ARROW Spin-Off JUSTICE U Scrapped At The CW; Update On SUPERMAN & LOIS And GOTHAM KNIGHTS Shared

ARROW Spin-Off JUSTICE U Scrapped At The CW; Update On SUPERMAN & LOIS And GOTHAM KNIGHTS Shared

In news unlikely to surprise many of you, The CW has officially pulled the plug on the final Arrowverse series Justice U starring David Ramsey as John Diggle. We also have news on Superman & Lois and more!

By JoshWilding - May 19, 2023 05:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Arrow

Big changes are taking place at The CW following the network's acquisition by Nexstar, and more casualties of those have now been revealed.

Chief among them is David Ramsey's Arrowverse series, Justice U. That would have seen the actor reprise his role as Arrow's John Diggle as he "embarks on a new mission to recruit five young metahumans to live undercover as freshmen at a prestigious university."

While the character is popular, even the most die-hard fans questioned why The CW would move forward with a series boasting such an odd premise. Well, it's not happening now and is no longer being developed by the network. 

A female-led Zorro series, Jake Chang (based on the Archie Comics character of the same name), and Powerpuff Girls have also been scrapped. 

"We’ve already given those back to the studios," The CW's President of Entertainment Brad Schwartz tells TV Line of the shows listed above, "so they’re free to develop those and sell them anywhere."

Chloe Bennet, Dove Cameron, Yana Perrault, and Donald Faison starred in a Powerpuff Girl pilot shot in 2021, though the decision was made to go back to the drawing board and try again because the first effort was "too campy." Now, we're guessing it won't happen at all, a shame considering it assembled a great cast. 

As for DC TV shows Superman & Lois and Gotham Knights, we recently learned that only one of them is likely to survive. Asked about those and All American: Homecoming during a recent press conference, Schwartz said, "We love all [three] shows. We’ll be making decisions on those sooner [rather] than later."

"Superman & Lois, creatively, is very strong," he continued. "It does well in broadcast, it does well in digital...but it’s expensive [and] doesn’t make money for us. And we don’t have the rights to the prior seasons. You need to have a library [for people to find a show] and the prior seasons are [on HBO Max]."

Reading between the lines, we'd say the show's days are, unfortunately, numbered. 

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HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 5/19/2023, 5:42 AM
Oh no.

Anyway.
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 5/19/2023, 5:49 AM
If he was in anything I'd want to see him as Green Lantern...
Origame
Origame - 5/19/2023, 6:53 AM
@DevilsDreams - they burnt that bridge thoroughly.

Which is so dumb. So him given the ring that could've allowed him to save whole planets was a test to see if he's worthy of the real goal of being with his family? Come on.
FusionWarrior
FusionWarrior - 5/19/2023, 8:03 AM
No surprise there, why bother.
Odin
Odin - 5/19/2023, 8:18 AM
Yeah, was anyone actually expecting this Justice U thing to really happen?
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 5/19/2023, 9:31 AM
@Odin - they made Gotham Knights.. clearly anything is possible
Odin
Odin - 5/19/2023, 2:17 PM
@TheNewYorker - Touché
dracula
dracula - 5/19/2023, 9:14 AM
was too late for a diggle show anyway, a year or two after arrow ended may have worked but people dont care anymore
ScottPilgrim29
ScottPilgrim29 - 5/19/2023, 12:38 PM
They are having second thoughts about Gotham Knights? Really?
Himura
Himura - 5/19/2023, 4:48 PM
Completely forgot this was announced.

Superman & Lois moving to HBOMax just makes perfect sense since all the older seasons are already on there. This is the best Superman iteration we've had in ages. It at least deserves a final season to wrap things up.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 5/21/2023, 9:57 AM
@Himura - Fully agreed.
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