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Mark Redfield		#61	[-]
May 12 11 10:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Word is that NBC passed on the Wonder Woman pilot... Mark Redfield Visit www.redfieldarts.com <
tonyrivers		#62	[-]
May 12 11 11:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Given the fact that not too many new TV series are successful, maybe they'll have Wonder Woman in the wings as a possible replacement.
starhawk60.movieserialmess...		#63	[-]
May 13 11 1:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I read an Entertainment Weekly article that the pilot fared poorly with test audiences. Apaparently the pilot had Diane Prince as a corporate CEO by day and Wonder Woman by night with a fleet of jets at her command and the audience couldn't quite swallow the premise. Also, David E. Kelly wanted a commercial free premiere which didn't quite sit well with the NBC brass.
Servant of Legendre		#64	[-]
May 13 11 5:41 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
tonyrivers		#65	[-]
May 13 11 1:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It had a great, promotable brand, top female superhero, Wonder Woman, experienced TV creator behind it, David E. Kelley, and an appealing star, Adrianne Palicki. So why didn't the Wonder Woman pilot go to series? We'll probably need Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth to find out what NBC's executives really thought of the pilot and why exactly they decided not to go with it, but here are some potential reasons. Despite some negative early speculation, the pilot was not a disaster as some suggested. People who have seen it describe it as "ambitious" and "well crafted". But its screenings and testing were very mixed. "The audience couldn't buy into the modernization," one insider said. There were early signs of resistance against updating the classic franchise and the character when fans slammed the superhero's new, contemporary costume. "It was a conceptual thing," another insider said. "Do we need a comic book hero?" While superheroes they have done gangbusters on the big screen, there haven't been successful recent comic book-based TV series except for the teen angst-filled Smallville, which was not a straight adaptation of the Superman comics but rather an original prequel. Maybe that's why there was ambivalence in the marketplace when Kelley's Wonder Woman spec was first taken out in early January. There were no takers until Bob Greenblatt started at NBC and picked it up to pilot. BTW: When the Adam West Batman pilot was screened to test audiences back in the 1960's, it received some of the lowest scores ever for a TV pilot but ABC then needed shows and so OKed it to series and it became a big hit. (Human Target has been cancelled too!) Last Edited By: tonyrivers May 13 11 1:31 PM. Edited 2 times.
Grant		#66	[-]
May 13 11 4:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	starhawk60 wrote: Also, David E. Kelly wanted a commercial free premiere which didn't quite sit well with the NBC brass. I don't know his shows from Adam, but good for him, no matter how unrealistic that is. My question is, why don't producers, directors, or even actors with a lot of pull ever seem to demand that their shows be run without HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE POP-UPS??? At least, I never hear about any such demand, and that one WOULDN'T be so unrealistic.
starhawk60.movieserialmess...		#67	[-]
May 13 11 10:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm with you Grant. I love the the Simpson's Treehouse Of Horror episode where Marge Simpson had it out with the Fox pop ups that appeared at the bottom of the screen. As to Wonder Woman, Tony, after the recent axings of V, The Event, No Ordinary Family, et al., I seriously have my doubts WW would have made through one season. Thankfully we still have Fringe.
tonyrivers		#68	[-]
May 13 11 11:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Fringe was lucky but it probably will get cancelled before too long. When you look at the shows that did get approved to go to series, most of them don't look very appealing and most wont last long anyway.
starhawk60.movieserialmess...		#69	[-]
May 15 11 11:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I just looked at the fall schedule for NBC on the Entertainment Weekly website and I have one word for it, Grimm (pun intended). The only show other than Fringe that I have any interest in is Spielberg's Terra Nova
tonyrivers		#70	[-]
May 18 11 5:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TVLine interview with NBC's President: TVLINE \| You famously plucked Wonder Woman from the ashes. What were you hoping for from the pilot that you didn’t get? I was happy to make the pilot. I don’t know that I’m the best audience for this genre. It was tricky for me to step back and take a look at it and see if this was going to be the right take on this show. With this kind of audience, you have to get these things absolutely right; there’s no room for error. At the end of the day, I didn’t think we had done that. TVLINE \| Everyone and their sister wants to get their hands on the pilot — mostly to see how bad it really is. Are you concerned about it leaking? Would it embarrass you? No. Not at all. The action is amazing. Adrianne Palicki is beautiful. Elizabeth Hurley is fantastic. It’s like any creative thing — there are going to be people who like it or don’t like it. I have people who don’t like some of our hit shows. I’m not embarrassed about anything. It’s all subjective. Sounds like the mixed response it got from test screenings is why the show was not picked up. But the fact "everyone and their sister" wants to see the pilot should give him a clue that maybe there is enough interest in a Wonder Woman show after all. But who says TV executives are smart?
Dale Sherman		#71	[-]
May 19 11 4:29 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Seems like they could have always cut this down a bit and tossed it to SyFy. If it's so bad that they're not doing that ... it must have been pretty bad. Thing is, if they wanted to do "Businesswoman by day - Superhero by night!" Why didn't they just bring back Rose & Thorn (who appeared in the back pages of Wonder Woman comics for a time, come to think of it)? It would have been perfect - a woman who has a split personality that is a superhero of which she has no idea. Think of how you could develop the story-arc on that one - her slow discovery that she's this other person; are there other personalities at work here; is there something more sinister at work that is making her this way. And think of the publicity when mental health advocates got hold of that! Well, yeah, that's true. But I think they could still do it and work it out so as to avoid a lot of the controversy that is possible with such a character. Certainly would work better as a television series than corrupting the Wonder Woman character and then wondering why it didn't work. For gosh sakes - Diana Prince was in the military - how can you strip that away, make her a businesswoman and say that it's better for an action-adventure series?
tonyrivers		#72	[-]
May 19 11 8:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"I hate to disappoint anybody," NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said. "I know there are legions of fans of the original show. ... They made a really fine pilot and Adrianne Palicki did a fantastic job. You look at what you have, what you need, and it just didn't seem to fit in with what we were doing. We did what was best for the schedule. It does give one pause. You're almost damned if you and damned if you don't. It's tricky." This may not be the end of the story--the pilot may be shopped around. Still, the networks rejected it at the script stage partly for reasons of expense, and the basic cable networks have even smaller budgets for original series. So the NBC chairman passed on the series, even though "there are legions of fans of the original show" and the pilot was "fine" because "it didn't fit in" with their schedule. I'd laugh if another network picked it up and it had better ratings than the new NBC shows!
tonyrivers		#73	[-]
May 28 11 10:40 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A more favorable review with screencaps: wonder woman review
Dr Acula		#74	[-]
Jun 10 11 8:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A tiny, tiny motion clip of the failed pilot:
Dr Acula		#75	[-]
Jun 23 11 2:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A longer cut scene that really gives a sense of the action at least:
tonyrivers		#76	[-]
Jun 25 11 1:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	WB had the clip removed from you tube, but Movieweb still has it up (but who knows for how long): 35 seconds of WW passing through security (FYI: there usually is a very brief advertisment first)
HalLane		#77	[-]
Jun 25 11 2:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	She looks really good.
Dr Acula		#78	[-]
Jun 25 11 2:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The clip I linked was a minute and a half, and it has WW opening up a cargo door to a warehouse full of ruffians. Adrianne was positively titanic as Wonder Woman, and I imagine the superhero action would be fantastic in the pilot - the other part would have been about like Ally McBeal based on plot descriptions.
tonyrivers		#79	[-]
Jul 21 11 12:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Superhero Shows blog has 3 more Wonder Woman clips; the first is about 5-6 minutes long and shows lots of her in action (the chase sequence and even the "infamous" pipe in the throat scene) the third clip is also the much discussed Diana in the board room scene..... 3 wonder woman pilot clips NOTE: first you have to wait until the advertisements end....the three clips I first saw yesterday were from other sites and DID NOT have adverts; I'm guessing WB had them taken down and so they were posted on daily motion site. So it might be a good idea to check them out now before WB has these removed.... Last Edited By: tonyrivers Jul 21 11 12:56 PM. Edited 1 times.
Rider		#80	[-]
Jul 21 11 2:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Far to over the top for my tastes. Also what's with the lawyer up thing, were they trying to do the whole vigilante thing?

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