SUPERGIRL Headed to The CW for Season 2

By: May. 12, 2016
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Following weeks of speculation, The CW has officially picked up SUPERGIRL from CBS, giving the Greg Berlanti-created series a second season, according to Deadline.

With high costs and mid-level ratings, the series, starring Melissa Benoist and Jeremy Jordan, was on the bubble at CBS for most of the spring. Production will move to Vancouver from Los Angeles to cut costs, where the rest of Berlanti's CW series, including THE FLASH, ARROW, DC's LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, are currently shot.

CBS and Warner Bros. co-own The CW.

The cast also features Calista Flockhart, Chyler Leigh, Mehcad Brooks, David Harewood, and Tony winner Laura Benanti

About SUPERGIRL:

SUPERGIRL is an action-adventure drama based on the DC Comics character Kara Zor-El, Superman's (Kal-El) cousin who, after 12 years of keeping her powers a secret on Earth, decides to finally embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be. Twelve-year-old Kara escaped the doomed planet Krypton with her parents' help at the same time as the infant Kal-El. Protected and raised on Earth by her foster family, the Danvers, Kara grew up in the shadow of her foster sister, Alex, and learned to conceal the phenomenal powers she shares with her famous cousin in order to keep her identity a secret. Years later at 24, Kara lives in National City assisting media mogul and fierce taskmaster Cat Grant. She works alongside her friend and IT technician Winn Schott and famous photographer James Olsen, who Grant just hired away from the Daily Planet to serve as her new art director. However, Kara's days of keeping her talents a secret are over when Hank Henshaw, head of a super-secret agency where her sister also works, enlists her to help them protect the citizens of National City from sinister threats. Though Kara will need to find a way to manage her newfound empowerment with her very human relationships, her heart soars as she takes to the skies as SUPERGIRL to fight crime.



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