As a prequel series, there’s always been an unavoidable finish line waiting for Gotham. The Fox series ends when Batman begins.

That finish line is looming and the end is near for the series, which is set in Bruce Wayne’s hometown in the years and months leading up to his first masked-man adventures as Batman. After fi…

When Batman's loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth has been portrayed in Hollywood, he's mostly a secondary character looking after his superhero charge. But in the new Epix drama Pennyworth, comic book fans will learn a lot more about the DC Comics character during the 10-episode, one-hour series debuting in June and…

The end of the beginning starts in January — that’s one way to think of the Jan. 3 return of Fox’s Gotham for its fifth and final season exploring the preamble years of Batman’s crimefighting career.

In the just-arrived trailer for the swan-song season, it’s clear that the Gotham of television is approaching the era…

Epix’s drama Pennyworth has found its villainess at the top of the British pop charts: Platinum-selling singer Paloma Faith has joined the cast in the role of Bet Sykes, a cruel adversary who will test the courage of young Alfred Pennyworth and his new boss, Thomas Wayne, the future father of Bruce Wayne.

Faith’s chara…

MGM-owned Epix has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to Pennyworth, a Batman prequel from Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller, executive producer/director Danny Cannon and Warner Horizon Scripted TV.

Written by Heller, based on DC characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, Pennyworth follows Bruce Wayne's…

The season four promo trailer for Fox’s Gotham is out, offering the first look at Batman’s arch enemy, The Scarecrow. The promo will air today during the first game of Sunday’s NFL preseason slate on Fox.

The Scarecrow is Dr. Jonathan Crane, a deranged former professor of psychology who sows the fears of his adversarie…

The Mentalist creator Bruno Heller is back at CBS as an executive producer on another procedural drama, Firewall. The project, written/executive produced by The Mysteries of Laura creator Jeff Rake, has received a put pilot commitment from the network. Warner Bros. TV, where both Rake and Heller have been under…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's episode of Gotham

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that many shows would have saved for a season finale, the Batman backstory series tonight laid some new tracks for the origins of the Caped Crusader's archenemy. Having teased and toyed out the emergence of the Joker since…

The Batman prequel saved the best and the worst for last tonight at Comic-Con. The Joker stole the microphone from a fan who was asking a question from the audience but found himself immediately tackled by Hall H security. It was actor Cameron Monaghan who stayed in character as he was dragged away by security…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Gotham Season 1 finale.

What began with water also ended in the water on Gotham tonight. The city has a new boss of a sort in the Season 1 finale and a lot of laughter is coming in Season 2, says executive producer Bruno Heller.

Bookending Oswald Cobblepot AKA Pen…

If you thought Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight feature trilogy elevated the gravitas of Batman, WBTV’s Gotham series on Fox just takes the show to a higher state of human drama. The series follows the early days of James Gordon in the wake of Bruce Wayne’s parents, before the detective becomes the city’s police…

If Batman isn’t going to show up in Fox’s upcoming fall series Gotham, and if the show largely deals with the origins of future Police Commissioner James Gordon, well then, shouldn’t the show more aptly be titled Gordon? Such weighty questions about how Gotham will expand on the Batman universe, not to mention the…