Every Upcoming DC TV Show Explained

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Warning! This article contains spoilers for the ongoing series mentioned.The DC Universe has a promising lineup of shows coming up for release in the near future, tackling a wide variety of continuities and heroes on sustainable series. With the recent release of HBO"s The Penguin making waves as the first follow-up project to be set in the same continuity as Matt Reeves" The Batman, television has really expanded the horizons for the types of stories DC can tell with its adaptations.
While the upcoming movies of the DCU, the company"s latest attempt at a cinematic universe, brew on the backburner, the company is gearing up for some potent TV releases in late 2024 and beyond. Some of these will be long-awaited follow-up seasons to already popular shows, building upon pre-existing fanbases. Others will launch brand-new stories using DC"s wealth of fascinating heroes and villains, marking a new chapter in the DC universe"s storytelling.
10 Creature Commandos December 5th, 2024

One of the earliest canon entries in James Gunn"s DCU will also be one be using some of its most obscure and oddball characters. Similar to the Suicide Squad, the Creature Commandos are a task force of nonhuman DC characters used by the government against their will to accomplish various clandestine objectives. The team will star DC"s take on classic Universal horror monsters like Eric Frankenstien and fish woman Nina Mazursky alongside more original monsters like Doctor Phosphorous and G.I. Robot.
Speaking of the Suicide Squad, Viola Davis will be reprising her role as Amanda Waller in the series, while Sean Gunn will return to the Creature Commandos cast as Weasel. Suicide Squad veteran Rick Flagg will also be prominently featured, though Joel Kinnaman will not be coming back to voice the character. With one trailer already released, Creature Commandos has the potential to be one of the most creative and unique projects out of any upcoming DC show.
9 Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 TBD

The latest animated incarnation of Batman to join an expansive roster of different shows, Batman: Caped Crusader has already made a big impression on Amazon Prime. Re-imagining Batman as a period noir drama, Batman: Caped Crusader season 1 took The Dark Knight back to his roots in the late 40s and early 50s while still retaining his modern-day girmdark storytelling preferences. The series was penned by Bruce Timm of Batman: The Animated Series fame, aimed at an adult audience this time around.
Season 1 ended on a mysterious note, just beginning to tease the introduction of a 1940s Joker. Sadly, Timm has only confirmed that the next season for the well-received show has only just begun development (via The Wrap), meaning that season 2 is still likely fairly far away. Still, the fact that the more niche Batman concept has been approved for a second series is a major cause for celebration.
8 Harley Quinn Season 5 November 2024

While the DCU will be making its animated continuity debut in 2024, the already massively popular world of HBO"s Harley Quinn is providing some potent competition. Already four seasons and a spin-off series deep with Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, Harley Quinn is coming back for another series. This was confirmed by Harley Quinn voice lead Kaley Cuoco as early as January of 2024, riding the tidal wave of the series" success to the future.
The series begins with Harley Quinn recovering from her breakup with The Joker, introducing audiences to the series" paradoxically funny version of the DC Universe. Season 4 ended with Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Batgirl and Catwoman forming a new all-female team, the Gotham City sirens, ready to spring into action in the wake of Batman"s return and Nightwing"s resurrection. It"ll be fascinating to see where Harley Quinn"s story can go from the precipice of the previous season.
7 Peacemaker Season 2 TBD

John Cena"s Peacemaker is one of the few movie characters to earn his own spin-off series despite being both relatively obscure and an utterly despicable excuse for a superhero. Despite all odds, Peacemaker won over plenty of new fans after its premiere on HBO Max in 2022. Viewers had been antsy for a commitment to a second season, which James Gunn has luckily confirmed to be happening with a selfie in Peacemaker"s iconic chrome helmet indicating production had begun in a Threads post in April 2024.
Peacemaker concluded its first season with the despicable Project Butterfly being exposed, and the alien threat to Earth officially ended, no thanks to a surprise cameo by the DCEU"s Justice League. Ending on a very comprehensive conclusion, it"ll be interesting to see where James Gunn plans on taking Cena"s gun-toting vigilante next. Considering Peacemaker"s murky status as a part of the now-defunct DCEU, which continuity the series serves (if any) will also need to be called into question.
6 Waller TBD

One figure has been a consistent throughline in multiple DCU movies and TV shows, none other than Amanda Waller of The Suicide Squad fame. Viola Davis" brilliant take on the Task Force X organizer and shady government operative was one of the few holdovers to survive the critically panned 2016 film Suicide Squad, and has since gone on to feature in many other DC projects. Davis" Waller appeared in Peacemaker and will be pulling the strings in animated form in Creature Commandos as well.
It"s only fitting that the upcoming series Waller will finally allow the popular background character to get the spotlight with a dedicated series all to her own. The live-action show will allegedly feature Waller teaming up with key characters from Peacemaker, though exact names have yet to be confirmed. There"s no telling where producers Watchmen writer Crystal Henry and Doom Patrol showrunner Jeremy Carver will take DC"s morally bankrupt powerhouse in her own dedicated project.
5 Lanterns TBD

Custom image by Andy Behbakht Green Lantern has been trapped in unfortunate circumstances when it comes to TV and movie representation outside of the animated arena. Ever since Ryan Reynold"s disastrous Green Lantern flopped in 2011, producers have been hesitant to champion the character. It"s likely that this hesitance contributed to a Green Lantern show being trapped in development limbo for years at HBO, postulated by Arrowverse producer and scribe Greg Berlanti.
Now, a whole new concept for a Green Lantern show, tentatively titled Lanterns, has confirmed to be brewing at HBO. Leaning into the character"s concept as a sort of space cop, Lanterns will be a crime procedural in the style of True Detective featuring both the Hal Jordan and John Stewart incarnations of the construct-wielding hero. The series is in the capable hands of Ozark executive producer Chris Mundy, who will serve as showrunner.
4 Paradise Lost TBD

Not to be confused with the literary classic or the 2020 drama series, Paradise Lost aims to be a particularly unique entry into the burgeoning DCU. Capitalizing on the renewed popularity of Wonder Woman following Gal Gadot"s interpretation in the DCEU, Paradise Lost was once going to be Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins" third solo Wonder Woman film before being retooled into a TV series. James Gunn has confirmed Paradise Lost"s development, though he"s taken great care to specify that the series is technically not yet greenlit.
Paradise Lost aims to be a prequel set in Wonder Woman"s home country of Themyscira, following the lives of the Amazonian warrior women who live there. The series will allegedly be highly inspired by Game of Thrones, utilizing similar medieval drama to fuel its runtime. While this series might be one of the furthest out of DC"s entire upcoming TV slate, it has the potential to bring a previously-unseen perspective into Wonder Woman"s origins.
3 Booster Gold TBD

After his longtime superhero partner, Ted Kord"s Blue Beetle, was given some love in the 2023 film of the same name, it"s only fitting that Booster Gold finally gets some love from the new DCU. Booster Gold is known as an egotistical time-traveling character who uses the technology of his time to become a superhero in the present day. While Booster Gold did show up in 2022"s Legends of Tomorrow among the Arrowverse"s cast, he"s yet to ever get top-billing on a dedicated live-action project.
It seems an upcoming Booster Gold solo series will be doing just that, following the underrated hero into the DCU. Details are still scarce as of yet, with little to report about the show being known at the time of writing besides its tentative existence. Rumors earlier in 2024 have circulated speculating that the show has already been cast, but hard confirmation of anything beyond a simple title remains elusive.
2 Bat-Family TBD

Another animated Batman series coming to Amazon Prime, Bat-Family will, as the name implies, sit in stark contrast to Batman: Caped Crusader as a family-friendly take on The Dark Knight. More specifically, the series will be focusing on Batman"s son, Damian Wayne, who is known in the comics for being the latest Robin and a difficult estranged presence in Bruce"s life. Here, Damian will allegedly be taking up the idolized cape and cowl of his father under the title of "Little Batman".
Bat-Family will be a follow-up series to the 2023 Amazon Prime holiday movie Merry Little Batman, a family-friendly Christmas-themed story about Bruce Wayne and Damian"s relationship. The film sees Batman eliminate crime in Gotham once and for all in preparation for his son"s arrival, only for the ambitious tyke to become desperate to fight villainy himself anyway. The movie presented a charming version of the Batman mythos with a uniquely exaggerated art style that will be thrilling to see return in a dedicated series.
1 Arkham Asylum TBD

Custom image by Felipe Rangel It seems as though The Penguin won"t be Matt Reeves" last time overseeing a Batman-related spin-off series, with a dedicated Arkham Asylum show supposedly in the works at HBO. Arkham Asylum is the famous (often temporary) interment site of many of Batman"s most dangerous and disturbed villains, with big names like The Joker, Scarecrow, and Hugo Strange frequently calling the psychiatric facility home. The potential for a whole show dedicated to the location is quite limitless.
Interestingly, it"s been confirmed that Arkham Asylum will not take place in the same continuity as Reeves" The Batman or The Penguin. James Gunn has confirmed that Reeves will play a part in the DCU proper at some point, but whether Arkham Asylum will be a part of the larger universe or its own separate canon entirely remains to be confirmed one way or another. No matter the case, Arkham Asylum is once of the DCU"s most promising upcoming series.
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