News and Notes

Entertainment Weekly is reporting Alex Kingston will join Arrow as Laurel’s (Katie Cassidy) mother Dinah Lance, who in DC Continuity was the Golden & Silver Age Black Canary. Kingston’s addition makes the second former Doctor Who companion to join the show in a recurring role (joining John Barrowman as the elder Merlyn)

Comic Book Resources has a first look at The Shadow: Year One and interview with writer Matt Wagner about his take on the classic character

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that CBS has greenlit the Pilot for a new Beverly Hills Cop television show starring Brandon T. Jackson as Axel Foley’s son Aaron, a cop in Beverly Hills trying to escape his father’s shadow. Eddie Murphy, who is set to produce, would make guest-appearances over the course of the series