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I'm gonna double-answer this question because I'm an ass. I have, like, thinky thoughts about how you could do a TV show off this book series I'm trying to write? You have Mark Sheppard as every suave, sinister villain he's ever played, only he's the hero. With the help of Dolph Ludgren (the muscle) and Alan Tudyk (canonically gay audience surrogate/sayer of funny things), he's on a search for his lost love through a secret urban fantasy war. Michelle Forbes and Kristin Chenoweth are HBIC and fierce bitch (respectively) on the other side, trying to stop them and being all femslashy. There'd be all sorts of fun stuff like musical episodes and whole-episode flashbacks and wham episodes, like the time the hero is finally reunited with his girlfriend, hugs her, says "Did you think I'd forget?" and kills her. For mind-blowing reasons of moral ambiguity!
Or the time the HBIC brain-washes the hero back to his bad ol' self (he's an Atoner. Look, I know what fangirls like) and there's an entire episode of him betraying the trust of his friends and having sexual tension with her. In fact, this whole Star Wars/LotS crossover is because I really wanted to write the "Why didn't you just kill me?" exchange with someone, (the lack of good FoeYay pairings inspired the entire writing project) and then I needed it to be AU so Cara could be confessed and then I made it Star Wars because Star Wars makes everything better and then I gave Cara a robotic penis because, hey, long as you're in a sci-fi setting, might as well use it.
Look, I don't talk shit about your writing process.
But since no one would watch that, a Gotham City TV show. It'd be something like Lost, 24, or Heroes in that there'd be a huge ensemble cast. We'd start off with just Batman, Robin, and Batgirl (with the first season showing Dick breaking off from Bruce and becoming Nightwing, the next dealing with Jason Todd and his death, the next bringing in Tim...), but over time Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Cass Cain, and Stephanie Brown would all be introduced. Not to mention Catwoman and the Birds of Prey (spin-off! spin-off!). Basically, every season you'd get a different Batfamily. There'd also be people like Gordon, Montoya, and Bullock. Sometimes, a character gets two lines in an episode, other times, they'd get an entire spotlight episode. So while Cass may seem like just a straight man to Steph's shenanigans (every show needs a wacky comedy duo!), she'd get her own episode about struggling with illiteracy and trying to live her life with the upbringing from hell. There'd also be a recurring cast of villains played by cool character actors, so you'd get Powers Boothe playing a mob boss and that sort of thing. But the big villain team-ups would be reserved for special occasions.
There'd be no overarching mystery that never gets solved (WHO KILLED BRUCE'S PARENTS? WHY IS GOTHAM CITY SUCH A SHITHOLE?), just seasonal arcs like 24 dealing with a huge threat slowly revealing itself. Like Ra's al Ghul planning to destroy the world, Bane breaking Batman, or just the Joker going completely off the rails and crippling Babs in a season finale. By the end of the show, you'd see Batman go from reluctant un-loner to patriarch of his own little family. That'd certainly be good for 5-7 years' worth of stories, although you'd probably want to wrap things up before you get to a season of "who is the mysterious Hush and why does he have it in for Bruce?"
Oh, and Garrett Dillahunt as Bruce Wayne. I'm pretty sure that guy can play anything.
ETA: Oh, oh, you'd also get guest spots like the Teen Titans coming to hang out and Dick's new girlfriend after his big-drama-break-up with Barbara being this alien lady and Bart and Kon hanging out with Tim, natch. And the Question would show up to bother Huntress. Would he be played by Jeffrey Combs? YOU BET YOUR ASS HE'D BE PLAYED BY JEFFREY COMBS!
ETA2: I think everyone on Earth would watch this show. For the guys, you have people getting punched and Batmobile chases. For the teens, you have the Robins and all their soap opera stuff. For the ladies, you have badass heroines like Catwoman, Huntress, Batgirl, and all that. For the gay ladies, you have gratuitous Harley/Ivy necking. Plus, you have Batman. That's for everyone, like pizza or Timothy Olyphant.
Sigh...
ETA3: William H. Macy as Commissioner Gordon.
I'm gonna double-answer this question because I'm an ass. I have, like, thinky thoughts about how you could do a TV show off this book series I'm trying to write? You have Mark Sheppard as every suave, sinister villain he's ever played, only he's the hero. With the help of Dolph Ludgren (the muscle) and Alan Tudyk (canonically gay audience surrogate/sayer of funny things), he's on a search for his lost love through a secret urban fantasy war. Michelle Forbes and Kristin Chenoweth are HBIC and fierce bitch (respectively) on the other side, trying to stop them and being all femslashy. There'd be all sorts of fun stuff like musical episodes and whole-episode flashbacks and wham episodes, like the time the hero is finally reunited with his girlfriend, hugs her, says "Did you think I'd forget?" and kills her. For mind-blowing reasons of moral ambiguity!
Or the time the HBIC brain-washes the hero back to his bad ol' self (he's an Atoner. Look, I know what fangirls like) and there's an entire episode of him betraying the trust of his friends and having sexual tension with her. In fact, this whole Star Wars/LotS crossover is because I really wanted to write the "Why didn't you just kill me?" exchange with someone, (the lack of good FoeYay pairings inspired the entire writing project) and then I needed it to be AU so Cara could be confessed and then I made it Star Wars because Star Wars makes everything better and then I gave Cara a robotic penis because, hey, long as you're in a sci-fi setting, might as well use it.
Look, I don't talk shit about your writing process.
But since no one would watch that, a Gotham City TV show. It'd be something like Lost, 24, or Heroes in that there'd be a huge ensemble cast. We'd start off with just Batman, Robin, and Batgirl (with the first season showing Dick breaking off from Bruce and becoming Nightwing, the next dealing with Jason Todd and his death, the next bringing in Tim...), but over time Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Cass Cain, and Stephanie Brown would all be introduced. Not to mention Catwoman and the Birds of Prey (spin-off! spin-off!). Basically, every season you'd get a different Batfamily. There'd also be people like Gordon, Montoya, and Bullock. Sometimes, a character gets two lines in an episode, other times, they'd get an entire spotlight episode. So while Cass may seem like just a straight man to Steph's shenanigans (every show needs a wacky comedy duo!), she'd get her own episode about struggling with illiteracy and trying to live her life with the upbringing from hell. There'd also be a recurring cast of villains played by cool character actors, so you'd get Powers Boothe playing a mob boss and that sort of thing. But the big villain team-ups would be reserved for special occasions.
There'd be no overarching mystery that never gets solved (WHO KILLED BRUCE'S PARENTS? WHY IS GOTHAM CITY SUCH A SHITHOLE?), just seasonal arcs like 24 dealing with a huge threat slowly revealing itself. Like Ra's al Ghul planning to destroy the world, Bane breaking Batman, or just the Joker going completely off the rails and crippling Babs in a season finale. By the end of the show, you'd see Batman go from reluctant un-loner to patriarch of his own little family. That'd certainly be good for 5-7 years' worth of stories, although you'd probably want to wrap things up before you get to a season of "who is the mysterious Hush and why does he have it in for Bruce?"
Oh, and Garrett Dillahunt as Bruce Wayne. I'm pretty sure that guy can play anything.
ETA: Oh, oh, you'd also get guest spots like the Teen Titans coming to hang out and Dick's new girlfriend after his big-drama-break-up with Barbara being this alien lady and Bart and Kon hanging out with Tim, natch. And the Question would show up to bother Huntress. Would he be played by Jeffrey Combs? YOU BET YOUR ASS HE'D BE PLAYED BY JEFFREY COMBS!
ETA2: I think everyone on Earth would watch this show. For the guys, you have people getting punched and Batmobile chases. For the teens, you have the Robins and all their soap opera stuff. For the ladies, you have badass heroines like Catwoman, Huntress, Batgirl, and all that. For the gay ladies, you have gratuitous Harley/Ivy necking. Plus, you have Batman. That's for everyone, like pizza or Timothy Olyphant.
Sigh...
ETA3: William H. Macy as Commissioner Gordon.
