Gotham Knights has achieved respectable ratings and could have gotten a second season under different circumstances, but as CW's business model changes under new ownership, only a handful of existing scripted series with high ratings (by CW standards) can make it.
"We love all of those shows and they're all doing really well for us in different ways," Brad Schwartz, Entertainment President of the CW, said last month of Superman & Lois, All American: Homecoming and Gotham Knights.
Gotham Knights is based on characters created for DC by Bob Kane and Bill Finger and written by the Batwoman trio Chad Fiveash, James Stoteraux and Natalie Abrams. The series is set 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 the murder of the Caped Crusader.
Misha Collins also starred as District Attorney Harvey Dent.
Produced by Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, Fiveash and Stoteraux exec co-produced with Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and David Madden. Abrams served as co-executive producer.
