CW TV shows this week 10/22 - 10/27

VAMPIRE DIARIES: Thursday 8.7C

THE RAGER

BORN TO BE WILD - Connor (guest star Todd Williams) continues his search to uncover the secrets of Mystic Falls and tries to convince Jeremy to work with him. With Dr. Fell’s (guest star Torrey DeVitto) help, Damon and Klaus question Connor, but the confrontation takes a lethal turn. Trying to keep her new life as normal as possible, Elena is determined to continue her senior year at Mystic Falls High with support from Matt and Caroline. Rebekah’s arrival at school makes it difficult for Elena to control her anger, but she learns that confronting Rebekah can be extremely dangerous. Later, Rebekah realizes how alone she is, and reaches out to April (guest star Grace Phillips). Stefan takes Elena on a thrilling motorcycle ride in an effort to show her that life can still be fun. Tyler gets a surprise visit from Hayley (guest star Phoebe Tonkin, “The Secret Circle”), a werewolf who helped him through the ordeal of breaking his sire-bond to Klaus. Concerned about Elena, as well as his own emotions, Stefan turns to a sympathetic Caroline for advice. Lance Anderson directed the episode written by Brian Young.

ARROW: Wednesday 8.7C

LONE GUNMAN:

DC COMICS' VILLAIN DEADSHOT SETS HIS SIGHTS ON ARROW — Oliver is surprised when someone shoots and kills one of his targets. As his plan is to bring people to justice vs. outright killing them, Oliver doesn't appreciate the help and searches for the gunman. He soon learns that the man, Deadshot (guest star Michael Rowe), is taking out businessmen who are scheduled to bid at an auction on an energy company and Walter is one of the bidders. Realizing he can’t protect his family and stop Deadshot at the same time, Oliver enlists Detective Lance's help, but his plan has dire consequences. Meanwhile, Laurel and Tommy get caught in an awkward situation with Oliver. Willa Holland, David Ramsey and Susanna Thompson also star. Guy Bee directed the episode with story by Greg Berlanti & Andrew Kreisberg and teleplay by Marc Guggenheim & Andrew Kreisberg.

GOSSIP GIRL: Monday 9.8C

DIRTY ROTTEN SCANDALS

TESTING RELATIONSHIPS / ALEXA CHUNG GUEST STARS - Feeling the pressure to make her first Waldorf Designs fashion show a success, Blair must rely on help from an unlikely source, but some unexpected scheming causes a scandal on the runway. Serena discovers that befriending Steven’s (guest star Barry Watson) daughter Sage (guest star Sofia Black-D’Elia) is trickier than she thought, especially when she is forced to put her issues with Blair aside to make Sage happy. Nate publishes Dan’s first serialized article causing a stir and producing a serious threat. Meanwhile, Chuck begins to look into the clue that Amira (guest star Andrea Gabriel) left behind, which may help uncover what Bart (guest star Robert John Burke) is hiding. Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle also star. Bart Wenrich directed the episode written by Natalie Krinsky.

NIKITA: Friday 9.8C

INNOCENCE

NIKITA TRIES TO HELP A TROUBLED GIRL BRAINWASHED BY A FORMER DIVISION AGENT - Nikita (Maggie Q), Michael (Shane West) and team extract a young girl named Liza (guest star Annalise Basso), who is being held captive by a rogue Division agent, Wade (guest star Chance Kelly). Wade has brainwashed Liza and trained her to be a Division agent to help him on his own personal mission. Nikita tries desperately to break through to Liza but, in a moment of chaos, the girl escapes Division. The team races to find her before she can complete her mission to unleash a bomb on a high value target. Meanwhile, Liza’s abduction brings up painful old memories for Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca). Aaron Stanford and Noah Bean also star.

Tonight on Gossip Girl: Will Blair's first fashion show end in scandal?

The final season of Gossip Girl is only 10 episodes long and we're already on episode 3! This means that instead of having several episodes with Blair (Leighton Meester) preparing for her first fashion show, it is happening this week. After last week's disaster with Blair's profile in WWD thanks to some terrible decisions by Blair, will the runway show fare any better? Spoilers ahead. 

Gossip Girl is all about the big events and with Blair at the helm you know that she will be in a control freak mood. We don't often see Blair asking for help but tonight you will see Blair reaching out to Serena (Blake Lively). Blair would like Serena to be her face of Waldorf Designs, a role that Serena doesn't want to take and it is clear that she wants nothing to do with her former BFF.

What Serena does want is to impress Sage (Sofia Black-D'Elia) and this fashion show looks like it will be Serena's way in to Sage's good books. It's bad news for Serena though, as at the end of last week Sage revealed to her friends (or minions perhaps) that she wants Serena out of her father's life. Serena decides to help Blair with her request after Sage tells Serena how much she wants to be Blair's 'It Girl.' This is all one big manipulation and it looks like Sage has some scandalous plans. Are you interested in Sage and her plans to mess with Serena or do you want them to focus more on Serena and Blair? The fashion show will feature some famous faces including Alexa Chung, who will be playing herself.

There is scandal beyond Blair's show as Nate (Chace Crawford) publishes the first part of Dan's (Penn Badgley) serialized article. This causes a huge stir as Nate is going with Dan's wishes of publishing full names. It also produces a serious threat, who is in danger? One storyline that I'm finding hard to get excited about is Chuck's (Ed Westwick) investigation into his father's past. This will continue tonight as Chuck tries to find out who the other person is in the photo that Amira (Andrea Gabriel) left him. How are you finding this story? 

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