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Arrow: Season One

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Arrow - Season 1

Director:
David Nutter, David Barrett, Guy Bee, Vincent Misiano, Michael Schultz, John Behring, David Grossman, Ken Fink, John Dahl, Eagle Egilsson, Nick Copus, Wendey Stanzler, Glen Winter, Michael Offer

Starring:
Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Susanna Thompson, Willa Holland, Colin Salmon, Colin Donnell, Katie Cassidy, Paul Blackthorne, John Barrowman, Byron Mann, Manu Bennett, Colton Haynes

Other notable appearances:
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Christie Laing, Michael Rowe, Jessica De Gouw, Seth Gabel, Patrick Sabongui, Janina Gavankar, Chin Han, J. August Richards

Running time:
42-45 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
23

 

After being presumed dead, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Amell) returns from the island on which he was shipwrecked a vastly changed man. His struggle for survival trained him for his new goal — to protect his city from those who would taint it.

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Gotham: Season One

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Gotham - Season 1

Director:
Danny Cannon, Dermott Downs, TJ Scott, Tim Hunter, Rob Bailey, Paul Edwards, Karen Gaviola, Guy Ferland, Oz Scott, Eagle Egilsson, Wendy Stanzler, John Behring, Nick Copus, Jeffrey Hunt, Nathan Hope, Bill Eagles

Writer:
Bruno Heller, John Stephens, Ken Woodruff, Rebecca Perry Cutter, Ben Edlund, Rebecca Dameron, Sue Chung, Megan Mostyn-Brown, Danny Cannon, Jordan Harper

Starring:
Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Jada Pinkett Smith, Robin Lord Taylor, Camren Bicondova, Sean Pertwee, Cory Michael Smith, Erin Richards, John Doman, David Zayas, Morena Baccarin, Victoria Cartagena, Andrew Stewart-Jones

Other notable appearances:
Richard Kind, Lili Taylor, Carol Kane, Jeffrey Combs, Frank Whaley, Anthony Carrigan, Nicholas D’Agosto, Chelsea Spack, Julian Sands, Clare Foley, Becky Ann Baker, Colm Feore, Milo Ventimiglia, Daniel Davis

Running time:
40-50 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
22

 

Detective James Gordon (McKenzie) joins the Gotham City Police Department and is partnered with Detective Harvey Bullock (Logue). Their first case together is to solve the murders of Gothamites Thomas and Martha Wayne. During this and their following cases, Gordon learns that there is a price to be paid for every good deed in Gotham.

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Vixen: Season One

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Vixen - Season 1

Director:
James Tucker

Writer:
Lauren Certo, Brian Ford Sullivan, Wendy Mericle, Keto Shimizu

Starring:
Megalyn Echikunwoke, Stephen Amell, Grant Gustin

Other notable appearances:
Neil Flynn, Carlos Valdes, Emily Bett Rickards, Anika Noni Rose, Sean Patrick Thomas

Running time:
5-7 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
6

 

Mari McCabe (Echikunwoke) is a young woman who was orphaned as a baby. When she tries to use the necklace left by her birth mother to trace her family, Mari discovers the necklace has the power to grant her the strength and abilities of certain animals. This discovery brings Mari to the attention of friend and foe alike.

Vixen is an animated web series set in the Arrowverse. The Arrowverse is the universe in which television shows Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow exist.

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Penny Dreadful: Season Three

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Director:
Damon Thomas, Toa Fraser, Paco Cabezas

Writer:
John Logan, Andrew Hinderaker, Krysty Wilson-Cairns

Starring:
Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, Christian Camargo, Wes Studi

Other notable appearances:
Sarah Greene, Patti LuPone, Shazad Latif, Samuel Barnett, Perdita Weeks, Jessica Barden

Running time:
44-60 minutes

Number of episodes:
9

 

After their final encounter with the witches last season, this season — the last in the series — sees Vanessa Ives’ (Green) band of misfits scattered. Sir Malcolm Murray (Dalton) travels to Africa to return Sambene’s body to his homeland. Ethan Chandler (Hartnett) returns to America to face the consequences of the as yet unmentioned actions he made there. Lily Frankenstein (Piper) and Dorian Gray (Carney) plan world domination. Victor Frankenstein (Treadaway) nurses his broken heart with the help of an old friend (Latif). When darkness once again descends on Vanessa in London, will her friends be able to help her or will she succumb to the night?

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Ash vs Evil Dead: Season One

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Ash vs Evil Dead

Director:
Sam Raimi, Michael J. Bassett, David Frazee, Michael Hurst, Tony Tilse, Rick Jacobson

Starring:
Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Jill Marie Jones, Lucy Lawless

Running time:
27-41 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
10

 

Thirty years after the events in the Evil Dead films, Ash Williams (Campbell) has spent his life hiding from the Deadite army. In a drug induced stupor, he reads from the Necronomicon which draws the Deadites to his location.

Ash’s first instinct is to flee the forces of evil once again but he is convinced by friend Pablo (Santiago) to help their colleague Kelly (DeLorenzo) when her mother returns from the dead. The unlikely trio band together to put a stop to the army of darkness once and for all.

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