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'Supergirl' Get Hype For The Season 2 Premiere

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Supergirl -- "How Does She Sell It" -- Image: SPG104_0837 -- Pictured: Melissa Benoist as Kara/Supergirl -- Credit: Darren Michaels/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. © 2016 WBEI. All rights reserved.
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Supergirl -- "Worlds Finest" -- Image: SPG118_2740 -- Pictured (L-R): Melissa Benoist as Kara/Supergirl and Grant Gustin as Barry/The Flash -- Credit: Robert Voets/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. © 2016 WBEI. All rights reserved.
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Supergirl -- "The Adventures Of Supergirl" -- Image SPG201b_0277 -- Pictured (L_R) Benoist Kara and Calista Flockhart as Cat -- Photo: Bettina Strauss/The CW -- © 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved
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Supergirl -- "The Adventures Of Supergirl" -- Image SPG201b_0297 -- Pictured: Calista Flockhart as Cat -- Photo: Bettina Strauss/The CW -- © 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved
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Supergirl -- "The Adventures Of Supergirl" -- Image SPG201a_0213 -- Pictured (L_R) Tyler Hoechlin as Clark and Melissa Benoist Kara -- Photo: Diyah Pera/The CW -- © 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved
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Tune in for the premiere of "Supergirl" season 2 on Monday, October 10 at 8 p.m.

Starring Melissa Benoist, Calista Flockhart and Tyler Hoechlin, "Supergirl" is an action-adventure drama based on the DC character Kara Zor-El, Superman's (Kal-El) cousin who, after 12 years of keeping her powers a secret on Earth, decides to finally embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be.

Twelve-year-old Kara escaped the doomed planet Krypton with her parents' help at the same time as the infant Kal-El. Protected and raised on Earth by her foster family, the Danvers, Kara grew up in the shadow of her foster sister, Alex, and learned to conceal the phenomenal powers she shares with her famous cousin in order to keep her identity a secret.

Years later at 24, Kara lives in National City assisting media mogul and fierce taskmaster Cat Grant. She works alongside her friend and IT technician Winn Schott and famous photographer James Olsen, who Grant just hired away from the Daily Planet to serve as her new art director.

However, Kara's days of keeping her talents a secret are over when Hank Henshaw, head of a super-secret agency where her sister also works, enlists her to help them protect the citizens of National City from sinister threats. Though Kara will need to find a way to manage her newfound empowerment with her very human relationships, her heart soars as she takes to the skies as Supergirl to fight crime.

Based on characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, "Supergirl" is from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti ("The Flash," "Arrow"), Ali Adler ("The New Normal," "Glee"), Andrew Kreisberg ("The Flash," "Arrow") and Sarah Schechter ("Arrow," "The Flash").

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