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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The First Real Thing by Cat Grant Sorry, but Cat Grant won't be a series regular in Season 3 of Supergirl. Though she played a major role in the two-part season finale, it seems Calista Flockhart’s Cat Grant won’t actually be sticking around in Season 3 of Supergirl . At least, not permanently. TV Line reports that, though Flockhart was initially listed alongside the rest of the Season 3 cast, she's still just a guest star in Season 3. Much as in Season 2, the plan is for her to show up in a few guest appearances next season. It seems Flockhart still isn’t keen to relocate to Canada for the gig, so she won’t be a major presence next season. Which sucks, because Cat Grant is awesome, and her return in these last two episodes was a major creative spark. Though Flockhart won’t be around for most of the season, Supergirl is looking to cast a new player in Season 3. As expected, the main villain in Season 3 will be the DC baddie Reign (that other, mystery baby sent off from Krypton). The studio is casting for the role now, and the character is expected to appear in 12 or more episodes. Sunderland 2-1 Lincoln City (2-3) highlights as Tom Hopper heads Imps to Wembley. Welcome to our coverage on what could be a historic day for Lincoln City. The Imps face Sunderland at the Stadium of Light knowing a defeat by less than two goals will send them into the League One play-off final at Wembley on May 30. The Imps are in the driving seat after winning Wednesday’s first leg 2-0 thanks to goals from Tom Hopper and Brennan Johnson. If Sunderland, who will be backed by 10,000 fans at the Stadium of Light, can bridge that deficit, the tie could be settled by extra-time and penalties. Follow team news, match updates and reaction in the feed below. You can also get involved via our social media channels. And join in with the debate on our Lincoln City Chat Facebook page. Fan reaction. Lee Johnson's reaction. “It’s devastating, there’s no doubt, there’s no other word for it. The boys are devastated in there, the staff are devastated. You could see they put everything into it. “The fans were magnificent. It was my first taste of the Sunderland fans with everybody behind us and if there’s a positive, it’s that is a sign of things to come, the tempo we can create for the 23 home games next season. “We should have had a penalty when Ross Stewart was taken down and I think at that point, if we get to go 3-0 up, it allows us to rest in possession a little bit.” Appleton's reaction. “The only disappointment I had was that I thought we should have won the game with the big chances we had. “A very emotional day, very excitable. I don’t show many emotions, as you know, but I certainly showed it at the final whistle. “I’ve got a smile on my face. We’ve got a game [against Blackpool] to look forward to, but tonight it’s about enjoying the moment and the experience we’ve been through today.” READ MORE. Match report. Tom Hopper headed the crucial goal as Lincoln City reached the League One play-off at the expense of Sunderland amid incredible drama at the Stadium of Light. The Imps were on the back foot after first half goals from Ross Stewart and Charlie Wyke hauled the Black Cats level in the tie. But Hopper’s header, 11 minutes into the second half, proved decisive to set up a showdown with Blackpool next Sunday for a place in the Championship. The early goal Sunderland craved arrived on 13 minutes when Aiden McGeady sent in a dangerous ball from the left and Stewart got in front of TJ Eyoma to stab home. Tim Minchin: 'I don't want to fall foul of public shaming' Anyone who’s ever been to one of his touring shows will already know that this is a man who loves the sound of his own voice, which is actually a good thing. He talks, he sings; we laugh and clap; it’s a good deal for everyone. But on the line from his Sydney home, the esteemed musician/comedian/actor outdoes himself today, the words arriving as if under considerable pressure, pumped from his busy brain out through the fountain that is his mouth. “That was pretty bloody long-winded, wasn’t it?” he says at one point, after offering up an answer the length of a Tolstoy novel to one of my questions. “But that’s pretty typical, you know?” I do now. And I’m not complaining. Minchin is charming and articulate company, and it’s lovely to just get carried along by someone else’s enthusiasm on a cold grey morning, colourful stories tumbling out of them like a clumsy drunk’s pocket change. “When I was a kid in Perth, writing songs with my brother, we were just trying to be the Beatles like everyone else,” Minchin says when asked for a snapshot of his childhood as a surgeon’s son growing up beside the Indian Ocean. I picture him small, hyper and slender as a sapling, getting about in a singlet and shorts, dodging back-yard snakes, sunbaked and carefree, before catching hold of his talent and ascending to his current position as one of the world’s most celebrated musical comedy dons. “There were plenty of heartbroken songs in my late teens, and all that bad poetry that everyone writes, but from really early, like 14, I was also writing these pretty weird and quirky songs. A lot of it came from the fact that every song I heard on the radio felt like those people were nothing like me.” These were the days when every singer/songwriter seemed hell-bent on convincing you how much they’d suffered. “But I couldn’t take my own suffering very seriously, because I was hyper-aware of my suburban, middle class privilege. All these tattooed dope- smoking scenesters​ in Perth would wander about, like (adopts drongo voice) ‘Hey, I’m in a band and I’m getting laid and I’m really f…ing deep, man’. But my thing was always, well, I can play piano fast, and I'm a book nerd. I'm a massive f…ing Shakespeare and Tom Stoppard geek. So I embraced my destiny as a nerdy white boy obsessed with words.” Now 45, Minchin was born in England to Australian parents then raised in Perth, playing piano from the age of 8. Most impressive role in a school play? Cinderella’s talking cat. Most prophetic early achievement? Writing an entire musical based on Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost ​at age 17. After studying performing arts at university, Minchin started composing for documentaries and stage shows between hustling for acting work, eventually moving to Melbourne where he performed satirical songs while waiting for a more “serious” career to gain traction. “At first I was calling what I did cabaret and no-one gave a s. then I called it comedy and suddenly I had an audience! I’d never even done a 10- minute stand-up set before the songs started taking off.” In 2005, he won the Best Newcomer comedy award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe​, which led to him being “misdiagnosed” as a comedian. Minchin considers himself a musician whose songs “just happen to be funny”. Early performances immortalised on YouTube find him kohl-eyed and back-combed like a more cheerful version of The Cure’s Robert Smith, flailing away barefoot at the piano, bolting convoluted wordplay to robust melodies, frequently revisiting thematic preoccupations – capitalism, bigotry, religion, moral hypocrisy, the healing power of empathy and love, the wonders of cheese – as if to suggest these aren’t really separate songs at all, just ongoing instalments from the messy rock opera that is his life. One of his favourite tricks back then was to launch into a keyboard solo that rapidly falls apart, as if he has foolishly tried to rise above his meagre abilities, and then, from a wasteland of clanking chords and bung notes, just as it all seems a little too awkward, he pulls out a bunch of virtuoso jazz runs, just to mess with your head. In 2009, Minchin was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to write a musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s​ Matilda , a show that went on to win so many awards, it earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records . Afterwards, all doors opened. There’s since been a steady stream of live albums, TV panel show appearances, other musicals, arena tours. He starred in Californication , the Robin Hood feature film, a Tom Stoppard play, his own comedy-drama series Upright . An enthusiastic atheist, Minchin gleefully played Judas in a stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar . There was a film directing gig. He made his first studio album, Apart Together , last year. “Because of Matilda , I was getting opportunities to do all this other stuff, and it all got pretty big. Between 2010 and 2012, I did a massive tour with an orchestra, playing Wembley Arena and the Royal Albert Hall, and I thought – OK, well, that’s musical comedy done! I didn't really know where the f… I was gonna go from there.” But if you’re not quite sure how to move forward, there’s sometimes wisdom in looking back.

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