'My Adventures With Superman' Was Inexplicably A CW Show For A Few Weeks
Still no explanation, but it's going to be a fun memory
My Adventures with Superman completed its first season Friday, September 1, and frankly it rocked. The stories, the characters, the reinventions of others. But it didn’t come without its oddities. Arguably the biggest after getting over its midnight timeslot on Adult Swim for a Cartoon Network transfer, there was actually a brief period you might have sooner thought it came from The CW.
From episodes 7-9, encompassing “Kiss Kiss Fall in Portal” and both parts of “Zero Day”, which aired August 11, 18, and 25 the production logos that opened the episodes somehow included The CW’s, jingle and all. Reportedly, these versions also made it as their Max uploads, but have since been corrected. This was apparently fixed by the season finale “Hearts of the Fathers”, which aired without such. No explanation for why this happened has been given.
What made such especially bizarre was after the Saturday morning block space, then branded as Vortexx, was sold to Litton in 2014, The CW has never aired a full animated series as part of a regular schedule. Sure, they aired CW Seed’s Vixen microseries as a movie in 2017, and gave part of Constantine: City of Demons similar treatment the next year, but they haven’t had an original primetime animated series since the days of Baby Blues and The Oblongs over 20 years ago when it was still The WB. The only real animation shown are specials, all given examples of which aired around the holidays, like Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer, or more recent entries like Scooby-Doo Where Are You Now! and the glorious Beebo Saves Christmas. Maybe, just as Nexstar has brought sports in and brought back sitcoms to the network, as importy as the latter may be, animation can make its way too. Only Fox has tried in the past 14 years.
Of course, what The CW does still have while under Nexstar ownership is a Superman series, Superman & Lois. The live action series starring Tyler Hoechlin and Bitsie Tulloch as the duo is the network’s last remaining DC adaptation. It’s also set at a much later stage in their relationship, as parents of twin teenage sons, Jonathan and Jordan played by Michael Bishop and Alex Garfin. It was renewed for a fourth season but due to budget cuts dropped the rest of its main cast, only promoting Michael Cudlitz’s Lex Luthor. It will also only have 10 episodes, as each of the first two seasons of My Adventures will have.
My Adventures with Superman stars Jack Quaid as Supes, Alice Lee as Lois Lane, and Ishmael Sahid as Jimmy Olsen. Developer and executive producer Jake Wyatt is the apparent showrunner. All ten first season episodes are streaming on Max. An example of the CW logo appearing is demonstrated below.
