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The seal has been broken and Earth-Prime may not be dead after all.
Late tonight, Deadline Weekly revealed that Warner Bros. Television and writers associated with The Flash have landed a deal for Virtue, a series focused on the Cecile character from The Flash as played by Danielle Nicolet. Nicolet is expected to reprise her role in the series, which will take place several years after the events of the Flash finale.
Jesse L. Martin is not expected to be a part of the series as he has prior commitments to The Irrational on NBC. Intel from the studio reveals that some characters fans have been itching to see again — such as Chester, Allegra, Khione, Chillblaine, and Arrow’s Raisa the Maid — might show up in some capacity. In keeping with the current CW lineup, the new show will pair Cecile Horton with a cop to solve crimes — but, of course, that cop will sadly not be Joe.
The official logline for Virtue suggests that Cecile will be a single mother who balances her superpowers and law background with solving crimes and being a mom. She will also reconnect with her daughter Joanie from whom she has been estranged for several years, and it’s expected that the Joanie character may be recast. Many thought The CW was out of the superhero business, but the producers’ pitch showed that her mental-based powers could make the show easier and more affordable to produce on a TV budget. It is expected that some of Cecile’s “level up” powers from Season 9 of The Flash will be toned down, and it is said that another reason Virtue has an advantage is that it doesn’t conflict with James Gunn’s ideas for the upcoming DC Studios movie universe.
No specific writers have been named for Virtue so far, aside from the notion that they worked on The Flash. Additionally, the Deadline Weekly article confirms that neither Grant Gustin nor Candice Patton are expected to show up on the series.
We will keep people updated on Virtue here at FlashTVNews under a special “Virtue TV News” icon; though if you’d like to visit our dedicated Twitter feed for the project, you can find it here.
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BBussey
October 15, 2014 at 8:58 pm
Since the show is serial for the most part, they can’t show episodes out of order and are going to have to double-up before Week 8 to keep the crossover event intact. One option is to air episode 5, 6 or 7 on Thursday in The Vampire Diaries slot, which also would serve putting TVD back on the same broadcast schedule as the other CW shows.
BBussey
October 15, 2014 at 9:00 pm
It’s an off-year election – I would have run the episode live anyway, as no significant returns would be reported before 9pm.
JJB
October 16, 2014 at 12:45 am
Arrow crossover’s in December.
BBussey
October 16, 2014 at 8:39 pm
The main part of the crossover is episode 8 of both shows. Currently, the shows are in sync schedule-wise. If Flash skips 11/4 and they don’t air two episodes within a week to get back on schedule, that throws the sequence off on the crossover which is Arrow S03E07 / Flash S01E08 / Arrow S03E08.
JJB
October 16, 2014 at 8:47 pm
Arrow always breaks for Thanksgiving.
BBussey
October 18, 2014 at 1:47 pm
I counted that. Thanksgiving falls between Arrow’s 7th and 8th episodes. So actually, there already was a two-week break between the prelude in Arrow #7 and the first part of the crossover in Flash #8 … unless they plan on not skipping Thanksgiving week for Flash, which is a possibility I hadn’t contemplated. That’s probably the scenario.