Arrow Season 6 Confirmed, Will Still Have Flashbacks

For those of you who feel that maybe Arrow has been getting lost in the CW superhero shuffle, or that the show might have run its course: think again. ArrowSeason 6 was just confirmed by the network at the Winter TCA tour.

But it's possible that ArrowSeason 6 will need a slightly amended format next year. Since the show's inception, it has relied on flashbacks that operate five years in the past to tell Oliver Queen's extended origin story. But with the conclusion of season five, the show will have caught up to its premiere. 

So then why is executive producer Marc Guggenheim saying that they're sticking with flashbacks? Well, at least these will have to be a different kind of flashback.

"We’ve totally talked about [flash-forwards] and I don’t rule that out at all,"Mr. Guggenheim told Collider. "But the island story, which is a continuing story unlike the other flashbacks I’ve mentioned, will end in Season 5...one of the things we’ve been saying is that when you go past five years, you have to shake things up and you have to change things around and I think telling a flashback story in five years was always our game, and I’m just excited that we’re sticking to it and I’m excited that it’s a chance to really open the show up next year. One of the things we love doing are those non-island flashbacks stories. We really have always enjoyed them and the fact that we’ll have the room and space to do them, again not every episode but as often as we want to is really enticing."

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The series has found its feet again last year after an uneven fourth season, introducing a new supporting cast of heroes and villains. And really, nobody could have ever guessed that we'd end up with at least six seasons of a Green Arrow TV series, right?

We'll update this with more ArrowSeason 6 news as it becomes available.