CW Creating Hourman TV Show

Will it be an hour-long show?

Imagine if they did it 24-style, in real time.

will it be connected to arrow and flash?

Sweet, DC is making big steps

OH JOY OF JOYS!!!! YES!!!! OH MAN I HOPE THIS MEANS WE EVENTUALLY GET A JSA SHOW!!!

Okay probably a bit too much to hope for, but I want a CLASSIC JSA show if that does happen. With a team EXACTLY like this one if possible

Also I found a pretty good redesign for Hourman that could work well with the show

@g_man: I love your idea!

Anyway, this looks good. I mean: minor heroes on TV, Big Superheroes on the Big Screen.

I approve. Love the JSA, wonder which one its going to be though? Is the Flash really happening?

Interesting.

Remember when there was going to be a Wonder Woman show? Hourman is clearly more marketable than she is.

I think this could work. @jayso4201 Flash is going to be in a few episodes this season and then they'll decide if the show is a go, I think.

I think that taking over TV (with Agents of SHIELD starting to become less and less liked over time) is the smartest thing DC can do. Its genius.

Wonder Woman needs to be a movie character.

Smaller-time characters on TV, big time characters on movies.

They've having a backdoor pilot for The Flash late in this season of Arrow. Depending on how people like that episode and stuff will determine whether Flash actually happens or not. But I think that if its done right, there won't be a problem getting his own show. :)

First an "biopunk" (what does that even mean) update to The Avenger from and now this. interesting

it sounds like they're merging sandmans power with hourman. I'm just wondering why they don't make a sandman show. Guess he's more popular or something

That would be sweet!

This seems really interesting and I'm glad DC's acknowledging the relatively minor characters. Hourman's power set would make for some good TV.

big Hourman fan, hope this makes it....

Can they just go ahead and rename 'The WB' to 'DCtv'? :D

This is honestly a surprise to me. Hourman is probably one of the last heroes i would've expected. Never really read up on Hourman (loved the JSA though), but i guess this is the perfect reason to start!

Words can't describe how excited I am for this show, I love Hourman!

I am a huge DC guy, but I have to say... WHATTHEHECK!?!?

A JSA show would be great, but a show about Hourman??? Out of all the characters they have... kinda weird.

Animal Man would be cool, if they did a weird take on it like the New 52 version or Morrison!

Suicide Squad would be also great!

Huh, not a big Hourman fan but I like his design and another DC show is always welcome.

Hmm.

Very happy to see DC moving fast on the TV shows. With Marvel beating them in movies it's a very smart move. I've always been interested in Hourman but never really read any of his stories. I'd be up for watching an Hourman TV show though. Hopefully it's connected to Flash and Arrow. Now if only they'd bring in the Question!!!

@g_man: This is cool, even though I don't know much about Hourman except that he was in the JSA. I will still watch it, because I love tuning in comic book shows. I even watched Human Target and Painkiller Jane. The sad things like these two shows will probably not last. I think it will live longer as a JSA show. They are really taking a risk with this one.

@k4tzm4n: You also forgot to mention that DC is also producing a Constantine TV series for NBC.

This sounds pretty cool, good for Hourman.

Good to see them taking some progressive steps,but I'll take this A LOT more seriously when I see it. Sorry for the cynicism,but I don't even know if this will be any good and hopefully they don't turn it into a Young and the restless Soap drama.

Hope it turns out better than "Arrow," still disappointed in that show, and CW's general attitude towards writing vs just shoving action and sex appeal at you.

Limitless (2?)

It could be cool if they use the drug aspect of the character and make it dark.

Wow, did not see that coming!

I love Hourman, hopefully we will see anything of him in the New 52.

I also hope that seeing one hour into the future isn't his only power.

Smallville? Arrow? The Flash? Shazam!? Wonder Woman? Swamp Thing? Human Target? Birds of Prey?

Those characters weren't too big for tv before, so...?

Batman almost had a Smallville type show as well...

Wow, great news, but I was hoping it wasn't on CW.

Not feeling the Hourman TV Show idea. I watch Smallville and now I am watching the Arrow and I love it. I just feel they could come up with a better idea. Why don't they do a tv show based on Black Lightning or even Constantine. Those two would make a better TV show than Hourman in my opinion.

Black Lightning would be cool. Static makes a lot of sense on a show geared towards young girls... I'm surprised more minority heroes are not popping up actually.

Heck, why not Vixen and the Red fighting the Rot or the Question or Vibe?

Hmmm...not feeling this choice

Gordon and Constantine yes, Hourman? -- not so much

Should be interesting how this playsout though -- the concept sound interesting.

And I agree that Wonder Woman should be for the big screens and lesser known characters for TV -- just wouldn't have thought (nor picked for that matter) Hourman for a series though

or why not a live action jsa series? i admit that was the only episode of smallville i enjoyed and if done right it could be one hell of a show. imagine guys like a sandman dr fate alan scott

I was thinking about Rick/Jesse Quick, but then I thought, we already have a Green Arrow/Black Canary and an upcoming speedster series so that'll be impossible

So he doesn't have super strength or anything like he does in the comics? He is just a guy who can see into the future like that Nic Cage movie (Next I think it was called). So they are just sort of using the name like the TV show Mutant X did.

I'm fine with the seeing an hour into the future, but I hope they add more elements from the comic too.

DC, I want MOVIES not teen drama superhero shows.

Constantine is supposedly being worked on over on NBC, http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/27/constantine-tv-show-in-development-at-nbc

awesome, have the comic where he a dr. fate fight grundy.

Wait so he doesn't have superstrength for an hour? He can just see an hour into the future? Not gonna lie, I'm not feeling this choice at all. There are other lesser known DC characters which are much better candidates for a TV show.

Nope.
no idea what hour man does or is :/

The current plan. Which eliminates all of that except Arrow and Flash.

Most people I know who don't read comics didn't know about Green Arrow. They thought he and Hawkeye were one and the same.

And Flash is a well-known character, but they would need to have at least one or two relatively well-known characters starring in shows before they start working on the less-known ones.

That's a weird character choice for a TV show, but whatever. I love the JSA and DC sure as hell doesn't seem to care about the orginal superhero team (because a 5 year timeline is better than 75 years of superhero history)

@k4tzm4n

had to sneak that Bane pic in, huh?

Hourman is an interesting character but the concept for the show doesn't look that good.