The CW has announced that the Ruby Rose-headlined Arrowverse series Batwoman has received a back-nine order, extending its debut season to a full run of 22 episodes.
The Arrowverse series, which spins out of last year’s Elseworlds crossover, sees Rose starring as Kate Kane, the cousin of Bruce Wayne, who takes on the mantle of the Bat following the mysterious disappearance of the Caped Crusader some three years earlier.
In addition to Batwoman, The CW has also granted a back-nine order to its other new series Nancy Drew, which stars Kennedy McMann as the teen sleuth.
Kate Kane 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 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. Although remarried to wealthy socialite Catherine Hamilton-Kane, 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.
Batwoman is set to air on The CW on Sunday nights.
