Riverdale fans aren’t the only ones rejoicing the news that The CW is committing to a third season of the popular dark take on the Archie comic book characters.
On Tuesday, the television network announced that six of the shows that film in Vancouver will get another year of life.
Riverdale (season three), Arrow (season seven), The Flash (season five), DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (season four), Supergirl (season four), and Supernatural (season 14) have all been renewed.
Order another round of milkshakes! #Riverdale is renewed for Season 3 on The CW! pic.twitter.com/lk5K1gKpOf
— Riverdale (@CW_Riverdale) April 2, 2018
This means a busy year ahead for Vancouver-based crews as well thanks in large part because of producer Greg Berlanti’s love of the city.
“They wouldn’t be as good if they left,” Berlanti recently told the Globe and Mail. “I just think that the DNA of these shows was built in this place. There’s a reservoir of talent that’s behind the camera, of women and men, on these shows that have helped build this. I wouldn’t do that to them.”
Berlanti is behind four of the six shows — Arrow, Legends, Supergirl and Riverdale — and discovered how much he likes filming here when he arrived for the Arrow pilot in 2012.
Fans of all the shows have enjoyed spotting various locales in the series, especially Riverdale. The high school scenes have been shot at a variety of Vancouver secondary schools including Lord Byng, which stands in for the exterior of Riverdale High, John Oliver, Point Grey and Burnaby Mountain. The house where Archie and his father live is on East 3rd Avenue while Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe café is in the parking lot of the Langley studio. Langley is also the site of the Blossom Mansion, aka the Copper Stone Mansion.
The news comes as Once Upon a Time wrapped up filming its last season in Steveston on Good Friday.
