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With the rumor of Black Lightning's return, hope starts to build again in the city of Freeland, but it's not Jefferson's (Cress Williams) plan to return to the suit again He just wanted to save his daughters He's scared of losing the relationship he's built up with them and with Lynn (Christine Adams) again if[...]

Why didn't his daughters Anissa (Nafessa Williams) and Jennifer (China Ann McClain) recognize Jefferson (Cress Williams) when he rescued them? Does Tobias Whale (Marvin 'Krondon' Jones III) think that Black Lightning is dead? And what was the deal with Ms Fowdy (Skye P Marshall) and Jefferson? The folks at TVLine got some answers… and a[...]

In the pilot episode of Black Lightning, we met Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) and his daughters Anissa (Nafessa Williams) and Jennifer (China Ann McClain) Pierce retired from being a costumed vigilante in an effort to save his family, and it's his daughters being at risk that got him to put the suit (or the new[...]

The show was up 13% in overall viewers, having a total audience of 2.47 million and was steady in its demo from the fall finale. After that came the premiere of Black Lightning, starring Cress Williams as a retired hero forced to suit up again when his daughters lives are threatened by a local gang The[...]

It's also the strongest pilot I've seen on the CW, period. Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is a principal on his way to a fund raiser but has to stop and pick up his eldest daughter, Anissa (Nafessa Williams), from jail after she'd been arrested as part of a protest against the local gang, The 100 On[...]

We are a day away from the premiere of Black Lightning, and actor Cress Williams is in a new video released by the CW, talking about his character of Jefferson Pierce. Unlike the other members of the CW hero club, Black Lightning has been there, done that and has the scars to prove it He's fought[...]

Even though Black Lightning (Cress Williams) is an older hero who has been retired for nine years, they still cast James Remar to fill that role, and we see him doing just that in the new scene. Black Lightning — "Dark Matter of My Brain" — Image BLK101i_0312 — Pictured (L-R): Cress Williams as Jefferson Pierce[...]

The scene takes place on a rainy night as Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is pulled over by the police With him in the car are his daughters Anissa (Nafessa Williams) and Jennifer (China Anne McClain) There seems to be no reason why they're pulled over when the police tell Jefferson to exit the vehicle. The police[...]

The new teaser focuses on the reason Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) first went into retirement and the reason he will come out It also shows us a bit of the power that his daughters Anissa and Jennifer have. The official synopsis says: Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret Nine years ago, Pierce was gifted[...]

the street level thugs giving more practical fight scenes with added special effects instead of most of the fights taking place on the computer. Black Lightning tells the story of hero-turned-school principal Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) A father of two girls that left his days of being a lightning-powered masked vigilante behind nine years ago and now[...]

Having Berlanti means that it could become part of the larger Arrowverse down the line, but it's not there yet. The series stars Cress Williams as former hero-turned-high school principal, Jefferson Pierce, who gets pulled back into the fight after nine years away when those he cares about in the crosshairs of the menacing local gang The One Hundred[...]

Black Lightning is back." This is a pretty intense-looking scene with Pierce in a suit, not his battle outfit, so it's fair to say this is the night he decides to get back into the game. The series stars Cress Williams as former hero-turned-high school principal Jefferson Pierce, who gets pulled back into the fight, after nine years away,[...]

And from the scenes, it looks like he jumps back into action on a moment's notice as we get to see him using his lightning powers while he's in a tuxedo. The series stars Cress Williams as former hero-turned-high school principal Jefferson Pierce, who gets pulled back into the fight, after nine years away, when those he cares about[...]

It is based on the DC Comics character created in 1977 by Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden. Black Lightning tells the story of former hero now school principal Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) A father of two girls that left his days of being a lightning powered masked vigilante behind nine years ago and now runs[...]

Black Lightning is not officially part of the Arrowverse, but it is from the same studio and from Greg Berlanti, so it is always possible for the show to connect down the line if it does well. The series stars Cress Williams as former hero-turned high school principal Jefferson Pierce, who gets pulled back into the fight, after nine[...]

It was recently revealed that on January 16th, when the Flash returns from their midseason break, instead of being followed by DC's Legends of Tomorrow, the 9 PM slot will be filled by Black Lightning. The show from executive producers Greg Berlanti, Salim Akil & Mara Brock Akil and Sarah Schechter is based on the DC Comic character created by artist Trevor Von[...]

Yet you can already order a Black Lightning statue based on the look Cress Williams will be sporting in the new CW series, debuting January 16th at 9 p.m. This must mean that the powers that be at DC must have a lot of confidence in the new series from executive producers Greg Berlanti, Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil, and Sarah[...]

And while originally, the Cress Williams lead series wasn't necessarily going to be part of the Arrowverse, it made sense to move it away from Metropolis And giving it a fictional city name helps it fit in the Arrowverse a little better. Legends of Tomorrow has taken viewers to some real-world cities when the history dictates it,[...]

James Remar (Dexter) will be joining the cast as Peter Gambi, Jefferson Pierce's (Cress Williams) oldest friend and mentor And Damn Gupton (Bates Motel) will be playing season lawman Inspector Henderson, who butts heads with the vigilante at first but then finds common ground. Remar is known for playing Harry Morgan on Dexter and more recently[...]

Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is a person with powers and the father of two daughters who have powers It's a dynamic similar to that of Henry Allen and Joe West with Barry Allen, but not quite from a place of understanding what having powers does to you He won't know when the series debuts and[...]

There, they cast Cress Williams as Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning, and now the series is set to premiere as a mid-season 2017–2018 series. Though it will still be months before we first see the series, DC All-Access has put together this primer covering the comic book history of the character, from his early days of being a[...]

The Black Lightning series kicks off nine years after Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) has hung up his costume He is a high school principal trying to help out in different ways He has an ex-wife named Lynn (Christine Adams) who he remains friends with and two teenage daughters Jennifer (China Anne McClain) and Anissa (Nafessa[...]

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[...]

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 Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Riverdale A seventh series, Searchers, is also under consideration, but whose fate will rely on how many series the network picks up[...]

The New 52 would take him into conflict with Blue Devil over a crime wave by Tobias Whale. But, after forty years, the biggest thing to happen for the character is in the works now as actor Cress Williams is going to being Black Lightning to live in a new pilot for the CW The concept[...]

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[...]

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? Produced by Arrowverse mogul Greg Berlanti and written[...]