Stephen Amell Reveals Arrow Season 6 Premiere Date

The summer may provide a long wait for Arrow fans looking forward to Season 6, but the end is finally in sight. Star Stephen Amell has just unveiled the show’s next premiere date.

Amell took to Twitter on Thursday afternoon, announcing that the series would return for its sixth season on October 12th at 9 pm.

This is a bit of a departure for what fans are used to, as Arrow has always been Wednesday nights. The move to Thursdays is part of a change to the entire CW schedule.

Amell also used the tweet to joke about the freedoms that the show could enjoy, now that it was moved to an hour later. He made the comment that the 9 pm time could help them get “at least one bare bum shown on tv.”

The fifth season of Arrow is currently streaming on Netflix, along with the newest seasons of Supergirl, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow.

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In Season Five, newly appointed Mayor Oliver Queen finds himself challenged as he fights on two fronts for the future of Star City. With his right hand, John Diggle, back in the military and his sister Thea adamant about hanging up her vigilante hood as Speedy, Team Green Arrow is down to just Oliver and Felicity – but they’re no longer the only vigilantes in town. Green Arrow‘s public defeat of Damien Darhk at the end of Season Four has inspired a new crop of masked heroes to step up and defend the city, though their painful inexperience makes them obstacles rather than allies in the field. The arrival of a deadly new adversary will force Oliver to confront questions about his own legacy, both as mayor and as the Green Arrow.

Arrow stars Stephen Amell (Private Practice), David Ramsey (Blue Bloods, Dexter), Willa Holland (The O.C.), Emily Bett Rickards (Brooklyn), Echo Kellum (Sean Saves The World), with Josh Segarra (Sirens, Chicago P.D.) and Paul Blackthorne (The River). Based on the characters from DC, Arrow is produced by Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (The Flash, Supergirl, Blindspot), Marc Guggenheim (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), Andrew Kreisberg (The Flash, Supergirl), Wendy Mericle (Desperate Housewives) and Sarah Schechter (The Flash, Supergirl,Blindspot).