Spoilers Supergirl - Season 2
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I believe even its lowest ratings were at least twice the numbers The Flash, the CW's highest rated show, usually gets. it will be interesting how much of its core audience it will hold in the move? I wonder if CW will kept in on the same night and time slot? otherwise the best option is following the Flash.
I think The CW's Tuesday and Wednesday lineups are a "lock", so I don't think Supergirl will supplant iZombie or Supernatural.
The best bet for the show, IMO, is Mondays at 8/7 c (the same timeslot it had on CBS) with either Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jane the Virgin, or Reign as its follow-up.
The best bet for the show, IMO, is Mondays at 8/7 c (the same timeslot it had on CBS) with either Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jane the Virgin, or Reign as its follow-up.
If it keeps similar ratings it should be the no.1 or 2 show on the network.
Flash is CW's top rated show by a wide margin, with a 1.3-1.4 rating which is about what Supergirl does.
The only other show that gets close to it is Arrow with a little under a 1.0 average rating.
All the other shows average a 0.7 or lower.
I Hope it keeps its old time slot as as well.
I have been complaining all season about how CBS never had promos of when the show would return when weeks of breaks began. Glad that is over with! The CW always gives some type of promo and return date. Even when new episodes are a month away. It will be much easier to hold stable ratings.
Even before the network change was announced it was rumored CW would rerun season 1 during the summer. I hope they do. if not every episode, - key, important ones.
I have been complaining all season about how CBS never had promos of when the show would return when weeks of breaks began. Glad that is over with! The CW always gives some type of promo and return date. Even when new episodes are a month away. It will be much easier to hold stable ratings.
Even before the network change was announced it was rumored CW would rerun season 1 during the summer. I hope they do. if not every episode, - key, important ones.
I wonder if the move to The CW in the US might trigger a re-alignment in Canada.
Season 1 of Supergirl aired on Global, whereas the three Arrow-verse shows are over on rival network CTV. If Global decide to retain Supergirl, things might get awkward if the plan is to increase the level of crossover material between it and its new CW stablemates.
Season 1 of Supergirl aired on Global, whereas the three Arrow-verse shows are over on rival network CTV. If Global decide to retain Supergirl, things might get awkward if the plan is to increase the level of crossover material between it and its new CW stablemates.
no sure how much the CW would care - while overseas sales are beneficial I think it's the U.S audience that matters and most and if they get a ratings boast from a crossver they'll do it.
I'm not sure if "overseas" is an appropriate term for the country where the shows themselves are being made. ("Overland", maybe?)
But in any case, my question was less about what, if anything, CBS and/or The CW might oblige its licencees to do, and more about what kind of response there might be among the Canadian broadcasters involved. As in, would Global decide that they would rather hold on to the show despite the change in American broadcaster, or if CTV might be more inclined to go for it instead.
But then, CTV currently air Gotham in Supergirl's (former?) time slot, so it may depend on what times and days The CW decide to place the show in when the time comes. (Not that this has stopped Canadian broadcasters from mixing things around with other shows, but it would appear that they prefer to broadcast simultaneously with the U.S. broadcast if possible.)
But in any case, my question was less about what, if anything, CBS and/or The CW might oblige its licencees to do, and more about what kind of response there might be among the Canadian broadcasters involved. As in, would Global decide that they would rather hold on to the show despite the change in American broadcaster, or if CTV might be more inclined to go for it instead.
But then, CTV currently air Gotham in Supergirl's (former?) time slot, so it may depend on what times and days The CW decide to place the show in when the time comes. (Not that this has stopped Canadian broadcasters from mixing things around with other shows, but it would appear that they prefer to broadcast simultaneously with the U.S. broadcast if possible.)
Well those are some pretty friggin big lakes between the two on one part of the border
It is the studio that owns the shows, that sells them to broadcasters outside the US. The US network that orders the show has no say in where it airs beyond it's borders. The studio may include terms dictating that it not be scheduled or air prior to it's US debut.
So the change in networks here, will have no bearing on the Canadian network that already has it under license there.
Good point.
From the SG side, it would seem some are dissatisfied with SG as she exists in her show, and in order to cater to geek dreams of her being firmly a part of the other series (alone--without the things they dislike about her own show), they want the producers to create another version, or whatever. Pointless.
I agree that keeping Supergirl in its current time slot would make sense. That would give The CW a Berlanti-made DC show at 8 PM on every weeknight except Friday. Hey, anyone up for a Vixen series?
Or here's a thought: Maybe there's room for a spinoff show in the Supergirl universe. So far, though, they haven't introduced many characters who could potentially support a spinoff. Maybe a solo Martian Manhunter series could work, but I like having J'onn as part of the SG cast. I suppose they could introduce the Cadmus Superboy clone, probably played by that kid who played young Kal-El, as some have proposed. (I'd thought that he'd be too young for that, but I recently read the new collected trade-paperback set of the whole Death-and-Rebirth-of-Superman narrative, and Don't-Call-Me-Superboy was more boyish than I'd realized.) Or how about a Steel series?
Or here's a thought: Maybe there's room for a spinoff show in the Supergirl universe. So far, though, they haven't introduced many characters who could potentially support a spinoff. Maybe a solo Martian Manhunter series could work, but I like having J'onn as part of the SG cast. I suppose they could introduce the Cadmus Superboy clone, probably played by that kid who played young Kal-El, as some have proposed. (I'd thought that he'd be too young for that, but I recently read the new collected trade-paperback set of the whole Death-and-Rebirth-of-Superman narrative, and Don't-Call-Me-Superboy was more boyish than I'd realized.) Or how about a Steel series?
Since aliens are the big thing on Earth-SG, I want an Adam Strange series. Perhaps Supergirl is somewhere with Archaeologist Dr. Adam Strange, and they are struck by a Zeta beam and end up on Rann. SG and Adam solve the problem of the week and SG goes home, and Adam stays behind. He's warned the zeta radiation will wear off sometime and send him home. They just don't know when.
Creating Rann every week would probably be expensive but I think it would be fun.
Creating Rann every week would probably be expensive but I think it would be fun.
(And Superman in the distance trying to turn back time...Only if we get an awesome shot of Kara and J'onn in space, watching as two Earth are on top of each other, slightly out of phase from each other.
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What needs to be merged are the Supergirl threads...do we really need two active at the same time discussing the same things?
^ The other one will die off as we leave season 1 behind.
Yeah those moments definitely stood out, but I'm not sure it made the show as a whole feel especially deep or substantive. And the overall tone was still an awfully cute and light and fluffy one for the most part.
That may have been something I was really fond of early on, with how much it reminded me of Lois & Clark back in the day. But as the season went on it started to wear thin a bit and I found myself wishing more and more that it had the edgier characters and scarier villains of Flash. And in fact I think putting Kara into that kind of world would make her bright and optimistic spirit stand out even more.
The issue of where to put SG.
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/...-s-How-The-CW-Plans-to-Keep-Flash-7463080.php
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/...-s-How-The-CW-Plans-to-Keep-Flash-7463080.php
Again, I reject the assumption that lightness is incompatible with intelligence and substance. It's just that darkness and grittiness are fashionable these days, and people tend to mistake fashionability for quality. Light vs. dark is a matter of style, of presentation. Any idea can be presented in more than one way. A complex, thought-provoking idea can be conveyed in an upbeat, cheerful narrative, and a grim, angsty narrative can be shallow and cliched. Surface shouldn't be mistaken for substance.
If anything, since we live in a time where pessimism tends to be the unthinking default, I think it's more intelligent and thoughtful to assert an optimistic viewpoint and to demonstrate why it is valuable. That's what Star Trek did in the '60s, offering a ray of hope for the future in a time when the present seemed hopeless, and that was what made it important and powerful. We live in a time where a major political party has effectively nominated a candidate whose entire campaign is based on exploiting fear and hatred and anger. So a show that urges us to reject fear and hatred and to remember that there is power in hope and compassion is not mere disposable fluff -- it's one of the most politically and socially relevant statements on the airwaves at this point.
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