Do you think it's a stigma attached to her based upon the old show?

the new costume because its more realistic and practical and it should be made because i want tone of the best representatives of women in live action

I honestly feel like Wonder Woman is just one of the hardest characters to handle just right. I mean, you can see this from the comic, where countless writers have failed to truly capture her character properly. That's only magnified when it comes to animated features, TV shows, and of course, movies. If they got a solid creator from her past like Greg Rucka or George Perez, she might stand a better chance

I think an animated show would work better than live-action because it's cheaper and you don't need an actress that resembles the character. Though if they did a Live-action show they would have to go with the new look, though I'm worried whether or not they would be able to find a good actress who is both beautiful and tough.

I guess Hollywood and television are having a hard time figuring out superheroes.   Remember these are the not-so-creative people who run the show.   They notice that “non-costumed” shows and movies seem to do really well : Heroes, Hancock, Smallville ...   Whereas Superman Returns bombed.   The square peg being Batman, but since Batman wears black leather it’s non-costume territory.

The lesson for today : people want dark and gritty superheroes, with toned down costumes in dark alleys.

And then we get to Wonder Woman, Paradise Island , the stars and stripes bathing suit, Greek Gods and all that.

Executives must be terrified out of their minds about this … Is it Xena ? Is it supposed to be funny ? Can we make it funny ? But the audience wants dark and gritty and no costumes and she is a princess, where is the black leather ? Dark Alleys ? Cheetah ? * POP *

By now secretaries are finding men in suits on the floor, twitching and drooling, broken forever by the evil that is Wonder Woman …

Face it, the world is not ready for Wonder Woman.

It's DC's greed man.  WB is a partner/owner of DC and they can cut them a licensing deal  (how about some revenue sharing instead to get this done)?  DC is horrible at cross promotion.  Look at how much sales of Walking Dead, Scott Pilgrim and such do when there are multiple media platforms for a character/property.
 
DC wants all their money up front and doesn't look at the big picture, i.e. popularity of the property increases due to reaching a wider audience, etc.  
 
.. and they can't for the life of them wonder why they are always second best in popularity...  they aren't going to gain a younger following for their characters in just comic books!  That's why DC comic fans are mainly all old men... other than the bat stuff because the movies helped introduce a whole new fan base!

While I think a WW show could work really well there's definitely a cringe factor when it comes to the character. She's very kitschy on the surface. The best way to reintroduce her to a TV audience would be to not name it WW outright and let people discover the character on their own. A way to do it would be to use a younger, inexperienced Diana. Kinda like the JLU cartoon version via Buffy. (I'm certainly not asking for a Smallville or the current JMS take.). 

Another essential ingredient is well written humor as Gail Simone has proven! Actually,Simone is possibly an essential ingredient herself.)

I'd watch a WW show if it were done right...I'd watch a WW movie if it were done right...I loved the animated one they put out in 09, just not sure how you could really do a live action one...

Just give it to Bruce Timm & run Wonder Woman as an animated series. Then, it'll work brilliantly.

It seems like Wonder Woman, even though she is the most recognizable female superhero, is a really hard sell.  It seems that superheroes need to be dark, grim, and gritty in order to work well on television or film.  Kind of how like the Cape is Batman with half the calories.  Superheroes that have more of a sunny disposition (other than spider-man) dont seem to work.  Wonder Woman has always came off to me as a mostly positive character, which is a turn off to an increasingly cynical audience.

Wonder Woman is risky, i guess like you said they fear they won't be a demand for a story about  a woman in hot shorts with a cowboy whip that makes people tell the truth. I'm not sure how a wider audience will accept her story. 
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I guess Hollywood and television are having a hard time figuring out superheroes.   Remember these are the not-so-creative people who run the show.   They notice that “non-costumed” shows and movies seem to do really well : Heroes, Hancock, Smallville ...   Whereas Superman Returns bombed.   The square peg being Batman, but since Batman wears black leather it’s non-costume territory.

 

The lesson for today : people want dark and gritty superheroes, with toned down costumes in dark alleys.

 

And then we get to Wonder Woman, Paradise Island , the stars and stripes bathing suit, Greek Gods and all that.

 

Executives must be terrified out of their minds about this … Is it Xena ? Is it supposed to be funny ? Can we make it funny ? But the audience wants dark and gritty and no costumes and she is a princess, where is the black leather ? Dark Alleys ? Cheetah ? * POP *

 

By now secretaries are finding men in suits on the floor, twitching and drooling, broken forever by the evil that is Wonder Woman …

 

Face it, the world is not ready for Wonder Woman.

"

The world is not ready for the all powerful....... WONDER WOWAN! (Bling Blang!)

I don't really know if a WW show could work. Opposite to her male colleagues (Batman and Superman) the universe of characters surrounding Diana lacks a proper level recognition outside the kingdom of comic book fans. Just for the sake of example, my father was never big about comic books, but even he knows about Luthor, Lois Lane, Gordon or the Joker. Ask a not-fan about Diana and you'll get some big puzzled expressions.
 
This makes the character difficult to use and/or write, since unless one is willing to try a massive storyline about the Greek Gods (liek George Perez did) it's really hard to do anything effective with the character. Plus no network will ever touch a Greek Gods based storyline with a female lead, for fear of the Xena factor.
 
Finally there are two extra elements that makes WW hard to handle. First of all sexuality, aside from the obvious bathing suit issues, Diana was born on a island populated only by extremly beautiful immortal women, there is enough here to cause stuppid homophobic accusation flying. Second and most important WW was supposed to be a different kind of hero, she wasn't supposed to simply run around beating people up, but she was supposed to try to make a significative positive difference in the world. Not just doing good, but inspiring others to do so, which is quite hard to handle in an action TV format.

There are so many characters that are hard to handle, most of them sadly are female characters because the demo for most comic book readers and the people who go to see Superhero movies are usually males from the age of 15-30. I've asked many of my friends who are females, even ones who read comics already, about female characters are sadly most of them don't even care to read about them. They have to be done just right and most of the time are the hardest to market, which makes it a task most people aren't up to because they would rather take the easier one like Batman who they don't really have to market and know will make the profit they desire.  
 
Bottom line, as much as I hope a movie or series goes through and gets a lot of attention with a female superhero like Wonder Woman, I don't think it will happen soon because people just aren't ready for it and may never be.

Assuming Deadline is accurate, the news isn't that negative.  There are only three big national networks with Fox a distant fourth and the CW barely a competitor.  ABC is developing Marvel properties and NBC is only temporarily in flux.  I guarantee that the licensing fee and Kelley's salary could be waived and the CW still wouldn't be able to afford the show nor would it fit their demographic, look at their lineup: 90210, Gossip Girl, Hellcats, One Tree Hill, Life Unexpected, Vampire Diaries... my skin started to ooze Neutrogena  just typing that list.  Even their genre programming- Smallville, Supernatural, Nikita- are bottom basement budgeted compared to an action adventure series on any of the Big Three.  WBTV more or less screened Fox first, but for reasons similar to CW they'd never carry this show. 
 
So the only network to actually judge the show on its merits- not politics or production costs- was CBS and they were split.  Yeah, it wasn't a slam dunk, but it also wasn't a wholesale rejection. 
 
What we can glean from this is that Kelley's vision was ambitious and expensive- beyond the budgets of CW and Fox- and at least appealing enough to get half of CBS excited, despite having a lineup lacking scifi genre TV (a Tuesday sitcom block, reality TV, and procedurals)... which is nothing to sneeze at.  Additionally, that the vision was sufficiently clear not to be compromised in order to accommodate said networks.  That, to me, is not necessarily a bad thing... just a timing issue. 
 
When NBC's program director gets settled they might be the ideal network for a flashy franchise like Wonder Woman having consistently invested in genre shows like Heroes, Chuck, The Cape, etc.  If they pass, then they might have to rethink the vision but it might be tough to let go of Kelley's having already paid for it and it actually managing to generate some interest.

" Wonder Woman is risky, i guess like you said they fear they won't be a demand for a story about  a woman in hot shorts with a cowboy whip that makes people tell the truth. I'm not sure how a wider audience will accept her story. "

The Birds of Prey had a freakin T.V. show but Wonder Woman cant get no luv? Does anyone remember Xena and how popular a show that was? It was almost a perfect Wonder Woman adaptation. So why the hesitation? I'm not buying money being an issue.

Remember Zena! this could have been the new Zena and I would have enjoyed watching that, but I am pretty sure they were considering a Smallville approach and that's just not something I want to watch right now I honestly don't blame networks for turning the show down.

If we ever do get to see a Wonder Woman show, I'd hope that we'd get the old costume.  The new one looks like crap.

The first major problem any company would have with Wonder Woman is her costume. Without the whole DC universe of stupid looking consumes in the real world. You could set the show on Themyscira but why would you even bother when you could just make your own show using Greek Myths and Legends.

"It's DC's greed man.  WB is a partner/owner of DC and they can cut them a licensing deal  (how about some revenue sharing instead to get this done)?  DC is horrible at cross promotion.  Look at how much sales of Walking Dead, Scott Pilgrim and such do when there are multiple media platforms for a character/property.  DC wants all their money up front and doesn't look at the big picture, i.e. popularity of the property increases due to reaching a wider audience, etc.    .. and they can't for the life of them wonder why they are always second best in popularity...  they aren't going to gain a younger following for their characters in just comic books!  That's why DC comic fans are mainly all old men... other than the bat stuff because the movies helped introduce a whole new fan base! "

personally I want the original costume, for iconography if nothing else, but the new one may fit better with a smallville style live action show, so I'd be happy with either

 
Nooooo :( 
I was soo excited for this.

I think the biggest hurdle for Diana at present is the decline of interest in mythological stuff. Realism is popular to the point of the ultra-real Nolan Batman movies and the Iron Man movies, and supernatural is popular insofar as all the vampire shows out now, but a character who gets their powers from a pantheon of gods is not something current audiences seem interested in.  
 
The other problem with a WW tv show is that aside from somewhat familiar gods being the antagonists, WW's rogues aren't very well known. Everyone could name 1 or 2 Batman villains or maybe even Superman villains (to paraphrase the Venture Brothers "Batman has the best villains"). But aside from the Gods, Diana's baddies seem pretty forgettable.

Sorry to say it, but it's because they're scared to target a female audience and kind of leave out the boys, when they know that's their strong audience (evidence from smallville)

" yes.......a Wonder Woman TV show can work "

"

I guess Hollywood and television are having a hard time figuring out superheroes.   Remember these are the not-so-creative people who run the show.   They notice that “non-costumed” shows and movies seem to do really well : Heroes, Hancock, Smallville ...   Whereas Superman Returns bombed.   The square peg being Batman, but since Batman wears black leather it’s non-costume territory.

 

The lesson for today : people want dark and gritty superheroes, with toned down costumes in dark alleys.

 

And then we get to Wonder Woman, Paradise Island , the stars and stripes bathing suit, Greek Gods and all that.

 

Executives must be terrified out of their minds about this … Is it Xena ? Is it supposed to be funny ? Can we make it funny ? But the audience wants dark and gritty and no costumes and she is a princess, where is the black leather ? Dark Alleys ? Cheetah ? * POP *

 

By now secretaries are finding men in suits on the floor, twitching and drooling, broken forever by the evil that is Wonder Woman …

 

Face it, the world is not ready for Wonder Woman.

"

I think a Wonder Woman show could definitely WORK, but I'd be deathly afraid that it'd gets mishandled, especially since the prospect of the show seems on such shaky ground as it is.  At this point, I think it makes more sense to make a WW movie rather than a TV show.   
I think the populace at large needs to be reminded what a prominent and STRONG character she is, not just the token female in what is essentially a boys' club.

I feel like the people who work on TV shows and even movies involving superheroes don't take it serious enough and they take too much creative liberty.Wonder Woman has the potential to be a very good series even it's live action and if it lasts long enough she could probably get the well deserved exposure she needs to get more people to start reading her books, but I always have a feeling that someone is going to mess it up by adding to much of their own random changes.I hate Smallville because of this.There is almost nothing about Smallville that makes me feel like I'm watching a show about Superman.

" the new costume because its more realistic and practical and it should be made because i want tone of the best representatives of women in live action "

It worked in the 70's. For awhile. 
 
If I had the time, i'd explain why it wouldn't work today. 
 
PS, I don't get why The CW can't afford the license fee to something that they indirectly own. 

For those who cite the 70’s series, it was a different time.  People today are too cynical to accept this.   Now this may be the angle you may want to look at.  

Imagine that one day a woman with amazing abilities claiming to be sent by the Greek Gods is here to help us and inspire us …

Can you imagine the ruckus ? The newspapers would have a field day, talk radio would explode.   Certain religious leaders would condemn her.   She’d be all over the tabloids, blogs and opinion pieces etc …

And then we get the nutjobs who wear a costume hoping to get tied and beaten up.

But after a while she starts to make a difference, it’s easy to be cynical, but it is refreshing to have somebody who isn’t infected by it, somebody who really tries and can make a difference.

Make her a real heroine, beset by a world that thinks it doesn’t need heroes.   Make her somebody strong, with unshakable convictions and integrity who has to fight people who want to smear her, take her down and drag her into the mud.   Put WW up against unscrupulous people like a media magnate 1/3rd J Jonah Jameson, 1/3rd Kai Winn from DS9 and 1/3rd Lex Luthor.
 
That might work …

" It's DC's greed man.  WB is a partner/owner of DC and they can cut them a licensing deal  (how about some revenue sharing instead to get this done)?  DC is horrible at cross promotion.  Look at how much sales of Walking Dead, Scott Pilgrim and such do when there are multiple media platforms for a character/property.  DC wants all their money up front and doesn't look at the big picture, i.e. popularity of the property increases due to reaching a wider audience, etc.    .. and they can't for the life of them wonder why they are always second best in popularity...  they aren't going to gain a younger following for their characters in just comic books!  That's why DC comic fans are mainly all old men... other than the bat stuff because the movies helped introduce a whole new fan base! "

Alot of this argument seems to be about realism and you know what, I'm sick and god damned tired of realism cause lets be honest tv and movie versions of realism is barely closer to reality than fantasy I'd like to be able to relate to a character's personality but that doesn't mean they need a normal life. I related just fine with luke skywalker and han solo despite the fact that I know that crap would never happen. Another thing why does everything have to be all grim and gritty sure it works for batman and it would work for wolverine if fox was capable of doing anything right but many characters aren't meant to be like that. 

"For those who cite the 70’s series, it was a different time.  People today are too cynical to accept this."

1. 
   I can think of three reasons why a new WW show hasn't taken off 
    
   1. Everyone will immediately think of Linda Carter's version and people will be angry if it isn't similar
   2. If you try something closer to the comics, wouldn't it end up like Xena in star-spanggled panties 
   3. In DC's eyes she's not Green Lantern
   
   

My impressions on Wonder Woman are mostly based on the silly 70s TV show and the Justice League cartoons. I even saw the recent DC Animated movie. I can honestly say I still don't really know what her personality is. Other than her chest, nothing about her stands out. I think that's the main problem anyone trying to adapt her has to deal with, licensing fees notwithstanding. 

 Agh It needs to be a Movie...not a damn Tv Series again..No one is going to watch...people are too into these damn reality TV shows to know what good quality TV is!....I stay away from reality crap altogether 

well if its animated thn cartoonnet work(there should be o excuse young justice and batman the brave and the bold are doing fine). if is live action CW should work(smallville doing fine). yet i would like to see how it would do if it was tnt or usa or maybe Tbs. the promblem no one take her seriously wich is dumb shes awesome way better than batman or superman.yet she all ways get crap writters. they wont even give her prodigies there own series and they would sell higer than batmans or supermans. the think is wonder woman dosent get the respect she deserve Dc shpuld change that  or give to marvel maybe they up her up

"Just look at the Flash TV series.  Bright and colorful superhero shows are hard to come by, especially if the solor hero wears bright and colorful costumes.  Everything has to be "dark" to give a more "realistic" feel to today's societal appetite.   Sad. "

"  Agh It needs to be a Movie...not a damn Tv Series again..No one is going to watch...people are too into these damn reality TV shows to know what good quality TV is!....I stay away from reality crap altogether  "

" I think an animated show would work better than live-action because it's cheaper and you don't need an actress that resembles the character. Though if they did a Live-action show they would have to go with the new look, though I'm worried whether or not they would be able to find a good actress who is both beautiful and tough. "

The Flash was cancelled because it was expensive to produce, was preempted by Gulf War coverage on a regular basis, was shuffled around the schedule in order to make up for it but out of sync with TV guides (the periodical and in newspapers), and when it was on, it was up against breakout phenomenon "The Simpsons" and powerhouse "The Cosby Show".  Creatively it wasn't all that bright either- borrowing inspiration heavily from Burton's Batman using Elfman to score, staging most episodes at night, avenging the death of a dead family member, etc.  I disagree with the belief in dark and realistic.  Lois & Clark was anything but.  The Power Rangers are an unstoppable franchise even today.  Spider-Man and Iron Man are bright and colorful.  And the vast majority of scripted TV is far from realistic... if anything, American tastes seem to run more cartoony and absurdist than others- take the darker and more realistic UK version of "The Office" compared to the live-action cartoon that is NBC's "The Office".  If you deliver on the fundamentals- story, character, and production- the rest will sort itself out. "

Superman and Spider-Man?  Are we talking about a Wonder Woman CARTOON or something? 
 
So I guess Wonder Woman will work... if it was targeted for a Kid's audience.  Power Rangers?  Really?
 
As far as The Office comparisons, sure Wonder Woman will work... if it was going to be based as a colorful Comedy show.  
 
The Flash maybe "expensive", but the fact they couldn't support the cost themselves means the show is not doing it's job.  Like any business, TV shows are made to make a profit.  If the show was any good, who cares if it would have gone up against The Simpsons.  It would still be alive today if it was good.  Heck, Lost was expensive and it went toe-to-toe with the longer running American Idol, and then House for a season later on, but it still faired well.    Heroes' first season was a hit, despite that it premiered with the same timeslot as 24.   The Flash would've probably endured better if it was regarded more as a lighthearted show more than it was serious (see Lois & Clark).   So The Flash, just like any canceled TV show was just a failure.    

Lois & Clark was from the same era as the Flash series; sure we see JSA running around every once in a while, but you won't see Clark donning the blue-red-yellow spandex brief costume in Smallville.  In fact, the premise of all of Smallville's inital and continuing success was the fact that it's target audience (young adults) could relate to the fact, it's based on the grounds of "realism" of Clark BEFORE he donned the costume.  Not because the show is about Clark turning into a caped superhero flying around lifting buildings.  
 
Sure, if the fundementals of the show are delivered properly, ANYTHING will work.  Problem is, none of the aforementioned broadcast companies are willing to put their money on it... literally.
 

I'd prefer the new costume, if only 'cause it's less... objectifying, and I think that a pro-female hero sort of theme to the show would make it work best. Of course, Wonder Woman has always been a good, strong character, but the new costume would help get rid of the image that maybe she's not as strong a female character as she is.
 
I'd definitely watch a Wonder Woman show, though! She's a great character, and I think it'd have a lot of great potential. Hopefully one day they'll do one.