Batwoman

Status: Cancelled
Aired: 2019-22, 3 Seasons Totaling 51 Episodes
Series Premiere: October 6, 2019
Network: CW
Starring: Javicia Leslie, Dougray Scott, Nicole Kang, Camrus Johnson, Rachel Skarsten, Ruby Rose
Series Website: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/batwoman

Description: Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) never planned to be Gotham’s new vigilante. Three years after Batman mysteriously disappeared, Gotham is a city in despair. Without the Caped Crusader, the Gotham City Police Department was overrun and outgunned by criminal gangs. Enter Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) and his military-grade Crows Private Security, which now protects the city with omnipresent firepower and militia. Years before, Jacob’s first wife and daughter were killed in the crossfire of Gotham crime. He sent his only surviving daughter, Kate Kane, away from Gotham for her safety. After a dishonorable discharge from military school and years of brutal survival training, Kate returns home when the Alice in Wonderland gang targets her father and his security firm, by kidnapping his best Crow officer Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy). Although remarried to wealthy socialite Catherine Hamilton-Kane (Elizabeth Anweis), who bankrolls the Crows, Jacob is still struggling with the family he lost, while keeping Kate –– the daughter he still has –– at a distance. But Kate is a woman who’s done asking for permission. In order to help her family and her city, she’ll have to become the one thing her father loathes –– a dark knight vigilante. With the help of her compassionate stepsister, Mary (Nicole Kang), and the crafty Luke Fox (Camrus Johnson), the son of Wayne Enterprises’ tech guru Lucius Fox, Kate Kane continues the legacy of her missing cousin, Bruce Wayne, as Batwoman. Still holding a flame for her ex-girlfriend, Sophie, Kate uses everything in her power to combat the dark machinations of the psychotic Alice (Rachel Skarsten), who’s always somewhere slipping between sane and insane. Armed with a passion for social justice and a flair for speaking her mind, Kate soars through the shadowed streets of Gotham as Batwoman. But don’t call her a hero yet. In a city desperate for a savior, she must first overcome her own demons before embracing the call to be Gotham’s symbol of hope. CWTV.com

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Status: This was never one of the higher-rated Arrow-verse shows, and it went through some shakeups with Ruby Rose exiting from the lead role after the first season.  But Javicia Leslie was able to step in and take over as Batwoman and was well-received by most fans.  Had it not been for the pending sale, this one would have almost certainly returned for a fourth season because The CW had an unwritten rule that once a show has made it past its second year it would continue for at least four total.  But current network execs were apparently planning out the schedule for the 2022-23 season and decided not to have too many Arrow-verse entries in case the new owners want to go a different direction, so they cancelled this and Legends of Tomorrow.  There is a chance that the characters could show up in another series in the franchise, or perhaps at some point Batwoman could continue on HBO Max (which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery).  But the show did wrap up most of its storylines (apparently the creative team knew that cancellation was possible) and it may only live on in encore runs on streaming and perhaps syndication.

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