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Why Supergirl Wasn't Really Part Of The Invasion Crossover

The CW's crossover Invasion event did very well for the network, but some fans were disappointed that other than a few minutes at the end, the Supergirl series wasn't really part of it. Supergirl herself did appear plenty in the event, but it was really just three episodes long. Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg explained to EW.com what that was and how they are already planning to make next years crossover even bigger.

One of the big things we learned from two years ago, which made the crossovers this year slightly easier, was building in shut-down days, where shows just went dark. The single hardest factor in doing the crossovers is actors' availability because the shows keep going on. You're basically juggling four shows worth of schedules.

So, if they had that figured out, why didn't they do that with Supergirl?

The thing that we didn't really plan on — because we weren't aware that we were going to switch Supergirl from CBS to CW and it was really going to be part of it — that was the one show that didn't have built-in shut-down days, so all the other ones did. Melissa [Benoist] ended up being heavily in Flash and then in Arrow, so Supergirl was the one we needed to shut down the most and it was the one that we didn't have any opportunity to.

Though no official crossover for next season has been announced, are you preparing like there will be one?

The great thing about our dear friends at the CW and Mark Pedowitz picking the shows up as early as they did has allowed us to start building the schedules for next season. Now that we've gotten the early pickup and we've started designing the seasons, we're building in those dark days, and actually more dark days on Supergirl than the other shows, to make it a little easier.

If no dark days were built in to this season of Supergirl, how are you doing the Flash / Supergirl musical crossover?

Somebody actually had to be part of an episode of Supergirl, because we actually keep filming these things. Alex and Maggie have a bigger storyline in that episode to free other people up. Winn, James, and Lyra have a really funny story in 18 too, where the three of them try crime fighting as a trio, which doesn't necessarily go well. She kind of becomes the Yoko of the team.

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