Back in March, there was tons of buzz around the potential NBC show, Wonder Woman. There was controversy over her fetish/latex looking costume, so it was changed. There was controversy over the casting choice, but that wasn’t changed. But since Wonder Woman was so far out into the media, everyone assumed the show would be apart of NBC’s fall schedule.
But, it isn’t.
NBC has announced there fall lineup, and Wonder Woman isn’t on it. It isn’t particularly clear as to why NBC dumped the heroine show, they have said that it wasn’t because of the pilot or her costume issues. E!Online thinks there is a conspriacy against ‘Wonder Woman’ projects, since this is just apart of a large number of botched WW reboots. According to IMDB, there is a ‘Wonder Woman’ film in development slated to be released in 2015, but if history continues to repeat itself, that won’t come to pass either.
Why does Hollywood hate ‘Wonder Woman’? ‘Superman’ has gotten plenty of reboots, though the only good versions of ‘Superman’ have been the Christopher Reeve films and the CW show Smallville. ‘Batman’ is loved by everyone and has had a plethora of television shows and films. But why the discrimination against ‘Wonder Woman’? What did she do to Hollywood to make them hate her? I could make it easy and say that Hollywood is just sexist and likes men centered shows better, but the fall TV lineup is actually full of female centered shows.
NBC could have dumped Wonder Woman to avoid a potential flop; they’ve been in 4th place for a long time, and their slate of 15 new shows has enough muscle (Deborah Messing, Chelsea Handler, Christina Applegate, and more) to potentially improve the Peacock’s ratings. There probably isn’t a conspiracy at all, but just NBC being smarter with their lineup. Which is fine, I guess.
But I still wanted to see Wonder Woman, and I really was looking forward to adding that show to my DVR. Maybe the movie will come out of development and come to a theater, one day. I’ll just keep the hope alive.
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