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The CW has released the first look trailer for Black Lightning. Cress Williams stars as Jefferson Pierece, China Anne McClain as Lynn Pierce, Nafessa Williams as Anissa Pierce, and Christine Adams as Lynn Pierce The show is from Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil, who are producing it together with Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter. The show is being aimed[...]

The reason is simple, according to CW President Mark Pedowitz: Black Lightning will be filmed in Atlanta, while the other four shows are filmed in Vancouver I'm going to presume that when reporters get a chance to question Pedowitz later today, someone will remind him that some of those characters can fly More on that[...]

Black Lightning is one of the more high profile pick-ups for the CW It's another DC Comics show but it's the first one to feature a person of color as the lead The show will follow Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams), "the hero who he hung up his suit and his secret identity years ago, but[...]

Word is that the Black Lightning series from creators Greg Berlanti, Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil is likely to get a midseason run on the CW according to THR Cress Williams is set to play Jefferson Pierce, school teacher turned costumed vigilante This would be the sixth series for Berlanti on the network counting[...]

40 years ago this month saw the debut of Black Lightning by Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden in his own comic. To give you a better idea of the mindset of DC at the time, they were seriously going to publish a character called Black Bomber, a white racists that became a black superhero when[...]

Warner Bros TV has released this image showing Cress Williams in a Black Lightning costume by Laura Jean Shannon A pilot is currently filming in Atlanta for the CW with Williams playing Jefferson Pierce and is being put together by Greg Berlanti, Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil Shannon hasn't worked on the other other CW[...]

Tony Isabella created Black Lightning for DC Comics back in the day with Trevor Von Eeden, their first lead black superhero For decades, Tony has stated that he was hard done by, with the way DC Comics treated both Tony and Black Lightning. Recently, however, the news of an upcoming Black Lightning TV show seems to have[...]

Another actor appears to have joined the cast of CW's Black Lightning TV show According to a report from Deadline, Christine Adams has been cast in the role of Lynn, ex-wife of the titular Black Lightning. Produced by Arrowverse mogul Greg Berlanti and written and produced by Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil, Black Lightning is based on the[...]

The CW has found its Black Lightning Cress Williams has been hired to play the titular lead in the eponymous series, which was originally slated for Fox, but picked up by CW instead when they realized that every other show on their network is based on a comic book, so why not go all in?[...]

The CW has picked up the pilot for Greg Berlanti's Black Lightning The show was originally set to air at Fox, but Fox apparently hates making money, allowing CW to pick it up instead The move was rumored this morning, but has now been confirmed by Entertainment Weekly With the show on the same network as[...]

Recently Fox decided not to take the high profile Black Lightning series to pilot, likely it's because of a genre filled line-up that already includes Gotham and Lucifer and will be gaining the X-Men So Warner Bros TV started looking for a new home for the project and Deadline says that it's likely to be[...]

What shows do we know about that might be announced? Back in September we learned that Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter were working with Fox to bring Black Lightning to TV The series is being adapted by Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil and will focus on Jefferson Pierce, a character created in the late 70's by[...]

It began with Bill Finger's first proper published co-creator credit for Batman, on the Robot Chicken DC Special III… Which was followed up on Gotham… And in the comic books themselves, in Batman & Robin Eternal. Next up, the battle moves to Jerry Robinson. But in that first screen from Robot Chicken, there was also a change in the credits for[...]

The creator of DC's first prominent African-American character, Black Lightning, Tony has felt betrayed by DC's handling of his contract since Whether writing in the trade press thirty years ago, or the more easily quotable blog of his of recent years I understand he was also annoyed that the comics press spoke up regarding Gerry Conway's[...]