With the small screen boasting an incredible 13 comic book-inspired television series for the 2015-16 season, The CW is the network leading the charge with nearly half of its original programming comprised of DC Comics properties.
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Huge success for Arrow saw the broadcaster quickly add The Flash, and after that show's own success came the announcement of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, with the spin-off featuring in the same universe as the two shows that came before it, featuring pre-established characters and introducing all-new ones to the network at the same time.
Despite that, The CW's President Mark Pedowitz has said during the 2015 Television Critics Association press tour, that after Legends of Tomorrow "there is no intention, at this point, to spin anything else off."
It's not surprising that the network are exercising caution even if they have ideas about potential new spinoffs. With new characters comes a lot of suspense about whether or not the audience will truly engage, and so if The CW did decide to take on a brand new series with a new face fronting it before getting the audience's seal of approval, it could end in disaster.
That however has already prevented The CW from taking on Supergirl, with the show instead going over to CBS where it will premiere later this year.
Pedowitz admitted at the TCA presentation: "We hadn't launched The Flash yet, we weren't ready to take on another DC property. In hindsight we probably should've gone that direction... Sometimes you lose great shows."
The Flash season two begins Tuesday October 6 at 8pm on The CW, with Arrow season four following the day after on Wednesday, October 7 at 8pm, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow expected to debut in early 2016.
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