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The CW's Supergirl is casting a transgender character who will play a significant role in the DC Comics-based show's upcoming fourth season, ComicBook.com has learned from multiple sources. This news originates in a casting notice for a character called “Nia Nal,” described as a transgender woman in her early 20s. The character is being cast with open ethnicity, meaning that they do not have a specific ethnic background in mind. She may be positioned to take over the newsroom, as she comes in with a strong journalism background a la Snapper Carr and is described as a “young Cat Grant...

Where there’s a will, there’s… The Ray: Quantico and Looking vet Russell Tovey has been tapped to play gay superhero The Ray in The CW’s four-part Arrow-verse crossover, TVLine has learned. What’s more, Tovey will also voice the role of The Ray in CW Seed’s forthcoming animated series Freedom Fighters: The Ray. The official character description for The Ray is as follows: Raymond “Ray” Terrill was a reporter who discovered a group of government scientists working on a secret project to turn light into a weapon of mass destruction. But before he could report on his findings, the project head...

Supergirl | Welcome to Earth Trailer | The CW President Olivia Marsdin (Lynda Carter) will try to convince Hank Henshaw (David Harewood) to support her alien amnesty act in Season 2, episode 3 of “Supergirl.” In a sneak peek for the upcoming episode, titled “Welcome to Earth,” President Marsdin tells Hank that it is high time for her alien amnesty act to be enacted into law — an idea that the director of the D.E.O. doesn’t really approve. “I’m surprised now that your true identity is known to the world, you don’t live openly as your Martian self,” the President tells Hank in the...

Supergirl is putting a fresh (ahem) spin on the stunt-casting trope. The now-CW drama has tapped erstwhile Wonder Woman Lynda Carter to recur in Season 2 as the President of the United States, TVLine has learned. Last March, Supergirl EP Greg Berlanti revealed that he tried — and failed — to lasso Carter for a Season 1 guest stint, telling reporters he had a “perfect role” in mind for the TV icon, but they “couldn’t work out her schedule.” He called it the “biggest disappointment for me this entire season.” Berlanti later confirmed that the role was the “female president of the United States.”...

In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, CBS has pulled episodes of "Supergirl" and "NCIS: Los Angeles" that been scheduled for Monday night. Terrorism figured in the plots of both episodes, though the network did not address that or the Paris attacks in its statement. Both episodes will be replaced. It is has not yet been determined when the postponed episodes will be broadcast.

EXCERPT Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush had an awkward response Wednesday during a Q&A at the Libre Forum in Las Vegas when he was asked to name his favorite superhero. The answer: Batman. The addendum no one asked for: Bush has eyes for "Supergirl" star Melissa Benoist. "I saw that "Supergirl" is on TV,” Bush, the former Florida governor, said at the event, sponsored by the Koch brothers-backed Libre Initiative. “I saw it when I was working out this morning. There's an ad promoting ‘Supergirl.’ She looked kind of -- she looked pretty hot."

Following the release of what became the most watched trailer of this past month’s upfronts, CBS CBS -0.36% was running on a major high to the fact that it may have finally grasped the millennial market in a way it’s typically not known for thanks to the help of Supergirl. Unfortunately, that excitement may now be short lived as many fans awoke this morning to find the pilot of the series had leaked online through a variety torrent sites in a high-def, 1080p format. However, the high quality nature of the file is making some question the validity of the...

CBS' eagerly awaited new show starring Melissa Benoist as the DC Comics character comes weighted with significance. CBS' Supergirl shouldn't have to be a feminist landmark, but it is. In a cultural moment in which we're so far past superhero saturation that a greasy layer of superhero residue seems to be building up on every medium, Marvel still gets gloaty that by tacking the words "and the Wasp" onto an Ant-Man sequel, it had its first Marvel Studios release named after its heroine. On the small screen, Marvel is doing a bit better with Agent Carter getting her own titled listing and with Jessica Jones on...

It's not a bird. It's not a plane. It's not a man. It's Supergirl. In the new drama from the world of DC Comics, Superman's cousin, Kara Zor-El, embraces her superhuman abilities and becomes the hero she was always meant to be. This Fall on CBS. Learn more at CBS.com: http://bit.ly/1A0NsOr

Last week, we learned about a man possessed of a bold and praiseworthy vision. DC Comics editor Matt Idelson. The pronouncement he issued ... "I never want to see Supergirl's panties again." And with that, the character of Supergirl ... started wearing red shorts under her skirt. 1. The decision suggests that superhero comics may at long last stand ready to evolve beyond the adolescent objectification of the female form in which they have so gleefully wallowed for long decades; and 2. Supergirl flies, duh. She hovers over people's heads. In a skirt. As the girl-wonder folks note, when Supergirl...