Warner Bros. Animation Announces Three New DC TV Series

Absolute Batman

Warner Bros. Animation, 2026

Three new DC universe animated series were announced during a joint DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation presentation at the 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

The presentation featured Peter Safran (Co‑Chairman and Co‑CEO, DC Studios) and Sam Register (President, Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, and Hanna‑Barbera Studios Europe), alongside Warner Bros. Animation artists who shared first looks and creative insights into the next era of DC animation.

Absolute Batman, based on the award-winning and best-selling DC comic book series of the same name, will see Scott Snyder serve as executive producer and showrunner. Snyder wrote the comic book series. Nick Dragotta provided art for the book series and will take a producer role on the TV series.

In the comic book series, Bruce Wayne was a blue collar worker from the projects who had lost one parent, not two. And he was a jacked man who also fought crime, but more resembled an MMA fighter than the traditionally proportioned Caped Crusader.

The series is described by the company as “still in development” and no network home has been announced. But it did provide this brief logline:

Absolute Batman boldly reinvents the Batman mythos for a new generation of fans, reimagining the Dark Knight as a working-class hero up against impossible odds (and the most terrifying foes ever), on a mission to prove that even in an era of wealth, power and corruption, one good person can change the world. 
 
No manor, no money… all Batman. When you take away the manor, the money, the advantages, what you’re left with is something absolute.

Also in development is the kids series Krypto, which stars everyone’s favorite Super Dog.

The series is being produced by C.H. Greenblatt, and it is also described as “being in development.”

And even the official logline is a bit scant on details:

When he’s not hanging out with Superman or Supergirl, Krypto tags along with a gang of misfit criminal wannabes who live down the block, and they soon discover he’s a ball of destructive, lovable energy worse than any of them! As he follows them into misadventures and poorly laid plans, Krypto’s pure nature slowly ends up redeeming them, whether they want it or not.

Of the three just-announced shows, the one closest to a premiere date is Joker: Laugh Riot, which has been given a greenlight and is currently in production.

Produced by Jim Krieg and Yasuhuro Aoki, the series is described as the story of what happens to the Joker when he loses his biggest foe:

When Batman is murdered, the Joker launches a ruthless crusade through Gotham’s underworld to find the killer who took away his greatest adversary. But as his violent quest for answers pushes him closer towards vigilante than villain, Joker is forced to confront the truth that without Batman, he doesn’t know who he is.

Most of the large animation houses are doing presentations at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this week, among them Netflix, who announced an impressive slate of original animated films and TV shows.