Why can’t Batman shows just be normal?

polygon.com:

Batman is one of the most popular superheroes in just about every medium. His movies are often the gold standard of comic book cinema; his comics are usually at the top of the charts (try finding a DC comic without Batman in it each month); he’s in a bunch of absolutely killer cartoons; he even broke the curse of lousy superhero video games! But if there’s a thorn in the side of the multimedia Bat-Empire, it’s live-action TV. For whatever reason, the Caped Crusader can’t have a normal-ass TV show.

Consider the new CW series Gotham Knights. The show, which premiered March 14, takes place in a Gotham City where Bruce Wayne is murdered and his secret identity as Batman is revealed to the world. His adopted son, Turner Hayes (Oscar Morgan, playing a character created for the show) is framed for the murder, and falls in with a motley crew of teen outcasts. There’s orphans Harper Row (Fallon Smythe) and her brother, Cullen (Tyler DiChiara); fellow prep school attendee Stephanie Brown (Anna Lore, playing a character known for her alter ego The Spoiler); Carrie Kelley (Navia Robinson), the current Robin (it is unclear if there have been others); and Duela (Olivia Rose Keegan), the Joker’s daughter.

Eventually, the whole gang is implicated for Wayne’s murder, and they band together to clear their names and fight the true threat: the Court of Owls, a secret society that has pulled Gotham City’s strings in secret for decades. It is, in other words, yet another attempt to make a Batman show without Batman.

TV absolutely loves a Batman-without-Batman show. They happen all the time. Gotham Knights is not dissimilar to Birds of Prey, the 2002 WB series about a version of the Huntress that was the superhuman daughter of Batman and