Katie Cassidy ‘Officially’ Back as Series Regular on ‘ARROW’

The folks at the CW really angered the ‘Arrow’ fan base by killing off Katie Cassidy’s character, ‘Black Canary‘ last season, and the fans have shown that by how the ratings for the show have been down all this year. Now, it looks like Katie Cassidy is coming back as a series regular on Arrow, and hopefully it will be just the trick to draw in a lot more viewers heading into the series upcoming 6th season. Check out more details on this below and share your thoughts AFTER THE JUMP. Arrow airs Wednesday evenings at 7pm Central on the CW.

The CW and Warner Bros. Television announced today that Katie Cassidy will return to Arrow as the Black Siren for episodes #522 and #523 this season, and then continue in the same role as a series regular for Season Six.

Black Siren is Laurel’s evil Earth-2 counterpart. Cassidy has played this far edgier doppelganger twice before — the first time on The Flash last season and the second earlier this year on Arrow.

Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim says, “One of the things that most excites us about Arrow is that we go where the story takes us. Last year, the story took us to the tragic death of Laurel Lance. This year, our midseason finale reintroduced us to Laurel’s doppelgänger, Black Siren. We were so taken by Katie’s fearless interpretation of this character that we knew her story was not yet finished. We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome Katie back to Arrow as Black Siren, though as her appearances on Arrow and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow this season show, she never really left the family.”