On November 7, 2016, Warner Brothers Television announced that the show would return to production due to huge demand after a three-year absence. The third season debuted on DC's streaming service in January 2019.
Aqualad/Kaldur'ahm was created for this series. Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis liked the character so much that they adapted him for the DC comic books (with dreadlocked hair and the alter ego Jackson Hyde) debuting in Brightest Day #4. Johns revealed that the new Aqualad was added to the comics because Khary Payton asked for the character to be included in the comics.
One of the deciding factors on how the producers chose the main characters (Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Superboy, Miss Martian, and Artemis) is that they wanted to have adults that the kids viewed as mentors or as parental figures.
The producers went into this series with two goals: to capture the interests of not only the youngest kids, but also the older crowds and to make the show feel as realistic as they could with animation.