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NBC Rejects David Kelley's Wonder Woman

Ashlocke

By Ashlocke,
Posted on: 2011-05-12 19:40 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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Also, it seems that viewer power has shifted to the point where a single, or even several scantily clad women alone aren't enough to sustain viewership on a series. Now it's more like if you can get enough attractive dudes in a series with semi-decent writing, you've got a shot.
Which explains the popularity of Supernatural, I guess. I have an RPG group with a female GM who freely admits that the only reason she - and apparently legions of women of her age - watches the show is for the cute leads. In fact, give her (and the legions) a show with crappy writing and semi decent acting, but have cute male leads and she'll (and they) be tuning in each week. And then they all go write slash fic about the show.

 

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Which explains the popularity of Supernatural, I guess. I have an RPG group with a female GM who freely admits that the only reason she - and apparently legions of women of her age - watches the show is for the cute leads. In fact, give her (and the legions) a show with crappy writing and semi decent acting, but have cute male leads and she'll (and they) be tuning in each week. And then they all go write slash fic about the show.
More like it explains Smallville.

Supernatural has been one of the best shows on TV for a while.

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Which explains the popularity of Supernatural, I guess. I have an RPG group with a female GM who freely admits that the only reason she - and apparently legions of women of her age - watches the show is for the cute leads. In fact, give her (and the legions) a show with crappy writing and semi decent acting, but have cute male leads and she'll (and they) be tuning in each week. And then they all go write slash fic about the show.
The fail in this post is strong.

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Official NBC announcements.

Well we do get a gritty cop drama set in a world where Grimm's fairy tales are real. I'm guessing a half a season for that. Yea NBC.

On the remake train, ABC is relaunching Charlie's Angels. Oh boy.

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Official NBC announcements.

Well we do get a gritty cop drama set in a world where Grimm's fairy tales are real. I'm guessing a half a season for that. Yea NBC.

On the remake train, ABC is relaunching Charlie's Angels. Oh boy.
The Playboy Club...fail. Just. Fail.

Three cop dramas plus another show based on someone's stand up comedy plus another Will Arnett vehicle. Fantastic choices there NBC! Way to stretch out of your comfort zone!


 

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And that's all she wrote.

Wait, no, this is all she wrote: Why "Wonder Woman" can't get off the ground:
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In a world full of successful men of the Spider, Super, Bat and Iron variety, there is something sad about the failure to launch just one butt-kicking woman. But just as the presence of a top-billed female in a script shouldn't be an instant kiss of death, it likewise doesn't automatically make the whole shebang a worthy endeavor either. Did NBC give a pass to "Wonder Woman" because of that tricky-to-sell second word of the title? Or did the network brass simply remember "The Cape"? (Making them, by the way, the only people in America who do.)
So instead of superheroines we can look forward to shows about Playboy bunnies, airline stewardesses, and bartenders? Suffering Sappho indeed.