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The CW's Supergirl showrunners confirmed Azie Tesfai's Kelly Olsen will be Guardian this season, spoke of the season's big bads, and more.

All Rights Reserved. Supergirl — "Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up?" — Image Number: SPG420A_0407b.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Melissa Benoist as Kara/Supergirl and Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen/Guardian — Photo: Colin Bentley/The CW — © 2019 The CW Network, LLC All Rights Reserved. Supergirl — "Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up?" — Image[...]

While the main storyline wanted to focus on Dreamer and her work to protect the streets in Supergirl's absence, the more compelling story was the personal one of James Olson dealing with his PTSD – which had been superpowered by the Harun-El. Supergirl — "American Dreamer" — Image Number: SPG419b_0265b.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Jesse Rath as[...]

Ben Bray directed the episode with story by Gabriel Llanas and teleplay by Katie Rose Rogers & Brooke Pohl. CW's Supergirl stars Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers/Supergirl, Chyler Leigh as Alex Danvers, Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen/Guardian, David Harewood as Hank Henshaw/J'onn J'onzz, Katie McGrath as Lena Luthor, Jesse Rath as Brainiac-5, Sam Witwer as Ben Lockwood/Agent Liberty, Nicole Maines as Nia Nal/Dreamer, and April Parker Jones as Colonel Lauren Haley. Greg Berlanti, Jessica Queller, Robert Rovner,[...]

This episode had it all… the resolution to the James Olsen shooting, the introduction of Lex Luthor, J'onn deciding whether to shite or get off the pot, Nia and Brainy's first kiss, even Supergirl dropping a "damn it" while repairing a broken dam threatening the city. Could this have been the single best episode of Supergirl[...]

Looks like James Olsen will have a member of his family to lean on next season, with word that the CW has signed Azie Tesfai (Jane the Virgin) as a series regular beginning with the fifth season of Supergirl Tesfai's character Kelly debuts during this week's episode, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" – which also[...]

All Rights Reserved. Supergirl — "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" — Image Number: SPG415a_0425b.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen/Guardian and Melissa Benoist as Kara/Supergirl — Photo: Sergei Bachlakov/The CW — © 2019 The CW Network, LLC All Rights Reserved. Supergirl — "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" — Image Number: SPG415a_0390b.jpg — Pictured (L-R): David[...]

Tawnia Mckiernan directed the episode written by Derek Simon & Nicki Holcomb. CW's Supergirl stars Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers/Supergirl, Chyler Leigh as Alex Danvers, Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen/Guardian, David Harewood as Hank Henshaw/J'onn J'onzz, Katie McGrath as Lena Luthor, Jesse Rath as Brainiac-5, Sam Witwer as Ben Lockwood/Agent Liberty, Nicole Maines as Nia Nal/Dreamer,[...]

Let's move on to Supergirl season 4. Give him something to guard With James Olsen becoming Guardian, we had a season where he went out and patrolled the streets some with Winn in his ear, but he always went up against street thugs It's time for him to get a real villain — someone with a name and[...]

The follower, Tanya (Nesta Cooper), bring the book to James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) so he can get it to Supergirl. Later we see him in a situation with Tanya as Guardian where he loses his helmet and the police come in, assuming he's the bad person in the scene because he's black This hits on the[...]

The CW has released 16 new images from the upcoming Supergirl season 3 episode called The Fanatical, which has James Olsen making a huge decision.

It also puts James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) in an awkward position as Kara goes to him in hopes he can find out if Lena is really out of Kryptonite or if she's lying James really care for Lena, but he also was the one who didn't trust her in the past because she was a[...]

I think James Olsen is a good character on the show and I like what Brooks does with the role, but he just doesn't seem to get the screen time that you'd think he would once the made him a vigilante They could really have played up the similarities to Batman / Superman, but instead[...]

Actor Mehcad Brooks talks about how this week's revelations on Supergirl will affect James Olsen's relationship with Lena Luthor in surprising ways.

It's Lena Luthor versus Morgan Edge with a surprise appearance of something straight out of the comics in the latest Supergirl episode.

B story is Lena Luthor buying CatCo and showing up expecting to run the place and butting heads with James Olsen, who currently runs the place There is drama between Lena and James as she keep stepping on his toes and there's drama between Lena and Kara as she keeps running off to be Supergirl[...]

But Lena and Kara (Melissa Benoist) get along great so there shouldn't be any problems… except that the company is currently run by James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) who has a long history with another Luthor and isn't quick to trust anyone with that surname. How will James and Lena handle working together? They'll be butting heads[...]

This article contains spoilers for the Supergirl episode – City of Lost Children . . . . . Tonight's episode focused a lot on James Olsen / Guardian and just what his putting on the armor has come to mean He jumps in to save a woman who was being attacked And though he took out the attackers, she was scared[...]

All through the first season and into the second, James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) has been a major character on Supergirl, but even with his alter ego Guardian, the character has been out of the main storylines for a while But tonight, Olsen realizes that unlike Supergirl, Guardian inspires fear in people — and that's not[...]

Executive producers Jessica Queller and Robert Rovner talk about the return of Metallo from the second episode of season 2 and the relationship between the Luthors and Kara and the relationship between the Luthors and James Olsen. Supergirl airs Mondays at 8 PM on the CW. https://youtu.be/KNMReAM-osI The CW has released a look inside tonight's episode of[...]

There is a new clip for this weeks Supergirl courtesy of TVLine and we see that Winn Schott (Jeremy Jordan) is exhausted and pleading for James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) to tell Kara that he's Guardian In the clip we also learn that Winn has been tasked by Kara (Melissa Benoist) to create a suit for[...]

On Monday, the 4-series Invasion crossover event kicks off with Supergirl and it looks like Thanksgiving dinner is pretty tense with lots of folks wanting

Not bad since James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) had only donned the armor once so far But the real question becomes how soon will Kara (Melissa Benoist) learn whose really under the helmet? She already used her X-ray vision on him… which is kind of an invasion of privacy and questionable for his health I would[...]

We've got our first look at James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) in his Guardian armor He has the shield and a helmet, but the color scheme is very different than the version from the comics I'm curious the story behind the armor Seems like something more than Olsen could have put together in his apartment. Supergirl airs[...]

While talking with multiple media outlets today, Supergirl executive producer Andrew Kreisberg announced that the character of James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) is going to get tired of being on the sidelines and take on the mantle of The Guardian. In the comics, the Guardian has been multiple people, starting with Jim Harper and created by Joe[...]