Arrow
American action-adventure television series
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| May 2023 | The Justice U series was passed on by the network. |
| January 13 2022 | A series titled Justice U starring Ramsey was announced to be in development. |
| 2021 | Eric Wallace, The Flash showrunner, encourages viewers to rewatch the episode, promising that the 'Armageddon' event in The Flash's eighth season would provide answers to the episode's unresolved plot points. |
| January 2021 | The CW officially passed on the Green Arrow and the Canaries spin-off, with Guggenheim citing the COVID-19 pandemic as the primary deciding factor. |
| 2020 | Series concludes with its eighth and final season, featuring a restoration of the multiverse during the 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' crossover event, which brings back several characters like Tommy Merlyn and Moira Queen. |
| 2020 | In the final season, Oliver is recruited by the Monitor to prevent the Crisis. During the event, he sacrifices himself and becomes the Spectre to stop the Anti-Monitor, ultimately creating a new universe at the cost of his own life. |
| June 2020 | Marc Guggenheim suggested potentially resolving the backdoor pilot's cliffhangers in a comic book if the series was not picked up. |
| May 2020 | CW president Mark Pedowitz confirmed the spin-off series was 'very much alive' despite not being picked up for the early part of the 2020-21 television season. |
| January 2020 | Marc Guggenheim revealed that Stephen Amell was originally contracted for only nine episodes of Arrow's final season, and The CW requested a tenth episode, which Guggenheim saw as an opportunity to create the backdoor pilot for the potential spin-off series. |
| January 28 2020 | Arrow concludes its eight-season run, marking the end of the original flagship series of the Arrowverse. |
| January 21 2020 | The episode 'Green Arrow & The Canaries' first aired on The CW, serving as a potential backdoor pilot for a spin-off series set in 2040, featuring Mia Smoak, Laurel Lance, and Dinah Drake. The episode was watched live by 0.89 million viewers and marked a season high in overnight ratings. |
| 2019 | First part of the 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' crossover event begins, spanning into 2020. |
| 2019 | Stephen Amell wins Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Actor: Action, marking a significant recognition for the series. |
| 2019 | The series featured the 'Crisis on Earth-X' crossover event where Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak were married. |
| 2019 | After being released from prison, Oliver and his team are deputized by the SCPD. He discovers his half-sister Emiko Queen, who is later revealed to be the leader of the Ninth Circle terrorist group. |
| October 21 2019 | Filming began for the backdoor pilot episode of Green Arrow and the Canaries within Arrow's final season. |
| October 15 2019 | The final season premiered. |
| September 2019 | The CW officially announced a female-led spin-off series called Green Arrow and the Canaries, starring Katherine McNamara, Katie Cassidy, and Juliana Harkavy. |
| August 2019 | First reported development of an untitled Arrow spin-off series featuring potential female leads. |
| March 2019 | Emily Bett Rickards announced her departure from the series ahead of its final season. |
| March 6 2019 | It was announced that the eighth season would be the final season of the series, with a ten-episode run. |
| January 31 2019 | The CW renewed the series for an eighth season. |
| 2018 | Crossover event 'Elseworlds' featuring characters from Arrow and other Arrowverse shows. |
| 2018 | Matt Ryan promoted to series regular status in Legends of Tomorrow for its fourth season. |
| 2018 | Oliver marries Felicity during the Arrowverse crossover and later strikes a deal with the FBI that leads to his incarceration in federal prison. |
| January 2018 | Release of 'Arrow: Fatal Legacies', focusing on events between the fifth-season finale and sixth-season premiere of the TV series. |
| 2017 | Crossover event 'Crisis on Earth-X' featuring characters from Arrow and other Arrowverse shows. |
| 2017 | Matt Ryan begins recurring role as Constantine in Legends of Tomorrow, starting with the show's third season. |
| 2017 | Arrow wins Leo Awards for Best Stunt Coordination in a Dramatic Series. |
| 2017 | Oliver becomes mayor of Star City and recruits a new team of vigilantes, including Dinah Drake as the new Black Canary. |
| 2017 | Oliver is incarcerated in federal prison after striking a deal with the FBI, and his identity as Green Arrow is publicly revealed. |
| August 2017 | Marc Guggenheim (Arrow executive producer) confirmed as co-author of a fourth Arrow novel, 'Arrow: Fatal Legacies', alongside James R. Tuck. |
| March 28 2017 | Continuation of the previous novel 'A Generation of Vipers' was released by Susan and Clay Griffith, featuring characters from Arrow and The Flash. |
| 2016 | Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards again win MTV Fandom Awards' Ship of the Year. |
| 2016 | Oliver discovers he has a son named William and conceals this truth, which leads to his breakup with Felicity. |
| November 29 2016 | Titan Books released 'The Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen', a cross-show tie-in novelization by Susan and Clay Griffith, set during the second season of The Flash and fourth season of Arrow. |
| October 2016 | Nick Aires and Titan Books released a follow-up guidebook 'Arrow: Oliver Queen's Dossier' during the series' fifth season, presenting a fictional collection of information compiled by Green Arrow and Felicity Smoak about his crimefighting activities. |
| September 2016 | The complete Arrow: The Dark Archer comic series is collected and published as a single print edition, compiling the previously released digital chapters. |
| February 23 2016 | Titan Books released 'Arrow: Vengeance', a tie-in novelization by Oscar Balderrama and Lauren Certo, detailing the origins of Slade Wilson, Sebastian Blood, and Isabel Rochev. |
| January 13 2016 | Arrow: The Dark Archer digital comic series begins release, with 12 chapters published biweekly. Written by John and Carole Barrowman, the series explores Malcolm Merlyn's backstory and is set between seasons three and four of the Arrow TV show. |
| 2015 | Co-showrunner Marc Guggenheim announced plans to shift the series to a lighter tone for season four and to introduce the season's antagonist Damien Darhk in the first episode. |
| 2015 | Oliver Queen attempts to start a new life away from vigilantism in Ivy Town with girlfriend Felicity Smoak, following the events of season three. |
| 2015 | A.R.G.U.S. recruits Oliver Queen against his will, forcing him to return to the island of Lian Yu in flashback sequences. |
| 2015 | Digital comic series 'Arrow: Season 2.5' concluded, providing additional narrative context and story development for the Arrow television series. |
| 2015 | Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards win MTV Fandom Awards' Ship of the Year. Katie Cassidy wins PRISM Awards for Performance in a Drama Multi-Episode Storyline. |
| 2015 | Thor Freudenthal was selected to direct the episode, marking a significant point in the series production. |
| 2015 | In season six's finale, Oliver Queen confesses he is the Green Arrow and is sent to prison as Inmate 4587. |
| December 2015 | Season 3 soundtrack released, notably expanding to 2 discs for the first time, compared to previous single-disc albums. |
| August 2015 | Matt Ryan confirmed to appear in Arrow's fourth season episode 'Haunted', reprising his role as John Constantine from the NBC series. This was a one-time crossover to help resolve Sara Lance's resurrection storyline. |
| July 2015 | Neil McDonough was cast as the season antagonist Damien Darhk for the fourth season of Arrow |
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