DC capes fans feeling a touch melancholy about SMALLVILLE ending this season and leaving a big, gaping hole in their CW watching can cheer up - - the network’s entertainment prez, Dawn Ostroff, is already thinking about a replacement. According to the Boston Herald, the CW’s harkened its ear to fans’ concerns and it’s currently combing DC’s colossal catalog of classic comics characters for content that’d could be curved into a cool TV show. This isn’t guaranteed, of course. Ostroff’s stressing that they don’t want to put a new DC show up just to put one on.
Still, I’d say the network would be remiss not to continue putting out content with this kind of crossover appeal. I remember SMALLVILLE was originally spun as “ Superman at DAWSON’S CREEK” and it pulled off the mighty task of uniting usually-disparate audiences for ten years straight. So what show could replace SMALLVILLE? A Green Arrow spin-off seems like it’d be an easy contender. I’d suggest maybe Blue Beetle, given that there’s already been some test footage for a show, but that’s looking like something geared more towards the sensibilities of WB sister station, Cartoon Network. Maybe this is complete the roundabout and lead to BRUCE WAYNE finally getting on the air. You’ll recall that a show about Batman’s globe-trotting, pre-mask early days was in development early on and, I suppose, the whole thing ended up splitting into SMALLVILLE and BATMAN BEGINS.
Or perhaps, perhaps, perhaps… this is the angle for Wonder Woman to finally get back into the popular eye. The WB might not be able to get a movie off the ground, but I could see a show reinventing Diana’s early years in man’s world could work. What do you Comic Vine maniacs think? I’m putting you in the exec's chair. What would YOU program and schedule?
Tom Pinchuk's the writer of HYBRID BASTARDS! & UNIMAGINABLE. Order them on Amazon here & here.
