The CW’s “The Flash” just aired its seventeenth episode for its sixth season with another two episodes left until the season finale on May 12th. The season was cut short by three episodes due to the coronavirus pandemic interrupting filming and it’s unclear if they will still be filmed.
For now though the show is certainly set to return with a seventh season whenever it can start shooting again. What about beyond that though?
TV Line reports that the network is keen to continue, but the show’s star Grant Gustin is only contracted through the end of the seventh season. Talks for an eighth and ninth season have taken place, but those discussions have stalled.
Gustin explains to the outlet where things are and from the sounds of it he may be ready to move on:
“The conversations actually had started already for adding a potential eighth and ninth [season], but then this pandemic happened, and everything has stopped. We don’t know when we’re back, and I don’t know when we’re going to continue the renegotiation talks.
I had faith really early on that the show would be on for a while. There are plenty of things I feel I missed out on. The Flash has been so amazing, but we’re six years in now and the past four [summer] hiatuses I have had a project that has fallen through because of Flash. There are a lot of opportunities that have gone away because of schedule conflicts. You just can’t have everything.”
The 30-year-old actor also recently opened up on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast about his struggles with anxiety and depression since he was very young, anxiety that wasn’t helped by some of the show’s fanbase who body shamed him for being too skinny back in 2018 due to a poorly composed costume fitting photo.
