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South African born SAG Award nominee Stelio Savante, also known as ‘Ajax’ in the Call Of Duty video game series and ‘Moses’ in the historical world-wide hit biblical series The Chosen, is starring in key roles in three upcoming films, all based on true stories. Sarah’s Oil, Between Borders, and Hazel.

Sarah’s Oil, is an Amazon MGM drama starring Zachary Levi, Naya Desir Johnson, Sonequa Martin Green, Garret Dillahunt, Bridget Regan, Kenric Green, Adyan Copes, Stelio Savante and Mel Rodriguez. Sarah’s Oil is inspired by Tonya Bolden’s book Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America, and tells the true story of Sarah Rector, an African American born in Oklahoma in the early 1900s. Filmed in Oklahoma, the drama chronicles Sarah’s journey to becoming the first African American teenage millionaire. Cyrus Nowrasteh (who also directed Savante in the action thriller Infidel) directed Sarah’s Oil from...

Stephen Amell’s place in the world of superheroes and monsters was established the first time he uttered the famous words: My name is Oliver Queen. Soon after, he became to DC Television what Robert Downey Jr. was to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As the godfather of DC TV, Amell was never so impactful as during his role as Green Arrow in the show that effectively launched the Arrowverse.

Stephen Amell in Arrow Season 8 episode Purgatory [Credit: Warner Bros. Television]

For much of the decade that Amell occupied in the world of DC alongside Grant Gustin, Melissa Benoist, Brandon Routh, Cress Williams, and more, it was in service to the fans of the era of comic book renaissance that took over the film and television industry since the beginning of the 21st century.

Now, with these shows resigning their legacies to the vaults of time, fans can only look back and...

Gilmore Girls is one of the most heartwarming series and because of that, it acquired millions of fans. The series is filled with quirky and witty characters, who handled adversities with brilliantly funny dialogues. We had the good luck of having the Gilmore Girls for seven seasons and then we got to revisit them with Netflix’s Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. So, if you miss the characters, romance, and heartwarming stories set in a small town in Gilmore Girls here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Virgin River is a romantic comedy-drama series developed by Sue Tenney. Based on a novel series of the same name by author Robyn Carr, the Netflix series is set in the remote North Carolina town of Virgin River and it follows the story of Melinda “Mel” Monroe who takes on the job of...

Capetonian Stelio Savante is one of the more prolific South African actors in the film & TV industry. He became South Africa’s first male SAG Award nominee (Ensemble lead cast Ugly Betty) in 2007. A US citizen with over 135 international credits, he is a steady product of leading, large supporting, & recurring roles in television, independent, & international theatrically released studio features that have accumulated almost $400million in worldwide box office proceeds, & leading roles in billion dollar grossing video game franchises. So, if you love Savante’s performances, here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Stelio Savante that should be on your watchlist.

10. My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Plex & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – 20th Century Fox

My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a superhero romantic comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman from a screenplay by Don Payne. The 2006 film follows the story of Matt Saunders, an ordinary man who discovers that his new girlfriend,...

"Want what I got? You gotta go all the way." Mill Creek Entertainment has revealed the official trailer for a crime thriller film titled Dead Wrong, the latest from filmmaker Rick Bieber (no relation to Justin Bieber Afaik). This is set for a VOD release at the end of May if anyone is interested in giving this a look. A story of greed, envy, sex and murder. A narcissistic husband is not satisfied anymore and wants more. He devises a psychotic, get-rich-quick scheme with his new, gambling-addicted attorney that ignites an emotional and deadly chain reaction. Which quickly overwhelms the lives of those around him. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? This stars Derek Smith, Katrina Bowden, Chelsea Debo, Cress Williams, Blake Shields, Rosalie Ward, Joshua Bitton, Chet Hanks, with Rob Schneider. Alas this doesn't look like it's worth a rental. // Continue Reading ›...

The Tony Award-winning musical Jelly’s Last Jam is heading to Los Angeles with an exciting cast!

Jasmine Amy Rogers will be leading the production following her acclaimed turn as Betty Boop in the Broadway bound musical Boop! last year in Chicago. While casting for the upcoming Broadway production has not yet been confirmed, it’s widely believed that she will be reprising her performance.

In the meantime, Jasmine is set to play Anita in Pasadena Playhouse’s production of Jelly’s Last Jam, which will run from May 29 through June 23.

Susan Birkenhead, who wrote the lyrics for Boop!, also wrote the lyrics for Jelly’s Last Jam. The classic musical features music by Jelly Roll Morton and a book by George C. Wolfe.

Also starring in the Pasadena Playhouse production are John Clarence Stewart from Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and Cress Williams from Black Lightning.

Here’s the synopsis:...

Capetonian Stelio Savante is one of the more prolific South African actors in the film & TV industry. He became South Africa’s first male SAG Award nominee (Ensemble lead cast Ugly Betty) in 2007. A US citizen, with over 135 international credits, he is a steady product of leading, large supporting, & recurring roles in television, independent, & international theatrically released studio features that have accumulated almost $400million in worldwide box office proceeds, & leading roles in billion dollar grossing video game franchises. So, if you love Savante’s performances here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Stelio Savante that should be on your watchlist.

10. My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Hulu & Plex) Credit – 20th Century Fox

Synopsis: Breaking up is hard to do, but sometimes it can be downright dangerous! In the Ivan Reitman comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) thinks he’s finally found the perfect girlfriend, the beautiful Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman...

Stars: Cress Williams, Kellan Lutz, Anne Heche, Juliana Destefano, Stelio Savante, Korey Scott Pollard, Major Dodge, Lindsay Walker, Brannon Cross, Marcus Gladney Jr., Maria Gajdosik | Written and Directed by Nathan Scroggins

A small-town pastor is forced to reckon with an act of forgiveness when the convict he forgave for murdering his wife returns to town five years later and comes to work for him, much to the anger of the preacher’s son. Meanwhile, the town sheriff investigates another murder that may be related.

Opening with Cress Williams’ preacher, Marshall, washing blood off his hands in a convenience store sets the stage for the mysteries of What Remains, even though the focus of the film is really the relationship between Williams’ preacher and his son (Marcus Gladney Jr.) – both of whom are struggling with the loss of a wife and mother. And the latter who can’t seem to be...

Some furry fun casting news via Hallmark: Grey’s Anatomy vet Sarah Drew will star in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries flick Guiding Emily opposite Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) as the voice of her character’s guide dog, TVLine has learned exclusively.

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So much for “lose one friend, lose all friends, lose yourself.”

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In a new interview with our sister site Variety, Boy Meets World stars Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle allege that former costar (and current U.S. congressional candidate) Ben Savage cut them out of his life three years ago.

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“Will & Grace” broke new ground on television for its depiction of LGBTQ+ characters, and involved the exploits of a group of four friends: Eric McCormack’s Will, Debra Messing’s Grace, Sean Hayes’ Jack and Megan Mullally’s Karen.

However, fans of the show might be surprised to learn that when the pilot was shot, there was a fifth pal thrown in the mix.

McCormack made that revelation during the inaugural episode of “Just Jack & Will”, the new podcast he co-hosts with Hayes (as reported by Deadline).

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That character, McCormack recalled, was played by actor Cress Williams, who would later go on to star in The CW’s superhero series “Black Lightning”.

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Will & Grace almost had a fifth wheel.

The first episode of the new podcast Just Jack & Will saw the show’s Eric McCormack and Sean Hayes reveal that the pilot featured them, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, and – wait for it — Cress Williams.

“There were five characters as regulars,” McCormack recalled. “And the fifth was my partner at my small law firm.” Describing the character as a “straight guy” who was “probably written as Jewish” initially, McCormack claimed that Will’s friendship with Williams’s character was meant to be “just as important” as Messing’s Grace and Hayes’s Jack.

That lasted a beat.

Director James Burrows told Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick that five people was too many. “I felt so terrible,” McCormack said. “It was nothing he did or didn’t do… It just didn’t fit what the show is supposed to be.

Texas offers vast, open spaces and is beefing up its industry infrastructure to attract production not only across the state but in several pockets that have become hubs for all types of media production. From the central regions in and around Austin and Waco to the western panhandle near Amarillo, the Lone Star State is positioning itself for a production boom, aided by the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive program, recently passed by the state legislature.

“We were able to receive such great funding and have such support from the legislators across the board on both sides of the aisle, from rural areas to the cities,” says Mindy Raymond, communications director for the Texas Media Production Alliance, noting the leap in funding from the previous legislative session ($45 million) to this one ($200 million).

The Austin region, no stranger to the entertainment industry, is also experiencing a showbiz growth spurt. It’s...

New York based actor, producer, filmmaker and former Capetonian – Stelio Savante – has joined thousands of South Africans in celebrating the South African Supreme Court’s ruling on citizenship. The court summary declared that it was constitutionally invalid for South Africans to lose their citizenship when acquiring those from other nations. The ruling comes after the Democratic Alliance (Da) appealed a high court order that originally dismissed the party’s application that the legislation was inconsistent with the South African constitution. However this new ruling reinstated Sa citizenship for all those who lost it.

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Savante – who has 135 international credits to his name – described the elation that he and other South Africans were experiencing – “I gratefully wake to celebrate with the tens of thousands of fellow South Africans who’d unnecessarily and inadvertently been deprived of their citizenship courtesy of a flawed and contradictory law that violated international human rights.

“What Remains,” a murder mystery and thriller that stars Kellan Lutz and Cress Williams, has sold domestic distribution rights to Gravitas Ventures. There’s a bittersweet element to “What Remains.” The film also features Anne Heche in one of her final feature film roles. Heche died in August after crashing her car in Los Angeles.

The pact for “What Remains” follows the film’s sold-out world premiere at the Austin Film Festival on Oct. 28. Gravitas came out on top in a competitive bidding situation

Lutz is best-known for his work in the “Twilight” franchise. Williams starred in the CW series “Black Lightning.” Heche’s film credits included “Six Days, Seven Nights” and “Walking and Talking.”

“What Remains” follows a recently paroled convict (Lutz), who returns to the small town where he murdered the wife of the town’s pastor (Williams). That forces the pastor to reconcile his pain and anger with forgiveness,...

Cast includes Cress Williams, Anne Heche.

Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has acquired international sales rights heading into AFM on to murder mystery thriller What Remains starring Kellan Lutz, Cress Williams and Anne Heche in one of her final roles.

The story follows a recently paroled convict who returns to the small town where he committed a murder as the local sheriff investigates another mysterious homicide which may be related.

The town pastor (Williams), whose wife was murdered, crosses paths with the parolee and is forced to reconcile his pain and anger with forgiveness. Marcus Gladney Jr., Stelio Savante,...

When The Flash arrived on the CW, it was pitched as the anti-Arrow, a feel-good series about the joy of being a superhero. After all, the title character (Grant Gustin) was wearing a crimson and yellow suit; hard to be moody in that.

As with all CW superhero series, it was quickly over-populated with too many powered supporting players, frequently taking the focus off the hero. It also grew too reliant on speedsters, the Speed Force, and time travel, so a sameness was infused throughout each successive season. There was every reason to believe this was to be the final season, so it was plotted as such. They could have done better. Much better.

With The Flash: The Complete Eighth Season now on Blu-ray from Warner Home Entertainment, we see how weary the producers and writers had become, seeking to find ways to pump new life into the show. We...

Anne Heche, the award-winning star of “Six Days Seven Nights” and “Walking and Talking,” died Aug. 14 at the age of 53 after being involved in a car crash in Los Angeles. Her life and career were often overshadowed by tabloid coverage of her three-year relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, a union that helped usher in a new era of gay representation in media, but one that came at the expense of Heche’s privacy.

Heche never recaptured the level of stardom she had achieved in the late 1990s, but she worked at a high level on television, film and Broadway. One of her final completed features, “What Remains,” a murder mystery that co-stars Kellan Lutz and Cress Williams, wrapped in late 2021. Its director, Nathan Scoggins, shares an emotional tribute to Heche in which he praises her talent, kindness and resilience.

Anne Heche gave me her very best, and I’m forever grateful.

NBC has ordered the drama “Found” to series, Variety has learned. In addition, the network is passing on its pilots “Blank Slate” and “Unbroken.”

“Found” hails from writer and executive producer Nkechi Okoro Carroll with Shanola Hampton set for the lead role. The show is built around the fact that, in any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. More than half that number are people of color that the country seems to forget about. Public relations specialist Gabi Mosley (Hampton) — who was once herself one of those forgotten ones — and her crisis management team now make sure there is always someone looking out for the forgotten missing people. But unbeknownst to anyone, this everyday hero is hiding a chilling secret of her own.

The show also stars Brett Dalton, Gabrielle Walsh, Arlen Escarpeta, Karan Oberoi, with Kelli Williams, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar.

“Getting to put...

Exclusive: Jacqueline Obradors (Promised Land), Jon Beavers (Licorice Pizza) and Ruth Righi (Sydney To The Max) are set as leads opposite Scott Bakula, Anna Wood, Oluniké Adeliyi and Cress Williams in NBC’s drama pilot Unbroken (working title). They also join previously announced series regulars Delon de Metz, Amanda Payton and Shian Tomlinson in the project from New Amsterdam executive producer Shaun Cassidy and Universal Television.

Written and executive produced by Cassidy and directed/exec produced by Bronwen Hughes, in Unbroken, three dynastic ranch families on the central coast of California make love and war in a passionate struggle to survive, ultimately setting the stage for a group of fiercely determined young women to win big for all at the National Championship of Rodeo.

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Obradors will play Melanie Dominguez,the perceived trophy wife of 80-year-old Emilio Dominguez. Melanie is in the midst of taking over the...

Jimmy Smits is once again putting on a police uniform: The NYPD Blue vet will co-star opposite Amanda Warren in the CBS drama pilot East New York, our sister site Deadline reports.

The potential series follows Regina Haywood (played by Dickinson‘s Warren), “the newly promoted police captain of East New York, an impoverished, working class neighborhood at the eastern edge of Brooklyn,” per the official synopsis. “She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting during the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.

Former Black Lightning star Cress Williams has been tapped as a lead opposite Scott Bakula, Anna Wood and Oluniké Adeliyi in NBC’s drama pilot Unbroken (working title). Also cast in the project, from New Amsterdam executive producer Shaun Cassidy and Universal Television, is newcomer Shian Tomlinson whose only previous TV credit is a guest spot on NBC/Uni TV drama New Amsterdam.

Written and executive produced by Cassidy and directed/exec produced by Bronwen Hughes, in Unbroken, three dynastic ranch families on the central coast of California make love and war in a passionate struggle to survive, ultimately setting the stage for a group of fiercely determined young women to win big for all at the National Championship of Rodeo.

Williams will play Will Stanton, a retired bull-riding champion and manager of the Holleren ranch. A warm and unflappable man, Will is Cole’s (Delon de Metz) best friend...

Cress Williams and Shian Tomlinson have both been cast in the NBC drama pilot “Unbroken,” Variety has learned.

The series follows three dynastic ranch families on the central coast of California as they make love and war in a passionate struggle to survive, ultimately setting the stage for a group of fiercely determined young women to win big for all at the National Championship of Rodeo.

The pair joins previously announced cast members Scott Bakula, Anna Wood, Amanda Payton, Delon de Metz, Oluniké Adeliyi.

Williams will star as Will Stanton, a retired bull-riding champion and manager of the Holleren ranch. A warm and unflappable man, Will is Cole’s (de Metz) best friend and uncle to his two adult children. Tomlinson will play Ngozi “Gozi” Stanton, a fiercely competitive girl with a dazzling smile who’s determined to become a rodeo champion like her father.

Williams most recently starred in...

New episodes of "The Flash", following a midseason break, return March 9, 2022 on The CW:

“ The Flash” stars Grant Gustin as ‘Barry Allen’/‘The Flash’, Candice Patton as ‘Iris West’, Danielle Panabaker as ‘Caitlin Snow’, Danielle Nicolet as ‘Cecile Horton’ and Jesse L. Martin as ‘Detective Joe West’.

Brandon Routh, Cress Williams, Kat McNamara, and Osric Chau are officially returning to the 'Arrowverse' and will reprise their roles as 'The Atom', 'Black Lightning', 'Mia Queen’ and ‘Ryan Choi’. Joining them are “Supergirl” star Chyler Leigh as ‘Sentinel’ and “Batwoman” lead Javicia Leslie as ‘Ryan Wilder’.

Super-villain returns include Tom Cavanagh as ‘Eobard Thawne’/‘Reverse-Flash', and Neal McDonoughg as ‘Damien Darhk’.

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The Mrkt, the multicultural marketing and communications arm of Terry Hines & Associates, said Friday it is expanding with two new divisions: one specializing in influencer marketing and the other in marketing and communications for Asian Americans and Pacific Islander clients.

The Aapi Division is being led by Diane Nguyen, who recently joined The Mrkt from Aapi marketing agency Iw Group where she worked on the PR campaign for Warner Bros’ Crazy Rich Asians. The Influencer Marketing Division is being led by Shawn Savage Jaramillo and Misha Lightner, and already has spearheaded campaigns include a series of Influencer Watch Parties for Prime Video’s Harlem, and a tastemaker launch party for NBC’s Grand Crew.

The new arms groups join The Mrkt’s existing Latinx, African-American and Multicultural social media/creative marketing units. Savage Jaramillo and Nguyen will report to EVPs Bree Bosselmann and Venessa Fraguio, and president Marcos Barron.

“Our...

The Performer | Daniel Henney

The Show | Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time

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The Episode | “Blood Calls Blood” (Dec. 3, 2021)

The Performance | Coming off of the brutal attack by Logain’s army, The Wheel of Time this week chronicled Stepin’s mourning of his Aes Sedai, Kerene — as witnessed and absorbed by Henney’s Lan Mandragoran.

Exclusive: Rob Schneider has joined the cast of writer-director Rick Bieber’s indie, Dead Wrong.

He’ll star alongside Cress Williams (Black Lightning), Katrina Bowden (30 Rock), Derek Smith (What/If), Chelsea Debo (Separation), Rosalie Ward (Saints & Sinners), Chet Hanks (Your Honor) and Joshua Bitton (Red Riding Hoods).

The crime drama based on K.E. Clark’s novel Deadly Instinct follows Billy Evans (Smith), a narcissist of psychotic proportions who, blinded with jealousy over the wealth accumulated by his best friend and local mob boss (Hanks), schemes to steal his infant son to obtain a multi-million dollar settlement from the hospital’s insurance company. In so doing, he ignites a chain reaction that overwhelms the lives of his now suicidal wife (Bowden), her nymphomaniacal younger sister (Debo) with whom he’s having an affair, a deeply indebted gambling and alcoholic lawyer (Schneider), a Brooklyn born bookmaker/pimp...

The Flash is bringing back another familiar face.

Robbie Amell, who last appeared on The Flash Season 3, is returning for a two-episode arc.

Entertainment Weekly broke the news, but there's no telling whether he will be playing Ronnie again or if he will be on board as a new character.

If you watch The Flash online, you know Ronnie died after saving the city from a giant wormhole at the end of The Flash Season 1.

Amell played the Speed Force during The Flash Season 3, and has not been seen or heard from since.

Ronnie was an immediate fan-favorite on the series, with his character in a relationship with Caitlin.

Reuniting the pair would be fun for fans, but nothing is ever that simple in the Arrowverse.

News of Amell's return comes around six weeks after it was revealed the original star Rick Cosnett would be returning for an episode.

Cosnett...

The following contains spoilers from The Flash‘s Season 8 premiere.

The Flash returned for Season 8 this Tuesday night, and the titular speedster is as fleet on his feet as ever. But can even a “leveled-up” Barry handle the news that he is destined to cause no less than Armageddon?

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But let’s not harsh everyone’s mellow just yet.

The Flash is back and he’s only got five weeks to save the world. For the launch of his eighth season, our boy Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) is gathering a group of Arrowverse alums and all-stars for “Armageddon,” a five-episode battle against DC Comics’ villainous psychic alien Despero (Tony Curran). Showrunner Eric Wallace recently told us that he wouldn’t reveal “exactly why he’s there, but he’s got an agenda that sets the whole thing off,” leading to a lineup of guest heroes that includes Sentinel (Chyler Leigh) of Supergirl; Black Lightning (Cress Williams); Mia Smoak, aka, the new Green Arrow (Katherine McNamara) of Arrow; The Flash‘s Reverse Flash (Tom Cavanagh); Batwoman (Javicia Leslie); The Atom (Brandon Routh) and Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough) from DC’s Legends of Tomorrow; and Ryan Choi (Osric Chau), who last appeared in the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover. But this is not your usual crossover,...

From VancouverFilm.Net, take a look at  the seventh annual 'Arrowverse' crossover event "The Flash": Armageddon", a five-episode event launching Season Eight of  "The Flash", starting November 16, 2021 on The CW:

"...a powerful alien threat arrives on Earth under mysterious circumstances as 'Barry', 'Iris' and the rest of 'Team Flash' are pushed to their limits in a desperate battle to save the world. 

"But with time running out and the fate of humanity at stake, 'Flash' and his companions will also need to enlist the help of some old friends if the forces of good are to prevail..." 

Cast includes Tom Cavanagh as 'Professor Eobard Thawne'/'Reverse-Flash' and 'Dr. Harrison Wells', Osric Chau as 'Dr. Ryan Choi', Kayla Compton as 'Allegra Garcia', Jon Cor as 'Mark Blaine'/'Chillblaine', Tony Curran as 'Despero', Grant Gustin as 'Barry Allen'/'The Flash', Stephanie Izsak as 'Officer Daisy Korber', Chyler Leigh as 'Dr.

From VancouverFilm.Net, take a look at  the seventh annual 'Arrowverse' crossover event "The Flash": Armageddon", a five-episode story arc launching Season Eight of  "The Flash", airing November 16, 2021 on The CW:

"...a powerful alien threat arrives on Earth under mysterious circumstances as 'Barry', 'Iris' and the rest of 'Team Flash' are pushed to their limits in a desperate battle to save the world. But with time running out and the fate of humanity at stake, 'Flash' and his companions will also need to enlist the help of some old friends if the forces of good are to prevail..." 

Cast includes Tom Cavanagh as 'Professor Eobard Thawne'/'Reverse-Flash' and 'Dr. Harrison Wells', Osric Chau as 'Dr. Ryan Choi', Kayla Compton as 'Allegra Garcia', Jon Cor as 'Mark Blaine'/'Chillblaine', Tony Curran as 'Despero', Grant Gustin as 'Barry Allen'/'The Flash', Stephanie Izsak as 'Officer Daisy Korber', Chyler Leigh as 'Dr.

The Flash Season 8 will stage an epic team-up with several superheroes across the Arrowverse.

That much we've known for a while now.

Now, TV Line is reporting that Rick Cosnett has been locked in to appear in a guest-starring capacity.

The outlet revealed that Cosnett will appear as part of a flashback episode.

The actor had previously teased a his return on social media with a photo and the following caption:

Cosnett followed up his post with a new image with a new caption, revealing his involvement on The Flash Season 8.

Cosnett played Eddie Thawne on The Flash Season 1, but the character was killed off during The Flash Season 1, but he has had appearances since.

It was previously reported that The Flash will begin its eighth season with a five-episode Armageddon arc that will bring in several members of the Arrowverse.

Javicia Leslie will be stopping by as Batwoman, Brandon Routh as The Atom,...

Cress Williams, Kellan Lutz and Anne Heche are starring in “What Remains,” a murder mystery that is shooting in Texas.

The film centers on a small town pastor (Williams) forced to contend with an act of forgiveness when the convict (Lutz) he forgave for murdering his wife returns to town five years later. At the same time, the town sheriff (Heche) is investigating another murder that may be related.

The indie film is written and directed by Nathan Scoggins, who previously wrote, produced and directed “The Least of These” and “The Perfect Summer.” Ralph Winter and Korey Pollard (“Chicago Fire”) serve as executive producers. The film is being co-financed by Sharpened Iron Studios. Sean Doherty, founder and CEO of Sharpened Iron, is also on board as an executive producer.

Other notable cast members include Marcus Gladney Jr and Stelio Savante. Grammy-winning composer Mateo Messina is providing the score.

Williams has appeared in “Black Lightning,...

Exclusive: BAFTA Award-winner Tony Curran has joined the cast of the CW’s The Flash in the role of Despero. He is currently filming the upcoming eighth season of the series.

The character is described as a powerful and intelligent alien possessing incredible telepathic powers who left his homeworld—Kalanor—under mysterious circumstances. Now he’s facing a deadly mission on Earth, one whose outcome will decide the fate of humankind and put him on a collision course with Team Flash.

Despero is a supervillain created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky who made his first appearance in the 1960 DC comic Justice League of America #1.

Also on The Flash front, a five-part special event titled “Armageddon” was announced on Wednesday. The special, which kicks off with the season 8 premiere on Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. Et, will feature numerous guest appearances from some of the CW’s...

The Flash's five-episode fall run will feature a wealth of fan-favorites from across the Arrowverse.

The Flash Season 8 is set to launch with the five-part "Armageddon," which will is set to be one of the biggest stories ever told on the series.

TV Line is reporting that Javicial Leslie will be stopping by as Batwoman, Brandon Routh as The Atom, Cress Williams as Black Lightning, Chyler Leigh as Sentinel, Kat McNamara as Mia Queen, and Osric Chau as Ryan Choi.

On top of that, Tom Cavanagh will be back as Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash, while Neal McDonough will be stepping back into the villainous role of Damien Darhk.

The good news about this casting is that it is bringing back characters from Black Lightning and Arrow, which have both already wrapped up their runs for good.

McNamara was set to lead a Green Arrow & the Canaries spinoff, which would have...

We miss Arrowverse crossovers and big team-ups. Of course, we understand why that wasn’t in the cards for the most recent seasons of our favorite DC TV shows. The pandemic made the logistics of filming TV shows at all a challenge, let alone ones with the kind of scale we’ve come to expect from the CW’s lineup of DC Arrowverse shows.

Not only that, their most recent crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths was literally So big that topping it in any capacity was going to be almost impossible. It’s one of the most recognizable and beloved stories in all of DC Comics history, and the TV version managed to encompass much of the scope of DC TV and movies. It was a massive storytelling accomplishment, and the various Arrowverse showrunners had already said that their next crossovers would be smaller in scale, even before Covid hit.

“Supergirl” may be ending this season, but that doesn’t mean we’re losing all the Super Friends right away. Chyler Leigh is set to return as Alex Danvers this November as part of the “Armageddon” crossover event on “The Flash,” and she’s thrilled to have more time to be Sentinel.

We don’t know much about the plot of the special itself, beyond the fact that Team Flash is facing “a powerful alien threat arrives on Earth under mysterious circumstances.” That alien threat is apparently powerful enough to wipe out humanity, causing Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and Iris West-Allen (Candice Patton) to call in some reinforcements.

“What I will say is I am very, very, very grateful to be part of it. I was asked if I was interested, and if I wanted to, you know, take part and I was like, ‘Uhhh, hell yeah,'” Leigh told TheWrap.

The CW will welcome back The Flash for Season 8 with the five-part special event, “Armageddon.”

Set to begin November 16 at 8 p.m. Et, “Armageddon” will feature numerous guest appearances from some of the CW’s most notable heroes and villains. Set to join The Flash team are Javicia Leslie as Batwoman, Brandon Routh as The Atom, Cress Williams as Black Lightning, Chyler Leigh as Sentinel, Kat McNamara as Mia Queen and Osric Chau as Ryan Choi. Tom Cavanagh and Neal McDonough will return as enemies Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash and Damien Darhk, respectively.

In “Armageddon,” a powerful alien threat arrives on Earth under mysterious circumstances and Barry (Grant Gustin), Iris (Candice Patton) and the rest of Team Flash are pushed to their limits in a desperate battle to save the world. But with time running out, and the fate of humanity at stake, Flash and his companions will also need...

“The Flash” will begin its eighth season with a five-part crossover event titled “Armageddon” that will feature cameos from other “Arrowverse” series including “Batwoman” star Javicia Leslie and Cress Williams of “Black Lightning.”

“The Flash” will return Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. on The CW.

Along with Leslie and Williams, the series will include Brandon Routh as The Atom, Chyler Leigh as Sentinel, Kat McNamara as Mia Queen, and Osric Chau as Ryan Choi. Additionally, Neil McDonough and Tom Cavanagh return as Damien Darhk and Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash.

For Williams and McNamara, it will be a return to their roles, following the ends of both “Black Lightning” — which wrapped up in May — and “Arrow.” McNamara was set to play Mia in a potential “Arrow” spinoff, but the project never moved forward. Routh left “Legends of Tomorrow” in 2020.

Here is the logline for “Armageddon”:

A powerful alien threat arrives on...

"I decided to do what I do." What a terrible line. Saban Films / Paramount have released an official trailer for a very generic action thriller titled Crime Story, which is getting a theatrical + VOD release this August for anyone who might want to watch this. The pitch: an old man suffering from cancer seeks revenge on the thieves who have destroyed his life. Academy Award-winner Richard Dreyfuss stars as an infamous ex-mob boss who "must finally face the consequences of his dark past" when his family also gets caught up in his vengeance plot. The full cast includes Mira Sorvino, Cress Williams, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Derek Russo, Haviland Stillwell, and Andrea Frankle. Despite starring two Oscar winners, this is straight-to-the-bargain-bin, derivative "content" that everyone will just forget as soon as they finish watching. Oh well. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Adam Lipsius' Crime Story, direct from Paramount's YouTube:...

Network: The CW.

Episodes: 58 (hour).

Seasons: Four.

TV show dates: January 16, 2018 — May 24, 2021.

Series status: Ended.

Performers include: Cress Williams, Nafessa Williams, China Anne McClain, James Remar, Damon Gupton, Christine Adams, and Marvin Jones III.

TV show description:

A live-action superhero drama based on the DC Comics character created by Tony Isabella with Trevor Von Eeden, the Black Lightning TV show centers on Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams). While he once waged a vigilante war against crime -- using the masked persona "Black Lightning" -- he now gives back through his work at a charter high school.

Although the school is located in a neighborhood plagued by gang violence, it serves...

Spoiler Alert: The following story contains details from tonight’s series finale of The CW’s Black Lightning.

On Monday, Black Lightning came to the end of its four-season run on the CW, signing off with a passing of the torch.

When series finale “The Book of Resurrection: Chapter Two: Closure” opens, it looks like our hero Black Lightning (Cress Williams)—aka Jefferson Pierce—might soon be shuffling off this mortal coil. Tobias Whale (Marvin “Krondon” Jones III) has the superhero right where he wants him—namely, in a coffin buried underground.

Fear not, though. In the end, Black Lightning is able to escape by harnessing his powers in a way he’s never been able to before. Tobias, meanwhile, ends up dead, after he’s thrown out his office window, impaled and electrocuted by Black Lightning.

With his epic battle for the future of Freeland over, Pierce finds himself in a festive mood,...

The last we saw of Black Lightning‘s eponymous hero, he was powerless and presumed dead after a brutal beatdown from Tobias.

The fate of Jefferson (played by Cress Williams) — as well as that of the Pierce family and the people of Freeland — will be revealed when The CW’s family comic-book drama comes to a close after four beloved seasons this Monday at 9/8c.

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Black Lightning Closure Trailer — The CW‘s Black Lightning: Season 4, Episode 13: The Book of Resurrection: Chapter Two: Closure TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew Black Lightning stars Cress Williams, Nafessa Williams, China Anne McClain, Skye P. Marshall, Myles Truitt, and Keil Oakley Zepernick. Series Plot Synopsis Black Lightning‘s plot synopsis: “Jefferson [...]

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Warning: This post contains spoilers from Black Lightning Season 4, Episode 9.

Lynn Pierce is not a metahuman. But she is a highly respected scientist, wife and mother on Black Lightning.

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This is why her arrest on a violating civil rights charge on The CW superhero offering last week felt so shocking. While being jailed, Lynn was subjected to...

After four seasons on the air, Black Lightning is entering its home stretch, getting ready to finish up its run on The CW. During his time starring on the show, Cress Williams got the opportunity to meet quite a few of the show’s fans — especially at comic book conventions — and says it was […]

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Don Johnson‘s long-gestating Nash Bridges revival is finally coming to fruition, with production set to begin in May in San Francisco.

As previously reported, the project — which was initially set up at USA Network — will air as two-hour movie, but producers are hopeful it’ll serve as a backdoor pilot for a full series relaunch. A rep for NBC Universal declined to comment on Nash 2.0, including whether it is still bound for USA Network (versus being poached by NBCU’s reboot/revival-hungry streamer Peacock).

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Black Lightning Painkiller Trailer — The CW‘s Black Lightning: Season 4, Episode 7: Painkiller TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew Black Lightning stars Cress Williams, Nafessa Williams, China Anne McClain, Skye P. Marshall, Myles Truitt, and Keil Oakley Zepernick. Series Plot Synopsis Black Lightning‘s plot synopsis: “Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is a man [...]

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This Black Lightning review contains spoilers.

Black Lightning Season 4, Episode 4

Black Lightning has been dealing in trauma for the entirety of its run and that has not changed in this, the final season. And while that can be exhausting, writers have used it to a mostly positive effect, driving the emotional core of the show. Jefferson has cocooned himself in his grief and he expels those feelings in fits of violent rage that have left more than one—admittedly deserving— person severely injured. Fighting in Lala’s illegal cage matches may have given Jeff an outlet, but he still carries his hurt with him. When Lynn confronts him about the fighting, which was discovered by Jennifer and Tc, he lets loose a verbal grenade that she returns in kind. Jefferson and Lynn are in different types of recovery, and introspection could only take them so far without also confronting their unresolved anger toward each other.