It’s looking to be very busy time for DC Comics characters on TV. With Arrow a success, The CW are also now working on a spinoff for The Flash and also have Hourman in development – and then there are the DC projects set up at other networks, including Gotham at FOX and Constantine at NBC.

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At the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, I asked the CW president Mark Pedowitz if the decision to make The Flash as a standalone pilot, rather than a backdoor pilot episode of Arrow (as originally planned) meant the show’s chances of being picked up to series were as good as they seemed.“I’m very bullish on the show,” said Pedowitz. “I think what Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Geoff Johns and Marc Guggenheim did introducing the character on Arrow was great. And because of that, we felt that rather than try to squeeze in a spinoff, let’s make it into a bigger pilot. So if we do launch the series, we’ll launch it with a bang like we launched Arrow.”As for Hourman, Pedowitz explained, “We’re still waiting for a script. A lot of [pilot] scripts have not come in yet. We’re waiting for the writers to deliver the scripts. As soon as I can get enough scripts with our development team, we’ll start making the recommendations for pilots.”The CW have one other DC adaptation currently in development, iZombie, based on the Vertigo title. Pedowitz noted it was one of several projects from the busy Rob Thomas, including his about to be released Veronica Mars movie and a just-announced webseries spinoff for Veronica Mars he’s doing for The CW.The CW had been developing a Wonder Woman origin series, Amazon a year ago. Though they passed on the initial script, they’d ordered a second one. However, Pedowitz today revealed, “We did not go forward with it.”As to whether the might revisit the project or character again down the line, Pedowitz remarked, “If it's the right material, absolutely. Again, it always comes from the script. We're being very careful with Arrow. We've being very careful with Flash. These are iconic characters, so we're going to be very careful with Wonder woman. You only get one shot.”With a young Bruce Wayne a focus on FOX’s Gotham, Pedowitz was asked if that meant they could never use Bruce Wayne on Arrow. “Never say never,” he replied. “Remember, Bruce Wayne in Gotham is 12 years old. I think he’ll be a little bit older if he does appear on any of our show.”FOX’s Kevin Reilly had said that they had rights to use all the Batman characters on Gotham, but Pedowitz indicated that didn’t mean that only FOX could use them, saying, “I don’t believe that's quite true. Again, from my sources, I don't believe that's quite true.”