\/em> series with <strong>Guillermo del Toro<\/strong> and <strong>David Eick<\/strong> and an adaptation of a Marvel female superhero, <strong><em>Jessica Jones<\/em><\/strong>, with\u00a0<em><strong>Twilight<\/strong> <\/em>writer <strong>Melissa Rosenberg<\/strong>.\u00a0This  decision by ABC to pass on the series left NBC and CBS. Deadline  reports that the executive team at CBS was split on the decision. NBC is  currently undergoing a shift in management, new programming chief Bob  Greenblatt is yet to take the reins, making it \u00a0impossible to get the  type of license fee that the studio was seeking in order to do the show  Kelley had envisioned.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see the situation is truly a result of poor timing. If  there were not so many other superhero TV shows going on this show might  have been picked up. Wonder Woman is expected to be shopped around in  the future and let&#8217;s hope it gets picked up!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David E. Kelley&#8216;s TV reboot of Wonder Woman from Warner Bros. TV has been postponed.\u00a0Deadline is reporting that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}