It's pretty hard to compare audiences from the '80s when there were only a handful of channels making primetime content to now when you have content on demand from dozens of sources at all times. For a new show on network television, ~7 million viewers is pretty substantial, and a 1.0 rating in 18-49 makes it one of the most successful shows in that (lucrative) demographic currently airing on television.

It's really hard to say at this point. Historically, DC has had a ton of things in various stages of development that never went anywhere, but that was all under entirely different leadership. If these projects are successful, I don't think we have to worry about execution. If they struggle out the gate, who knows?

But, I'm guessing most of these things will be in production around the same time, so I'm doubting there will be many changes within the first slate.

>“One of our strategies is to take our diamond characters — which is Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman — and we use them to prop up other characters that people don’t know,” explained Gunn.

From the sounds of it, this is a little intentional. They're using "Chapter One" to introduce lesser-known characters, and then presumably they'll be able to bring more characters that have not been done to death to the forefront.

But really, between Creature Commandos, The Authority, Booster Gold, and Waller, I'd say they're already doing a decent job at not focusing entirely on the most known characters. Plus, James Gunn indicating they're exploring all of DC's imprints certainly opens the door for some interesting things in the future.

It'd be awesome to finally get that big-budget superhero horror movie that Marvel occasionally made it sound like Doctor Strange 2 would be.

Comcast has expressed interest in buying Hulu, which makes sense for them. Peacock has a fraction of the subscribers, so they could just transition everything to where the subscribers are and suddenly own one of the larger streaming services. Of course, Disney hasn't seemed interest in that, likely for the reasons you mention: Why hand all those subscribers to Comcast when they can keep them in the Disney/Hulu ecosystem?

I have to say Lucy certainly isn't a movie I expected people to be clamoring for a spin-off for, even with Morgan Freeman.

Last major thing I heard he's working on is a remake of Stephen King's Christine, which he'll also be directing.

There are several episodes that would really make amazing movies, in my opinion.

That ties into why they need Batman in the first place though. The GCPD is rampant with corruption and cops looking the other way. Of course, they're going to go much harder on the guy that's often rooting out that corruption and making them look bad than the actual villains they're often on the payroll of.

It starts at the end of next month on Paramount+.