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I'm legit surprised to learn this wasn't on the CW to begin with.
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Report: CBS Considering Dropping Supergirl Over Budget Issues
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BronsonLee
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No big loss, watched 2 episodes and the storyline is just trash.
Let me rescue you from a crashing helicopter, oh no a lightning strikes the chopper and now you have superpowers too and you're after supergirl now. Or here fight this army battle prototype robot, oh no now he disappeared and has a will of his own ._.
Let me rescue you from a crashing helicopter, oh no a lightning strikes the chopper and now you have superpowers too and you're after supergirl now. Or here fight this army battle prototype robot, oh no now he disappeared and has a will of his own ._.
Just like, if we're going to talk in hyperboles without any context, you all get nothing!!!!!
(Also, for what it's worth, I think they will renew Supergirl with a lower budget that comes from somewhere)
Bobby Roberts
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Which do you think is more likely? A lower budget or just a smaller episode run at the same level?
Strife In a Teacup
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Or do a Crisis on Infinite Earths thing and during that event Cat Grant changes into Susanna Thompson (Moira Queen).
BronsonLee
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Bingo, I haven't watched all of Supergirl but she stands out like a sonofabitch
Just fill the hole, hole filler! /GhostStories
Sibersk Esto
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I'm thinking it gets cancelled.
They wouldn't do smaller runs at the same budget. That's not how broadcast television really works because then the network would make less $ per season while also paying the same amount.
My guess is that they renew it with a smaller budget, though I don't know if CBS has any hot Warner Bros. pilots this year that CBS would really want that Warner could use as leverage. But my guess is that they don't need to and Supergirl will come back.
As of now, the only freshman show they're definitely going to bring back is Life in Pieces. They will bring back at least two more, most likely Supergirl and something else.
That's my exact reaction. But you know what? Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. could've used that sort of money to at least get me to watch it past the first two or so episodes. So... maybe they were trying to make it look like a movie? IDK.
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As they should. Or they should go the Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. route and have it be street-level heros, but S.H.E.I.L.D. failed (IMO) because it tried to bite more than it could chew in budget in having super-powered folks instead of just S.H.E.I.L.D. agents that acted like Black Widow in combat.
S.H.E.I.L.D.!
I feel like renewing the show is in their best interest for stuff like the CBS streaming service and having just recently established being in the Flarrow universe?
there's so much they can do to boost the ratings, (oh hi Matt Bomer as Superman) too that it would seem stupid to not at least give it one more year.
there's so much they can do to boost the ratings, (oh hi Matt Bomer as Superman) too that it would seem stupid to not at least give it one more year.
DreamingCrazy
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I don't want CW to touch this thing. Maybe they can start a super girl series from scratch or Batman but that'll never happen.
Guys, it's not $3 million per episode.
CBS pays Warner Bros. a fee to license the show from them in order to air it. Licensing fees are how studios make the bulk of their money on the front end. But all of these shows are still sold at a loss -- licensing fees generally creep up until they cover the budget for the show in the later part of a show's run. Almost every single show, broadcast or cable (not pay cable) is sold as a loss leader for their studio.
My guess is, knowing absolutely nothing about the Supergirl budget, is that Warner is producer the show at a higher $ than $3 million. Probably $3.8-$4.3. Which is large, but not huuuuuge for a broadcast drama.
CBS pays Warner Bros. a fee to license the show from them in order to air it. Licensing fees are how studios make the bulk of their money on the front end. But all of these shows are still sold at a loss -- licensing fees generally creep up until they cover the budget for the show in the later part of a show's run. Almost every single show, broadcast or cable (not pay cable) is sold as a loss leader for their studio.
My guess is, knowing absolutely nothing about the Supergirl budget, is that Warner is producer the show at a higher $ than $3 million. Probably $3.8-$4.3. Which is large, but not huuuuuge for a broadcast drama.
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Bobby Roberts
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Thanks for the insight, sir.
SpideySenses
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Reading up on this cancellation talk, one interesting thing to note is that Tom Cavanaugh said in an interview last week that
"Supergirl will be coming up [to Vancouver] next week" Could be a slip of the tongue but I doubt it, which doesn't confirm season 2 or anything crazy but does suggest the character may be playing a part in one of the finales.
True, some great lines and actually decent life lessons. Most of the actors are good except the villains and Lucy Lane.
LumpOfCole
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They've opened the door to shove the character into Flash's universe on the CW if needed.
Father_Brain
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I enjoyed the crossover episode, but in fairness to Supergirl, I believe the CW crossovers were planned well before those shows premiered, whereas Supergirl didn't get the green light to do a Flash episode until close to the last minute, when they were presumably well into scripting the final stretch of episodes. It's easy to tell, from the setup in the preceding episodes and the clunky origin exposition dump, that that episode was originally going to be much more centered around Silver Banshee than it was.
Pilgrimzero
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Have a "crisis", Supergirl and cast end up in Arrowverse.
Truth.
Low energy rjinaz can't even post right. Sad!
BronsonLee
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I always thought that was really weird. Then again, they both kinda go off the goddamn rails in terms of character conventions so eh
Father_Brain
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Perhaps, but unless the show has changed drastically in S2 (I haven't watched since the third episode of S1), Gotham doesn't have aliens, monsters, or superpowers, so it can mostly restrict its use of non-practical FX to easy things like digitally adding fictional buildings to the NYC skyline.
As far as FX-heavy SF/fantasy shows go, I highly doubt there's a better-looking one on broadcast TV, though Flash comes surprisingly close given those CW budgets. That's not to say the show hasn't had its share of dodgy CG and makeup, of course, but network budgets only go so far.
StarCreator
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You basically watched the worst episode of the season and rated the entire show based on that. I think to truly judge Supergirl people should watch the episode two episodes before the Flash crossover, because that's the closest thing to the perfect hour of TV I've ever seen. While it's true that the creative team has serious trouble maintaining a constant bar of quality, episodes like that prove that they can deliver if they have to, and I think given time they could figure out how to deliver like that consistently.
I would say she is the best character on the show, it's at least debatable.
I'm not gonna fight you on it, she rocks.
I feel like I have an intimate knowledge of the Vancouver empty warehouse circuit thanks to television.
A lot of CG work goes into a single episode of Gotham. The show has become more sci-fi as its went along too. Especially in Season 2.
http://www.cgsociety.org/news/article/2151/behind-the-scenes-of-batman-origin-tale-gotham
http://www.iamag.co/features/making-of-gotham-by-cosa-vfx/
StarCreator
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Wow, you basically stopped right before what I'd consider the second best episode of the season. If anything, I'd suggest checking out episodes 7, 13, and the aforementioned 16. Other episodes are mediocre to pretty good, but I think those three episodes are the show at its best.
Or that one street that every episode of Arrow is set on.
Jorok Goldblade
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CW needs to expand into the 10-11 timeslot.
Change their Tuesday Night lineup to:
8 pm: Flash
9 pm: Supergirl
10 pm: iZombie
Netherscourge
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NETFLIX, please!
Just let me binge-watch the whole season in one night.
Just let me binge-watch the whole season in one night.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Calista is the best part of the show, which is not something I expected to be saying. But she is. It wouldn't be that hard to write her out of the show. Her character is the CEO of a major media conglomerate. "She's overseas to start a new venture...she moved the base of operations...she stepped down to do whatever"
There's also that one street on Arrow where all the motorcycle/moving van chases take place.
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