Superman and Lois has been renewed for a second season, The CW declared Tuesday, seven days after the drama’s super-sized series debut and a few hours in front of the second episode. The Greg Berlanti-produced Arrowverse series joins Walker, the organization’s other green bean dramatization that was gotten briefly season soon after it appeared this colder time of year.
“The phenomenal multiplatform debut of Superman & Lois, which delivered for us in a big way on both a linear and streaming basis, is a testament to the creativity, hard work and dedication of the talented people who worked tirelessly in front of and behind the camera, especially in this challenging environment,” said CW president Mark Pedowitz in a statement.
“We are thrilled to now have two brand-new bonafide hits in Superman & Lois and Walker,” he continued, “both of which have been renewed for next season along with 11 other of our shows, further positioning us for continued strength and stability for next season.”
Developed by The Flash’s Todd Helbing, Superman and Lois follows a rendition of the nominal couple that we’ve never seen on TV or in the films: Clark Kent (Tyler Hoechlin) and Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch) are hitched and have two adolescent children, Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) and Jordan (Alexander Garfin). After a family misfortune reminds the bustling guardians what’s significant in their lives, they choose to move to back to Smallville to bring up their kids, since they trust life will be more slow there. Tragically, that turns out not to be the case on the grounds that [SPOILER ALERT] they find Jordan may have acquired his dad’s forces, and a baffling defensively covered outsider (Wolé Parks) has a grudge against the Man of Steel.
“The core of the show is rooted in this family and their struggles,” Tulloch recently told EW about the show’s family drama angle. “The way Todd was talking about it was, you want it to be kind of grittier. You want it to feel grounded, and you want to really believe that what they’re going through, other people can go through too.”
“We’re going to explore stories that haven’t been told in a way that they haven’t been told before,” Helbing added.
As indicated by the CW, the show’s hour and a half arrangement debut gave the organization its most-watched early evening night since Jan. 29, 2019, and had the biggest the very beginning streaming crowd for another arrangement in its set of experiences. The CW additionally restored individual Arrowverse dramatizations The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman for the 2021-2022 season in February.
Superman and Lois — which likewise stars Emmanuelle Chriqui, Dylan Walsh, Inde Navarette, Adam Rayner, and Erik Valdez — airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on The CW.
