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Report: CBS Considering Dropping Supergirl Over Budget Issues
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I mean are there too many superhero shows? Compared to what?
It's probably not an unpopular opinion as much as an odd one. There's like 4 across dozens of channels, unless you're including like the Walking Dead because it's based on a comic book, which is still an odd thing to do.
Yes, but I guess I meant to emphasize Hulu specifically. A subscription based service, or an ad supported free one. Something that doesn't require you to to purchase the episodes. All in addition to being able to watch the day after.
Mortimer Brewster
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With The Good Wife ending and this either being canned or moved, Blue Bloods will be the only show on CBS, I have any interest in.
TheLetdown
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Violence Jack
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I'd probably tune in more if it were on CW. But geez at that price tag.
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Diggeh
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If CW could walk away with both Supergirl and Constantine that'd be juuuuust great.
Bobby Roberts
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I don't understand why he's a full CGI character. That seems unnecessary as hell to me. Does Harewood just not want to wear a full makeup application? I can't imagine it's cheaper to actually fully animate J'onn as opposed to putting a guy in the costume and putting makeup on his face.
It looked like later in the season they started to do this, but still fully animated the face/head.
Shooting in LA is also... I dunno. I don't think they're getting much out of that, either.
Move to a cheaper city
Make J'onn practical effects
Reduce episode count.
And also cut out that intro.
And kill Superman.
Nabs
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That sounds good to me. Not the song part, but the destroying of her universe.
Box office revenue justifies the costs for a big budget 2 hour movie, but TV revenue can't keep up for the amount of content created. People are willing to pay for movies but reluctant to pay a lot for TV.
So TV quality is turning to crap as budgets decrease. Huge volumes of low budget junk mixed in with the occasional show with a decent budget is the new TV.
So TV quality is turning to crap as budgets decrease. Huge volumes of low budget junk mixed in with the occasional show with a decent budget is the new TV.
Father_Brain
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Jesus, people think Supergirl looks "cheap" even by broadcast TV standards? What exactly doesn't, then?
I think people are confiding some of the flying effects, which looks pretty eh when fighting since mostly wire works with the whole show
Because you can see it in the location... when everything isn't in a warehouse or docks... as much as I love Arrow and even SHIELD... the per diem of these locations in cities...
Granted, Gotham is still the best looking comic book show to me
infinit777
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At some point the CW will just host DC superhero shows. They might as well, at that point change the CW's name to reflect that.
^ This, very much this!
Im just messing around, i know they have non comic book related shows. also i am not against the CW taking over supergirl, I personally find all cw superhero shows to be spectacular.
If CW could walk away with both Supergirl and Constantine that'd be juuuuust great.
^ This, very much this!
Superhero shows getting compared to superhero movies.
I'll take okay action so long as the serialised aspects are kept
OdysseusVA
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Theres a sweet Monday night spot available on the CW 
#AllShowsInVancouver
#AllShowsInVancouver
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$3m per episode is crazy.
Put supergirl on team Flash.
Put supergirl on team Flash.
PHOENIXZERO
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Oh okay, it is the licensing fee, not the budget, that's what I thought. WB will probably do as much as it can to keep it airing. How it is selling internationally? If it moves to the CW, the Vancouver move is inevitable which would be kind of disappointing, I don't know if I could take another DC show on the CW set there.
What a weird way to phrase the title? The whole reason most shows get canceled is that there isn't an avenue for profit for their ad sales versus licensing fees.
The show has middling ratings and is not owned by the network, and is fairly expensive. I think it'll could come back, but I'd be surprised.
The budget is probably higher. Most studios take a loss on first season shows.
The show has middling ratings and is not owned by the network, and is fairly expensive. I think it'll could come back, but I'd be surprised.
The budget is probably higher. Most studios take a loss on first season shows.
BobTheFork
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Well, they're going to need a grant to keep Cat.
Calista's talent deal saying the show has to film in LA and then them not getting the tax credit is probably what killed the show's budget.
They have to film in LA but didn't get the tax credit.
Canada is the home of tv sci fi
Bobby Roberts
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Wow.
Well, they shouldn't have cast someone who stipulated in their talent deal they had to shoot series in LA and then bank on getting tax credits through a lottery system.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG
This is not unusual.
Bobby Roberts
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Casting Calista Flockhart
WHAT COULD GO WRONG
WHAT COULD GO WRONG
Thank you. Shit shouldn't have been on CBS in the first place. Knew it was gonna have trouble. Bring it to CW and retcon it having been a different earth.
FTFY
Swoop in CW, Netflix, Amazon, pretty much anyone. The show has tons of potential. I mean, they're doing it a disservice already by not having it on Hulu. It's aimed towards young people, young people watch TV via streaming services. The entire show is like an experiment ran by old men who don't get it.
I've only seen the pilot but she was pretty decent in it, and I've always liked her. I don't fault anyone for wanting to stay around their family. They just shouldn't have cast her and CBS should've put her on another pilot, like Code Black or Beyond Borders when they kicked Anna Gunn off.
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The Jackdog
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honestly i never thought it was a really good show so this doesnt come as much of a surprise
lol...so basically she's the reason for the budget to be that high. Fuck her then.
Kill Cat Grant, move the show to Vancouver, give it to CW.
Bobby Roberts
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I was being a smartass. She really isn't all that bad (there's a run of four or five episodes in which she's really good, in fact) but she's nowhere near good enough to handcuff your show like that. That's just a bad gamble.
Besides which they basically turn her into a combination Yoda/GI Joe PSA in the back half of the series. Like clockwork, around the 30 min mark of every episode, there's going to be a "Cat Grant Speech Scene" that drops like hot rocks in your lap. It was pretty cool the first two or three times. And then it got cloying.
When they bounce this thing to the CW, they can leave Cat (and Superman) on the other Earth, and have Supergirl (and choice DEO members) go to work with Ollie/Barry/Whatever.
LA, Calista Flockhart, VFX
Okay, no, that's not how this works. Warner Brothers was dumb to bank on getting the tax credit.
Next time I won't say anything then.
BodiesWithoutOrgans
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Cat Grant is the show
S2 should start with Cat's funeral and reveal it was Martian Manhunter all along. Then when people ask why he just laughs.
SUPERGIRL: But she had kids.
MM: Hah, I know.
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