Well let’s add Supergirl to DC’s assault on the TV platform. It’s a bit of a surprise to find out that the proposed Supergirl series from Greg Berlanti and Ali Adler, which we found out was in development only a few weeks ago, has landed at CBS of all places, a network whose demographic skews much older for a comic book based drama.
CBS is the only major broadcast network that currently does not have its own comic book based show on its roster, so the Tiffany Network may have hit the bidding war hard for a show with a strong female lead and wears one of the most recognizable symbols in the world.
Here is what Deadline has regarding the show’s preliminary concept:
Superman’s cousin, Kara Zor-El, who shares his super powers and vulnerability to Kryptonite. Unlike WBTV’s long-running Superman series Smallville, which focused on the superhero’s 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, she’s 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.
The show is not shying away from Kara’s Kryptonian heritage or her ties to Superman. There was speculation that the producers would downplay the character’s link to her classic DC Comics origins, but at this point there doesn’t seem to be any concern on their part in confusing characters that appear on the big screen and connections to ones that are on television, or rather that they do not have a shared continuity.
So if we’re keeping score, DC and Warner Bros. Television now have Arrow, The Flash, Gotham, and Constantine on the air or on deck. Plus a Teen Titans live action reboot series is on the fast track for TNT. And at this point, it’s anyone’s guess if WB TV has any kind of master plan of sharing a continuity among any of their properties, which looks less likely as each series finds a home on a competing network. So we’ll have to be content with what Arrow and The Flash have in store for cross-overs on The CW.
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