'Constantine' Premiere Date Announced; DC's Mage Arrives In October

The new Constantine show, featuring DC's grim and sometimes grounded British magician John Constantine, has been the subject of much discussion since it was first announced. David Goyer is spearheading the show, which features Matt Ryan as the lead character. The trailer turned a lot of heads, and public perception of the show took a new turn. Could it be good? It looks like it goes all out with magical elements, at least, but we didn't have a Constantine premiere date.

Now it seems like the show's broadcast home, NBC, is treating it like something fit for the Halloween season. The show won't premiere along with NBC's other stuff right at the beginning of the fall season, but will be held back for a few weeks.

EW has new broadcast premiere dates for the NBC fall season, and we won't see Constantine until the week before Halloween. Constantine premieres Friday October 24, at 10pm.

Based on the wildly popular comic book series "Hellblazer" from DC Comics, seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult John Constantine specializes in giving hell... hell. Armed with a ferocious knowledge of the dark arts and his wickedly naughty wit, he fights the good fight – or at least he did. With his soul already damned to hell, he's decided to leave his do-gooder life behind. But when demons target Liv, the daughter of one of Constantine's oldest friends, he's reluctantly thrust back into the fray – and he'll do whatever it takes to save her. Before long, it's revealed that Liv's "second sight," an ability to see the worlds behind our world and predict supernatural occurrences, is a threat to a mysterious new evil that's rising in the shadows. And now it's not just Liv who needs protection; the angels are starting to get worried too. So, together, Constantine and Liv must use her power and his skills to travel the country, find the demons that threaten our world – and send them back where they belong. After that, who knows... maybe there's hope for him and his soul after all.