Originally Posted by
thwhtGuardian
It has seemed simple to me from the start, the cancellation of Batgirl had little to do with its quality and everything to do with when it was produced. It's placed perfectly in the window of opportunity for them to write it off so they did, pure and simple. They crunched the numbers and saw that a mid-tier film like Batgirl would take a while to recoup the production budget(if ever), but if they simply wrote it off they'd get it immediately, and they are in the hole with this merger so immediate cash was what they needed.
There's no real care about quality, if the film hadn't been produced during the window where it could be considered a write off it likely would have gone forward but time wasn't kind so it got the ax.