The CW & Warner Bros. TV Scrap Graysons

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The CW & Warner Bros. TV Scrap Graysons

Source:Variety

November 7, 2008

The CW and Warner Bros. TV have been forced to scrap their plans for "The Graysons," reports Variety. The show, which had been given a put pilot commitment, was set to revolve around Batman sidekick Robin in his pre-Caped Crusader days.

The trade says the decision to yank the project came from Warner Bros. Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov, who initially gave his blessing but changed his mind in recent days.

The CW had been counting on "The Graysons" to fill the void left by the likely series end of "Smallville." Like "Smallville," "The Graysons" is a superhero origins story. The show was developed to revolve around the world of Dick "DJ" Grayson before taking on the iconic Robin identity.

"The studio has opted not to go forward with the development of 'The Graysons' at this time as the concept doesn't fit the current strategy for the Batman franchise," the studio said in a statement. "Warner Bros. Television is currently working on several replacement options for the CW."

A script had not yet been written for "The Graysons," which was still in early stages of development.

The one-hour "Graysons" was to be set in modern times and focus on young DJ as he faced challenges involving first loves, young rivals and his family -- a famous juggling act -- as he grew up.

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Posted by: thank god on November 7, 2008 at 01:53:14

this is good news.

Posted by: Kyle on November 7, 2008 at 01:53:43

thank god

Posted by: chip on November 7, 2008 at 01:54:18

when i read news like this it makes me think there actually is a god.

Posted by: Bruce Wayne on November 7, 2008 at 01:58:38

That's good to hear! Can't imagine a series that would be more lame - I mean, Robin, common!

Posted by: dude on November 7, 2008 at 02:03:30

As much as i love the character, it's hard to imagine that series beyond a 90210 meets Cirque Du Soleil mix.

Posted by: The Watcher on November 7, 2008 at 02:07:06

So I guess it had nothing to do with all the negative feedback it got from consumers from sites like this one...?

Just admit it was a stupid idea and stop hiding behind excuses.

Posted by: arctictwist on November 7, 2008 at 02:09:10

HAHA, yea even if you like robin, this is a stupid idea. Pre robin? Common, if thats all they can come up with, tv is heading down a sad sad road. Great news that this one FAILED

Posted by: revolver737 on November 7, 2008 at 02:23:10

Hey I love Robin too especially the **** Grayson Robin, but this show would have been a disaster. I am glad they canned it. Oh yeah SEVENTH!!!

Posted by: Shaan on November 7, 2008 at 02:27:40

lolz

Posted by: 'Super' Steve on November 7, 2008 at 02:28:12

Rather Smallville season 9 then this garbage. Hopefully that'll happen.

Posted by: the cuz on November 7, 2008 at 02:34:16

Thank God and goodness wiser heads at the CW and Warner Bros. prevailed. It kills me how hollywood continually tries to song and dance around iconic mainstream comicbook characters like Batman and Superman by trying to squeeze a buck out of the supportive characters around them. When I first heard of the proposed "Graysons" series I though Warner Bros. learned nothing from the failure of the 2002 "Birds of Prey" TV series and the bellyflop of the Catwoman movie. Apparently they did.

Posted by: E on November 7, 2008 at 02:38:50

Im with all of you, this was a crap idea to begin with. The only way a robin tv show would work is if it was after he became Robin the superhero. Honestly, the show would've been about a 10 year old carnie and his family doing carnie things and facing life. **** Grayson didn't become a hero til he took on the Robin title.

My vote is for more Smallville and/or Batman in his training day, seriously we barely have any stories about that - show him all over the world learning kung fu and stuff

Posted by: chip on November 7, 2008 at 02:39:45

if they want to cash in on batman they should make a nightwing show close to nolanverse realism. cw and wb, stop trying to bastardize classic/iconic characters. jugglers? were they serious? who were the ad wizards who came up with that one??

Posted by: **** grayson on November 7, 2008 at 02:43:01

whenever they throw in robin, batman starts to suck.

Posted by: mokotoshishio on November 7, 2008 at 02:49:02

thank god, this would have been such a lame wannabe series. I mean out of all the heroes in the DC universe someone actually went into WB and said "Hey i got the greatest idea for a show in the world, Lets make a smallville rip off based on ROBIN before he met batman! except we wont call em robin or even **** grayson well call em DJ!!! AND well have his parents in the show so we can call it GRAYSONS!!!" i mean seriously. And whats worse someone actually said "Hmmm Thats a great idea, we can replace smallville with essentally the same type of show but without powers, without villains, without any kind of plot, character recognition aside from robin. God lets green light it and make a pilot!!!"

I mean its not like smallville and Batman are techinically even in the same universe as nowadays every different version of the same franchise is in a different universe. So why the hell dont they just bring bruce wayne to smallville. I mean unless they are gonna use Tom Welling in a Superman Movie which as a Smallville fan would be phenominal, its just retarded that they limit themselves and dont listen to fan craving.
anyway thank god no friggin Graysons.
Musta been the same guy who yanked Aqauman who decided to greenlight graysons. That dude should be fired. Though green arrow wouldnt be the same without justin hartley.

Posted by: TPJR on November 7, 2008 at 03:00:40

Good, it didn't make any sense, and would have effectively killed Robin's backstory...

Posted by: Jeramy PBFstudios on November 7, 2008 at 03:30:55

Thank God!!!!! I love the Batman universe and this would have sucked. Go The Goatman.

Posted by: sncfrk on November 7, 2008 at 03:40:07

it seems like the show would have had nothing to do with progressing toward robin, like some version of 7th heaven with campy tongue-in-cheek references like "sorry lil bro, but you can't come with me to the party! It's not like you're my SIDE kick for god's sake..."

I can't say I'm too disappointed either

Posted by: Pecos Bill on November 7, 2008 at 03:43:12

Praise Jesus this isn't happening. Hey, CW, I have a suggestion for you. You say Smallville is ending and you want a super-hero show to fill the void? Well golly gee wiz how 'bout you give Green Arrow and Black Canary their own show? I mean come ON, that couldn't be any more obvious. The characters are familiar to the Smallville audience now and interesting enough to not be a Batman show.

Posted by: jobrok on November 7, 2008 at 03:54:17

The new season of smallville has pretty much nothing to do with Smallville. Except for the fact that Clark still lives on the farm, which we never see anymore, and that Lois still calls hime "Smallville".

They should just rename the show METROPOLIS.
I kind of spin-off or re-boot.

Posted by: tinspider on November 7, 2008 at 03:56:19

Thank Christ.

I'm with bill on this one. Use one of the Justice League characters from Smallville. In fact, **** it, just do a justice League show and other members of the Smallville world could make the odd appearance.

no more origin rubbish.

Posted by: Dark Joker on November 7, 2008 at 03:58:56

are prayers have been answered. what a joke that show would have been! what am i saying, that would have been histerical!!HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HEE HE HEE HA HA!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: TonyBoy on November 7, 2008 at 04:02:10

CW should just bring back the Aquaman series that was planned 2 years back and way overdue. I mean, come on, it was one of the most downloaded videos on iTunes and it didnt even come out in a full series on tv.

Posted by: Spidey on November 7, 2008 at 04:11:55

There is a god.

Posted by: wilmclean on November 7, 2008 at 04:24:09

I think they would have been smarter to have continued on with the introduced Justice League characters. they've been established and their origins determined and in the Smallville world they've gone off on their own worldwide to battle Luthorcorp. Why not focus on those untold stories? Put the focus on Green Arrow and bring in as many DC cameos as you'd like. Seems like a no brainer, limitless monster of the week format with dozens of continuing story arcs and guest stars. Kinda the same way Smallville kicked off....

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