APOLOGIES IF YOU CAME THE OTHER DAY AND DID NOT SEE A VIDEO - I had to remove it temporarily, as Youtube had deemed it not ad friendly, due to me talking about COVID-19 in it. I had to remove that whole piece, now its OK'ed.... so I can put it back up.
Since I had to remove that part, I will add a breakdown of what I said in here. So, watch the video, then read on below, or vice-a-versa.

If you have been paying attention to the Supergirl fandom for a while, you might have heard rumblings for a few months about the possibility that Supergirl would only be 20 episodes in season 5.

Well, till recently, they were just rumours. But now, confirmation has come in the way of their production schedule being reduced by almost a month. While the decision for this change was surely done a while ago, it is now just public knowledge, as these things usually are not made public till late in a production (usually its for a time extension. Not too common it is a reduction).

Will the new Superman & Lois have any impact on it? Did Melissa Benoist get a new role on a different project? Has the threat of COVID-19 caused things to wrap early (had to remove that part.... so its right here in the next paragraph)?

Since the new pandemic COVID-19 (more commonly known as the "coronavirus" which is misleading a bit, since theres many strains of Coronavirus, but COVID-19 is this specific strain) has become such a notable thing. Especially here in Vancouver where 9 cases of it have been reported in the last month, and right across the border from us in Washington State they have had 9 deaths from it. People are wondering if the panic about this virus is to blame for the quick end. No. Plain and simply, it is not. This was planned long before this was even a thing anyone had heard of. On top of that, the likelyhood ANY current crews would stop for it is low. The cause for concern would have to skyrocket, and quick, for that to happen as most projects have 4 to 5 weeks left of filming. Now COULD it have an impact come next seasons filming? Maybe. If things get notably worse between here and late June, there absolutely could be enough concern to delay filming till the pandemic has become greatly minimized. But that is an issue they will not think about till closer to the time of filming for that. As for this season, barring it hitting a specific crew hard (not talking 1 or 2 cases, but enough that work cant be done), it is very unlikely they would halt production this close to the end of season.

In the video below, I break down the most likely reason, and debunk some of the most discussed rumours that have popped up about it.

THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "SUPERGIRL" SEASON EPISODE 409 "Elseworlds" AND MAY CONTAIN POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE.

If you have not seen the episode, and do not want to see or read possible spoilers about it prior to seeing it, do not continue reading the article or viewing the photos below.
 
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last warning
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A reminder... if you are going to post photos from this on your social media/website INCLUDE THE LINK TO THE POST with it...and don't use all of them. A maximum of FOUR (4) photos please. Plus, PROPERLY credit the source(s).

As October got under way, so did the annual DC TV universe crossover event that they have done for the past few seasons. This year, only 3 of their 4 shows are taking part, with Legends Of Tomorrow taking a pass on this one. Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl are teaming up for the event.

Here is a quick scene they shot at B.C. Place (you may know it as usually the home of S.T.A.R. Labs exterior scenes)

We have, Grant Gustin as The Flash, Stephen Amell as the Green Arrow, Melissa Benoist as Supergirl, Tyler Hoechlin dressed as what I believe to be Superman Prime, as well as a stand in dressed in a classic Superman outfit. In the scene, it appears Prime is trying to cause havoc by holding Barry Allen hostage outside of a building featuring the Superman logo. Eventually Oliver confronts him with a bow & arrow drawn, and Prime lets Barry go, before clapping his hands together, causing a massive boom behind the logo, then, he steals the mystery book that you have surely seen by now in the promo photos and trailers.

To see more Behind The scenes blog posts and photos from Supergirl go HERE
To see the autograph gallery for Supergirl go HERE

The Arrowverse event will air on December 9, 10 & 11 on The CW in the U.S.

If you are in Canada, and do NOT have Netflix... You will have to watch it by Unofficial means, because the morons at The CW have given Netflix the rights to air The Flash the next day (it literally does NOT air live ANYWHERE in Canada), while giving Arrow to the Space network, and giving Supergirl to the Showcase network. The former network that carried them, CTV, now has none of them for some reason. So uhhh, I guess good luck with watching it

THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "SUPERGIRL" SEASON EPISODE 409 "Elseworlds" AND MAY CONTAIN POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE.

If you have not seen the episode, and do not want to see or read possible spoilers about it prior to seeing it, do not continue reading the article or viewing the photos below.
 
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last warning
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A reminder... if you are going to post photos from this on your social media/website INCLUDE THE LINK TO THE POST with it...and don't use all of them. A maximum of FOUR (4) photos please. Plus, PROPERLY credit the source(s).

As October got under way, so did the annual DC TV universe crossover event that they have done for the past few seasons. This year, only 3 of their 4 shows are taking part, with Legends Of Tomorrow taking a pass on this one. Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl are teaming up for the event.

Here is a quick series of short videos of the crew filming a scene at B.C. Place with Tyler Hoechlin dressed in an outfit that looks like Superman Prime (it hasnt been officially stated thats his name) squaring off against a stand in in the Superman suit. Prime looks like he is about to pummel Superman when "something" interrupts his plan.... but what, or who?

I have ONE MORE VIDEO to post.... depending on the traction this one gets, I might get it out before the episodes start airing. It has a lot of names in it, Grant Gustin, Stephen Amell, Melissa Benoist, plus Tyler Hoechlin in that one too.

To see more Behind The scenes blog posts and photos from Supergirl go HERE
To see the autograph gallery for Supergirl go HERE

The Arrowverse event will air on December 9, 10 & 11 on The CW in the U.S.

If you are in Canada, and do NOT have Netflix... You will have to watch it by Unofficial means, because the morons at The CW have given Netflix the rights to air The Flash the next day (it literally does NOT air live ANYWHERE in Canada), while giving Arrow to the Space network, and giving Supergirl to the Showcase network. The former network that carried them, CTV, now has none of them for some reason. So uhhh, I guess good luck with watching it.

Updated: 11:00 PM October 30, 2018 - More photos added.
Updated: 1:05 AM October 31, 2018 - More photos added.

THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "SUPERGIRL" SEASON EPISODE 409 "Elseworlds" AND MAY CONTAIN POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE.

If you have not seen the episode, and do not want to see or read possible spoilers about it prior to seeing it, do not continue reading the article or viewing the photos below.
 
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last warning
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A reminder... if you are going to post photos from this on your social media/website INCLUDE THE LINK TO THE POST with it...and don't use all of them. A maximum of FOUR (4) photos please. Plus, PROPERLY credit the source(s).

As October got under way, so did the annual DC TV universe crossover event that they have done for the past few seasons. This year, only 3 of their 4 shows are taking part, with Legends Of Tomorrow taking a pass on this one. Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl are teaming up for the event.

Today, I caught up on the Supergirl part of filming. The scenes they were shooting were at a place very familiar to the Arrowverse fans.... its the exterior location for S.T.A.R. Labs on The Flash.... but today, it didnt have the usual STAR Labs items around it. Instead, it had a big Superman/Supergirl logo in front. Todays scene saw Melissa Benoist as Supergirl, along with Tyler Hoechlin and his stunt double as Superman and an alternate Superman, Grant Gustin as The Flash, and Stephen Amell as Green Arrow shooting a scene where the alternate Superman seems to take The Flash as a hostage temporarily while Superman is reading from a book that seems to have all the symbols in it we previously had seen featured in episodes of The Flash.

I'll try to add more of an update on the scene later... but cliff notes version.
Black Superman takes Barry hostage briefly, then when Oliver moves in on him with his bow drawn, Barry tells Oliver not to attack, then Black Superman lets Barry go....  then claps his hands together, a huge boom goes off that creates an explosion behind that glass Superman emblem... he then goes, steals the book from the other Superman, and flies away.

To see more Behind The scenes blog posts and photos from Supergirl go HERE
To see the autograph gallery for Supergirl go HERE

The Arrowverse event will air on December 9, 10 & 11 on The CW in the U.S.

If you are in Canada, and do NOT have Netflix... You will have to watch it by Unofficial means, because the morons at The CW have given Netflix the rights to air The Flash the next day (it literally does NOT air live ANYWHERE in Canada), while giving Arrow to the Space network, and giving Supergirl to the Showcase network. The former network that carried them, CTV, now has none of them for some reason. So uhhh, I guess good luck with watching it.

As I promised in the original blog post here.
Here are more photos from todays shoot.
There will be some more added later this week. So check back later for more.

THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "SUPERGIRL" SEASON EPISODE 409 "Elseworlds" AND MAY CONTAIN POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE.

If you have not seen the episode, and do not want to see or read possible spoilers about it prior to seeing it, do not continue reading the article or viewing the photos below.
 
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last warning
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A reminder... if you are going to post photos from this on your social media/website INCLUDE THE LINK TO THE POST with it...and don't use all of them. A maximum of FOUR (4) photos please. Plus, PROPERLY credit the source(s).

As October got under way, so did the annual DC TV universe crossover event that they have done for the past few seasons. This year, only 3 of their 4 shows are taking part, with Legends Of Tomorrow taking a pass on this one. Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl are teaming up for the event.

On this particular day, they filmed several scenes in downtown Vancouver for the "Supergirl" part of the crossover. Funny enough, with no main Supergirl cast, and only 1 of the 4 scenes shot even had a Supergirl guest star in it.

Tyler Hoechlin was seen on set as Superman, and as Stephen Amell showed in a tweet yesterday, Superman has some new threads for this crossover event. Lucky Stephen was willing to share with you all, because when Tyler was down on ground level (they were filming on top of a parkade) he was more modest about showing off his new duds. Covering up the Man Of Steel outfit as much as he could. I managed a few photos that JUST catches the top of the logo before he covered up even more.

There were two other scenes shot during the day that I didn't get any photos of the cast at. One in Oceanic Plaza, which is used by EVERYONE at some point, they had a scene where a group of spectators were watching something happen in the sky, but no actors were there for it. Then after the roof top scene, was a scene in an alley where they were using a drone to film... something? Whatever it was, it wasn't actors, I can tell you that much.

A bit later I caught up with Stephen and Grant Gustin filming at a different location. While I had seen both of them at the roof top location, it was only for brief moments as they wanted to & from the set from their trailers. Grant once, noticed me there taking photos, and waved, then showed off his new attire, trying to put on a bad boy sneer with it. Of course, since I wasn't given prior warning to his plans, I both missed the wave, and him flaunting the wardrobe off to me, as I had started shooting too late to catch the wave, and ended too soon to catch the showing off in its entirety.

At the other location Stephen, as Oliver Queen. Grant as Barry Allen, both shot a scene where the pair stormed down a street together, running into an apartment building before getting into an altercation inside the building. The pair were both dressed like boyband members pretending to be hoodlums. They had jackets on that said "Trigger Twins" on them. All I could think when I heard the term was how often triggered is used on the internet, and wondered, are Barry & Oliver internet vigilantes? But in all seriousness, the pair shot this series of scenes there, before they took a break. When they went on their break, I left, because I really didn't think anything more special would be happening. Sometimes I get this wrong... this was 1 of those rare occurrences. Barely after I got home & took my shoes off, I got a DM from a twitter user that was there @themyscirabound telling me Stephen showed back up, in full GREEN ARROW wardrobe.

I asked Themyscirabound if she felt like sending me a couple photos to put in this post, and she agreed, so if you use any of the photos of Stephen in the Green Arrow attire below, credit HER.

To see more Behind The scenes blog posts and photos from Supergirl go HERE
To see the autograph gallery for Supergirl go HERE

The Arrowverse event will air on December 9, 10 & 11 on The CW in the U.S.

If you are in Canada, and do NOT have Netflix... You will have to watch it by Unofficial means, because the morons at The CW have given Netflix the rights to air The Flash the next day (it literally does NOT air live ANYWHERE in Canada), while giving Arrow to the Showcase network, and giving Supergirl to the Space network. The former network that carried them, CTV, now has none of them for some reason. So uhhh, I guess good luck with watching it.

The cast & crew of Supergirl shot scenes at Robson Square over two nights with a few of the shows bigger stars & guest stars. On the first night, they shot a couple scenes involving the shows lead Melissa Benoist, with the shows most notable recurring guest star Tyler Hoechlin as the Man Of Steel, Superman. Also on set was new addition to the cast Mark Gibbons as General Zod.

I posted a youtube video of Melissa shooting a scene with Tyler earlier.
But here are some of the photos from that same night as well, including some from other scenes.

The night started off with a stunt where the crew blew up a Police car. A little later they had Melissa come on as Supergirl and do a scene where she jumps off the car. When she first got up on the car, she noticed the couple dozen fans standing on a higher level balcony over the set & waved at all of them before getting back to work.

A bit later, Zod did a scene where he angrily looks off towards something. I never quite got the idea what he was exactly looking at, but his intense, intimidating look, and voice which is just as intense & and intimidating clearly showed Zod wasnt messing around.

They then moved to doing a scene of the stairs where Supergirl is ducking and trying to fight off being attacked/hit with something while Superman watches on behind her.

The last scene of the evening was the coolest. It had Supergirl do a stunt where she was laying on a National City sign and being flung across the courtyard while Superman followed behind. Considering what I saw the next night with the full on fight between these two, cant hel but think Superman is the one who sent her flying (ps- I havent seen the episode..... so obviously all of YOU know if thats true or not already since its aired now). Throughout the night, even as it started to cool off, Melissa seemed to be in a really good mood. 

Perhaps my favorite moment of the night, and 1 many of the crew laughed at too, was when a costume person went over to Melissa to move her cap to the side to show off more of her leg and Melissa made a comment about it which I didnt quite hear, but it was clear it had something to do with the additional skin being showed off for the scene, and Tyler replied to her "well, it is the CW", and everyone laughed.

To find more of my BTS photos & videos of Supergirl, check out our blog section for the show HERE

Well, this will be a pretty short blog post. While there was more shot at this set, I didnt stick around to see it all..... so all I managed to catch was the scene where Tyler Hoechlin shot a scene with a Martian Manhunter stand in and a bunch of "soldier" type guys holding alien looking spears. I'll be honest, I havent watched the back half of Supergirl, so perhaps these characters are well known... but they arent anyone I knew of before I stopped watching.

Since this episode has already aired, I am sure you already know what happens.
One thing I found amusing was the licence plate. I dont know about where you live, but here in Canada the Provinces give out licence plates, not cities..... kinda humourous to me to see that "National City" has their own licence plates for some reason.

there will be a couple more blog posts from this days shoots coming up......but for now, here is a few photos from the daytime snoot.

​You can find my other Supergirl BTS photo blogs HERE