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Fox’s first-responder drama 9-1-1 closed off its fourth season taking in the top rating (1.0 Live+Same Day rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 5.99M viewers) of Tuesday night, an evening which featured not one, but four, other finales. Following the 9-1-1 season four finale was the 9-1-1 Lone Star season three…

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from tonight’s series finale of The CW’s Black Lightning. On Monday, Black Lightning came to the end of its four-season run on the CW, signing off with a passing of the torch. When series finale "The Book of Resurrection: Chapter Two: Closure" opens, it looks like…

Black Lightning‘s Jordan Calloway broke the news to his fans that his Painkiller spinoff will not be moving forward at The CW as it defines its 2021 fall schedule.  Shorty after The CW revealed what is and isn’t in the works, Calloway spoke fans and followers via Instagram TV. “Painkiller will not be going forward, so…

EXCLUSIVE: The cast for The CW’s Painkiller is coming together as the Black Lightning spinoff has added Sibongile Mlambo, Alexander Hodge and James Roch. Painkiller is planned as a planted pilot spinoff that will air as the seventh episode of Black Lightning's fourth season which is currently airing on The CW. Jordan…

ABC’s The Bachelor won Monday’s primetime ratings race as Matt and his crew of potential brides-to-be bowled their way to a 1.3 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.23 million viewers. The two-hour episode was down a tenth in the demo from last week, but it was still enough to top the night in the demo. Meanwhile, it…

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Luke Cook has booked a recurring role on the fourth season of the CW’s Dynasty. Cook will play Oliver, Kirby's (Maddison Brown) ex-beau from Australia, a photographer who has come to town for a shoot, but has ulterior motives. They reconnect but his late-night partying and drug…

The end for Black Lightning is in sight. The CW confirmed Friday that the superhero drama will end with the upcoming fourth season, which is set to premiere early next year. The move follows the network’s announcement last week that it is planning a planted spinoff of the series titled Painkiller, with Jordan Calloway…

EXCLUSIVE: Grace Choi is officially here to stay on The CW’s Black Lightning. Chantal Thuy, who plays the shapeshifting metahuman on the Arrowverse superhero drama, has been upped to series regular for season four. Grace Choi is based on the Black Lightning comic created by Tony Isabella with Trevor von Eeden. Thuy…

Black Lightning is getting a spinoff, with the CW developing a backdoor pilot around the Painkiller character. Painkiller will star Jordan Calloway, reprising his role as the eponymous character. The planted pilot spinoff will air as the seventh episode of Black Lightning's fourth season, which will premiere in…

Black Lightning is bidding farewell to Damon Gupton. The actor who played Inspector Bill Henderson on the CW series since it debuted in January 2018, announced via Twitter on Sunday that his time on the DC Comics saga is ending. "And that's a wrap. My final night on the set of @blacklightning," Gupton captioned a…

SPOILER WARNING: This article reveals key plot points from Sunday night’s episode of Supergirl. Saving the entire Earth from impending destruction used to be a pretty big deal in the superhero business but times have changed. After a decade of globe-threatening screen menaces (Thanos, Loki, Beowulf, Apocalypse, Dark…

The CW is preparing to bid farewell to a pair of its most popular and longest-running dramas, setting series-finale dates for Supernatural and Arrow. The net today also series season-ender dates for Black Lightning and All American. Supernatural, starring Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, is moving to Mondays in March…