Batgirl (2016 TV Series)

Batgirl is a 2016 Action Drama Series following the adventures of Barbara Gordon in Gotham City. It stars Lyndsy Fonseca, Tristan Wilds, Nicole Beharie...

Batgirl is an American superhero fiction action-adventure drama television series developed by Ali Adler, and P.N. Cosmic (The former having worked on Supergirl) that airs on CBS and premiered on October 27, 2016. It is based on the DC Comics character Batgirl (Barbara Gordon), created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Maldoff, and stars Lydnsy Fonseca in the title role. Batgirl is a costumed vigilante who is a protoge of Batman and must take over protecting Gotham in his absence.

The series was given a full season order of 22 episodes on May 6, 2016, after receiving a series commitment in March.

Premise

Barbara Gordon was once the protoge of the infamous Batman, the Dark Knight of Gotham City. But when one of his protoges, Jason Todd died, her Ex Boyfriend Dick Grasyon left the city and Batman fired her to protect her from their dangerous life. After five years of operating solo however, despite permanently locking many of his villains in Arkham Asylum, Batman was defeated by Bane, his back broken leaving Gotham unprotected, so now Barbara must come out of retirement to protect her city from a new conspiracy of villains that threatens to overrun the city, corrupting it from the inside.

But Barbara has forged a whole life after she retired as Batgirl, earning her doctorate and becoming the head of the Gotham University Library, forging close friendships with Tamara Fox (Nicole Beharie) who is the interim CEO of Wayne enterprises, Vicki Vale, intrepid reporter and Nora Fries , a gifted artist who often clashes with her scientist husband, Victor. When she has to don the cowl and become Batgirl again, she'll need all the help she can get, relying on support from her therapist, Leslie Thompkins, Special Crimes detective Slam Bradley Jr, her colleague Lucas (Tristan Wilds) her friend Tamara's brother and son of Wayne Enterprises board chairman Lucius Fox, and a young genius Timothy Drake who discovers her secret on his own. To make matters worse, a dangerous new vigilante calling herself Batwoman (Dina Meyer) has shown up in Gotham, reminding the city why it hated vigilantes in the first place and forcing Barbara Gordon to make some hard choices, for her, for her friends and for the whole city.