Archive for the 'Smallville' Category
November 18th, 2009, 10:52 am by Jayson Peters
 LeVar Burton and Felicia Day Phoenix Comicon organizers have announced the next big round of celebrity guests for Phoenix Comicon 2010, coming Memorial Day weekend at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Leading the pack is LeVar Burton, host of Reading Rainbow, Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Kunta Kinte from Roots.
Burton joins fellow TNG alum and ubergeek Wil Wheaton, along with the previously announced Jonathan Frakes, who played USS Enterprise first officer Will Riker. Frakes’ wife, General Hospital star Genie Francis, is also a guest.
Other Hollywood stars announced: John Schneider (Smallville and The Dukes of Hazzard), actress and geek goddess Felicia Day (The Guild, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Buffy the Vampire Slayer), perennial guest and The Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno, and Kevin Grazier, Ph.D., science adviser to the Syfy series Eureka and Battlestar Galactica. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 9th, 2009, 12:04 am by Jayson Peters
Tom Welling is donning a new costume for the upcoming ninth season of Smallville – and it’s not what you might expect. Spoilers after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 31st, 2009, 1:14 pm by Jayson Peters
 There are four words you don’t see together very often.
Syfy, the new identity of the former Sci Fi Channel, is claiming impressive gains both among total viewers and women ages 25-54 since relaunching one month ago.
The network, owned by NBC Universal, scored the best July in its 17-year history with the demographic groups, a feat it attributes to the new series Warehouse 13 and returning hit Eureka.
Read the NBC Universal press release for more details.
See also: Sci Fi Channel more popular with the ladies
The network also announced this week that it has named veteran television executive Andrew Plotkin, who developed hit series such as Without a Trace, Nip/Tuck, Cold Case and Smallville, to the position of senior vice president of original programming.
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July 9th, 2009, 8:05 am by Jayson Peters
 According to a report by Michael Hinman at Airlock Alpha, the family of late Superman creator Jerry Siegel will have to be happy with the royalties they’re getting now for the iconic comic book character. A U.S. District Court judge said Warner Bros. and DC Comics have fulfilled their obligations to the Siegels under a profit-sharing agreement for the 2006 movie Superman Returns and the CW series Smallville. It’s just the latest in a long line of legal battles for the heirs, including a federal court decision last year to awarded them half of the copyright to the Superman material in Action Comics No. 1.
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June 19th, 2009, 12:39 am by Jayson Peters
NBC picks up a hit BBC drama series when it debuts Merlin on Sunday. The series, which has earned a second season in the U.K., has been compared to Smallville for the way it took an established mythology and turned it on its head.
In the series premiere, the character of Merlin is a far cry from the wizard of legend:
With a letter from his mother revealing his innate ability to practice magic, Merlin (Colin Morgan) arrives in the city of Camelot to find Gaius (Richard Wilson), the Court Physician. Gaius takes Merlin under his wing to keep him out of trouble. Eager to discover his new surroundings, Merlin sets out to see the sites of Camelot and meets Arthur (Bradley James), a young bully who challenges him to a duel. After being thrown in jail for standing up to Arthur, Merlin attracts the attention of others in Camelot, including Gwen (Angel Coulby), Morgana’s (Katie McGrath) young maid, and most importantly King Uther Pendragon (Anthony Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who will forever change the course of Merlin’s destiny.
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June 18th, 2009, 10:40 pm by Jayson Peters
Enter Metallo.
Smallville, AKA the show that just won’t die, has picked up Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles refugee Brian Austin Green.
When the Superman prequel’s ninth season begins this fall, the former Beverly Hills 90210 star will play a kryptonite-powered cyborg from the DC Comics universe, according to TV Guide.
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June 17th, 2009, 5:44 pm by Jayson Peters
The CW announced today that the new series The Vampire Diaries will debut Thursday, Sept. 10, followed by the season premiere of Supernatural.
Based on the best-selling book series from Alloy Entertainment, The Vampire Diaries focuses on the battle between two bloodsucking brothers — one good, one evil — who compete for the love of the same young woman.
Smallville, which had traditionally preceded Supernatural on Thursdays, will now air on Fridays, starting Sept. 25. The adventures of a young Clark Kent and Lois Lane will be followed by reruns of America’s Next Top Model.
Oh, and Melrose Place, the successor to the ’90s primetime soap of the same name, joins 90210 on Tuesdays, starting Sept. 8.
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February 25th, 2009, 1:32 am by Jayson Peters
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January 15th, 2009, 12:01 am by Jayson Peters
Smallville is back tonight for its first new episode of 2009, and things look pretty grim. When last we left the idyllic Kansas farm town, an brutal attack had disrupted the wedding of Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) and Jimmy Olsen (Aaron Ashmore). When the action resumes tonight, Clark Kent (Tom Welling) is in a state of shock — but before he can rescue the kidnapped bride, he has new problems of his own. A mysterious foe arrives to destroy the budding Superman, but help arrives just in time. (Spoilers after the jump.) Read the rest of this entry »
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June 16th, 2008, 1:23 am by Jayson Peters
 The CW’s Smallville has lost two of its biggest stars going into season eight — Michael Rosembaum as Lex Luthor and Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang — and the freakishly hot Laura Vandervoort (Kara Zor-El/Kent) has been downgraded from series regular to recurring character. But it’s about to get a shot in the arm to both up its hero quotient and keep the billionaire playboy theme going strong.
E! Online reports that Justin Hartley, aka Oliver Queen/the Green Arrow, is going full time. This should keep some aspect of the Veritas storyline alive — that’s the secret society to which Lex’s and Oliver’s parents belonged, formed to control “the Traveler,” aka Clark Kent (Tom Welling).
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Smallville will return for a ninth season and Supernatural a fifth, the CW announced Tuesday.
