YTV here in Canada even aired the "Aquaman" pilot. I enjoyed it. Could immediately see what direction the show was going to go in.
It's actually available on DVD...most recently as part of the Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths Blu Ray release.
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Those production drawings would obviously suggest that they debated about using both the classic and current renditions of the costumes. The current costume actually doesn't look too bad in that drawing.
I definitely like the long pants better than the star-spangled panties.
Who's the artist on those production paintings, do you know?
There used to be "showcases" in the summer months where networks burned off their failed pilots, way back in the '70s and '80s, but I don't think there's been anything like that for a while.
And was this pilot really that high-profile outside of comics fandom? Sure, it got a lot of Internet coverage, in those portions of the Internet that care about such things, but how much attention did it really get in the mainstream media? (Sure, the Internet is increasingly mainstream, but it's also very compartmentalized and narrowcasted. People can choose what they want to see and thus different people can have very different perceptions of what's big news and what's completely unheard of. I'm sure there are parts of the Internet where NBC's rejected reality-show pilots got huge coverage and stuff like Wonder Woman was barely mentioned in passing.)
Who's the artist on those production paintings, do you know?
There used to be "showcases" in the summer months where networks burned off their failed pilots, way back in the '70s and '80s, but I don't think there's been anything like that for a while.
And was this pilot really that high-profile outside of comics fandom? Sure, it got a lot of Internet coverage, in those portions of the Internet that care about such things, but how much attention did it really get in the mainstream media? (Sure, the Internet is increasingly mainstream, but it's also very compartmentalized and narrowcasted. People can choose what they want to see and thus different people can have very different perceptions of what's big news and what's completely unheard of. I'm sure there are parts of the Internet where NBC's rejected reality-show pilots got huge coverage and stuff like Wonder Woman was barely mentioned in passing.)
Really? I wasn't impressed enough with Crisis to buy the DVD. Anyone know if it's available separately? I'd prefer to rent it, aka Netflix, if possible.
I also like those production photos posted above.
The initial photo of her in the shiny pants and blue boots did make it into Entertainment Weekly. That is of course an all points entertainment mag that doesn't focus solely on comics.
I feel like I recall it being mentioned at least once in USA Today as well.
Granted both of those were one off mentions and not followed up on but a larger audience was at least given the opportunity to be aware of Wonder Woman's likely new show.
We'll see the pilot. I see that there's some concern about that. It's not going to go away, never to be seen again just because it wasn't picked up.
Why do you think that? Never being seen by the public is the normal fate of rejected pilots. There have been countless failed pilots that were never broadcast or released on home video. If it had been a 2-hour pilot, it might well have been aired as a movie, but it's much more rare for failed 1-hour pilots to see the light of day. (Actually io9 did speculate that the WW pilot might've been stretched to 2 hours at some point, but we have no confirmation of that.)
^ Right.
Quite a number of recent scifi pilots have made it to YouTube, BitTorrent, iTunes and even television, and I do believe that Wonder Woman will make its way to us in a similar fashion. Plus, it's Wonder Woman, not a lousy sitcom that no one knows about or that's best forgotten. That'll help in getting it out there.
I did see a few references to the character being rebooted in newspapers and television's teletext services. In the UK, this was probably mainly due to Liz Hurley, but the involvement of the creator of Ally McBeal (for which he's probably still best known on this side of the Atlantic) also got some notice. As, of course, did the fact that this was a new take on Wonder Woman. However, it wasn't anywhere near on a par with, say, the fuss there might be for a new James Bond or Superman.
I just remembered what I might have been thinking of. The cable network Bravo owns the website Television Without Pity, who has a Brilliant But Canceled section, and I think they might have done it there. At first I thought it was Bravo that did this, but I couldn't find anything about it there. I can't find anything on TWP either, but I'm still pretty sure that's where it was. I don't know why, but I explicitly remember it being somehow related to Bravo.
All I know about Bravo is that it was once a classy fine arts channel and more recently seemed to be nothing but reality shows and The West Wing reruns.
The only times I've watched Bravo in the past ten years were to watch The West Wing.
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Here is how the Wonder Woman shorts outfit would have looked like:
http://wonderwomantv.com/5105/wonder-womans-shorts-look-revealed/
Not bad
http://wonderwomantv.com/5105/wonder-womans-shorts-look-revealed/
Not bad