10 Things You Need To Know About The Supergirl TV Show
10. It's A Police Procedural
Sigh, yes, let's get the bad news out of the way first. Supergirl will be airing on CBS, which is the network which has brought you such diverse programming as Cold Case, Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, NCIS and The Mentalist, CIS, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY, and CSI: Cyber. You don't get a show on this channel without it being a police procedural unless it's a sitcom. And given the state of the last semi-high-profile superhero sitcom, nobody wants that. So the set up of Supergirl will involve the character's classic comic book origin, and Kara Zor-El will be spending at least part of her time in a costume complete with S-shield and cape. But most of the time, she'll be solving crimes the old fashioned way. The premise of the Supergirl series is that she gets enlisted by a super-secret agency where her sister also works...to help them protect the citizens of National City from sinister threats. So she's essentially a deputised secret agent who solves crimes. She'll be putting on her costume to scrap with people when the budget can allow it, but expect lots of clue-piecing and the like too.
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