2015 TV News Archives

October 26, 2015: "Supergirl" Premieres Tonight

Supergirl As fans count down the minutes until the premiere of the "Supergirl" TV series on CBS, here are a number of articles and interviews you might like to check out.

Voices From Krypton spoke to Melissa Benoist and executive producers Ali Adler and Andrew Kreisberg about the show:

Parade.com spoke with executive producers Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler and Andrew Kreisberg:

    Ali Adler: I think something that separates Superman from Supergirl is he is autonomous. He flies in Metropolis by himself. Episode 2 of Supergirl is titled: Stronger Together. It really is not just about a woman that is more readily able to accept help, but Kara really embracing that and getting that help from her sister, Hank and other forces at CatCo.

IGN.com also spoke with the executive producers about "Supergirl":

    IGN: Superman does exist in this world and we're going to be meeting people that are pretty closely connected to him so do you have to do a balancing act of how much you can reference him without showing him?

    Berlanti: We do an episode specifically about why he isn't here every week because we wanted to take that kind of conversation off the table to a certain extent. But also, I think what we try to do is - we compared it to Veep when we brought the pitch [for the show] out. At the beginning, you're sort of like "Where's the president?" but by episode four or five you don't even want to see him. That's the hope, that these character take on a life of their own and have their own show.

    Kreisberg: And those characters on the show are representative of the audience, who are all familiar with Superman. I'm surprised by how many people, when I say, "I work on Supergirl", they don't even know who she is or don't even realize they're cousins. So in a lot of ways, the characters on the show who do know Superman are speaking for the audience and watching them fall in love with her and them side with her, hopefully the audience will follow suit.

Meanwhile, DC All Access has their own video highlighting "Supergirl" ahead of the premiere:

AFTER THE PILOT: Melissa Benoist will be appearing as a special guest on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" tonight, Monday, October 26, immediately after the premiere of "Supergirl" on CBS.



2015 Television News

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