Could we get a Superman show now that "Arrow" will be ending next year?

[Jayson1]

I think the Batwoman show is kind of a lock to sort of replace the grounded "Arrow" stuff but I was also thinking this might has be the CW clearing a path for a Superman show starring the actor from "Supergirl." People have talked awhile now of seeing a show around him then maybe this would be it? How they tell it I am not sure. A show set in the past while Kara is still a kid or maybe him the future or a version of him on another world. Fun to see Superman emerge in the Arrow/Flash world for example.

Jason

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Eh. It's not totally impossible, but I feel highly unlikely, especially with Supergirl also still on. Even if The CW were looking for yet another DC show to add to the Arrow-verse, I wouldn't get my hopes up about them going with Superman.

Also, if WB Television were going to do a Superman TV show, I think it would be a better corporate move to keep it for the DC Universe and/or the Warner Media streaming service.

 

[urbandefault]

It won't be long before the CW super shows run out of steam and they'll have to find something else to do. Not a prediction, just sayin'.

 

[Noname Given]

I'd say it depends on if the CW feels it would be popular enough to justify; but I figure if so, they'd replace Supergirl with it once the Supergirl Cast contracts run out - as (with the exception of Tyler Hoechlin), the 'new' supporting cast would cost less - although I'm sure they'd spring for the occasional cameo/team up.

 

[Greg Cox]

Forget Superman. I still want a Spectre TV show, darn it.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

The DC catalogue of characters is so massive, it would actually be futile to guess which one they'd go with, even if we knew they'd want to add another show to their roaster. I mean, for all we know, they could go with something like Atomic Knights, Claw the Unconquered, Batlash, L.E.G.I.O.N./R.E.B.E.L., Amethyst, Anthro, or dozens, if not hundreds, of other characters/concepts. Plus, they could make up their own concept and throw several DC characters into it, like they did with LoT.

And I will stretch this point again (even though I don't think anybody missed that, but just in case), there's no indication that The CW even looks to add another DC show beyond Batwoman.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Forget Superman. I still want a Spectre TV show, darn it.

This. And this. And THIS.
it would be a lovely bridge between super hero and horror.

OR...

Dr. Fate. I would love to see that.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Forget Superman. I still want a Spectre TV show, darn it.

Only if the Berlanti group had nothing to do with it. I cannot imagine all that was the best of the Spectre (which was fantastic in his 60s and 70s versions) handled by Berlanti's production company.

 

[JD]

With Supergirl already tackling a lot of characters and story lines from the Superman comics, doing a Superman show at this point would feel kind of redundant.

 

[Mysterion]

Forget Superman. I still want a Spectre TV show, darn it.

Nah. I want a Blue Beetle*/Booster Gold series where they're teamed-up as superhero buddy-cops. I think it's make for a really fun superheo-action show with some great comedic moments.

* the Ted Kord incarnation of the character.

 

[JD]

They really need to introduce Booster Gold in Legends, he would be a perfect fit.

 

[Mage]

I doubt they'll go for Superman. Sofar, CW hasn't gone for the obvious heroes to headline shows, except for maybe Flash. Instead of Superman, Supergirl. Instead of Batman, Batwoman. The Legends, for example.
No, if there will be a new CW show besides Batwoman, it's not going to be one of the obvious three: Batman, Superman, Wonderwoman.

 

[Jayson1]

With all the recent talk of a Black Superman I heard that there is a comic were Superman is black but not Clark Kent. I don't know the name because I don't read comics but what if they went that route?

Jason

 

[theenglish]

Only if the Berlanti group had nothing to do with it. I cannot imagine all that was the best of the Spectre (which was fantastic in his 60s and 70s versions) handled by Berlanti's production company.

I really liked the nineties series myself. I thought it was a great update to the character. But I would really enjoy a new Hellblazer series with a more Vertigo style tone than we are currently seeing.

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

With all the recent talk of a Black Superman I heard that there is a comic were Superman is black but not Clark Kent. I don't know the name because I don't read comics but what if they went that route?

Jason

Four different ones of varying profile actually.

You're probably thinking of Superman of Earth-23, Kalel aka Calvin Ellis aka President Superman (sometimes called variations on "Super!Obama" out-of-universe.

The next highest profile "Black Superman" was probably the post-Flashpoint Earth-2 Superman Val-Zod.

The final two are a bit more obscure: The Superman of Earth-9 aka Harvey Dent aka Tangent Superman (based on a black version of the first concent of psionically empowered Superman (later reworked into Ultra-Humanite and indirectly into Martian Manhunter); and Superman of Earth-D who was basically the Silver Age Superman but black, who appeared a CoIE tie-in and then was revived as part of the "Supermen of the Multiverse" during Final Crisis.

 

[Guy Gardener]

They really need to introduce Booster Gold in Legends, he would be a perfect fit.

Given who Rip's father is in the comics, it's bizarre that they invented all this time orphan bullshit.

 

[Kirk Prime]

Nothing would make me happier than a traditional Superman show, as long as no one who ever wrote for Supergirl works on it. I feel that they butchered the character so badly in their quest for politics that it would be better not to do it at all than to do a Superman show that's just a political forum.

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

Honestly, while I'm up for more Superman on TV (anything to get the taste of the DCEU Superman out of my mind, who has been far more mishandled than the Berlantiverse one), I'm struggling to see the narrative rather than marketing point of a Superman solo show as we already have two 'hopeful symbols of goodness' in Barry and Kara leading their own shows, and the various team dynamics within both (and indeed Legends of Tomorrow) somewhat blunt any narrative arguements for a Superman-centric Justice League show.

What could work though (spinning off Supergirl) is a Brave and the Bold-style Superman-centric show that gives us Superman (and Lois) travelling the galaxy interacting with the various outerspace heroes and villians that they can't afford to have as series regulars (GLs, LEGION, Darkstars, Adam Strange....)

Alternatively, Superman as a mentor figure on Titans could work. I think that even most of us that liked the series agree that this version of Dick is seriously out of his depth in that situation?

 

[thribs]

I’m sure Batwoman is taking its place. A show that has a excuse to be Batman like.

 

[N-121973]

Honestly, while I'm up for more Superman on TV (anything to get the taste of the DCEU Superman out of my mind, who has been far more mishandled than the Berlantiverse one), I'm struggling to see the narrative rather than marketing point of a Superman solo show as we already have two 'hopeful symbols of goodness' in Barry and Kara leading their own shows, and the various team dynamics within both (and indeed Legends of Tomorrow) somewhat blunt any narrative arguements for a Superman-centric Justice League show.

What could work though (spinning off Supergirl) is a Brave and the Bold-style Superman-centric show that gives us Superman (and Lois) travelling the galaxy interacting with the various outerspace heroes and villians that they can't afford to have as series regulars (GLs, LEGION, Darkstars, Adam Strange....)

Alternatively, Superman as a mentor figure on Titans could work. I think that even most of us that liked the series agree that this version of Dick is seriously out of his depth in that situation?

A CW Arrowverse Superman show could be about the Earth 1 Superman's debut & subsequent career.