The official twitter account for the new Stargirl TV series has announced the premiere date for the show. The series, starring Brec Bassinger and Luke Wilson, will bow May 12, 2020. Surprisingly, the announcement tells us it'll debut on the The CW. Previous announcements indicated the show would air first on DC Universe, and then appear on The CW the next day.
DC's Stargirl is the 2020 DC Universe/CW TV series based on the DC Comics of the same name.
The show stars Brec Bassinger as Courtney Whitmore, a high school student whose stepfather, Pat Dugan (Luke Wilson) is the grown, former sidekick of a lost hero called Starman (in the comics it was the Star Spangled Kid). Courtney finds that she can wield Starman's staff and adopts a star spangled costume. To assist her, Pat develops a robotic suit of armor and becomes her sidekick called S.T.R.I.P.E. Starman's dying wish was for the Justice Society to live on, and Courtney takes on assembling a team of next-generation superheroes into an all new Justice Society of America.
Along with Bassinger and Wilson, Stargirl features Amy Smart, Trae Romano, Cameron Gellman, Yvette Monreal, Anjelika Washington, Meg DeLacy, Neil Jackson, Jake Austin Walker, Christopher James Baker and Hunter Sansone.
The character Courtney Whitmore and the concept of Stargirl was developed by writer Geoff Johns and artist Lee Moder. She initially appeared in the 1999 comic series Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E., and called herself the Star Spangled Kid. Her abilities were derived from her Cosmic Converter Belt, which was part of the original Kid's arsenal. Later she meets a retiring Starman and is given his cosmic staff. At that point she adopts the name Stargirl.
DC's Stargirl is set to stream on DC Universe and then air on The CW a day later.
