The CW’s Superman & Lois is coming off The CW schedule temporarily after being impact by COVID-19. The show will take a break after its fifth episode and will return for new episodes and to finish up the season on May 18. Meanwhile, Supergirl, will premiere its sixth and final season on Tuesday March 30 in that same timeslot.
The CW announced Tuesday that its Melissa Benoist-led Arrow spinoff Supergirl will conclude with its upcoming sixth season. The final season, which is slated to return to production later this month in Vancouver, will consist of 20 episodes and premiere in 2021.
The CW’s Supergirl had the highest ad viewability score during May, according to research company TVision. Viewability is opportunity to view, defined as someone who was in the room for two or more seconds. Commercials in Supergirl were most likely to be seen, enhancing the value of the show to advertisers.
The CW on Thursday went on something of a renewal tear, picking up additional seasons of 10 current series — aka nearly its entire lineup. The list of shows confirmed to return for the 2019-20 TV season includes The Flash, Arrow, Riverdale, Supernatural, Supergirl, Black Lightning and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Freshman entries Charmed and Legacies also scored renewals, as did (wait for it) perpetual cellar-dweller Dynasty.
Supergirl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow are going to be taking turns on The CW in 2018. Following the announcement that The CW’s new superhero entry Black Lightning would be displacing Legends on the midseason schedule, the network has revealed that Legends is moving to Monday nights at 8 p.m. ET in 2018.
Exclusives
The Flash and Supergirl producers Warner Bros. Television has cut all ties with Andrew Kreisberg following sexual harassment claims from multiple women involving the showrunner.
Warner Bros. TV Group has launched an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behavior by Andrew Kreisberg, an executive producer on The CW shows Arrow, Supergirl The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Kreisberg, who has been suspended by the studio, has engaged in a pattern of alleged sexual harassment and inappropriate physical contact over a period of years, according to 15 women and four men who have worked with him.
After weeks of rumor and speculation, the CBS-Warner Bros owned network confirmed they are picking up the DC comic book adaptation starring Melissa Benoist for a second season, after its freshman season ran on CBS.
CBS boss Leslie Moonves is deep in talks with Warner Bros. Television about the fate of its super-expensive comic-book series starring Melissa Benoist, which wrapped up a less-than-superlative first season last month. That has set the stage for a last-minute stare-down between Moonves and Warner Bros. TV chief Peter Roth. However, both sides have a potential out. Moonves could push Supergirl to The CW, a joint venture between CBS and Warners.
On Monday night, the title hero on The Flash will leap across networks, racing from his CW series to appear on CBS’s Supergirl.
The long-rumored crossover between CW’s The Flash and CBS’s Supergirl is officially a go, with Grant Gustin set to play speedster Barry Allen on an episode of the CBS superhero drama. Gustin will appear in the Supergirl episode set to air on Monday, March 28.
Supergirl is joining the rest of CBS’s new fall series in receiving a back episodic order. The network has given a seven-season pickup to the superhero drama, bringing its freshman run to 20 episodes, two shy of a full-season 22.
CBS is pulling previously scheduled terrorism-related episodes of Supergirl and NCIS: Los Angeles from its schedule Monday, following the devastating attacks in Paris.
CW Passed On CBS’s ‘Supergirl’
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Newcomer TV series “Supergirl” landed not at CW, home to fellow DC Comics series “Arrow” and “The Flash,” but at CBS. Why? Precisely because CW […]
Among a burgeoning slate of programs concerned with superheroes, Madison Avenue expects CBS’s Supergirl and Fox’s Gotham to duke it out Monday nights this fall for the audience most coveted by advertisers: young people who don’t skip past the commercials.
CBS has given its first new series pickup for the 2015-16 season to a drama series from exec producer Greg Berlanti and Warner Bros. TV that follows the distaff side of the Superman franchise. The series stars Melissa Benoist (Glee, Whiplash) as the title character. It marks the third DC Comics property that Berlanti’s WBTV-based shop has shepherded for TV, following the success of CW’s Arrow and The Flash. Another Flash spinoff is also in the works at CW.
