The live-action DC Comics shows Titans and Doom Patrol will both be continuing to a fourth season on HBO Max. The announcement was made at the DC FanDome virtual event this past Saturday. Both shows got their start on the DC Universe streaming service but switched over to HBO Max when that platform shifted its focus to digital comics. The news does not come as a surprise because both had proven popular so far, though there are no viewing numbers for the shows because the Nielsen Streaming Top 10 does not cover HBO Max yet. The Big Three streaming services Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu tend to cap their originals around the three-to-four season mark, so it will be interesting to see if Titans and Doom Patrol extend beyond that. The former series follows a group of young heroes who band together to form their own crime-fighting team. The latter show follows a group of mostly-shunned super heroes brought together by a man known as the Chief in order to use their powers to fight against threats to humanity. The Season 3 finale for Titans drops this Friday, and Doom Patrol wraps up its third season on November 11th.
In addition to those renewals, the Batman prequel series Pennyworth will be returning for a third season and that one will be moving from the cable channel EPIX to HBO Max. That series, which follows a younger Alfred Pennyworth in an alternate timeline when Nazi Germany won World War II, premiered on EPIX in 2019. Word broke a few months back that if a third season happened the show would likely shift to HBO Max. The first two seasons of the show will be moving over to that streamer as well. Nielsen does not track the viewership for EPIX, so no numbers are available for Pennyworth, but apparently the show has done well enough for HBO Max to greenlight the third season. Its second season wrapped up its run in April 2021.
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