I saw on thehollywoodgossip.com that she'll be taking the Jennifer Grey role in the Red Dawn remake.

I agree that the new show doesn't sound good.

She catches super criminals, but she still can't catch a man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG3sWlclY…

Well at least they picked someone who was tall (5'11"), boots should add 2-3" more. Would have been sad if they choose a short actress to play the role of the mythical Amazon, then hire nothing but 5' actors to make her look tall.

Oh god.

Epic fail.

On the other hand, people forget how bad the first season of Wonder Woman really was on TV.

I like the "Wonder Woman as the displaced Amazon who can't fit in with American Culture story line." Super Refugee to the rescue!

The show will possibly suck but the casting is fine enough, for a tough physical role to cast. She's 5' 11", has the right build/frame/dimensions for Diana, and IS an athlete as well. She needs to bulk up and get a bit more muscle on her. Her face could pull off someone with classic Roman/Greek features, I guess...

How is her acting? I've never seen her in anything.

Oh, and

modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life.

I doubt the show will have the budget to do Proper Wonder Woman--you need a feature film for that--but that bit is actually often alluded to in the comics, the same as they show Peter Parker trying to balance Spider-Man with his life, and Superman the same. Only Batman doesn't deal with it, because he's more than a little removed from sane.

There was actually a great bit in one comic that I loved where Wonder Woman lamented to someone at her embassy staff that she hadn't been in any kind of companionship for a while, and revealed she had a crush on a certain United Nations human rights worker/investigator. She had to actually be coaxed into approaching him in a personal level--this is someone who will go get in fist fights with 1000-foot tall aliens and GODS--to ask him out.

He turned her down, because he had no time for anything extra in his life or something like that. Dude straight up turned down Wonder Woman hitting on him. She's an interesting character that works on a ton of levels, but everything I've read about this sounds like The Cape level bullshit.

@7, she was great on Friday Night Lights, I thought. Not that it matters; this show stinks of early cancellation.

I'd still like to see an Anatolian actress play Diana someday for Amazonian authenticity.

@7 i give it half a season to hit it's mark. The last one was kind of iffy, that was on SciFi (now SyFy or whatever).

Let's just hope it's not a half-disaster like The Cape, which had such promise but fell apart, sadly.

@9 the best choice would be a Greek or Italian actress .. maybe Berlesconi could help

a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life.

Remake Wonder Woman or Mary Tyler Moore, not both. Actually, don't do either.

That's got to be very difficult, casting a role in Hollywood requiring a tall, buxom actress. Thank goodness they kept looking until the found one.

@10 I suffered through nearly 5 years of Smallville before it became something to do if NOTHING ELSE was on or happening, before I came back full time this final year 10 to see if it was worth it in the end. I'll give Wonder Woman at least a few years, if it even lasts that long.

The only way a Wonder Woman show would be worthwhile is if they put it on Showtime and made it all about the bondage.

@14, Joe, do not miss the hilarious Smallville reviews of Chri… as they suffer through its final season. They're falling on that grenade for us...!

How long before she weighs 90 pounds?

Any chance we'll see Egg Fu?

So she's an executive and a crime fighter? A bad guy during the day on a large scale, and a good guy on a small scale at night? Does she fight crime to wash off the stink of layoffs, environmental degradation, child labor, slave labor, corrupting regulators, buying off politicians, and contemptuous luxury consumption?

All the while she's so consumed with her own moral and ethical baggage, she ignores her child that is being raised by a nanny that the child comes to love more than the biological parent.

It could be a show about how we compartmentalize our selves for the sake of authority and materialism. And how our culture chooses to make justice apply only to the poor.

Just kidding. She'll probably have a quip-happy minority sidekick exclaim "How does that girl do it!?" Every single episode.