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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…

It’s all hands on deck in the new masked-man teaser from The CW. The largest assembly of superheroes in the history of live-action television will suit up for "Crisis On Infinite Earths," the mega-crossover event that begins Dec. 8 on The CW and unties the entire Arrowverse family of franchises:  Arrow, The Flash, Supe…

Wayne Brady has a new deal. The Emmy-winning host of Let’s Make a Deal on CBS will portray a disaffected super-solider called Gravedigger on The CW superhero franchise Black Lightning. Brady will join the DC Comics-based series in early 2020 in the recurring role of Tyson "Gravedigger" Sykes, described by producers as…

SPOILER WARNING: This article includes plot details about the Season 4 premiere of Riverdale that aired Wednesday night on the CW. The Season 4 premiere of Riverdale arrived on Wednesday night with an agenda of unfinished business and a script that was written and performed through tears. The episode, “Chapter Fifty-Ei…

EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian Roché is returning to the CW. The former The Vampire Diaries and The Originals star is set to join the network’s Batwoman in a recurring role. Roché, known for his role as Mikael Mikaelson on TVD and its spinoff, will play Dr. Campbell, one of Gotham’s most well-respected plastic surgeons and…

EXCLUSIVE: The CW’s upcoming Katy Keene is once again expanding its family: Broadway legend Bernadette Peters has been cast as a mother figure to Julia Chan’s Pepper Smith, one of Katy’s close friends and inner circle. Peters will play “Ms. Freesia,” described as “Pepper Smith’s eccentrically elegant surrogate mother…

Some Super-vision clearly will be required for Arrowverse fans when they watch the CW’s upcoming “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover event, which promises to be the largest assemblage of superheroes in a live-action epic in TV history. That team-up will include no fewer than three once and future Superman actors…

Cara Buono (Stranger Things) and Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) have been cast in recurring roles as ancient aliens in the fifth season of Supergirl, The CW series that returns on Oct. 6. Buono will recur as Gamemnae, an ancient alien, who with others of her kind, have been safeguarding the Earth from the follies of…

Riverdale fans already know some crossover of characters is planned for the CW’s upcoming Katy Keene. But the spin-off’s exec producers and cast teased out a few more details at today’s Tribeca TV Festival panel and pilot screening. Expect a boxing match. And Pussycats. And Robin Givens. As for the boxing, one of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Littlefield has been cast as a shady character nicknamed Mouse in a recurring role on the new CW series Batwoman. Littlefield’s character is described only as a “dynamic figure” who is “working for Alice and the Wonderland Gang,” which suggests that this Mouse might be going down a dangerous rabbit hole…

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian actor Juan Riedinger has landed the recurring role of Dodger, Archie’s nemesis, in Season 4 of the CW’s Riverdale. Riedinger recently finished a season-long turn as Joe Dupree on TNT’s Claws and also had a recurring role as Teo on Good Behavior, TNT’s edgy Michelle Dockery crime noir series.  The…

The CW has become a network of “-verses”: The Arrowverse, the Archieverse, and the DC Comicsverse. Many of whose shows are also sub-verses of Greg Berlanti-verse. However, despite previous efforts, CW president Mark Pedowitz said at this morning's TCA executive session that its long-running series Supernatural…