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Wednesdays, 8/7c, The CW Stuck in the middle with who? “This photo is almost like a nod to the origin story of Betty, Archie and Veronica,” says executive producer and creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who’s proud to have altered the dynamic of the 75-year-old love triangle, played on the show by Lili Reinhart (Betty), KJ Apa (Archie) and Camila Mendes (Veronica). “Now it’s more than just mean girls being awful to each other over Archie. They are actually friends.” To keep Josie and the Pussycats’ on-screen performances purr-fect, Hayley Law, Ashleigh Murray and Asha Bromfield spent extra time in the studio laying down tracks. “But sometimes what we recorded doesn’t quite fit the blocking for the scene,” Murray says. “That tends to throw a hitch in things.” “These guys bring it,”…

The CW’s update of the squeaky-clean Archie Comics surprised fans with a sexier—and hot for teacher!— Archie, a townwide scandal (yep, that was heroin, not maple syrup, in those Blossom barrels), a shocking murder and then a shocking second death. According to Riverdale executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, all of this mayhem is just the beginning! Is Fred really dead? It sure looks like it. In the season finale’s final, um, shot (too soon?), Archie’s dad (Luke Perry) seemed to be bleeding out big-time in his son’s arms after being gunned down by a masked man in a Serpents jacket at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe. “This is a universe where the most awful things can happen,” Aguirre- Sacasa says. “A father can kill his son, and a stand-up guy like Fred can…

How long will it be until we find out who survived the explosion? Season 6 will kick off five months after Prometheus, aka Adrian Chase (Josh Segarra), triggered all those explosives—before killing himself in front of Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Oliver’s son, William (Jack Moore). So when the show returns, we should learn pretty quickly the fates of Oliver’s entire team: Diggle (David Ramsey), Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards), Lance (Paul Blackthorne), Thea (Willa Holland), Rene (Rick Gonzalez), Curtis (Echo Kellum) and Dinah (Juliana Harkavy) were all on the island when the bombs went off. “And they’re all in jeopardy,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim warns. “Who knows who will be back?” Well, John Barrowman’s Malcolm Merlyn definitely won’t be back, right? It sure sounded like Malcolm met a grisly end after…

Is Supergirl really stronger than Superman? Controlled by evil Queen Rhea (Teri Hatcher), Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) battled Kara (Melissa Benoist) in the season finale…and she beat him! “Even though Superman was under a spell, he wasn’t impaired in any way,” Kreisberg says. “He thought she was [iconic Superman baddie] Zod, so he was fighting with every last fiber of his being.” Likening the showdown to the end of Rocky— “they’re both heavyweights throwing haymakers at each other”—Kreisberg points out that Supergirl won “by one punch. If he hadn’t gone down, he may have knocked her out. That’s how close it was.” Season 3 rematch, please! Will we see Zod (Mark Gibbon) again? “It was more a fun cameo—we have no plans to bring him on,” Kreisberg says. “We see our…

GOTHAM MAY HAVE a new—but familiar—crime fighter on its hands come Season 4, and according to executive producer John Stephens, Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) is gonna need all the backup he can get! Next stop, Batman? Now that he’s an alley-fighting vigilante in a mask and flowy coat, Bruce (David Mazouz) is ready for some Bat-training, courtesy of Ra’s al Ghul (Alexander Siddig). “Ra’s returns right at the top of the season, and we see what his designs are for Bruce,” Stephens previews of his new twist on the Ghuls from Batman Begins and Arrow. “It all circles around the core idea that Ra’s views Bruce as his heir.” Speaking of mentors, is Tabitha (Jessica Lucas) going to be the anti–Obi-Wan to Selina (Camren Bicondova)? The mutual whip aficionados “start…

“I got the script and realized the profundity of [it all].… I was really awestruck” Like most unions in the sprawling, primal land of Westworld, the relationship between newbie park visitor William (Jimmi Simpson, above) and robot host Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) fell somewhere between the romantic and the tragic. But their end proved even messier: Dolores’s accidental rejection of William—due to a reboot on her part—pushed him to morph into the villainous Man in Black (played in the narrative’s future timeline by Ed Harris, inset). We spoke with Simpson about the love story and discovering his character’s shocking place in the show’s twisty mythology. What was your first impression about Westworld? I thought I was auditioning for some tongue-in-cheek update of the 1970s movie [written and directed by Michael…

Comedian Wyatt Cenac stars as Ozzie, a journalist whose memories of a UFO resurface when he writes about an alien-abductee support group. Here, he films a dream sequence with a deer. “Wyatt has a look that’s deadpan and reactive,” executive producer Norm Hiscock says. Of the actors playing aliens, Björn Gustafsson (Don) spends the least time in hair and makeup. Don is also the alien most human on the inside. “It’s a strength and a weakness,” creator David Jenkins says of the quirky character. Jenkins wanted the humans (played by, clockwise from left, Ana Gasteyer, Brian Huskey, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Luka Jones, Cenac, Nancy Lenehan, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Alice Wetterlund and Tracee Chimo) to come off as everyday people. “They’re not kooky, wacky ‘believers,’ ” he says. SNL vet Nasim…

What is Clarke’s (Eliza Taylor) relationship to this child Madi (Imogen Tear)? The young girl seen with Clarke in the six-year time jump after the nuclear devastation “is not Clarke’s child,” Rothenberg confirms. But since Clarke and Madi have been the only ones wandering the planet for a long time, “the relationship between them is essentially mother-daughter.” Who—or what—are the passengers on the Eligius ship? Rothenberg promises the people on the prison transport Clarke and Madi spotted in the finale “are definitely humans” and that there were hints about them throughout the season. “In the premiere, there’s a little bit of an Easter egg about this lost mining ship of prisoners. And then in Episode 406, there’s another one.” Where is everyone else? Clarke mentioned that Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos) and…

Mondays, 8/7c, Fox Aimee Garcia (forensic scientist Ella), Lesley-Ann Brandt (bounty hunter Maze), Lauren German (LAPD detective Chloe) and Rachael Harris (therapist Linda) strike a pose before their girls’ night bar fight in the epic “Lady Parts” episode. It had us hoping for another all-female outing. Executive producer Joe Henderson agrees: “And now we have Tricia Helfer’s lawyer Charlotte Richards, too!” Modrovich says the hair and makeup team had a blast on “Monster,” which included the wedding-day death of zombie bride Peggy (AnnaMaria Demara). “It was an incredible amount of work for them,” Henderson adds. “But they leaned into it.” “Ben Krakoswky, our prop guy last year, has an obsession with Halloween,” explains executive producer Ildy Modrovich of the snacks he created for “Monster,” an episode involving undead-inspired nuptials. “He…

Fridays, 8/7c, NBC A relaxed—and a little “bloodied”—Special Agent Patterson (Ashley Johnson) waits to be tortured by Michelle Hurd’s Shepherd (right) as director David Tuttman talks through the pacing of technical shots. “The arc of this character has been pretty extreme,” Johnson says of her code breaker’s bad luck this season. “It’s a lot for one person!” Alexander’s (near left) birthday cake wasn’t the only craft services– delivered treat the cast indulged in. (That’s writer and story editor Rachel Caris Love looking on.) “We’re foodies,” Johnson says. “You can see it in the beginning of the second season. All of us were just, like, you know… there was a little extra weight!” Jaimie Alexander is all smiles while prepping for another of Jane’s kickass moments, which she loves filming. “But…

Returns midseason, The CW “It’s normally hard to get a show with a lot of pretty actors who actually all know where the joke is,” says cocreator Rob Thomas, but there was an exception with Robert Buckley’s Major (above, in fatigues). His arc proved a bit darker: He took the cure to become human but ultimately decided to return to zombie life, cementing a more convenient military lifestyle. The zom-com explored Dungeons & Dragons this past season (hence this stopover at a comic book store) in the episode “Twenty Sided, Die.” “That was a world I had no idea about,” actress Rose McIver says. David Anders is clearly reveling in his formerly undead alter ego’s naughty ways. “Bad Blaine is my boy,” the actor says. “There’s people to kill, zombies…

Midseason, The CW “Sebastian Roché’s custom-made leather armor is a replica of 10thcentury Northern European armor,” says costume designer Nancea Ceo (far left) of the outfit worn by Mikael in a flashback. “We made three pieces: one for Sebastian, one for the stuntman and one for safety.” “This was as painful as it looks,” says Joseph Morgan (left), whose werewolfvampire hybrid Klaus was imprisoned. “By the time they let me out of the chains for a fight scene, I was foaming at the mouth.” “I adore her,” Charles Michael Davis (Marcel) says of costar Claire Holt, who plays Marcel’s true love, vampire Rebekah Mikaelson. “She’s talented and beautiful. How could you not have chemistry with her?” “This was actually a seven-minute monologue delivered directly to the camera in which [my…

Saturdays, 7:30am/6:30c, Cartoon Network She’s been fighting for our rights for over 75 years, but now more than ever, the world is ready for Wonder Woman. On the heels of the massive feature film, which had a record-breaking opening weekend in June and continues to shatter expectations, and with a lead role in the upcoming movie Justice League, Princess Diana is finally getting her due. She’s also the star of Cartoon Network’s Justice League Action, where she is voiced with power, grace and humor by actress Rachel Kimsey. We talked to Kimsey about her lifelong love affair with Wonder Woman, her favorite memories of the character and what it takes to bring a legend to life every week. You’ve just wrapped your first season voicing Wonder Woman. What’s been your…

Tuesdays, 8/7c, The CW Grant Gustin (Barry Allen) and Melissa Benoist (Kara Danvers) didn’t need S.T.A.R. Labs to create sparks for the Flash/Supergirl musical episode. “The best part about working with Melissa was our easy chemistry,” Gustin says, though he admits to some nerves about the song and dance of it all. “Still, we had so much fun playing around with the script and finding little moments here and there.” “We love what Tom Felton brought to the story as Julian,” Kreisberg says of the Harry Potter vet (front, with Carlos Valdes as Cisco). The executive producer also reveals there were hints to the season’s big twist—that villain Savitar was actually a future version of Barry— when crime scene investigator Julian channeled Savitar via an electrode halo. “Go back and…

Thursdays, 9/8c, The CW The Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) may have made it look easy to best baddie Tobias Church (Chad Coleman) during an airplane hangar beatdown last season, but the sequence took some major storyboarding by stunt coordinator James Bamford. “He is a genius with that,” Coleman says. “And he made me look good!” Cinematographer Gordon Verheul used a mini-crane that allows “the camera to move and pivot in really cool ways,” says executive producer Marc Guggenheim of the gadget between Black Siren (Katie Cassidy) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards). Last season, the show also used drones for more sweeping shots. Amell is ready for his close-up as he preps to shoot an emotional scene in Oliver’s childhood home, Queen Mansion. “Stephen has elevated the show,” Guggenheim raves. “We…

Mondays, 8/7c, The CW “I don’t think the cast has more fun than when Kevin Smith is directing,” exec producer Andrew Kreisberg says of the celeb superfan (taking selfies with extras). Should Smith visit Arrow, Kreisberg suggests he play Onomatopoeia, one of Smith’s own villainous creations from the Green Arrow comics series he wrote. A makeup artist adds some postfight injuries to Mehcad Brooks, whose James Olsen will have a new trajectory next season. Kreisberg explains, “Where [Mehcad’s character] landed at the end of the year, with him trying to figure out what it means to be a hero, is something we’re taking into next season.” Good thing that ice is fake, because Melissa Benoist filmed a lot more at the Fortress of Solitude—Superman’s bitterly cold tribute to Krypton—than wound…

Thursdays, 8/7c, Fox A mini-crane camera zooms in on Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor) and the statuesque tribute to his late mother. The powerful scene ultimately ended in the concrete creation’s beheading. (And no, onscreen mom Carol Kane did not pose for the ill-fated statue!) “I loved making you do what I wanted,” jokes McKenzie (left, with Holbrook and Donal Logue) of my cameo in his Gotham directing debut, “Heroes Rise: These Delicate and Dark Obsessions.” “Our cast and crew is phenomenal,” McKenzie adds. Lee Thompkins (Morena Baccarin)—exfiancée of Det. Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie)— left town after recovering from the psychosisproducing Alice Tetch virus. She’ll be back, bolder than ever. “There will be a new version of Lee in [Season 4],” exec producer John Stephens vows. Stunt coordinator Norman Douglass…

Thursdays, 8/7c, The CW NOT ONLY DID former Supernatural actor Richard Speight Jr. return to direct the Winchester gang, but his February 2017 episode, “Stuck in the Middle (With You),” was “mind-bendingly challenging,” Speight says. “It was a nod to Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.” The episode, about a demon hunt gone very wrong, “was one of those do-something-out-of-the-box chances,” executive producer Robert Singer says. “[Story editor] Davy Perez wrote a terrific script, and Richard and the actors really got it done.” For the shot showing Prince of Hell Ramiel (Jerry Trimble Jr.) getting hit by a car, “we hung the stuntman from a crane,” Speight says, “and as the counterbalance pulled the rope high in the air, it spun and flipped him over. We did one take and everybody gasped.…

AS SEASON 12 came to a bloody end, Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles) and mom Mary (Samantha Smith) wiped out the murderous British Men of Letters. But more epic challenges and tragic deaths lay ahead when Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino) came to claim his halfhuman child from the Winchesters and angel Castiel (Misha Collins). Then, literally, all Hell broke loose. Executive producer Andrew Dabb forecasts Season 13 for us. Even for Supernatural, the season finale was dark: shocking deaths, disappearances, a hellish alternate Earth. Will next season be close to a reboot? Yes. I’m not sure we’ve had a finale that has the body count and kind of ramifications that this one had. The Lucifer story became a setup for what we want to explore in Season 13. We’ve delved…

THE CHAPTER 2 adventures for the time-traveling band of misfit heroes broke time and shook up the chain of command on the Waverider. What’s next? Executive producer Marc Guggenheim previews the Legends’ newest mission: to get history back on track. How do you fix time? “Good question,” Guggenheim says with a laugh. After revisiting a moment in time they’d already experienced to beat the Legion of Doom, the ragtag heroes’ season finale ended with them stuck in a modern-day L.A. overrun by dinosaurs, futuristic high-rises and even Big Ben. “They will definitely need help” repairing the past, Guggenheim adds, quickly writing off The Flash as an option. (Sorry, no crossover.) Given the time-traveling speedster’s fate at the end of last season, “Barry Allen is not available to us.” Who is…

Returns midseason, The CW Lindsey Morgan and Richard Harmon, who play Raven and Murphy, respectively, film on a greenwatered lake in the Widgeon Valley National Wildlife area of Vancouver. “It’s gorgeous,” executive producer Jason Rothenberg says. “We’ve shot there a couple of times.” Although Zach McGowan’s grounder Roan (seated) didn’t survive Season 4, he lasted longer than planned. “He was supposed to die in Season 3,” Rothenberg says. “Our stunt coordinator was like, ‘I beg you, don’t kill him. Zach’s a beast; he’ll do anything!’ So not only did we save him from a bullet, but we made him a series regular.” Rothenberg loves Eliza Taylor, aka Clarke, as much as the camera does. “It never fails to amaze me how many options she gives us [in each take],” he…

BBT’s superhero-loving characters like to dress up—like Raj (Kunal Nayyar), seen here as Aquaman. But Nayyar (with crew members Alex Bates and Val Rego) takes the fun a step further, often donning a costume of his own. “I even love going to Comic- Con in disguise. I go to all the booths,” he says. Mondays, 8/7c, CBS (moves to Thursdays, 8/7c, on Nov. 2) Melissa Rauch (Bernadette), doing some “driving” in front of a studio audience, joined the cast in Season 3. When did she truly feel a part of the Big Bang family? “The first time Bernadette had Chinese food with the gang,” she says. “That was special for me, getting to sit with everyone on the couch.” Mayim Bialik (Amy) and Kaley Cuoco (Penny, right with property master…

BON APPÉTIT! LIV (Rose McIver, below) may have to chow down on brains to survive, but at least she gets to whip them up into delicious dishes. Prop master Aleya Naiman has transformed brains into everything from a PB&J sandwich to sushi. “The team creates [gelatin substitute] agar-agar brains,” Naiman says, “and then the food stylist arranges the plates to make them look yummy.” Here’s a recipe for fans to re-create one of the show’s tastiest treats. Chiles en Nogada (Stuffed Poblano Chiles With Walnut Sauce and Brains) Serves 12 INGREDIENTS FOR THE FILLING 8 oz. “human brains” (can use sweetbreads, ground turkey or agar-agar) 2 cloves of garlic, peeled, plus 2 more peeled and finely chopped 1 large white onion, halved Kosher salt, to taste 2 tbsp. lard or…

Fridays, 6/5c, Cartoon Network “I felt that we should start teaching things that are useful and that kids might not learn from other places” —producer Michael Jelenic Taking on Raven’s evil father, Trigon? Piece of cake. Battling archnemesis Brother Blood? No problem. But building a nest egg for retirement? That takes some doing—and it’s definitely not the only real-life issue the heroes of Teen Titans Go! have addressed since their animated series debuted in 2013. “Some viewers were saying our show didn’t teach any lessons,” says producer Michael Jelenic. “In my mind, the lessons ‘Be nice to your friends’ and ‘Don’t do mean things’ seem obvious, so I felt that we should start teaching things that are useful and that kids might not learn from other places.” Whether it’s diet,…

Their comic book futures may be messy, but playing Gotham’s Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle has been just the start of a beautiful friendship for 16-yearold David Mazouz and Camren Bicondova, 18. How would you describe your relationship? Bicondova: He’s basically like a little brother to me. When we’re on set and shooting together, it’s always great. He’s such a talent. Mazouz: I don’t even know where to begin. We’ve been through so much together and have kind of grown up on this show. It’s a friendship that’s continued for three years strong. Was the first Bruce-Selina kiss in Season 1 also your real first kisses? Bicondova: That was my technical first kiss, yeah, so it was really, really weird for me. He was 13 and I was 14. It…

SEASON 1 What did John Winchester (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) tell Dean was the best way to pay for their monsterhunting trips? SEASON 2 Why did hunter Gordon Walker (Sterling K. Brown, left) want to kill Sam (Jared Padalecki)? SEASON 3 Name the householdstaple artifact that thief Bela Talbot (Lauren Cohan) used to find Gordon Walker for the Winchesters. SEASON 4 Dean (Jensen Ackles, below) spent four months being tortured in the Underworld. How many “hell years” is that? SEASON 5 After a night of temptation, who did Dean kiss before she sacrificed herself to save him and his brother? SEASON 6 What maritime disaster never occurred in the alternate reality in which hunter Ellen Harvelle (Samantha Ferris) is alive and married to Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver)? SEASON 7 How does…

Tuesdays, 9/8c, The CW Action! Caity Lotz (Sara) and Nick Zano (Nate) shoot a scene from the Civil War– themed “Abominations” episode, which featured Ulysses S. Grant as a central character. And while Season 2 was full of famous names like that, executive producer Marc Guggenheim is careful not to go overboard with the real-life nods. “We never want the show to dissolve into ‘It’s the historical figure of the week!’ ” Dominic Purcell’s Mick Rory, Brandon Routh’s Ray Palmer and Victor Garber’s Martin Stein get tough in “The Justice Society of America.” Guggenheim loves how his sharp-dressed cast has embraced the “weird mix” of superheroes, actioncomedy and ever-changing costumes: “Every week is a new outfit. I think they do enjoy that!” After filming the scene in “Turncoat” where a…

Returning in 2018, HBO “It was pretty incredible to have permission to be exquisite,” says Evan Rachel Wood (second from right, with creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and costar James Marsden) about her host Dolores. “She’s my favorite character I’ve ever played and will ever play.” “It felt like we were all out there [in Dead Horse Point, Utah], happily trying to tell a complicated story,” Nolan says. “It was a pleasure for Lisa and me to see all of these talented people building our fantasy.” Westworld’s state-of-the-art production design often leaves the team with an odd paradox: “In order to be believably fake, it has to be totally real,” Nolan points out. As a result, the series utilized real locations in California and Utah (as opposed to using…

THE ARK Dwindling resources forced the residents of an orbiting space station to jettison 100 juvenile delinquents (including Bob Morley’s Bellamy and Marie Avgeropoulos’s Octavia) to see if the Earth had recovered from a nuclear disaster 97 years earlier. THE GROUNDERS While the grown-ups ran out of air in space, the kids ran afoul of an unknown menace that first made its presence known by shooting a spear into the chest of Jasper (Devon Bostick). Suddenly, a radiation-ravaged planet wasn’t the only worry: Humans on the ground (like Dichen Lachman’s Anya, left) were out to exterminate the unwelcome guests. ALLE Artificial intelligence A.L.I.E. (Erica Cerra, above, with Isaiah Washington) triggered the original nuclear apocalypse and wanted to spare humanity before the next one by destroying everyone. (So her intentions were…good?)…

Kunal Nayyar The Grasshopper Experiment (Season 1, Episode 8) Nov. 12, 2007 Remember the early days when Raj (Nayyar) was so nervous around women that he couldn’t utter a word in their presence without drinking alcohol first? “I love the first time he spoke to Penny [Cuoco],” Nayyar says. “Raj is really growing as a person.” Melissa Rauch The Birthday Synchronicity (Season 10, Episode 11) Dec. 15, 2016 Baby Halley’s arrival was a turning point for Bernadette (Rauch) and Howard (Helberg), the first of the gang to become parents. “It was cool when everyone lined up at the hospital window and we hear Halley [cry] for the first time,” Rauch says. Mayim Bialik The Opening Night Excitation (Season 9, Episode 11) Dec. 17, 2015 “I remember coitus because it set…

Where the hell is Lucifer (Tom Ellis)? It ain’t Heaven! After being knocked out by an unseen assailant, Luci awoke at the end of the season finale surrounded by miles and miles of sand. “It’s the desert,” Henderson clarifies. “It’s beautifully surreal, but it is Earth.” How long has he been gone—and how mad is Chloe (Lauren German) going to be that her homicide case consultant vanished on her again? Apparently, our scorched antihero “has been out in the sun for quite a bit…luckily, his pants survived,” jokes Henderson, who adds that the season opener will deal with the fallout of Lucifer’s absence and the fact that he can’t recall anything from it. “That’s the part he’s worried about.” So he has no idea how his wings grew back? “That’s…

TALK ABOUT BEING blindsided! Last season, Blindspot gave us missing agents, broken marriages, new tattoos and a last-minute time jump. But some baddies are still on the loose: Could Roman (Luke Mitchell) be more of a threat than we realized? Executive producer Martin Gero provides some intel on Jane’s (Jaimie Alexander) next mission, plus insight into where things stand between her and Weller (Sullivan Stapleton). What was that gadget Agent Weller used on Jane? In the season finale’s two-year time jump, Weller tracked down his MIA love, who’d been in hiding, and showed her a metal doohickey that lit up her body art when they both touched it. “It’s a bioluminescent top layer [of new tattoos], essentially,” Gero explains. “That device he puts up to her neck is like a…

WHEN iZOMBIE RETURNS in 2018, it will be a whole new world order: Thanks to a zombie-tainted vaccination, a good portion of the Seattle population was turned into brain eaters. But there could be hope for those who aren’t infected, as medical examiner Ravi (Rahul Kohli) potentially developed an inoculation that would prevent humans from infection. However, to properly test it, he took a big risk—he ingested the medicine and then had Liv (Rose McIver) scratch him. We asked executive producer Rob Thomas to weigh in on all things live and undead. Above: Anjali Jay and Dohring (right) with a stunt man who went out with a bang; right: Michalka After all that’s happened, how will Liv’s world be upended? She will have no secret identity next season. There is…

SO MUCH FOR the Mikaelson clan vow “Family—always and forever!” At Season 4’s end, most of the siblings had fled from New Orleans and each other to keep young Hope (Summer Fontana) safe from being repossessed by an immortal evil ghost known as The Hollow. Executive producer Julie Plec shares her plans for what’s next. Your renewal for next season came late. Did you decide to separate the Mikaelson siblings and reunite several with their true loves in case the show was canceled? Yes! The family being eternally separated is a bittersweet ending, but just in case, I wanted the fans to feel a sense of closure. I couldn’t leave dangling questions. How much time will have passed when the show returns in 2018? It could be six months or…

The films bring DC heroes to screen in an enthralling animated format Time flies when you’re animating fun! For a decade, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has been bringing the DC Universe to full-color life through a whopping 30 animated features showcasing DC’s biggest names. Starting with 2007’s Superman: Doomsday, the DCU films have been packed with star-studded voice casts, high-end production values and storylines with broad appeal. “From its inception, DC Universe Original Movies were conceived to bring these beloved characters and stories from page to screen in an enthralling animated format that maintained the adult themes of the original material,” says Mary Ellen Thomas, WBHE’s vice president of family and animation marketing. Here are some fun stats about DCU’s animated 30—and Batman and Harley Quinn (see below) is due…

ACROSS 1 Back muscle, for short 4 Ana Gasteyer on People of Earth 8 Title for Judi Dench 12 Nickname for Lincoln 13 Actress Richards of Gotham 14 Unlock 15 The voice of Pigeon on Mike Tyson Mysteries (2 wds.) 18 Ambience 19 Actress Sedgwick 20 Shocking weapon 23 Programmer played by Shannon Woodward on Westworld 27 Very overweight 30 Numero ______ 31 He plays Merlyn on Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow (2 wds.) 36 Luke Cage actor Mahershala _____ 37 Agent Cooper’s secretary on Twin Peaks 38 Singer Midler 41 Patty’s sister on The Simpsons 44 Gymnast Korbut 47 Name of Superman’s mother 49 Supernatural brother (2 wds.) 54 Soothing substance 55 Sailor’s cry 56 Network that airs reruns of Grimm and Supernatural 57 Source of venison 58 Use a keyboard…