10 Comic Book TV Shows Cancelled Before Their Time

10. Birds Of Prey (2002)

Birds of Prey was a television series developed for The WB in 2002. The series only aired for one season consisting of 13 episodes and never achieved a wide enough audience for the network to latch onto it.

This was during a time-period when The WB (Now The CW) was still building up its audience and unlike the DC series on the network today, this one failed to launch.

The series' premiere episode pulled in a whopping 7.6 million viewers in the targeted 18-34-year-old demographic, but those numbers dropped significantly within only a few weeks. Birds of Prey was only loosely based on the comics that inspired it, but it featured most of who you would expect: Barbara Gordon (Oracle), Helena Kyle (Huntress), and Dinah Redmond, a telepath who was the daughter of Dinah Lance, the Black Canary.

The series starred Ashely Scott, Dina Meyer, and Rachel Skarsten and featured characters prominent in the Batman Universe, but never made its mark. It has since become a cult favorite, but the characters may again see the light of a movie screen. DC is set to release Birds of Prey as a film in 2020, though that property will be based more on the comics than this series.