Yes, the worlds of Riverdale and Katy Keene will be colliding — before the spinoff even premieres.
Katy Keene star Lucy Hale will guest-star on an upcoming episode of Riverdale, slated to air Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 8/7c on The CW, a day ahead of the Katy Keene series premiere, E! News is reporting. In the crossover episode, Veronica will head to New York City for a college interview and check in with her old pal Katy… and also go on a shopping spree, natch.
“Before Katy Keene officially premieres, we all thought it would be super fun to do a crossover that took Veronica to Katy’s world — New York City — and established Katy in the Riverdale universe,” executive producers Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Michael Grassi said in a statement. “For our first Riverdale/Katy crossover, we couldn’t be more excited that it’s old friends Veronica and Katy — Cami and Lucy — having fun and heart-to-hearts!”
Aguirre-Sacasa also tweeted out a behind-the-scenes pic from the crossover episode:
The news is out! Veronica’s going to NYC and #Katykeene is coming to #Riverdale! So excited for our first #Archiverse crossover!! ❤️🎁💎📸✈️🎭🏆🔥👗👠🧶💃🏻👯♀️ pic.twitter.com/xXVMBTnltq
— RobertoAguirreSacasa (@WriterRAS) December 4, 2019
Katy Keene, starring Hale as the titular fashion designer, is a spinoff set five years after the events of Riverdale, with Ashleigh Murray reprising her role as aspiring singer Josie McCoy. And we already know Katy and Veronica are pals: Earlier this season on Riverdale, Veronica reached out to her fashionista friend to make Halloween superhero costumes for Archie and Munro.
Riverdale fans, are you keen to enter the glamorous world of Katy Keene? Drop your thoughts on the crossover news in a comment below.
It’s a shame Katy Keene looks so bad. The supporting characters just seem so cringey. I wish it was more about just Josie and Katy.
So that solves that. They’re not cousins.
Wish you would create a Katy Keene series that resembles the comic books of the past.
Any idea about what year the Katy Keene series takes place? I know it’s in the future, just not sure when.
Wait…what?..”Veronica goes for a college interview”. Really?!? Veronica was already accepted to Harvard, Yale, etc. in yesterday’s Riverdale.
And she declined the offer because she realized her dad was behind the acceptance, lol. Did you not watch the whole episode? :P
Yes, I did. But the show claimed that it was college acceptance time. If it were only “early decision”, then it might make sense. By the way the show portrayed it, it was more of the general acceptance time…
But, lol, Riverdale never abides by real time…
And the tvline.com recap said that Veronica decided to go to Yale. So, I’m not going crazy…lol. There is a continuity problem here…