Stephen Amell
With Arrow's first season finale airing Wednesday at 8/7c, TVGuide.com thought it would be a good time to look back at The CW's super series as a whole, and see if they heeded our original advice on how to make a show about DC Comics' emerald archer work.
12 things Arrow can learn from Smallville, Buffy and more!
Last summer, we gathered a list of 12 things that Arrow should and shouldn't do in order to be a successful series based on tried-and-true heroic formats, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Green Lantern, Batman Begins and superhero predecessor Smallville. Let's take a look and see if they listened:
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Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards
Oliver's Scooby Gang on Arrow has expanded over Season 1 to include stylish hacker Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards). While many cheered the news that Rickards was being promoted to series regular next year, TVGuide.com's Sadie Gennis couldn't help but roll her eyes in dread. Although Sadie often feels like the minority in her frustration with Felicity, she's finally gotten the nerve to speak out against Starling City's go-to IT girl. Of course, TVGuide.com's resident comic-book expert Natalie Abrams...
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Danni Pudi
Community star Danny Pudi is one of several familiar faces pop pop-ing up on Royal Pains this season, TVGuide.com has learned.
Best known as Abed on the cult favorite comedy, Pudi will play...
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Julian Sands
The eighth and final season of Dexter is beefing up on guest stars.
Showtime confirms Dexter Season 8 will be the final season
TVGuide.com has learned exclusively that 24 villain Julian Sands will...
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Laura Benanti
It looks like Royal Pains' Dr. Hank (Mark Feuerstein) is going to have to step up his game!
Go On star Laura Benanti is joining the USA medical series in...
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She's back! Four years after last appearing on TV, Lana Lang returns to Smallville — in comic-book form. Clark Kent's first love shows up in a new arc of DC Comics digital series Smallville Season 11 on Friday, April 5.
The character — Clark Kent's first true love — last appeared in 2009, during the eighth season of the TV series. Shortly after gaining super powers (courtesy a special suit developed by Lex Luthor) she saved Metropolis by absorbing a kryptonite bomb, which essentially made her toxic to Clark. She then flew off into the proverbial sunset and out of his life. (The role was played by Kristin Kreuk, now starring in The CW's Beauty and the Beast.)
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Frances Conroy
It's not summer yet, but the new season of Royal Pains is already heating up.
American Horror Story vet Frances Conroy is checking in to the USA medical series for...
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Ben McKenzie
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Question: This is more a commentary than a question, but what are your thoughts on Southland? Ben McKenzie and Shawn Hatosy have recently landed new pilots, so it would appear that this will be the last season of the very fine cop show Southland. Yes, the show is an ensemble and could certainly go on without the two characters they portray, but it would be a different Southland without them, even with a cast as strong as one that includes Regina King and C. Thomas Howell.
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Stephen Amell, Colin Donnell
[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Wednesday's episode of Arrow. Read at your own risk!]
The first season of Arrow isn't even over, and already Oliver Queen's secret identity isn't really that secret anymore.
Both Diggle (David Ramsey) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) were clued in early on that Oliver (Stephen Amell) is actually the hooded vigilante trying to clean up Starling City. But during Wednesday's episode...
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Stephen Amell
Now that Arrow is a bonafide hit for The CW, they're bringing out the big guns for this week's jaw-dropping episode, "Dead to Rights." Not only is it packed with DC Comics characters — including the return of Michael Rowe's one-eyed assassin Deadshot — it sends at least two series regulars into wildly new directions and was penned by DC's grand poobah, chief creative office Geoff Johns. So who better to hit up for info on the epic hour?
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