FOX orders Commissioner Gordon based series 'Gotham'
 

Thoughts?

I think the series could be extremely well-written but I'm curious to see how they market it.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/comm...-series-drama/

Gotham Central was a pretty sweet comic book, but I always thought it missed out by not having Jim Gordon in it.

Hopefully this series can be like Gotham Central, but with Jim Gordon as part of the cast.

Since it is on FOX, though, it will most likely be canceled after one season max.

Wait... Fox is doing a Gotham show? Not CW? This isn't strange to you guys?

It does a bit, but the CW isn't entirely owned by Warner and if Fox is paying them money for the series, why not?

I'll give this a wide berth I think. Completely sick of Batman related stuff now.

Yeah, which is why I thought this was fake at first until I saw the news on other websites.

Could be good- Jim Gordon is probably my favorite Gotham character apart from nightwing. But it looks like dc is reverting back to two things I've really started to hate about them: overly relying on batman and following Marvel's lead. You know they wouldn't have given a show a chance if Marvel wasn't already rolling out Agents of SHIELD.

This would be the same Fox that cancels shows they don't approve of, even if the ratings hold up. I much rather CW do this as a spinoff of Arrow.

Could still be fake, though. Slik did post it after all.

More than likely, after 6-7 episodes (whatever their initial filming batch is), with the last one being a mid-season cliffhanger.

Also, they will most likely debut it against the most popular show on network TV, whatever that happens to be at the time.

Sounds cool! They should have scenes with Sarah Essen-Gordon nagging good ol' Jim. You know, for the comedy factor! :)

I am suspecting it will not have Batman or super villains and will just be "Cop Drama #43542"

WB Television has shows on nearly every network, so the fact that it's on FOX isn't completely surprising. The show will probably be pretty dark and less of a teen drama than Arrow, so I think FOX is a good fit. They could still do it in the same universe if they wanted as well, not that it matters.

That 'teen drama', Arrow? Is awesome. Yes CW has a hard on for pretty young people with deep seated issues but when they hit their mark they hit their mark.

Reports I have seen place it as an "origin" series about Gordon, before Batman ever shows up on the scene.

Which is a shame. Part of why the comic book Gotham Central was so cool was that Batman was "present" but not really a part of the series. All from the cops point of view, so Batman would just occasionally show up for a panel or two and do amazing things, and be resented for it by some of the cops.

Would be a pretty interesting thing if they did the TV series with Batman "present" but never actually showed him on camera, or just the occasional shot of his cape flapping away from the scene.

It'd be nice if Batman "dropped in" from time to time.

Not talking shit on Arrow. I just think FOX is a better fit for anything Batman related than the CW.