Flash is on the fast track to The CW. Deadline.com broke the news that The CW is looking at creating a series around DC Comics' Scarlet Speedster as a spinoff from "Arrow." The spinoff would be helmed by the show's co-creators Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg and directed by David Nutter. "We plan to introduce a recurring character and an origin story of Dr. Barry Allen, we'll see how it goes and hopefully it goes well," CW president Mark Pedowitz said at TCA. "We do want to expand upon the DC universe. There are very rich characters we can use, and we thought this was a good way to do it." In DC Comics lore, Flash has gone through quite a few incarnations. The character in the "Golden Age" was Jay Garrick, a college student who got his super speed powers after inhaling fumes in a lab. The "Silver Age" version of the Flash was Barry Allen, a police scientist who got his powers following a chemical accident in his lab. The "Modern Age" Flash, Wally West, nephew to Barry Allen, got his powers the same way. Bart Allen, the grandson to Barry Allen, was Impulse and Kid Flash. He appeared in The CW's "Smallville." Read more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/flash-spinoff-arrow-cw_n_3676418.html?utm_hp_ref=tv
