Gotham Knights Cancelled at The CW
Bat’s all, folks!
Turner Hayes and the other Gotham Knights will not fight their way to a second season, now that The CW has cancelled the DC Comics-inspired series ahead of its Season 1 finale (airing Tuesday, June 27), TVLine has learned.
The bad news comes as The CW announced not one but two renewals, of Superman & Lois and All American: Homecoming — albeit for abbreviated seasons of 10 and 13 episodes, respectively.
Season-to-date, Gotham Knights is averaging 719,000 total viewers and a 0.1 demo rating (with Live+7 playback). Out of the 14 dramas that The CW has aired this TV season, it ranks No. 8 in total audience and is in a nine-way tie for third (or, last) in the demo.
Gotham Knights opened in the wake of Bruce Wayne’s murder, as his adopted son Turner (played by Oscar Morgan) was framed for killing the Caped Crusader. The cast also includes Misha Collins (Supernatural) as District Attorney Harvey Dent, Olivia Rose Keegan (Days of Our Lives) as Duela (aka Joker’s Harvey’s daughter), Navia Robinson (Raven’s Home) as Batman sidekick Carrie Kelley, Tyler DiChiara and Fallon Smythe (grown-ish) as the brother and sister team of Cullen and Harper Row, Anna Lore (All American) as Stephanie Brown and Rahart Adams (YouTube’s Foursome) as Brody.
In Gotham Knights‘ penultimate episode, airing Tuesday, June 20, the team springs into action after uncovering the existence of evidence that could clear their names; Harvey follows a lead that could help him finally piece together what happened the night Bruce Wayne was murdered; and after reuniting with her mother, Duela begins to have second thoughts.
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I liked the pilot but gave up after the 3rd episode. Most of the supporting characters were annoying.
Disappointed. Started a little slow but gained steam as the season progressed. Better than many of the renewed dramas.
I was super on the fence and felt no need to watch it but gave the pilot an episode view afterwards I was intrigued than the story became so good one of the better written DC properties to come from the CW especially that have batman around it because all the others are poor birds of prey, batwoman and titans…..even the season 3 2nd half of Arrow that focuses so much on the league of assassins or Gotham when it focuses on the Court of Owl storyline …this guys did the story justice some of the acting at times can be a bit jarring but the story has been on form
i really dislike this channel :( they cancel so many good superhero shows *sighs*
Damn it. Wanted way more of Misha in this role.
This show was enjoyable and had a lot of potential so disappointed to see.
CW you have no idea what you are doing, you will loose viewers on other shows because of a really dumb decision
Oh they know what they are doing, they have absolutely no interests in CW exiting line up/audiences, they just want the station’s national reach.
Which is already less than it was because of Nexstar’s policies. Stations have already started to drop the CW and,judging by the CW’s fall schedule, that is very likely to continue. Someone posted here a while ago asking about why they couldn’t find someone to sell to who actually respected what the CW was and wanted to achieve. That’s really the question.There was definite room for improvement but this isn’t the way. This is the same policy that’s killing basic cable – cheap reality crap that they’re convinced will save them money but builds no loyalty at all and can’t compete with the catchier stuff on streaming.
I mean -what good does having a national reach do if nobody watches your shows anyway? Nobody was watching Nexstar’s stuff on their smaller scale cable networks -why would following the same policies on a bigger scale mean anything other than a bigger failure?
The ratings are low to start, they will get about the same next season as they are getting now if not better, inside the NFL and the chosen will improve sun and wed.
Sat/ fri and mon are near identical to last season in line up.
Thur is their only wildcard and who knows either fboy Island is the next bachelor or they quickly bounce it off the air for Canadian comedies.
Tue Canadian dramas should do ok.
In spring walker superman combo plus all American homecoming return
I have been watching the C.W. for years because of all the Super hero shows soon I won’t be watching that channel at all because I get bored of reality shows.
I was basically there for the Superhero , Supernatural and Winchesters have no interest in any reality shows. I am sure there are many like me.
Really it had 719,000 on avg that isn’t lighting the world on fire and I have to see if they do anything with Brodie March since oh wait his dad gave him that element that makes you live forever and yoh would’ve thought he turn up somewhere in the episode and he was mia
well dang it
Never should have been greenlit over a final season of Legends of Tomorrow.
Even though it was much better than I expected, I absolutely agree with this given the circumstances.
As much as I knew it was coming, I’m still disappointed. This was fun and different but now I guess there are no more rides on the bat wang …
Gotta wonder if Max will give it a low budget wrap up movie? This would be a good way to test the waters for a revival or a way to appease fans who want proper closure. Probably won’t happen, but I could think of worse things to do if your max.
I don’t see MAX doing anything DC that isn’t either animation or fitted with Gunn’s new canon. Why spend any money on anything else when it will just confuse fans in an already oversaturated environment?
But I am a very pessimistic person about DC. I have a few comics runs I’ve really enjoyed (or am enjoying now) and nothing I’ve personally seen onscreen has come close.
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They’ve set up what they’re calling Elseworlds projects to handle everything that isn’t a DCU project and they don’t seem to be worried about causing confusion since they’re planning on films with three separate Jokers and at least two separate Batmen in the next few years (Pattinson Batman who has his own Joker, the DCU Batman who will presumably have his own Joker -I mean, the primary DCU can’t not have a Joker in it and I really think we can assume that one will pop up, and the Joaquin Phoenix Joker who may or not have his own Batman counterpart in his next movie),plus the Afflck and Keaton Batmen in The Flash plus the fact that the Batman and Joker in Gotham Knights are obviously none of these people- all of these projects got made without fear of confusion. The Elseworlds label should allow Gotham Knights, Justice U (if it hopefully resurfaces) and who knows what else to be made with no fear of confusion
That’s too bad. I thought it actually stood a chance, since I read that it was the least expensive superhero show and that the new guy in charge was a fan. I figured S&L might go to Max. I don’t understand how it could’ve been renewed, if it’s too expensive for the network, even for a shortened season. 🤷♀️
I was kind of thinking this too after other reports – S&L to Max, GK on CW. And kind of hoping for that if it meant both shows continued :/ As for S&L costs, they might have cut them a deal on licensing since the studio probably is able to sell that property internationally.
I’m not surprised since the CW has been doing a lot of blood letting, yet I wouldn’t have minded if it got picked up. I will admit to being in the group of people that hated the original trailer and thought the show would be awful, but it wasn’t at all.
The show wasn’t good, but it had a couple actors worth watching in Misha Collins, Tyler DiChiara, and Fallon Smythe. I hope they land better-written roles in the future, after the strike is over.
It’s not bad. But as you said it isn’t that good either. The difference between this and other cancelled shows is it had room to significantly improve. The court as a catalyst for the groups formation is fine. But a season 2 where the group had Turners money (reinstated after his name is cleared,) plus a secondary cash of bat tech (second bat cave that was left to Carrie/Robin by Bruce in secret,) could have been the backdrop for something much bigger and better than what we saw. Alas, GK was a year too late to the CW for a legit chance at season 2. At least on the CW.
I did not not see that coming
I was really reluctant to give this show a try knowing the CW was in flux and it was likely to be a one season and done….but i gave it a go anyway…and while it took a few episodes, i really got into it and saw a depth and development that i really liked so yeah, converted team GK! So with this news…blah…one of those network build up the audience then pull the plug…seems to be more of the normal….shame on me for hoping…GK was just getting really good!!! damm..ill miss it..
I did not watch this show due to the fact the CW won’t commit long-term to any of it shows anymore.
I won’t be watching whatever replaces this, or whatever replaces that one.
Just won’t watch any CW shows anymore.
Not just an issue with CW as many channels now do this. Each year I watch less and less as shows I’ve been watching end. I just no longer replace them with new shows. Sometimes I go back to yesteryear’s shows that I did not watch at the time but ran for 5-8 years+ So watch them instead of anything new.
Exactly. Like I’m just starting American Housewife now, everything on the CW is a no go for me.
So going by your chart that makes four CW shows renewed (but only 10 episodes for what I’m thinking will be the last season of Superman & Lois and 13 episodes for All American: Homecoming so also maybe its last at bat ), four series cancelled and four series ending this summer. So I’ve looked at the fall schedule … and it’s a sad, sad affair I think. Walker I know is being held for mid-season and I guess Superman & Lois too so it looks like All American will be the only holdover scripted show. So sad, so sad. Superman & Lois will be the only series I have any interest in watching. Thanks, CW, for destroying my love affair with your network and your arsenal of super heroes
Yeah-that’s the crazy thing about all of this. Trying to expand your audience makes sense -going out of your way to tick off your existing audience doesn’t. I don’t understand why Nexstar chose to go about things this way-and why people aren’t calling them on it constantly. It just seems that one minute, things were going along fine then Nexstar and Zaszlav between them messed up everything.
Has Gunn actually given any comments about the situation yet -about whether or not Knights is going to Max or somewhere else? It really annoys me that the new DC management has no interest in any projects that existed before they got there (not just Knights but Young Justice, Pennyworth, Batman :The Audio Adventures etc.). People will still appreciate their work if they acknowledge the good work other creators have done before them and if they supported that work-I wish they weren’t too egotistical and/or insecure to realize that….
Your forgetting Penn and teller, who’s line, worlds amazing pets, behind the magic. All veteran shoes coming back
Errr-none of them are DC shows, Whose Line is ending this year , they don’t seem to have a show called World’s Amazing Pets and isn’t Penn and Teller the same show as Behind the Magic? I have no doubt that Next likes cheap reality shows but judging by their treatment of Whose Line, it doesn’t matter how cheap Whose Line is, Nexstar is out to obliterate even the cheap reality shows that have the unforgivable CW brand on them…
This absolutely sucks, I’m so disappointed. I’ve really been enjoying Gotham knights and really hoped it would be renewed.
As much as I’ve been enjoying the show (and it’s nice to see from the comments I’m not the only one), I feel like this was a great one season show. Hope things are wrapped up well.
And if the choice was between this and Superman & Lois, I’d much rather have Superman & Lois back.
It’s really too bad that this show had absolutely everything stacked against it–the CW mess, the WB mess, DC changes–because it really was fun and entertaining. Misha Collins gave an incredible performance as Harvey Dent unraveling. The younger cast were solid and the characters engaging. Plus we got Sharper, which is more than the main DC universe has been able to give us.
This one was doomed from the beginning. It could have been the best show on tv ever and The CW would have canceled it; it didn’t fit with their new image and agenda (which is apparently becoming like one of those picked-over dollar stores with half-empty shelves).
I never watched it, but I feel for those who did; before it premiered I advised people to watch it like a mini-series because there was no way the new CW was gonna support this.
Sorry that the executives at The CW are MORONS for canceling Gotham Knights
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This sucks! Every time I start watching something on the CW and like it they cancel it!
To be fair, the CW isn’t the CW anymore. For years shows got renewed on the promise of strong streaming gains or for dedicated fan based (a lot of shows got announced final seasons, and some of them were full length.) Nexstar is not the CW of old. It is a short term profit engine with no regard for the fanbase or any real plan for long term marketing. It seeks to replace the existing fanbase with a new one in a strategy with huge risk and questionable reward. Long term it is not worth investing in any scripted show on the new version of the network. Of the 4 shows they saved, I doubt any will exist in 3 years. All American is huge on Netflix and as long as the actors want to keep making it and the viewers keep streaming it, the show will survive somewhere. The other 3 are living on borrowed time.
Just had a thought…
With Gotham Knights ’ Cancellation and the shortening of Superman & Lois Season 4, with a likely Cancellation afterwards next year, with all of the new James Gunn DCU content slated for MAX, and all of Disney/Marvel/Sony relegated exclusively to Disney+ or other Streamers, the Cancellation of Robert Rodriguez’s Female Zorro Concept Series, and Wilmer Valderrama’s Zorro TV Show status in limbo…
THIS could be the Death of the Superhero Genre on Broadcast Television.
Congratulations everyone. I hope it was worth it.
Gee, I hope not. We must do whatever we can to make sure that doesn’t happen.
I have been watching the C.W. for years because of all the Super hero shows soon I won’t be watching that channel at all because I get bored of reality shows.