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Greg Berlanti, Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil, and Sarah Schechter serve as executive producers. CW's Black Lightning airs Monday nights at 9 p.m ET/8p.m CT. It's rare we go the generic cliche route when describing episodes of shows – unless we're going either snarky or jokingly way-over-the-top – but this season, the CW's Black Lightning has[...]

CT on CW, and make sure to join us next week for our thoughts on next episode "The Book of the Apocalypse: Chapter Two: The Omega": https://youtu.be/5PFcMS97Ig4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Black Lightning 2×16 Promo "The Omega" (HD) Season 2 Episode 16 Promo Season Finale (https://youtu.be/5PFcMS97Ig4) CW's Black Lightning stars Cress Williams as Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning, Nafessa Williams as Anissa[...]

Greg Berlanti, Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil, and Sarah Schechter serve as executive producers. Welcome back to Bleeding Cool's continuing coverage of the CW's Black Lightning season 2 This week, everyone is off doing their own thing, which puts each member of the family in harm's way Meanwhile, LaLa finds his "special purpose"[...]

Akil is producing with the godfather of superhero television, Greg Berlanti, as well as Mara Brock Akil and Sarah Schechter. During the Q&A, one of the critics said the new series, "does not feel like a show written by a bunch of white people trying to sound like black characters." They went on to ask, "was[...]

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 character created by Tony Isabella and with Trevor Von Eeden for DC Comics,[...]

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[...]