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The battle for Batman’s city is nearly over. The CW has cancelled Gotham Knights, so it won’t be back for a second season. The first season of 13 episodes will finish airing on June 27th.
A DC superhero series, the Gotham Knights TV show stars Oscar Morgan, Olivia Rose Keegan, Navia Robinson, Fallon Smythe, Tyler DiChiara, Anna Lore, Rahart Adams, and Misha Collins. In the story, Batman is dead, and a powder keg has ignited Gotham City without the Dark Knight to protect it. In the wake of Bruce Wayne’s murder, his adopted son, Turner Hayes (Morgan), is framed for the killing, along with the children of some of the Caped Crusader’s enemies. They include skilled thief Duela Doe (Keegan), aka The Joker’s Daughter; streetwise engineer Harper Row (Smythe); and her brother, clever transgender teen Cullen Row (DiChiara). With District Attorney Harvey Dent (Collins) and the GCPD hot on their trail, Turner relies on allies, including coder Stephanie Brown (Lore), and unlikely Batman sidekick Carrie Kelley (Robinson).
Airing on Tuesday nights, the first season of Gotham Knights averages a 0.08 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 416,000 viewers. It’s a middle-of-the-road performer for the network. In the live+7 day ratings, episodes pick up about 70% more viewers.
Today, The CW renewed All American: Homecoming for a third season and Superman & Lois for a fourth season, leaving the latter as the last remaining DC superhero series on the network. Both will have fewer episodes than before as the network’s new owners cut costs. Management is moving away from airing original scripted series and is working to reduce expenses by airing acquired scripted shows and low-cost reality programming.
What do you think? Have you enjoyed watching the Gotham Knights TV series? Are you disappointed the show’s been cancelled instead of renewed for a second season?
I liked Gotham Knights and they cancelled it and I already had the chosen app and they tried to get me to rewatch it on the CW the only other things I watched on CW were Kung Fu , Stargirl and Superman and Lois
TUESDAYS I WOULD WATCH THE CW FOR 2 HOURS THEN WHATEVER I COULD FIND BUT NOW WHAT IS THERE TO WATCH ON TUESDAYS> FIRST IT WAS NAOMI NOW GOTHAM NIGHTS THE ONLY SHOW LEFT I WATCH IS SUPERMAN AND LOIS SO WHAT IS NEXT ONCE THIS IS GONE THEN WHAT?
Why do you cancel all the show I like that is why I hate to start watching anything because you cancel it so over you…
Thank god the Arrowverse has finally come to an end.
Cw network is supposedly cutting cost? But they cut the show in other shows and renewed some horrifying programming which is totally against outdated hatemongering etc. This programming at least have a little bit of class. I really feel sorry for people who believe this networking has any validity and decides to work for them or becomes a producer for them etc it just seems that if you want to produce direct or Writer etc For this network you’re basically throwing your career away.. I’ve given up on this network
The show was terrible! Good bye!
I am going on strike now.
What will you do when you lose all your viewers?
AI will give you what you need.
See ya.
I could be wrong, but I think part of the reason the CW shows are doing so poorly is that the new owners took them off of Direct TV (not sure about Dish) and the only way we can watch them is in the app with commercials, and a lot of those are less than appealing to us. And they don’t leave the whole season on the app so that you can binge a little. They have cancelled pretty much all of the shows that we have watched since they started and a bunch we didn’t get to watch because… Read more »
Excuse my language… Crap, another one bites the dust….
RIP The CW.
Killed off all its good shows.
took waaaay tooooo long to get into an interesting storyline…. no loss.
Ugh! Couldn’t stomach the style (of the story and camerawork) behind ‘Lois and Clark’ and have not seen 1 full episode. It seemed more like the other DC series the CW let rot on the vine. Gotham Knights deviates a little bit and includes some “darkness” that is part of the Batman style portrayed in comics. Probably too much for the public CW expects to address. The new leadership at CW is clearly out to increase the short term numbers in such a way that the CW won’t survive long term. Where is the CW that approved ‘SuperNatural’? That was… Read more »
CW is really beginning to suck!! Cancelled all the shows I watch!! I guess I wont be watching this channel.
Yeah I know they didn’t even give it a chance I think netflix should pick it up.
In a bizarre way, I liked this show. I’m not surprised CW cancelled it. Perhaps I liked it because there is so little shows airing on network tv.