Skip to main content

CBS released a new trailer for Supergirl, and it’s oozing with cheese

Oops! We couldn't load this video player
We all know the story of Superman. But what about his cousin and fellow Kryptonian, Supergirl? CBS has just released a trailer for the upcoming Supergirl series that helps up get better acquainted with the young girl with superhero powers, and it’s so CBS.

Based on the DC Comics character, the program will follow the story of Kara Zor-El (a.k.a. Supergirl). The 24-year-old comes to grips with the powers she has tried to hide for so long after being sent away from her home planet of Krypton to live with a foster family on earth, and saving an airplane from a presumed crash.

Recommended Videos

Related: Fox closes in on securing rights for a live-action X-Men TV series

Please enable Javascript to view this content

In the one-minute video, we see Kara in a strikingly similar light to Superman’s alter-ego Clark Kent: donning a pair of dark-rimmed glasses and professional button-up shirt at work as she hides her identity, later to rip it open and reveal the signature “S” on the tight suit she wears underneath. It’s clear she’s finally ready to embrace her powers instead of run from them, and use them for good.

“If she’s anything like him,” we see co-worker Jimmy Olsen (played by Mehcad Brooks, Necessary Roughness) tell Kara in one scene, clearly unaware of who she is, “she’s a hero.”

The title role will be played by GLEE’s Melissa Benoist. Also appearing in the series will be Peter Facinelli (Nurse Jackie, The Twilight Saga) as Maxwell Lord, Chris Browning (Sons of Anarchy) as Ben Krull, a.k.a. Reactron, Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant, and Dean Cain (who previously played Superman in the Lois & Clark TV series) as Jeremiah Danvers, Kara’s foster father. The most recent cast member to be added was Jenna Dewan-Tatum (American Horror Story: Asylum) in a recurring role as Lucy Lane, Lois Lane’s younger sister.

The show, which looks like it has enough cheesiness to appeal to a certain target demographic, will begin airing just before Halloween: on October 26, 2015. Break out those Supergirl costumes!

Christine Persaud
Christine has decades of experience in trade and consumer journalism. While she started her career writing exclusively about…
Y2K trailer takes you for a wild ride on New Year’s Eve 1999
A girl stands in front of two boys in a living room.

To quote Charli XCX, "I just want to go back, back to 1999." The makers of the A24 sci-fi comedy Y2K are of a similar mind, as the film transports audiences back to New Year's 1999 for the party of the century.

In the latest trailer, Jaeden Martell and Julian Dennison star as Eli and Danny, two loser friends whose New Year's Eve plans consist of sitting at home and watching a movie. Fed up with their lack of social status, the boys crash their classmate's party in hopes of changing their reputation. For Eli, he views it as a chance to impress his crush, Laura (Rachel Zegler).

Read more
Captain America: Brave New World trailer previews an explosive Red Hulk fight
Red Hulk roars in Captain America: Brave New World.

It's been over three years since Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) officially became the Marvel Cinematic Universe's new Captain America at the end of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. In early 2025, he's finally going to go on his first solo MCU adventure in Captain America: Brave New World. The film will test Sam's resolve by pitting him against not only Seth Voelker (Giancarlo Esposito), a.k.a. Sidewinder, and the rest of his villainous Serpent Society, but also the MCU's newly elected President of the United States, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross (Harrison Ford).

Ever since William Hurt first appeared as Ross in 2008's The Incredible Hulk, comic book readers have been waiting to see the character transform into the Red Hulk. In Captain America: Brave New World, they're finally going to get to see that, though the character's long-awaited evolution will be portrayed by Ford, who stepped in to play Ross following Hurt's death in 2022. Notably, the first Captain America: Brave New World trailer only briefly alluded to Ford's Red Hulk transformation.

Read more
New Thunderbolts trailer solves one long-standing MCU mystery
Yelena, Bucky, John, and Alexei stand in Avengers Tower in Marvel's Thunderbolts.

Marvel Studios went out of its way to make the most of its D23 Brazil panel this weekend. Not only did the studio offer those in attendance new looks at upcoming titles like The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Daredevil: Born Again, but it also used the occasion to release a new trailer for next year's Thunderbolts*. The film is shaping up to be one of the biggest blockbusters of 2025. Thanks to its well-received first trailer, it has also generated one of the most positive early waves of anticipation of any Marvel Cinematic Universe project of the past few years.

The early hype surrounding Thunderbolts* shouldn't die down in response to its latest trailer, either. The nearly four-minute-long teaser opens with a well-staged desert chase involving Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen). From there, the Thunderbolts* trailer goes on to confirm — as many fans had previously suspected — that it was CIA Director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who bought Avengers Tower between the events of Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Read more