The CW’s superhero fight club is back

4 October 2016 Rob Buckley Commercials, US TV Post a comment

Last year, The CW put together a nice little team-up trailer to show off its roster of superhero characters in a make-believe training ‘fight club’. Of course, that was back when the network had a mere two superhero shows to its name: Arrow and The Flash. Can you believe it was ever so superhero-poor?

Now, though, it’s not only launched DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, it’s picked up CBS’s Supergirl and made it its own. Yep, we’re up to four shows – one every weekday night, except for the desert wasteland that is Friday. That seems much more sensible, doesn’t it?

To show off the new characters, as well as the old, here’s the sequel to that trailer: Fight Club 2.0. It’s not as much fun as the original and it goes on way too long, but it’s clearly got a bigger budget and it’s nice to see nerdy Supergirl and Flash sparking off each other again.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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