‘Supergirl’ gets second season on CW; ‘Agent Carter’ cancelled
One fan fave gets renewed, one fan fave gets axed. I don’t have a particular allegiance to either, though I really wanted to watch Agent Carter and I feel 100% responsible for its demise. Regarding Supergirl, I’m not really interested. However, I support it on principal, seeing that it is a DC property that doesn’t brood and gloom its way through existence.
Supergirl has been renewed for a second season and is moving from CBS to its sibling-network The CW, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show will join fellow DC superhero series The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow, with production moving from Los Angeles to Vancouver to cut costs. (The show was CBS’s most expensive first-year show.)
The exact reasons for the move haven’t been spelled out by CBS, but it’s possible the network wants to double down on Supergirl‘s young audience. Although the show hasn’t been the unmitigated success some were expecting, it ranked as the top new drama on CBS, pulling in plenty of younger viewers and attracting an average audience of 10 million across its 18-episode first season. The CW’s audience is younger than CBS’s, and although Supergirl might have launched on the latter in an attempt to pull in new viewers, it seems the experiment wasn’t a total success. CBS’s loss is The CW’s gain.
The writing had more or less been on the SSR wall, but this one still stings: Marvel’s Agent Carter has officially hung up the fedora. ABC has opted not to renew Peggy’s post-Cap adventures for a third season, marking the Marvel drama one of the superhero empire’s first official TV cancellations.
News of the axing comes as Atwell’s new ABC legal pilot Conviction has been receiving particularly strong buzz (now officially ordered to series), though both Atwell and ABC representatives insisted the star could juggle both series, should Agent Carter Season 3 move forward.
Despite achieving universal acclaim in its first season (itself almost willed into existence by response to the original Marvel one-shot – remember those?), the second, extended season of Agent Carter experienced a significant drop-off in ratings. The story had also moved focus from New York to Los Angeles (having already shot there) as part of a cost-cutting measure.