Back in October, we learned the exciting news that producer David E. Kelly was working on a plan to bring Wonder Woman back to TV in a new series that he wrote. After a bit of stalling, it was reported earlier this month that all of the US networks passed on the series and the show was shelved indefinitely. Today we learn that NBC has changed its mind and decided to pick up the series after all … which means that Wonder Woman will return to TV next Fall!

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 … 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.”

So now that we know that Wonder Woman is returning to TV, I can go back to being very worried about the series. I am not sure how happy I am to learn that Wonder Woman/Diana Prince‘s story will change in this new series. A corporate executive by day? Vigilante by night? And these are only just the first changes we’re hearing about … it stands to reason that WW‘s iconic costume will be changed as well. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. As I mentioned before, I have much faith that David E. Kelly can do right by the beloved character … but these changes do sound worrisome to me. I guess we’ll have to wait and see how this new “reboot” (you will note, this is the first time the new Hollywood alt/buzz word “reboot” has been used when referring to this Wonder Woman series) pans out … but it’s coming … whether we like it or not.

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