It’ll be a while until The CW announces a premiere date, but we can make an educated guess in the meantime.
Season finale cliffhangers can often be cruel, but the one The Flash left fans with at the end of season 3 was a doozy. In order to save Central City and perhaps all of Earth-1 from being torn apart by an unbalanced Speed Force, Barry Allen willingly sacrificed his life and went into the extradimensional energy source, apparently for good.
Well, probably not for good, even though the Speed Force itself said via Barry’s mom that his “race is over.”
In any case, it’s going to be a few months until we find out exactly what the new status quo of Team Flash will be without its former leading man, and whether Cisco Ramon, Wally West and the others can fight the good fight without him. When, exactly, might The Flash season 4 debut this fall?
Only The CW knows for sure at the moment, but we can make speculate with a fair amount of certainty based on when the previous three seasons had their premieres:
- The Flash season 1 premiere: October 7, 2014
- The Flash season 2 premiere: October 6, 2015
- The Flash season 3 premiere: October 4, 2016
That first Tuesday of October seems to be almost a lock. If history repeats itself then, The Flash season 4 premiere is likely to speed onto our TVs on October 3, 2017.
We’ll hedge just a bit here by pointing out that there are five Tuesdays in October this year. Not sure if that makes any difference, but if it does, then October 10 would be our second guess for the premiere date.
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Anything else would rank as a mild upset. The CW has a good thing going with its highest rated show and there’s no real need to make a drastic change. That gives us a little more than four months to debate what might happen with Team Flash, and we’ll be doing plenty of that all summer long.