Catching you up on today’s top entertainment headlines with “Batgirl” being scrapped from Warner Bros. upcoming film slate due to costs despite already being filmed, FX CEO John Landgraf saying 2022 is the year of peak TV, and more.

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In Entertainment: Warner Bros. Discovery Cuts Back and 2022 the Year of Peak TV

elsewhere in the entertainment world. It looks like Batgirl not going to be flying to the big screen or any screen for that matter any time soon. The feature film adaptation of the DC comics character has now been killed off at Warner brothers Batgirl not going to premiere now in theaters or on HBO max. The project starring Leslie Grace is Barbara Gordon? Was greenlit last year that is part of Warner Brothers. Effort to create feature films specifically for the streamer. How the company's merger with Discovery brought about other plans. Warner Brothers Discovery wants their slate of DC features to be on a blockbuster scale. Batgirl now on the chopping block had nothing to do with the quality of the film and get this. The film was also budgeted at around $80 million with costs rising to nearly $90 million due to Covid. So there's a cost saving aspect of this as well Batgirl by the way, not the only girl film scrap scoob. Holiday Haunt. A follow up to the 2020 film scoob has also been shelved. Directed director, Tony seven, responding to the news saying quote, the movie is practically finished and turned out beautifully. I am beyond heartbroken, Warner brothers. Discovery has also quietly removed six Warner brothers movies that were exclusively streaming on HBO max. They include Moonshots starring Cole Sprouse and Super Intelligence starring Melissa McCarthy. I too am heart broken back girl, I was so excited about that movie, I love the character, I love more female comic book characters getting these main shows and by the way the director also directed. MS marvel a lot of other hits and Michael Keaton was supposed to reprise his role as batman in this new batgirl. I don't understand it, especially if most of the movie is done and cost millions, that's the thing because then you would be like okay if it's mostly done at this point and by the way, $90 million yes, a lot of money, but compared to a lot of these other blockbusters really sort of a drop in the bucket, why not just put it on the streamer if it's basically already done. Exactly, and that's the problem and to your point, if you want more female leads when it comes to these action heroes and you're trying to expand the Dc universe anyway to try to compete with marvel, it doesn't make sense on that side, but then it sort of just tells you where the landscape is sort of changing now in this industry because HBO max when, when, when Jason cole was running HBO max before the Discovery merger, the whole idea was HBO max put everything on HBO max, which is why during the pandemic, all the movies that were supposed to be in theaters went to HBO max and they and they did well exactly, but now the shift his focus because change is focused on all of this. The shift is focused or changes shifted here because now it's all about the money that they can make in the theaters now, it's less about the streamers now because now they're seeing it. Not as many people are watching things on and they want the money from the, feel disappointed, I want to know what it is now and it's really disappointing. And also don't forget J J Abrams had a huge, expensive project also from Warner Brothers also. So just recently as well and 2021 set another record for the number of scripted shows with 559 but if you ask FX chairman john Landgraf, it's all downhill from here. The ceo telling reporters that F. X. S portion of the Television Critics Association press tour that believes 2022 will be the high water mark when it comes to scripted tv output. Landgraf saying quote in other words that will mark the peak of the peak tv era. It will take a year and a half to find out if I'm right this time or we'll have to eat crow yet again. 2022 is way off from land graphs original prediction of 2018 or 2019. His previous bull statements turned out to be not so accurate. The FX chief goes on to say quote this year, we've seen a tidal wave of scripted programming thanks to the the bottleneck of covid delay production finally clearing up from january 1st through the end of june, the number of scripted series has set a record for the first half of the year. There have been 357 scripted series across broadcast, cable and streaming that launched through june according to fx Research which is up 16% from this time in 2021. I have a hard time believing this, he obviously is more knowledgeable about this than I am. But I think a lot of shows do want to compete with streaming. There's so many other platforms and out outlets out there that people want good writing and telling stories from other people that we haven't heard from. Well true. But the problem is is have we reached the saturation point where there's just too much out there as you mentioned were up 16% new shows from just last year alone and it is the Discovery phase that much harder now to find something because there's just so much out there. I mean but I think it's starting to change, I think he might be right in the aspect that we might have hit P. T. V. Cause look at netflix, their strategy has changed so much where they're not green lighting, as much stuff as they used to now, they're only green lighting, things that are hit, we just talked about HBO max and the fact that Discovery is cutting the amount of production that's going on HBO max. So maybe we have now reached peak tv where now everybody starts to step back just a moment and then all of a sudden there's less tv and more quality comes out there. But to your other point, the part that was good in all this is you are getting so many different stories that we're being told as a result of that more people of color, more LGBT people, more other storyline that traditionally wouldn't be greenlit for broadcast television, but 357 is a lot of shows. A lot of you know what, I do get a little overwhelmed sometimes, Do you? Yes, because yes, because there's, I don't know most of you, thank God for this show when we tell everybody what's coming up this week in terms of that, because like there's a lot of times I'm like, wait, that was a show, I didn't know that. Gone are the days where you had sort of house of cards or the sopranos or sort of knowing what was on maybe once a week or whatever. Now there's just abundance of content now as a result