What's beyond Barry Allen's Finish Line?
The Flash's Barry Allen may have reached the 'Finish Line', but is this the end of his journey? Not a bit of it. Our TV screens will be getting another injection of the 'Speed Force' very soon indeed when the Scarlet Speedster returns for another season of adventures.
Here's everything we know so far about The Flash season 4, starting with the most important question: when can we see it?
The Flash season 4 release date: When will it air?
The CW has confirmed that The Flash will return to its schedules on Tuesday, October 10 at 8/7c. (As is standard, Sky1 will follow suit a couple of weeks later in the UK, airing new episodes from Tuesday, October 17 at 8pm onwards.)
The Flash production office confirmed it was reconvening as of June 20, to start work on the new episodes.
The Flash season 4 trailer: Is there any footage?
We got our first official glimpse at season 4 on July 22, during The Flash panel at San Diego Comic-Con.
In the new footage, we see Kid Flash and Cisco fighting crime as a duo, Caitlin returning to STAR Labs, the team working together to get Barry back... and much more!
A second, more detailed teaser dropped in late September, revealing more of the circumstances behind a bearded Barry's return.
The following cast have been confirmed as returning next season:
Grant Gustin as Barry Allen / The Flash
Candice Patton as Iris West
Danielle Panabaker as Dr. Caitlin Snow
Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon / Vibe
Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally West / Kid Flash
Jesse L. Martin as Detective Joe West
Tom Cavanagh as Harry Wells
Though his character was still very much a part of the show by the end of 'Finish Line', it's been announced that Tom Felton won't be returning as snarky but good-hearted Julian Albert this season.
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He was a regular last year, but there are currently no plans for Felton to reappear on The Flash in any capacity. Instead, his absence was referenced briefly in season 4's premiere, with Julian having returned to London.
"I think it's a loss for the show and for Team Flash, but I don't know that Caitlin feels Julian's absence as deeply as she felt, for example, [her late fiancé] Ronnie's absence," Panabaker told Digital Spy. "I think he was more into her than she was into him."
Ouch! Possibly filling Julian's shoes as part of Team Flash will be Ralph Dibny (played by Hartley Sawyer), who becomes the superhero Elongated Man in the original DC comics.
You'll notice that, while Tom Cavanagh's involvement is confirmed, it's yet to be revealed who he'll be playing.
The first season of The Flash saw him play both Harrison Wells and Eobard Thawne / Reverse Flash disguised as Wells.
In season two, Cavanagh portrayed Wells's Earth-2 doppelganger, an irritable but good-hearted scientist nicknamed 'Harry' to distinguish him from his predecessor.
Season three introduced yet another variant – 'H.R.' Wells from Earth-19 – but the chirpy novelist was killed off in this year's finale, 'Finish Line'.
So will season four reintroduce Cavanagh as Harry full-time or introduce a fourth major version of the Wells character? It sounds like the answer is both.
Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg has promised that Harry "won't be the only Wells we'll see" this season, while Cavanagh himself revealed: "We're going to start with Harry and then find a way, I think, to try and get a different version of Wells in there."
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