Another week, another superhero hits the screens.
Actually there's two - the new series of The Flash starting tonight is followed immediately by a third season of Arrow (TV2, 9.30pm). Barry Allen (played by Glee alumni Grant Gustin) appeared earlier in two episodes of the show about the bow 'n' arrow-wielding vigilante. The new series also has connections to a previous screen incarnation - John Wesley Shipp, who played The Flash in the one-season 1990 show plays Barry Allen's father.
For those who haven't encountered the red-suited one as he's blurred his way through 74 years of DC comics, here's a quick refresh on his TV incarnation: Allen witnesses his mother's murder. With his father wrongly accused, he is adopted by a detective's family. He becomes a crime scene analyst but is involved in a lab accident in which a particle accelerator explodes.
He awakes from a coma to find he's the fastest man alive and vows to fight crime using his powers, and to solve his mother's murder ...
Watch the trailer for the TV show The Flash:
