The CW Orders Three New Series, Including the Arrow and The Flash Spin-Off
The CW has ordered three new series, including Legends of Tomorrow, the long in development spin-off of Arrow and The Flash, TV.com has confirmed. Also picked up for the 2015-2016 season are Cordon, from The Originals' executive producer Julie Plec, and the hour-long comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Legends of Tomorrow hails from Arrow creators Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Marc Guggenheim and stars a handful of actors who've already popped up in The CW's ever-expanding DC Comics universe, including Brandon Routh (as Ray Palmer, a.k.a. the Atom), Victor Garber (as Dr. Martin Stein, a.k.a. one half of Firestorm), Wentworth Miller (as Leonard Snart, a.k.a. Captain Cold), and Dominic Purcell (as Mick Rory, a.k.a. Heat Wave). Caity Lotz, who played Sara Lance/the Canary on Arrow, is also slated to appear, but her role is still cloaked in shadow. However, there's already plenty of online debate regarding the details of her character. Rounding out the rest of the cast are Franz Drameh, as the mysterious Jay Jackson, Doctor Who's Arthur Darvill as Rip Hunter, and Broadway actress Ciara Renée as Hawkgirl.
There's been a lot of speculation regarding what exactly this "superhero team-up" series would be about. Here's the show's official and hastily written logline: "When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat—one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?"
Legends of Tomorrow is the network's fourth series inspired by characters from DC Comics, including Rob Thomas' recently renewed iZombie. On Wednesday, CBS, one of The CW's parent companies, also handed out a series order to Berlanti and Kreisberg's Supergirl, which will be run by Ali Adler (No Ordinary Family).
Cordon, based on the Belgian series, explores a world in which a deadly epidemic breaks out in Atlanta (poor Atlanta, always getting the shaft). After a city-wide quarantine is enforced, those stuck inside must fight for their lives. The series follows survivors "torn apart from their loved ones... fighting against not only fatal infection, but also isolation, fear, and the disintegration of society around them. But as they begin to gain each other's trust, hope remains, and on either side of the cordon unlikely heroes will rise." The series is executive produced by Plec and David Nutter, who also directed the pilot. David Gyasi, Christina Moses, Chris Wood (The Vampire Diaries' Kai), Kristen Gutoskie, Claudia Black, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, George Young, and Trevor St. John star.
The CW has also ordered Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, an hour-long comedy that was originally ordered to pilot at Showtime (which, like The CW, is owned by CBS). The project is described as a "comedy with musical elements" and follows co-creator Rachel Bloom (as Rebecca Bloom), an attorney who abandons her fabulous life in New York to start over in California. This sounds like it might pair well with the network's critically adored Jane the Virgin, and may even do a little to fill the Hart of Dixie-shaped hole in the network's fall schedule (and our hearts).
The three new series join an already packed lineup. The CW renewed nearly every one of its shows from the 2014-2015 season. The 100, Arrow, The Flash, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Reign, Supernatural, iZombie, and Jane the Virgin will all return next season. Meanwhile, Beauty and the Beast Season 3 premieres this summer.
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