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Supergirl (CBS)
Fall of 2015!
UPDATED WITH CAST LIST!
Starring:
Melissa Benoist - Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers/Supergirl
Mehcad Brooks - James "Jimmy" Olsen
Calista Flockhart - Cat Grant
Laura Benanti - Alura Zor-El (Kara's Kryptonion Mother)
David Harewood - Hank Henshaw
Chyler Leigh - Alexandra "Alex" Danvers
Dean Cain - "Mystery Role"
Helen Slater - "Mystery Role"
Executive producers
Greg Berlanti - (also a creator/producer for Arrow and The Flash)
Andrew Kreisberg - co-creator of Arrow and The Flash
Allison Adler - (Chuck, No Ordinary Family)
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I didn't see this one coming!!
Supergirl Drama From Greg Berlanti & Ali Adler Lands CBS Series Commitment
Fall of 2015!
UPDATED WITH CAST LIST!
Starring:
Melissa Benoist - Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers/Supergirl
Mehcad Brooks - James "Jimmy" Olsen
Calista Flockhart - Cat Grant
Laura Benanti - Alura Zor-El (Kara's Kryptonion Mother)
David Harewood - Hank Henshaw
Chyler Leigh - Alexandra "Alex" Danvers
Dean Cain - "Mystery Role"
Helen Slater - "Mystery Role"
Executive producers
Greg Berlanti - (also a creator/producer for Arrow and The Flash)
Andrew Kreisberg - co-creator of Arrow and The Flash
Allison Adler - (Chuck, No Ordinary Family)
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I didn't see this one coming!!
Supergirl Drama From Greg Berlanti & Ali Adler Lands CBS Series Commitment
Supergirl Drama From Greg Berlanti & Ali Adler Lands CBS Series Commitment
Supergirl, Greg Berlanti and Ali Adlers drama based on the DC female superhero, has landed at CBS with a series commitment. The deal closed last night, a day after the project was taken out to the broadcast networks on Wednesday. I hear the size of commitment eclipses the series commitment DC Batman drama Gotham got at Fox last fall. Warner Bros. TV is producing with studio-based Berlanti Prods.
The Supergirl character was created by writer Otto Binder and designed by artist Al Plastino in 1959. Of the several women who have assumed the caped girl persona in the comics, the Berlanti-Adler series will feature the most popular one: Supermans cousin, Kara Zor-El, who shares his super powers and vulnerability to Kryptonite. Unlike WBTVs long-running Superman series Smallville, which focused on the superheros journey up to acquiring the powers and becoming Superman, Supergirl starts with Kara beginning to use her abilities.
Born on the planet Krypton, Kara Zor-El escaped amid its destruction years ago. Since arriving on Earth, shes been hiding the powers she shares with her famous cousin. But now at age 24, she decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be. Berlanti and Adler will write the script and executive produce with Berlanti Prods. Sarah Schechter. Also closely involved in the development of the project has been DC Entertainments chief creative officer Geoff Johns.
CBS may look as a surprising home for a younger-skewing superhero drama, it was the only broadcast network without a comic book series. Additionally, CBS has been making a push in female-lead dramas with Extant, Madam Secretary and CSI: Cyber joining staple The Good Wife.
There will be five DC/WBTV series on the air this coming season: Gotham on Fox, the CWs Arrow, The Flash and iZombie on the CW, and Constantine on NBC. With the Supergirl deal, WBTV has successfully targeted every available broadcast network as ABC is considered off-limits because of its corporate ties with Marvel, producer of its series Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter.
Supergirl expands Berlantis superhero series footprint. He also is behind popular CW drama Arrow and its upcoming offshoot The Flash. Additionally, Berlanti has new NBC crime dramedy The Mysteries Of Laura, which opened well on Wednesday.
This marks Berlantis second high-profile sale to CBS this year, along with supernatural procedural The Things They Left Behind, which has a put pilot commitment. His company also has conspiracy thriller Blindspot set at NBC.
Adler, who previously worked with Berlanti on his superhero-themed ABC drama No Ordinary Family, co-created the NBC comedy The New Normal. She and Berlanti are repped by WME.
There has been a push to get more female superhero characters in comic books and on the big and small screens. Marvel has a Jessica Jones series in pre-production at Netflix.
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