The success of DC comics heroes on TV came about once top leadership at Warner stopped the movie division from insisting that its plans always had to come first, says Variety: "Superhero TV Thrives After Warner Bros. Loosens Film’s Grip on DC Entertainment"
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I'm grateful for this change in their corporate thought processes. It reminds me of the fairly recent time when TV actors an screenwriters were thought to be automatically inferior to movie actors and screenwriters. Once some highly-respected film actors started going back-and-forth between movies and TV the artificial barriers began to dissolve. Today the quality or acting and production (and success) are not more or less likely between the two media.
I'm glad, too. People got to enjoy Smallville for a long time on TV while the movie division couldn't get its act together on making a Superman movie. And Smallville paved the way for Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and the upcoming Legends of Tomorrow -- which wouldn't have been allowed to happen if they were still waiting for the movie division to get its act together.
That explains a lot!
Some would argue that the movie division still has yet to get their act together.
ClarkKent_DC said:
Sounds like they've changed to competing against marvel instead of competing against each other.
They don't seem to know what they're doing on the big screen, although so far they've had better luck on TV than Marvel.
As I noted above.
Ronald Morgan said:
I would argue that DC's movies are better than their TV shows. Not that I think the movies are masterpieces, I just don't like the TV shows.
The movies are at least aimed at a variety of audiences whereas the TV shows are all aimed at the CW demographic, of which I am not a part.
Maybe if DC spread itself across network and syndication, after all Supergirl is ok for the cw audience, but there are plenty of other character that could be good for other audiences. A House of Mystery anthology show could be aimed at a different audience. I don't think the producers have realized just how much of a genre range that comics can have, they only know the superhero ones. Then again Constantine didn't really work did it? But a made for kids Metal Men would be great. It would be interesting to see an adult level networks take on Doom Patrol.
Detective 445 said:
Good point Mark. Cain and Abel hosting a horror show could work (it worked for Tales from the Crypt a number of years). The dynamic between these two could be humorous at times as well (as long as it doesn't go to a campy extreme).
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