Superhero bonanza
Your favourite superhero shows are back and they’ve all found a new and very familiar home.
Arrow, Supergirl and The Flash are in the thick of the sci-fi action. Dust off your masks and capes – M-Net (*101) is taking over superhero series from Monday 8 January! Fan favourites like Arrow (2012- current), The Flash (2014- current), Supergirl (2015- current) and Legends Of Tomorrow (2016- current) have shifted from Vuzu AMP (*103, the channel is rebranding to focus on local content), which M-Net publicist Portia Hlongwane explains is “an opportunity
SUPERGIRL
Season 3 from Mon 8 Jan, 17:00 Kara aka Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) needs every tissue in the universe. She is still sobbing over her boyfriend Mon-El (Chris Wood) leaving in season 2’s finale (May 2017) after the nuclear weapon she destroyed turned the air toxic for Mon-El. He climbed into his pod and shot into space, only to for M-Net to house the best international series, curating its early primetime block at 17:00 for family viewing – superhero shows fulfil this criteria.” The channel hop will also make it easier for M-Net to broadcast the always-popular crossover episodes at the right time in the season, where characters from one series “visit” another for a cameo storyline. Without skipping a beat, let’s see what awaits fans…
be sucked into a wormhole. Exec producer Robert Rovner teases, “This season is going to be a little darker. Each character is going to deal with emotions, their human feelings, while also being a superhero or an alien.” But the Maid Of Might has no time to cry – baddies are here! Reign (Odette Annable, Dr Zoe from Pure Genius, 2016-2017) leads aliens called Worldkillers and “she is searching for anything from Krypton – like Supergirl,” says Odette. Melissa adds, “Reign matches Kara in everything. It’s like Supergirl is going to fight herself!” Also arriving is green mathematician alien M’yrnn J’onzz (Carl Lumbly, Marcus from Alias, 20012006) and ruthless real estate developer Morgan Edge (Adrian Pasdar, Glenn Talbot in Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., 2013- current).