Over the past seven years, The CW has introduced several DC Comics-inspired TV series and the network hasn’t cancelled any of them. Will Batwoman, The CW’s second female superhero series, be a success? Will Batwoman be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. *Status update below.
An action mystery series, Batwoman stars Ruby Rose, Meagan Tandy, Camrus Johnson, Nicole Kang, Rachel Skarsten, Dougray Scott, and Elizabeth Anweis. The show is based on the DC Comics character and revolves around Kate Kane (Rose), a strong woman who never planned to be Gotham’s new vigilante. After a dishonorable discharge from military school and years of brutal survival training, Kate returns home to Gotham City when the Alice in Wonderland gang targets her father, Jacob Kane (Scott), and his security firm. They kidnap his best Crow officer, Kate’s ex-girlfriend Sophie Moore (Tandy). In order to help her family and her city, she becomes the thing that her father loathes the most — a vigilante. With the help of her compassionate stepsister, Mary (Kang), and crafty Luke Fox (Johnson), Kate continues the legacy of her missing cousin, Bruce Wayne (aka Batman), as Batwoman.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly in the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — usually the next day, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
5/18 update: You can see the latest night’s ratings in context.
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Note: These are the final national numbers (unless noted with an “*”). These are different from the fast affiliate numbers which are just estimates of the actual ratings. The final nationals are typically released within 24 hours of the programming or, in the case of weekends and holidays, a couple days later.
What do you think? Do you like the Batwoman TV series on The CW? Should it be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
*1/7/20 update: The CW has renewed Batwoman for a second season.
Meh, contrary to what majority here is saying (SJW propaganda etc. etc.), compared to Supergirl, this show has very minimum of it. Sure, some of the cast is wooden, some of the cast I find irritating, but two factors actually redeem this show in my eyes: Alice (Rachel Skarsten rules in this show) and the fact that it is more grounded in reality, so there are pathways for more realistic plotlines. So far, it was good. Now, if in second season, Ruby Rose’s replacement will show any ability to act, I’ll be happy as well.
Batwoman series is boring, the entire show being the Alice show is boring, I just can’t understand why TPTB think every episode had to be about Alice crazy azz, I would have liked it better if there was a variety of exciting episodes but that wasn’t the case. When these shows like the flash, supergirl, arrow, etc spend entire year on one villain it’s boring and I lose interest. Frankly I’m surprised it was renewed, the show wasn’t good to me.
Cause otherwise, we’d be watching characters that are interesting as watching paint dry. For real, the only character that has some flair in this series is Alice. And that’s actually the saddest part 😀
I just read an article about the show having 1 million viewers, and didn’t believe it. I see now they used the average. Too bad they didn’t also include the fact that the viewership dropped by about 60%. I can’t believe the studio renewed for a second season. #delusional
Please cancel this Sjw trash of a show!
It really doesn’t have an SJW storyline. It has a gay lead and she has a love interest, but that’s it. They don’t have storylines devoted to it. Their biggest storyline is all about the sisters really.
This show has really launched horribly, after a so-so debut and boost from Crisis this show has really tanked. That last rating, with many people stuck inside, a .634? A low rated show to start out with lost about 66% of its audience, how did this get renewed?
I don’t love Batwoman, but to be fair, that is not an uncommon rating for the CW. The truth is that the CW has always had much poorer ratings than other networks. At least 6 shows on the network have numbers near that, and only about half do better. Only two shows on the CW actually has over 1 million average viewers. Also, this only counts live views and those who streamed it the same day. Today some people wait weeks to watch a show. Networks look at plus 1 or two weeks after of DVR viewing when they consider… Read more »
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Love this show! The writers produced some really great plot twists lately and I think they are doing a pretty good job overall, especially for such a TV show with 22 episodes.
This show is in free fall and it warms my heart.
I AM NOT DEFENDING THE SHOW! But as someone who follows tv ratings I wanted to clarify something about your comment and how its not exactly falling in the way you think. First of all, most CW shows actually only have an average of .5-.8 million views. The numbers were actually really high for this network, and have simply fallen back to levels more common for the show. I think early on die hard batman fans or people who wanted to be caught up for the arrowverse’s crisis watched the first few and then fell off when they realized it… Read more »
So your reply to him is the ratings suck but it only sucks a little worse than most cw shows.