After constantly having to refer to it as “premiering at a to-be-confirmed date later this year”, we now have official confirmation of when The CW’s Ruby Rose-headlined Batwoman series will make its bow.
Courtesy of The CW’s Fall 2019 schedule, Batwoman has been booked in to premiere on Sunday, October 6th. That same night will see Batwoman’s first episode followed by the Season 5 premiere of Supergirl.
Looking at the rest of the The CW’s shared Arrowverse of shows, The Flash will premiere its sixth season on Tuesday, October 8th, while Arrow’s eighth and final season will begin on Tuesday, October 15th.
Elsewhere, Season 5 of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow has yet to be given a set premiere date, although the show has already been renewed for a fifth year. And finally, while not existing in the Arrowverse, the DC-driven Black Lightning will see its third season premiere on Monday, October 21st.
To circle back to Batwoman, this official blurb on this hugely anticipated new show reads:
Kate Kane (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.
Expect more on what lies ahead for all of these shows as we get it.
