TV Terrors: Grimm to Air on Same Day at New Time; Constantine Not Dead Yet

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May 10, 2015
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It’s been a busy weekend for TV news, and hot on the heels of the networks announcing all their various cancellations and pickups for the upcoming fall season, we have NBC’s new timeslot for “Grimm” Season 5 plus stirrings in the Twittersphere and on the convention circuit about a previously talked about “Constantine/Arrow” crossover that could still go forward.

Knowing it has a good thing on its hands that it really shouldn’t mess with, NBC is keeping its only remaining supernatural series, “Grimm,” on Friday nights but moving it yet again time-wise to 9PM ET/PT (which is actually it’s old original air time).  It’s being wedged between comedies  “Undateable” and “People Are Talking” in the 8-9PM hour and “Dateline,” airing at 10PM.  For this they cancelled “Constantine”?

Speaking of which, fans of the show, who include William Shatner, “Arrow’s” Stephen Amell, Joseph Morgan of “TVD/The Originals,” “Supernatural’s” Mark Sheppard and Jim Beaver, and many more, are not letting it go quietly.  They’ve all tweeted their support, and during an appearance at this weekend’s Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con, Amell had quite a bit to say…

Per ComicBook.com, Amell said with regard to the possibility of Oliver Queen meeting up with John Constantine (and other DC characters not on The CW), “…there is an opportunity for interconnectivity with any DC television show that exists.  Like, as an example, yesterday ‘Constantine’ was cancelled. And there is… yeah, I know, it’s brutal… it’s a good show, and it should come back. And it may come back, like there are various platforms where it could come back.”

Amell continued, “Now, ‘Constantine’ was an NBC show. I’m on The CW. I had had discussions with DC… so not NBC, not CW… but with DC Entertainment about guest starring on ‘Constantine’ when it was still on the air. And that was and is still on the table. So we have ‘Flash,’ we have ‘Legends of Tomorrow,’ a new show which is directly connected to the ‘Arrow’ universe, we have ‘Supergirl’… she got picked up, directed by my good friend Glen Winter, that pilot, I can’t wait to see it, I’m sure it’s going to be amazing… there’s ‘Gotham’ obviously, and I’m missing something… ‘Titans,’ there you go. So again, I wouldn’t worry too much about the movie universe, because we have no shortage of options for me and other characters to populate.” (Click the above link for more about any DC movie/TV show crossover possibilities.  The short version: Not gonna happen.)

But what would have led Oliver to appear on “Constantine” anyway? Amell explained, “The reason that I was going to guest star on ‘Constantine,’ at least the idea that we were throwing around, was he’s an expert when it comes to the Lazarus Pit, which is now something that is a part of and will continue to be a part of ‘Arrow.’”

Amell also went on to voice his support for “Constantine” returning on another network:  “I think that all the support that it got, Geoff Johns at DC was supporting it, Jim Lee was supporting it, I think Grant [Gustin] was throwing a little weight behind it, as he should, because that dude is a heavyweight in the DC television universe.  I don’t know how it would play. I just think that it deserves an opportunity. I really do.”

We do, too, Stephen… we do, too!

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