A few months ago Fox announced that they would develop a series called Gotham that would focus on the roots of Commissioner James Gordon and the villains that put Gotham on the map. It didn’t seem like the series would include Bruce Wayne, but we’ve now learned that the series will also tell a Batman origin story.

In a recent interview with Fox Entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly, he explained,

“This is not one of the things where you bought a franchise and then none of characters people know. We will follow Bruce Wayne right up until the point where he gets interesting.”

Which is basically kind of like what was done with Smallville and Clark Kent. It’s a solid formula that could really work. He goes on to say that they are looking to cast a young boy–around 12 years old–to play Bruce, and that he won’t put on the cape or cowl until the end of the series. Reilly went on to say,

“The show won’t have a bunch of characters you’ve never heard of. We see Detective Gordon, before he’s a commissioner, all the characters you know, Bruce Wayne, the Penguin, all of them. It’s Gotham teetering on the edge, and we see what makes these characters become who they are, [like] Catwoman. It’s an operatic soap that has a slightly larger-than-life quality to it.”

All this new information makes me even more excited about what they are going to do with the series! It sounds like it going to focus on the decline of Gotham city and the rise of the villains whom Batman will eventually have to protect it from.

Dark Knight and Man of Steel screenwriter David Goyer has been developing a TV series based on DC Comics’ Hellblazer, and NBC just ordered a pilot for it.

Warner Bros. TV will develop the series, which will be called Constantine and will follow the character John Constantine, who is thrown into a position where he must defend humanity from the gathering forces of darkness. At the same time, he’s haunted by the sins of his past.

This is the character that was played by Keanu Reeves in the movie adaptation of the same name. It’s a pretty badass character, that I think will make for a really cool series. I don’t know what this means for Guillermo del Toro‘s Justice League Dark film project, as Constantine would have been a main character in the story.

I hope this doesn’t mean we won’t be seeing Del Toro’s movie, because if I had to chose between the two, I’d pick Del Toro over Goyer any day. The pilot episode was written by Daniel Cerone from Dexter, who will also produce the series alongside Goyer.

TV Guide managed to grab a scoop on where Arrow  will pick up on its return next Wednesday, and I’m excited to say the least. You don’t want to read any further if you want to go in blindly, but I will say this spoiler doesn’t really do more than set the stage.

It appears as though Felicity will be leaving Starling City to go aid Barry after his “accident”, which comes at a terrible time for Oliver as there are now multiple villains to be worried about. Hopefully this means Felicity will be jumping back and forth between the series and being the bridge between the two shows when Flash gets going. I’m not one for the whole Oliver and Felicity romance and would much rather see her go on full time with Flash…but I can see how and why that would never happen. Next Wednesday we’ll see it all go down, and hopefully more of Slade in the current timeline!