With Booster Gold’s pilot script set to be delivered in August and Arrow hitting the CW in October, DC Entertainment seems to be getting their act together on TV, even while their most notable and moneymaking film franchise winds down with the release of The Dark Knight Rises last week.There have been rumors of The Spectre and Deadman coming to the small screen as well, and NBC probably still has the rights to Wonder Woman if they wanted to try again after the aborted David E. Kelley version last year. But as we know, not every comic book translates to films or television. Many modern superhero comics rely on the interconnected universe that DC and Marvel provide in order to thrive or, in some cases, even make sense.Here are our picks for five DC series that could easily make the jump to TV. You’ll notice not a lot of tights and big-budget cosmic effects in this lot, and that’s on purpose—not only are those films difficult to get greenlit (see Wonder Woman), but often, they have a very specialized audience and don’t last for very long, or worse last a while but turn into a gigantic mess when there are too many cooks in the kitchen trying to justify that budget (see Heroes). These are shows that we could see stepping off the page and onto the TV screen with minimal changes to the source material and appeal to as broad an audience as possible.
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