>The CW has ordered three new series for the 2016-17 season, in addition to picking up “Supergirl” from CBS for Season 2 and renewing almost the entirety of their 2015-16 lineup.
>“Riverdale” hails from Warner Bros. Television and “Supergirl” and “The Flash” executive producer Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions. Set in the present day and based on the iconic Archie Comics characters, “Riverdale” is described as a surprising and subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, and their friends, exploring the surrealism of small town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade. Berlanti serves as exec producer alongside Sarah Schechter, Jon Goldwater and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who also penned the pilot, which was directed by Lee Toland Krieger.
>The cast includes Lili Reinhart (“Surviving Jack”), Cole Sprouse (“The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”), Luke Perry (“Beverly Hills, 90210”, “Jesse Stone”), KJ Apa (“Shortland Street”) Marisol Nichols (“GCB”), Mädchen Amick (“Twin Peaks”) and newcomers Ashleigh Murray, Madelaine Petsch and Camila Mendes.
this seems like it's going to be one of those it's so bad and over the top it's a trainwreck but I can't stop watching shows
James Howard
why is the black girl playing a redhead? shes cute and all but i mean, she doesnt even look like her. will they make her wear whiteface?
Kayden Young
The Pussycats are all black now.
Jaxon Anderson
>a satire This shit is so fucking out there I think it's just gonna be played straight.
Christian Butler
>Cole Sprouse >Jughead
Cole's twitter is just him dicking around for shits and giggles, he'll probably play jug perfectly
Nicholas Thomas
The script begins with a narrator talking about the town of Riverdale, and how it isn’t what people think. We are shown what may be familiar locations, the city hall, the cinema, Pop’s Chok’lit Shoppe Diner, but also derelict buildings with boarded up walls, graffiti and meth addicts. Because this is the real Riverdale, all of it, folks. This isn’t just Archie the TV series. It’s Betty & Veronica Mars.
It starts with the death of Jason Blossom, Cheryl Blossom’s twin brother and doesn’t stop. This is a Riverdale with kids who talk about Rainbow parties, a Reggie who gets badly drunk, a Riverdale of strip joints, and, yes, a just-16 year old Archie sleeping with his music teacher and then using it to blackmail her. And suggestions of twincest too.
So who do we have, and how does the script describe them? Jughead is an “emo-heartthrob”. Jason and Cheryl Blossom could have stepped from an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue. Pop Tate is Greek. Veronica and her divorced mother are “two dark haired beauties”, Betty is “Blonde, pretty, 16″, Kevin Keller, her gay confident is “16 cute”, sexually active on Grindr and dealing with a homophobic military dad. Keller is the Archie Comics main gay character, but rather the passive character of the comics, here he is a little more in your face- though slightly reserved when he gets down to it . And Archie Andrews is 16, red haired – indeed his hair colour is constantly mentioned, Josie refers to him as “Justin Gingerlake” – recently buffed up after working for his dad’s construction company over the summer and lives next door to Betty, who is madly in love with him. And Veronica? She just wants a boy toy to pass the summer and she’s never gone ginge before.
Lincoln Mitchell
The actors will probably play it mostly straight, and the humor will come from the exaggerated ridiculousness of the sitations they get themselves into.
Charles Taylor
>black girls >rock and roll band
Thats unrealistic as fuuuuck
Jonathan Thomas
It's a pastiche of Destiny's Child.
Jack Allen
I am sure you can find a rock group of black girls.
Leo Anderson
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Henry Hernandez
Find one ill wait
Jace Clark
Kind of like Dark Dungeons then?
Hunter Nguyen
Jughead might not be wearing his crown hat, but at least he's got his shirt.
