DC’s Black Lightning Moves To The CW

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♦DC’s Black Lightning may be joining Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow over at the CW, according to a piece that ran on Variety yesterday…

Black Lightning has nabbed an official pilot order at the CW, Variety has learned.

The Greg Berlanti-produced series was originally was developed at Fox earlier this season, landing a hefty pilot production commitment from the get-go. Insiders tell Variety the network passed on the project earlier this week, so then it moved to the CW.

Should Black Lightning make it to series, it would mark the fifth DC superhero show from Berlanti at the CW, which is currently home to Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl, which have all been renewed for the 2017-2018 season.

If  Black Lightning is greenlit for 2017-2018, sources close to the network explain that the shows would be staggered throughout the year, rather than scheduling five separate nights of superhero programming.

Black Lightning is the second Berlanti Productions series to move from another network to the CW. After Supergirl’s first season struggled to keep a big enough audience for CBS’ standards, the younger-skewing sister network picked it up for its sophomore season. While superhero programming may not be the best fit for the Big Four, the CW has had great success with its four series, including Supergirl, which is performing strongly in its second season at the CW, only behind the net’s top show, The Flash.

www.variety.com