Want the REAL reason why it was not picked up?
Warner Bros approched David E Kelley to write a script for wonder woman. Since David E Kelley is known for Alley McBeil and other controversial characterizations of Women, the news of Mr. Kelley doing a script for Wonder Woman was big news in comic book circles and was perceived as a huge negative from the strong internet based wonder woman comicbook community and the aging Lynda Carter purist.
As a MAJOR DC comicbook superhero owned by Warner Bros Wonder Woman comes with a HUGE licensing fee. If any network wants to air the show they would have to pay the licensing fee. (pretty much the same reason Smallville has so many restrictions to avoid the licencing fee or have it reduced)
After finishing the script David E Kelley and Warner Bros began shopping the script around to networks. All but NBC rejected. At the time NBC was in transition to new ownership and a new CEO. They where and probably still are the lowest rated TV station so they needed a big hit and a big name to revitalize them. So they decided to give the script a shot and ordered it
At this point NBC was in a make or break situation. In one hand they had a potential HUGE hit. In the other a HUGE financial burden if the show failed to impress and they paid the dreaded licencing fee for Wonder Woman. Confronted with this dilema the DAVID E Kelley script was purposly leaked by NBC to a few comic book freindly online news blogs and organizations.
Directly comparing the TV show with the Comics with complete disregard to any entertainment value it may have, these online news organizations and professional blogs summarily ripped the script as not being worthy of even being in the same plane of existance as our universe much less on television with regard to the real Wonder Woman. Readers acting as sheep soon followed suit in the complaints without having read the script themselves.
The Script was revised, as most first draft scripts are, and the un aired pilot was made. Even though the the revised script which was purposly leaked by NBC again, got better reviews, the comic book internet fans where already in MOB MENTALITY because of the first script and where unwilling or incapable of judge anything for themselves especially after the first leaked screens and photos of the shoot were appearing online and the internet blogs and news sites made there comments.
Soon after the whole un-aired pilot was leaked by NBC to the online new blogs. This time they did not pan it completely but suggested that the depiction of Wonder Woman was wrong. However, some actually enjoyed it. Unfortunatly, the online MOB MENTALITY of comic book fans and Lynda Carter purist could not even comprehend any type of logical thought "This is not MY Wonder Woman they SCREAMED" after looking at 20 second to 2 minute clips of an unfinished unaired pilot of a show that was designed to last at-least 3 season (FACEPALM). The practice of out doing there fellow comicbook fans and Lynda Carter Purists with new and witty ways to trash a pilot was much more important than any rational thought about how the story could potentially play out during the course of the first season.The online blogs and news websites could careless as long as the posts kept flowing on there websites increasing there potential for profit
So why did NBC decide to leak the original script the revised script and the pilot?
because the very large some of money that NBC would have to pay for Wonder Woman only comes into effect if the pilot was televised. By leaking the scripts and pilot they get the feedback they need so they can basically go throught the process of making the show and airing it (LEAK) without paying the licencing FEE!
So basically NBC hedged its bet in the Wonder Woman and won. They saved a TON of money. They also pretty much sealed the FATE of any Wonder Woman TV show Cartoon and probably Movie hopes.
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