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Billy Dee Williams is finally getting a chance to play Two-Face, even in Lego form. In other news, Warner Bros. is looking into a streaming service, Batman v Superman debuted on cable and the DC Universe Rebirth comics are going to be available to rent for free digitally.

Warner Bros. might be looking into offering a streaming service - Deadline

CEO  Kevin Tsujihara reiterated importance of blockbusters - Variety

Consumer products sales

Talked potential of premium cable - Westworld/ Game of Thrones

Is this DC related?

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice strong ratings on cable debut - zap2it

Debuted on HBO last saturday 11/26 at 8 p.m.

2.33 million viewers

Billy Dee Williams is voicing Two-Face in The Lego Batman Movie - Director Chris McKay on Twitter

Played Harvey Dent in Batman (1989)

Burton used Max Shrek instead of Dent in Batman Returns (1992)

Tommy Lee Jones played Two-Face in Batman Forever (1997)

DC Universe Rebirth line to be made available via Hoopla - Bleeding Cool

DC Universe: Rebirth one-shot by Geoff Johns is already available

Rest of titles to be released between January and March

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Supergirl and The Flash down, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow to go. At the mid-point of the DC CW mega-crossover, we review where we are and predict where we are going.

If you are excited about the crossover, but aren't keeping up with the shows, be sure to check out Part 1 of our Invasion! preview.

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News is slowing down this time of year, but there is plenty to talk about in the DC TV universes. Gotham, Lucifer, and Supergirl all had their fall finales last night and the CW is set to kick-off it's 4-show crossover.

Gotham and Lucifer fall finales on Fox last night

11 episodes for Gotham, 10 for Lucifer so far

Both scheduled for 22 episode seasons

Supergirl fall finale last night

8th episode, scheduled for 22

Other DC CW shows will return next week

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow “Found Footage” - YouTube

Old school footage showing the Dominators

(Spoilers) New threat coming to The Flash to replace Flashpoint - Comicbook.com

Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg - ”There's a villain coming up who's another one of the husk villains that was created by Alchemy, so there's that to deal with, but the midseason finale kind of creates a new problem for our heroes that they weren't anticipating -- something that they've never faced before. And it's so big we're actually considering changing the saga sell from talking about Flashpoint to talking about that, because that's what's driving a lot of the episodes, actually. Flashpoint won't loom as large as the threat that presents itself in 309.”

Midseason finale next week

Crisis?

(Spoilers) Dominators will return in Season 2 of Supergirl - Comicbook.com

Unknown if same as Earth-1 Dominators

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Cartoon Network has finally set a release date for the first episode of the animated TV series Justice League Action. It is set to debut December 16. In other news, veteran actor John Cleese could be up for a role in the DCEU. We speculate on what character he could play and what DC Film he could be involved in. We also answer a listener question about tonight's CW crossover.

00:21 Justice League Action has a North American premiere date - Newsarama

Pilot debuts Friday, December 16

4 part premiere (so 1 hour) titled "Shazam Slam"

Episode Synopsis - "In 'Shazam Slam,' the villainous Black Adam battles Batman on the Rock of Eternity and unleashes a horde of Djinn determined to turn the Earth back to its pre-human, volcanic state. Affected by the otherworldly powers of these primordial monsters, Batman becomes possessed and is turned into a giant flying Batmonster laying waste to the Hall of Justice, with only Superman capable of taking the fight to the Dark Knight. One by one, the Justice League - with the help of Shazam (voiced by Sean Astin) and The Wizard (voiced by Carl Reiner) - must hunt down and defeat each Djinn in order to yet again save the world from destruction."

Regular episodes will air Saturday mornings beginning December 24

New Clip released by Cartoon Network

Video of Superman fighting Parasite; Wonder Woman saves the day

4:18 Rumor: John Cleese might be involved in the DCEU

Batman v Superman UK and Clay Enos followed him

Follows Ben Affleck and Zack Snyder

Speculation:  Wintergreen - (from Umberto Gonzalez)  or Highfather

8:34 DC CW Crossover Tonight! Twitter question from @batboy1989

"Will Supergirl be the main player in the crossover?

she is a god, even for Barry. I hope that the others will acknowledge that"

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Invasion! is coming. Today's podcast is part 2 of the DC CW crossover preview. We cover what we think will happen on the 4 shows and what could be taken from the comic book storyline that it is based on. Yesterday was part 1 of the preview where we caught you up on everything you need to know from the 4 shows before watching the crossover event.

* The official Invasion! Crossover Trailer

* The Supergirl Clip that appears to show The Flash and Cisco trying to contact Supergirl

* Dominators have mind control powers, heroes will probably fight - Entertainment Weekly

* Deathstroke is set to appear as part of Oliver's Dream

* Comic Book plot and speculation on how it relates to the story (SPOILERS for Invasion! comic)

The role of Rudolph West in the comic book story

Thanks for listening and be sure to listen to part 1 of the preview if you need to catch up the current season of any of the 4 shows.

Don't watch all 4 DC CW shows but still excited for the crossover? On today's podcast, we get you caught up-to-date with the current seasons of Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow. In this episode we spoil the past episodes of all 4 shows and let you know what is going on with the key characters and stories.

In part 2 tomorrow, we preview the crossover episodes as well as the Invasion! comic book storyline that it is based on.

Supergirl

Knows Barry from Season 1

Mon-El, Guardian, Martian Manhunter, Miss Martian

Don’t need to know much

Project Cadmus/Medusa

The Flash

Flashpoint has caused some problems

Savitar/Alchemy - the current big bads of the season

Killer Frost and Vibe are gaining powers

HR - Harrison Wells from Earth-19

Arrow

Oliver, Diggle, Felicity, and maybe Thea

Oliver is Mayor

Curtis Holt/Mr. Terrific, Wild Dog, Artemis, Ragman (Magical Rags)

Currently fighting Prometheus

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Rip is not currently with the team

New team - Sarah Lance/White Canary (Captain), Ray Palmer/Atom (lost suit), Mick Rory/Heat Wave, Firestorm duo of Martin Stein and Jefferson Jackson, Nate Heywood/Citizen Steel, Vixen from the Justice Society of America

Time aberrations caused by the Reverse Flash

Legion of Doom is the main villain

A message from 2056 Barry Allen is a key plot point

Thanks for listening and be sure to stop back tomorrow for part 2 of our preview episode!

*Spoilers* for The Flash Season 3, Episode 7 “Killer Frost” in this review and recap.

As always, we begin with a non-spoiler review of the episode followed by a spoiler-filled recap and summary

Basic Summary:

Opens where we left off in last episode

Savitar takes Barry around, is going to kill him, Caitlin has to use her powers to save him

Caitlin’s eyes flash, her powers are taking over

They have Wally in the cocoon, he’s still alive

Joe interrogates one of Alchemy’s followers

Tells him the human race will be judged

Caitlin shows up and gets Joe to leave, uses her freeze powers on him  to ask where Alchemy is

She abducts Julian

We see Detective Patterson for the first time

Caitlin forces Julian to create an algorithm to try to find Savitar/Alchemy

HR actually helps find Caitlin

Julian alerts Patterson of where is held hostage

Flash shows up, Julian eggs him on to take Caitlin out, he just punches him and knocks him out

Caitlin says she wants Alchemy to take her powers away

Caitlin reveals that it’s Flash’s fault that Cisco’s brother is dead

Caitlin stabs Flash so that he won’t follow her

Caitlin Shows up at a follower of Alchemy’s house. He tells her that Savitar has shown them the future and that they have special plans for Killer Frost

Caitlin and Cisco fight, Flash shows up

They capture Caitlin, put her in a cell - She’s full on Killer Frost

Iris gives Barry a pep talk

Joe opens the cocoon - Wally is alive and has speed

Barry lets Caitlin out, tells her that she needs to kill him first, it breaks her out of Killer Frost mode, she’s ok now.

Caitlin makes something that will fix Wally, they find him and inject him,

They test Wally and he’s real fast.

Barry goes to the hospital because Julian is awake

Barry begs Julian not to turn Caitlin in, Julian agrees but tells him he needs to quit

Stinger: Julian is Alchemy

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With today being Thanksgiving day in the United States, we wanted to wish all our listeners a Happy Thanksgiving. We also wanted to talk about everything we are thankful for in the DC Comics multiverse.

Now is a great time to be a DC Comics fan. There is more content in comics, movies, and TV than ever before. So what are we most thankful for in the year of 2016? We discuss some of the highlights in today's episode.

What are you most thankful for this Thanksgiving in the world of DC Comics, TV, and movies? Let us know on Facebook or Twitter.

*Spoilers* for Supergirl Season 2, Episode 7 “The Darkest Place” in this review and recap.

Non-Spoiler Thoughts

Basic SPOILER Summary:

* Opens with Supergirl fighting J’onn “Time for you to die”

* 24 hours earlier - Winn takes James to Alien Bar

* Guardian is all over the news

* Kara says her cousin once worked with a masked vigilante with tons of gadgets and lots of demons. (Batman?)

* Maggie shows up, wants to make sure her and Alex are still friends

* Mon-El is prisoner at Cadmus Labs - Tries to escape but they have J’onn too

* Guy with a gun suit (Barrage) shows up and shoots the guy Guardian just stopped

* People think Guardian murdered him

* Guardian stops bad guys, Barrage shows up, they start fighting

* Police shows up, Guardian runs away.

* Cadmus gets into Supergirl’s head tells her to come find Mon-El

* The real Hank survived - He works for Cadmus and has super powers

* Original Hank Henshaw is Cyborg Superman.

* Winn tells Alex Guardian is James

* Supergirl and Mon-El are now both locked up at Cadmus Labs

* The bars are made of Nth Metal (Thanagar!)

* Alex Tells Maggie to back off Guardian

* J’onn sees a white Martian, almost shoots someone

* Lillian Luthor tells Kara that she’s Lena’s mom

* They’ve designed a helmet to suck Supergirl’s energy out

* They shoot Mon-El because Lead is poisonous to him (straight out of the comics)

* Supergirl bleeds now because her energy is gone from the helmet, they take her blood

* Winn figured out who the killer vigilante is and tells James

* J’onn finds out M’gann is a white Martian, confronts her, makes her show her true self

* Mon-El is about to tell Supergirl something about Daxam when JEREMIAH shows up to rescue her

* He’s been there for 15 years - He stays behind

* Guardian shows up and fights the Barrage

* The police show up, now they have the right guy.

* Alex and DEO try to go get Jeremiah but they’re too late, they’re all gone

* M’gann is locked up, tells J’onn her blood is turning him into a White Martian

* Mon-El asks if Kara is set to be married to anyone

* Maggie shows up, tells Alex she wants to be friends

* End: Cyborg Hank uses Kara’s blood at Fortress of Solitude to ask about Project Medusa

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The Justice League Dark animated movie finally has a release date. We'll be seeing it very early in 2017. There has also been a lot of speculation lately on who should direct The Flash solo film, starring Ezra Miller. Tom and Zac discuss their wish list for who they would like to see direct the movie.

00:20 Justice League Dark animated film has a release date - Empire Online

Cool article with Director Jay Oliva

Will be available digitally - January 24, 2017

Blu-ray/DVD combo pack - February 7, 2017

02:45 Kevin Smith thinks Tim Miller should direct The Flash solo film - Fatman on Batman

Is the script from Seth Grahame-Smith ready to go?

Is Tim Miller a legitimate option?

What names would we like to see as a director?

Edgar Wright, Brad Bird, David  Yates, Justin Lin, George Miller

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