The CW Network Renews 'Superman & Lois', Cancels 'Gotham Knights'

The CW Network has renewed SUPERMAN & LOIS for the 2023-24 broadcast season, it was announced today by Brad Schwartz, President of Entertainment, The CW Network. SUPERMAN & LOIS has been renewed for a 10-episode fourth season. The network also decided that it's one and done for Gotham Knights.

In SUPERMAN & LOIS, after years of facing megalomaniacal supervillains, monsters wreaking havoc on Metropolis, and alien invaders intent on wiping out the human race, the world's most famous superhero, The Man of Steel aka Clark Kent (Tyler Hoechlin), and comic books' most famous journalist, Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch), come face to face with one of their greatest challenges ever - dealing with all the stress, pressures and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society. Based on the characters from DC Comics created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, SUPERMAN & LOIS season three is from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti, Todd Helbing, Sarah Schechter, Brent Fletcher, and Geoff Johns.

Despite the series being canceled, Gotham Knights was a respectable rating performer, but with the business model of the CW changing under its new ownership, only a handful of highly rated existing scripted series could make the cut.

Based on characters created for DC by Bob Kane with Bill Finger, Gotham Knights was written by the Batwoman trio of Chad Fiveash, James Stoteraux, and Natalie Abrams. It picked up in the aftermath of Bruce Wayne’s murder, with his rebellious adopted son Turner Hayes (Oscar Morgan) forging an unlikely alliance with the children of Batman’s enemies—Duela (Olivia Rose Keegan), Harper Row (Fallon Smythe), and her brother Cullen Row (Tyler DiChiara)—when they are all framed for killing the Caped Crusader. Misha Collins also starred as District Attorney Harvey Dent.