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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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March 12th, 2008, 3:20 pm by Jayson Peters
 If you’ve been watching Smallville from way back, you remember the very first person to learn Clark Kent’s (Tom Welling) Super secret: faithful friend Pete Ross (Sam Jones III, right). He eventually couldn’t deal and left Smallville for the big city (Wichita!), ne’er to be seen again.
Until now! Now that half the planet knows about Clark’s alien powers, he’s back (after numerous guest appearances on ER) in the March 13 episode as a roadie for the real-life band One Republic. Attending the concert is one Kara Zor-El/Kent and one Jimmy Olsen (Laura Vandervoort, Aaron Ashmore) - both of whom joined Clark’s entourage long after Pete’s departure.
This time, it’s Pete’s turn to play around with superpowers after being exposed to Kryptonite gum!
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September 20th, 2007, 11:30 am by Scott Kirchhofer
Superman Doomsday, DC Comics’ newest direct-to-DVD, feature-length animated movie hit stores on Tuesday and I must say it lives up to all the hype. Inspired by the bestselling graphic novel “The Death of Superman”, which gained national media attention in 1993 when DC Comics killed their greatest hero, the movie condenses the epic story into a 75-minute gem that packs one heck of a punch.
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August 23rd, 2007, 8:10 am by Jayson Peters
“Smallville” fans don’t have long before the new season starts - it premieres Sept. 27 - but I know waiting for a favorite show can feel like an eternity trapped in the Phantom Zone. So here’s a little something to whet their appetites even further - a sneak-peek photo introducing Laura Vandervoort as Supergirl (courtesy of the CW):
More Super casting: Helen Slater, who played Supergirl in the 1984 film flop of the same name, will be a major guest star in the new season. And Dean Cain, who was Superman in 1993-97’s “Lois & Clark” series on ABC (alongside “Desperate” housewife Teri Hatcher), will play a mad scientist determined to “cure” the town’s many meteor freaks.
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Smallville will return for a ninth season and Supernatural a fifth, the CW announced Tuesday.
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