From deadline.com

Wonder Woman will fly this pilot season after all. New NBC entertainment president Bob Greenblatt capped a day of high-profile pilot pickups with a surprise order to David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman reboot. Obviously hailing from Warner Bros. TV.

WBTV took Kelley's Wonder Woman spec out to the networks in the first week of January. At the time, NBC was the most interested but, with Greenblatt still on the sidelines, the network couldn't commit to the type of license fee that the studio was seeking in order to do the show Kelley had envisioned, and WBTV decided to shelve the project. With Greenblatt now firmly taking the reins and Kelley just delivering one of the most promising new series for NBC this season, Harry's Law, NBC stepped up to greenlight Wonder Woman. The project is described as a reinvention of the iconic D.C. comic in which Wonder Woman -- aka Diana Prince -- is a vigilante crime fighter in L.A. but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life. "I had a lot of fun writing it," Kelley said of the script at TCA last week when the project had just been put on hold. "It's a huge project, and it was probably a bit too much to ask anyone to try to chew on it for next season. But I'm confident it will still happen. It's a very complicated piece, which is the most fun thing about it."


I'm sort of hesitant about this. Having Diana be a corporate executive feels off to me, what's wrong with having her be an Amazonian princess (too worried of it being hailed as the 2nd coming of Xena?). I'm sure they won't strip her of her powers, but it reminds me of what they did to her back in the 70's.

A sneak peek of Kelly's pilot episode: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-02/wonder-woman-a-sneak-peak-at-david-e-kelleys-script/

Two excerpts here:
Pages 3-6: Buffy this isn’t: Diana’s first appearance, here in her guise as Wonder Woman, is a Hollywood Boulevard-based action sequence set, cringingly, to the outdated tune of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies,” the first of many musical cues—including tracks by Lady Gaga and Kanye West—in the script, all of which seem to prove that a) Kelley is a few years behind the times, and b) he watches a lot of Glee, since nearly all of these songs have been covered by the show choir. We’re meant to see Diana as a fierce female warrior, lasso of truth at her side, as she takes down a fast-moving suspect, but there’s a weird juxtaposition between attempts at humor and plodding “action.”

Pages 38-47: In the script’s most painful sequence, Diana is subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary Committee and forced to give testimony about the events in Hollywood. She ends up filibustering about everything under the sun for several pages: the politics of the LAPD (name checking ex-police chiefs Daryl Gates and William Bratton), the economy, stimulus funds, pharmaceutical companies, Roger Clemens, the FDA and the FCC, and how networks will air commercials about erectile dysfunction but not for condoms. It’s clearly meant to be a showcase scene for the actress playing Diana, a calculated bid at awards and social relevance. Congratulations, David E. Kelley, the transformation of Wonder Woman from superhero to personal mouthpiece is now complete. Adding further insult to injury: real-life California Senator Dianne Feinstein is described as giving Diana a thumbs-up.

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At this rate, I'm generously going to give this two seasons tops.

Ugh, I finally took a look at it. My gripe is actually more with her muscle tone-Diana's an Amazon afterall. As for the costume, I think her short term newer one would work much better for this (so it can be forgotten more easily).

The latest series to make the cut and get the axe from the popular network channel for their highly anticipated Fall lineup have been revealed.

It was announced earlier this year that Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights, Red Dawn) was chosen for the title role of Wonder Woman. Tracie Thoms, Elizabeth Hurley, Cary Elwes, Justin Bruening and Joseph Gatt all had significant roles locked in if the pilot were to be picked up.

The most recent report regarding the pilot's unsure future is that NBC has officially passed on airing it this Fall; though producers may shop it around to other networks and cable outlets.

Playboy, on the other hand, has been given the official green light. The series, which is set at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club in 1963 and centers around Chicago attorney Nick Dalton played by Eddie Cibrian, is being produced jointly between Twentieth Century Fox TV and Imagine TV.

Laura Benanti, Amber Heard, Naturi Naughton, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Leah Renee, David Krumholtz and Wes Ramsey make up the remaining main cast members. Chad Hodge (Tru Calling) wrote the script, which focuses on a group of women working as Playboy bunnies in the Chicago club. The show will use that as a jumping-off point to explore the nation's changing mores and the coming sexual revolution.

The other two additions announced today by NBC are Kyle Killen's Inception-styled sci-fi drama Awake and the dark, fantastical take on the Brothers Grimm stories Grimm by writers David Greenwalt and Jim KoufGrimm.

So there you have it, NBC's trading in a bustier for bunny suits.

Don't forget Heroes if you're going by half a decade.

Kojjiro! wrote:

i'd really like to see a *good* superhero show on TV, DC had a wonderful idea a few years back that they didn't end up going with, it was a shame. (they wanted to do a serial kind of show, with different episodes focusing on B and C listers like The Question and Green Arrow...

Batman The Brave and The Bold is loaded with the lower-tier guys like Bwana Beast, the Weeper, Kamandi the Last Boy, etc.