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In the hangover glow of the Oscars morning-after, it’s back to business-as-usual for the studios. In that vein, CBS has announced some casting info for the hotly anticipated ‘Supergirl‘ pilot.

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Calista Flockhart is someone we remember as Kitty Walker from ‘Brothers & Sisters‘, or if you’re OK with dating yourself, there was the dancing baby from her show ‘Ally McBeal‘, well now she’s ready to take on the mantle of Cat Grant, a self-made media magnate and founder of CatCo. where Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist) works as her assistant. Cat began her career as a gossip columnist only weeks fresh from a divorce and move, she has built her company into a global powerhouse. Catherine ‘Cat’ Grant has been a part of DC comic fodder since 1987 and her story crosses with Superman’s as a potential love interest adding dimension to the Superman-Lois Lane dynamic. Her character has been a part of other televised Super-canon such as ‘Smallville‘ and ‘Lois and Clark‘.

The series will follow Superman’s cousin, Kara as she decides to embrace her super-abilities and be the hero she was born to be by learning from her cousin’s example. Flockhart joins Benoist in a cast that also includes Mehcad Brooks as Jimmy Olsen and Laura Bernanti as Kara’s mother.

 

By Bryan Kluger

Former husky model, real-life Comic Book Guy, genre-bending screenwriter, nude filmmaker, hairy podcaster, pro-wrestling idiot-savant, who has a penchant for solving Rubik's Cubes and rolling candy cigarettes on unreleased bootlegs of Frank Zappa records.

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