Supergirl - TV series

[MDY]

CBS have confirmed that Whiplash star Melissa Benoist will play Supergirl in the upcoming TV series of the same name. Other credits include Homeland and The Good Wife, but like The Flash's Grant Gustin, Benoist is pehaps best known for the popular singalong series Glee. In Supergirl, she will play Kara Zor-El, who escaped her home planet of Krypton amid its destruction years ago. Since arriving on Earth, she has concealed 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.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=114043

Despite the show not being on the CW, they do share the same producer Greg Berlanti.

CBS is still partially owned by Warner and while we're not likely to see them until this new series has established itself, Berlanti has had it written into his contract that crossovers with both Flash and Arrow will be possible..

[Salsa Party Animal]

Sound good. Hope she is good as Helen Slater.

[SeanR]

odd photos...

[Salsa Party Animal]

and should Supergirl be a blonde ? Not sure what the comic books version look like.

[Nick R]

She's bald in the comics, Legendary.

[Vespa Alex]

Interesting. She was decent enough in Glee.

[MDY]

odd photos...

There aren't any publicity shots yet - she posted about getting her hair colour changed on twitter.. she's a brunette in all other pics of her..

[JohnC]

Mehcad Brooks to play Jimmy Olsen.

[SeanR]

how's he look in a bow tie?

[gooner4life]

great choice, I like him as an actor.

[Harsin]

I never realised that was Meh's full name.

[JohnC]

Dean Cain and Helen Slater will appear in guest roles, which are being kept secret.

[jon_cybernet]

Her parents, surely?

[MDY]

http://tvline.com/2015/02/26/chyler-leigh-supergirl-cast-karas-sister-alex/

Homeland's David Harewood cast as Hank Henshaw and Grey's Anatomy's Chyler Leigh as Kara's Sister Alex

Arrow and Flash director Glen Winters to direct the pilot

https://twitter.com/glen__winter/status/571159140975964161

[Halo]

The costume

[Scruff]

She's no Helen Slater

[Space Renegade Ulala]

Grey background, muted suit colours. What a surprise!

[Festoon]

She has quite a middle-age-y face in that shot.

[Lorfarius]

I wonder how long until we have the tights ripping episode.

[Monkeyboy]

These costumes always look like they need a good 40 degree wash.

[MDY]

I kinda wish they tried something along these lines rather than the traditional outfit..

[Matt Defis]

It's the guys that did Arrow and Flash so I have faith in them.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

I kinda wish they tried something along these lines rather than the traditional outfit..

That second one's nice but it's basically Captain Marvel's suit minus the sash so there's no way they could use it.

[Revival]

Those knee guard things are going to look really stupid in any scene where shes running around.

[Halo]

CBS has officially picked it up to series.

[MDY]

Should be a trailer out soon..

Wondering how she managed to pierce her ears..

[jon_cybernet]

Bounced her laser vision off a mirror into her ear lobes?

[MDY]

Or a kryptonite needle?

Though with kryptonian accelerated healing, her ear tissue should quickly close back and presumably crush whatever she was wearing there..

[Broker]

Her parents, surely?

Someone else has been cast as her Kryptonian mother, and you'd assume any adoptive Earth parents wouldn't be guest roles. Maybe Jor-El and Lara?

[Halo]

Extended trailer (warning: spoils the entire pilot):