DC Comics Trademarks "Gotham" for tv purposes, do you think a Gotham Central show is a good idea?

You mean Law and Order, GCPD edition?

I'd be okay with that.

Sure, as long as Renee Montoya or Kate Kane can get married in an episode... ;)

Bazinga!

From a fan's perspective a Gotham Central show would be fantastic. From any other perspective I can't see how that show would get past the cutting room floor.

@spinningbirdcake: I don't know, lots of people love cop shows and I can see it getting made just because of that. Its basically a cop show but with murderous psychopaths in colorful costumes, and Batman cameos.

It would be an amazing idea and one that could certainly help build the DC cinematic universe if they chose to tie it in like Marvel is doing with SHIELD. We could even get a crossover with the Central City PD and meet characters from there perhaps even a certain Forensic Scientist. Hell even if they dont tie it in to the cinematic universe they could at least tie it in to the Arrow universe, though in a perfect world that universe would be tied to the DC cinematic universe as well.

Well, the GCPD comics were well received, and as long as they somehow manage to get Bryan Cranston as Jim Gordon again then I'm in.

@dctv3363: When you pitch it like that it sounds fantastic. I think for the Batman cameos to work it would have to be an animated show.

Not really sure what you mean. Why would it have to be animated?

@dctv3363: I say it probably would have to be animated because I don't think DC is going to just put any dude in a batsuit and I don't think Ben Affleck is going to show up for a cameo

@spinningbirdcake: That's true. But they could just show him in the shadows, or have a scene similar to the one in the comics where one officer was talking to another officer filling him in on the case. The officer turned around and when he looked back the other officer was gone, and hinted to have been Batman in disguise.

dc hasnt learned yet. like that retarded kid that keeps putting his hands of the grill. live-action tv shows suck. look at birds of prey, smallville, arrow.

@thetimestreamer: Low budget TV shows suck. If they put some faith into their products and put it on a channel that can afford a higher budget they could make some seriously good shows. TV shows have the potential to be more enjoyable than movies, since you can have more time to build characters and can do story arcs that would never be able to be made into movies.

There would be too much pressure to have Batman on the show...and knowing WB, that wouldn't happen.

If you guys want to watch a police/detective show, watch the original Law & Order show.

@sinestro_gl: I honestly don't get this argument. One of the biggest draws for the Batman movies is his villains, which this kind of show would feature regularly. Have you read the Gotham Central comics? They did a great job of showing exactly how this kind of show could work.

Arrow is awesome, but it is a bad characterization of green arrow

Law and Order Gotham edition?

Eh, why not?

Then again, we're talking about the general public. The main appeal of the Batman franchise for those people, of which would make up the majority of the audience for such a show, is Batman himself.

To a certain extent, that exists with a lot of Batman fans that read comics. They read comics for Batman.

Yes.

@sinestro_gl: Actually I've never had that impression at all from the general public, though maybe it's just the people in this area. It seems to me that they care more about the Joker than Batman himself, while comic book readers actually read Batman for Batman. The show would also be able to draw in fans of "cop shows with gimmicks" so that might even it out, I mean look how many of those shows their are already, they apparently have a pretty large audience. I think a Gotham Central show would be different enough from the others to stand out while still drawing in the same crowd + comic book fans.

Jim Gordon, a young Barbara Gordon, Renee Montoya...yeah I'd watch it.

A Gotham Central show would rock.

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