The CW’s “The Flash” is officially coming to an end with the upcoming ninth season to debut in 2023.
The network in May announced that next season will be held for midseason, and actor Grant Gustin agreed to a one-year deal along with capping his involvement at fifteen episodes.
Rather than drawing it out, the network aims to have Barry in the whole run as the final season will now consist of a shorter thirteen-episode order.
Both Candice Patton’s Iris West-Allen and Danielle Panabaker’s Caitlin Snow are also returning for the final season. Jesse L. Martin is committed to as many as five episodes of the ninth season, but the number could go higher if his NBC pilot “The Irrational” does not go forward to series.
The news means the series will come to a close just weeks ahead of the planned June 23rd 2023 release of “The Flash” movie starring Ezra Miller. Though Miller made a cameo on the series before, and his film is expected to have multiverse implications, the show’s finale doesn’t tie into the movie in any way.
“The Flash” has been the most successful and longest running of the Arrowverse series with The CW having shed all of its existing DC series bar “Superman & Lois”.
Source: Deadline
