The Flash is a TV series airing on the CW. It is based on the hero appearing in the DC comics. It is also part of Arrowverse!
So let’s dig into some trivia and facts about this TV show.
- The Flash is an American superhero television series
- It is developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns
- It is airing on The CW
- It is based on the DC Comics character Barry Allen / Flash
- A costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to move at superhuman speeds
- It is a spin-off from Arrow, existing in the same fictional universe
- The series follows Barry Allena crime scene investigator who gains super-human speed, which he uses to fight criminals
- Including others who have also gained superhuman abilities
- The title character is portrayed by Grant Gustin
- Initially envisioned as a backdoor pilot
- The positive reception Gustin received during two appearances as Barry on Arrow led to executives choosing to develop a full pilot to make use of a larger budget and help flesh out Barry’s world in more detail
- Colleen Atwood, costume designer for Arrow, was brought in to design the Flash’s suit
- The creative team wanted to make sure that the Flash would resemble his comic book counterpart
- And not simply be a poor imitation
- The series is primarily filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- The Flash premiered in North America on October 7, 2014
- There the pilot became the second-most watched premiere in the history of The CW
- After The Vampire Diaries in 2009
- It has been well received by critics and audiences
- It won the People’s Choice Award for “Favorite New TV Drama” in 2014
- The series, together with Arrow, has spun characters out to their own show
- This show is Legends of Tomorrow
- It premiered on January 21, 2016
- On April 2, 2018, The CW renewed the series for a fifth season, which premiered on October 9, 2018
- On January 31, 2019, The CW renewed the series for a sixth season
- It is set to premiere on October 8, 2019
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 97% approval rating
- With an average rating of 7.5/10 based on 58 reviews
- The website’s consensus reads, “The Flash benefits from its purposefully light atmosphere, making it a superhero show uniquely geared toward genre fans as well as novices”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 73 out of 100
- Based on 27 reviews
- Indicating “generally favorable reviews”
- In 2016, Rolling Stone ranked the show #23 on its list of the “40 Best Science Fiction TV Shows of All Time”
- The first episode of The Flash was watched by 4.8 million viewers
- And had a 1.9 18–49 demographic rating
- Making it The CW’s most watched and highest rated series premiere since The Vampire Diaries in 2009
- It also became The CW’s second-most watched series premiere ever
- Behind 90210
- And the third-highest rated in the 18–49 demographic
- Factoring Live + 7 day ratings, the pilot was watched by a total of 6.8 million viewers
- Becoming The CW’s most-watched telecast and the highest-rated premiere among men 18–34 (2.5 rating)
- It broke the previous record for the most-watched telecast held by the cycle 8 finale of America’s Next Top Model in 2007 (6.69 million)
- Additionally, across all platforms, including initiated streams on digital platforms and total unduplicated viewers on-air over two airings the week of October 7, 2014, the premiere was seen more than 13 million times
- In 2016, according to an analysis from Parrot Analytics, which used ratings data (where available), peer-to-peer sharing, social media chatter, and other factors to estimate viewer demand for various shows, The Flash was the 5th most popular show in the world
- With 3.1 million demand expressions per day
- Behind Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Pretty Little Liars, and Westworld
- TorrentFreak also gauged The Flash as the fourth most-torrented television show of 2016
