Calista Flockhart will return to television and it will be in a super way. She has officially been confirmed as a cast member of “Supergirl” set to premiere on CBS this year.
Flockhart will be joining Melissa Benoist, who shall take on the role of Kara Zor-El and eventually Kara Danvers, a.k.a. Supergirl, as key members of the cast of the upcoming TV series.
Also part of the cast of “Supergirl” are Mechad Brooks who shall play the role of Jimmy Olsen and Laura Benati, who shall be taking on the recurring role of Kara’s mother.
The “Ally McBeal” TV star shall play the role of Cat Grant, the self-made media mogul and founder of CatCo where Kara Danvers will be working as her assistant, details Yahoo! TV.
“Supergirl” is likely to deal also on the story of Cat Grant who started her career as a reporter and slowly built her media company into the global powerhouse that it has become. Her character is also very significant in the DC Comics.
The comic character was actually featured in live action on “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” and also in “Smallville.” But it was split into two different people then. One is Catherine Grant, a television host, and the other is Cat Grant, a Daily Planet reporter.
In the DC Comics, Grant even served as a love interest for Clark Kent. Prior to being a media magnate, she worked as an entertainment and gossip reporter for the Daily Planet. She also spent time as a TV reporter, a station manager, and even the White House Press Secretary.
The “Supergirl” TV series will surely touched on her rocky relationship with Kara.
Return to television
Calista’s role on “Supergirl” series marks her return to television where she was almost a prominent fixture not too long ago.
She had a five-season run for the ABC series “Brothers & Sisters,” and before that, she also spent five seasons on “Ally McBeal” for Fox.
She currently has a role on the season 2 of “Full Circle” on DirectTV but it is just for one or two episodes only and her upcoming stint in “Supergirl” would surely relive her TV heydays.
Interesting plotline
“Supergirl” will follow the adventures of Kara Zor-El as the other surviving member of the planet Krypton. Like her cousin Kal-El, she will initially pass herself off as a regular woman upon arriving on earth.
But unlike in “Smallville” where Superman started from his origin as a baby, “Supergirl” the TV series will begin when 20-something Kara decides to embrace her superpowers and become a warrior to battle evil, which is parallel to the premise of its sister TV series “Arrow” and “The Flash,” which are also of DC Comics origin.
“Supergirl” will be an hour-long action-drama that shall focus on the struggles of Kara to control her superpowers, which she was finally forced to show during an unexpected disaster.
Inspired by her heroic deed, she begins helping the people of her city and she was eventually given the moniker, Supergirl.