DC Super Hero Girls (TV series)

DC Super Hero Girls is an American animated action-adventure comedy television series developed by Lauren Faust and produced by Warner Bros. Animation for Cartoon Network. Based on the web series and franchise of the same name, the series premiered on March 8, 2019, with a one-hour special.

The series follows the adventures of teenage versions of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Batgirl, Zatanna, and Green Lantern who are students at Metropolis High School.

Premise
The show focuses on six female teenage superheroes with secret identities: Diana Prince / Wonder Woman voiced by Grey Griffin; Barbara "Babs" Gordon / Batgirl voiced by Tara Strong; Kara Danvers / Supergirl voiced by Nicole Sullivan; Zee Zatara / Zatanna voiced by Kari Wahlgren, Jessica Cruz / Green Lantern voiced by Myrna Velasco; and Karen Beecher / Bumblebee voiced by Kimberly Brooks. The six girls meet at Metropolis High School and form a superhero team dubbed the "Super Hero Girls".

The show tells the coming-of-age stories of the Super Hero Girls, deals with their choices and decisions regarding their superhero identities and their secret identities. The show focuses on physical comedy, emotional storylines, and a large gallery of villains.

Episodes
The new incarnation of DC Super Hero Girls debuted at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con with the theatrical short #TheLateBatsby which screened in theaters before the movie Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. The online "Super Shorts" debuted on January 17, 2019 with #SuperSleeper on YouTube. The TV series debuted with the one-hour special #SweetJustice on March 8, 2019.

Production
Lauren Faust was approached by Warner Bros. to develop DC Super Hero Girls into a television series, after previously working on Super Best Friends Forever. The television iteration of the web series DC Super Hero Girls was announced in May 2017. Tara Strong and Nicole Sullivan reprises their roles as Batgirl and Supergirl respectively from Super Best Friends Forever, while Grey Griffin, who previously voiced Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) from the DC Nation Shorts, reprises her role as Wonder Woman from the web series. A year later, a poster showing the first look of the main characters was released. The series are animated by the Canadian studio Jam Filled Entertainment and AllSpark's Boulder Media from Ireland. The series is the second collaboration between Tara Strong and John de Lancie, the first being My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Broadcast
The show premiered on Cartoon Network UK on 6 July 2019. It began airing on CITV in September 2020.

The first 41 episodes are also available to watch on Netflix.