‘Smallville’ takes flight to Season 10 on The CW

The CW has renewed “Smallville” for what the network promises will be “a momentous tenth season.”

The ridiculously long-running proto-Superman story joins “The Vampire Diaries,” “Gossip Girl,” “90210,” “Supernatural” and “America’s Next Top Model” in snagging early renewals from The CW.

When The CW moved “Smallville” to Friday nights at the start of this season, many a fan thought the shift was merely a prelude to a mercy killing. Instead, “Smallville” has become a solid and reliable Friday night performer for The CW, improving the netlet’s time period performance by 74 percent in total viewers, 200 percent among men 18-34 and 75 percent among adults 18-49.

“Smallville,” which continues to star Tom Welling as Clark Kent, has regularly won its time period in young male demos and has been known to beat FOX in the 18-49 demo on Fridays at 8 p.m. Now all The CW needs is something to air on Fridays at 9 p.m. other than “Smallville” (or “America’s Next Top Model”) repeats.

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Wow, I didn’t think Smallville would get renewed. Did you?

Where do you think they can go with it from here?

I used to watch it way back when it first started. I’ve been considering watching it from the beginning. Is it worth it?

A Cylon becomes an alien resistance leader in V

Battlestar Galactica’s Michael Trucco is going from Cylon to lizard alien on ABC’s V, taking on the role of the mysterious resistance leader named John May, according to TVGuide.com.

“John May Lives” has been a battle cry of sorts against the Visitors in the series so far, but we’ve seen neither hide nor hair (nor alien reptilian skin) of May so far.

According to the four episodes we saw of V last fall, May is the founder and leader of the Fifth Column, the group of Vs who are against their peoples’ plans for Earth and the human race. Ryan (Morris Chestnut), a sleeper V who has been on Earth since before the Visitors arrived, once was involved in the resistance. Now he and Earthlings Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Father Jack (Joel Gretsch) are attempting to resurrect the Fifth Column.

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Which “On The Bubble” TV Show Will You Campaign For?

We’re coming up on the most heartbreaking time of year for television lovers: Cancellation season. Rumors and speculation are swirling, and the deadpool is filling up. Which show will you go all-out and mail shit to network execs for?

Heroes
Caprica
Fringe
FlashForward
V
Chuck
Better Off Ted
Supernatural
Smallville

Vote here on io9.

I lost interest in V a while back. Are you still watching it? If so, are you enjoying the remake?

I’m not sure which series I would save. I like Smallville but it may have run it’s course. And Heroes has sucked for a while. I used to love Heroes.

Which show would you save and why?

By Graeme McMillan at io9:

Everything You Wanted To Know About Smallville’s Justice Society

Making their debut in 1940’s All-Star Comics #3, the JSA broke new ground by being comics’ first superhero team. The concept, as created by editor Sheldon Mayer and writer Gardner Fox, was that membership in the Justice Society relied upon a character’s popularity – Namely, that any character would remain an “active” member until he or she was popular enough to get a comic of their own, at which point they’d be replaced with another character needing a popularity push. Because of this, the team’s line-up fluctuated a lot; characters like The Flash, Green Lantern, the Atom, the Spectre, Hour-Man and others passed in and out of the series, with only Hawkman appearing in every story.

Amusingly, and depressingly, enough, one character was immune from the “Own Series Means No Membership” rule – Wonder Woman, who stayed in the team, but only as their secretary. Oh, how I wish I was making that last bit up (The series holds another place in comics history besides the first superteam title; by featuring characters from both National Comics and All-American Comics before the companies were merged to form what would eventually become DC Comics in 1944, the series was also the first example of an inter-company crossover).

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Does III Mean An End To Heroes?

Production Weekly is reporting that Tim Kring is working on a new series for NBC, whose working title is III, about alternate world war. Does this mean that Heroes has gone to the great cathode ray tube in the sky?

According to PW, the new series is co-created by Heroes creator Kring and Heroes executive producer Aron Eli Coleite, and will tell the story about an alternate America being invaded, leading to a third World War. With uncertainty surrounding the fate of the NBC superhero series, which finishes its fourth season on Monday, the news of this new series taking up the time of two of the show’s central brain trust may foreshadow an official announcement of Heroes‘ cancellation.

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Will Alex Skarsgård’s Real Dad Play Eric’s Viking Dad on True Blood?
by Jennifer Godwin at E! Online

Who’s your daddy? That’s the question True Blood fans are asking about Alexander Skarsgård’s Viking vampire this season, as the series plans flashbacks to medieval Scandinavia that explore Eric Northman’s origins and roots. Having already introduced (and dispatched with) Eric’s vampire progenitor, Godric (Allan Hyde), the series is now casting for Eric’s human father, King Ulfrick.

Considering that the role calls for a fluent Swedish speaker who looks like he could be Alexander Skarsgård’s father, the part just has to go to Alex’s real-life dad, internationally acclaimed actor Stellan Skarsgård, right? Here’s what we’re hearing:

We asked reps for papa Skarsgård if he would be playing Ulfrick on True Blood, and they said, “He will not.”

OK, so, bah humbug to that, but if Señor Skarsgård isn’t down for the role, who else would work?

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by Jared Owen at Reel Empire: ‘Vampire Diaries’ Producers Reveal More Spoilers

Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec are the producers behind The CW’s new hit series “The Vampire Diaries” and they’ve returned once again to reveal and explain more in-depth spoilers for the upcoming episode titled “The Children of the Damned”. This marks the 13th episode in the show’s first season and the producers explain that we’ll learn the reasoning behind Stefan and Damon’s constant fighting. In addition, we’ll learn that Kathryn is a total bitch and much more!

Kevin Williamson said this: “Children of the Damned is an episode where we get to go back in time yet again to 1864,and we get to sort of tell another story.”

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via Andre at On The Flix: Stefan & Elena Get Hot & Frisky In New ‘Vampire Diaries’ Episode 13 Clip

Stefan & Elena get hot & frisky in new ‘ Vampire Diaries’ episode 13 clip. The CW has given us a new sneak peek look at its upcoming “Vampire Diaries” episode 13 of season 1 in this new clip. The episode is entitled, “Children of the Damned.”

“Vampire Diaries” episode 13 of season 1 airs this Thursday February 4 at 7pm central time on the CW.

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by Isis Nocturne at True Blood Net: Could Vampires on True Blood Have a Human Baby?

First, let me start off by saying that this is just my opinion about a topic I have been thinking about and something I would like to see happen in future seasons of True Blood because of the opportunities it could create for new plotlines.

Alan Ball has been asked before about the possibility of a half-human/half-vampire baby in True Blood, and he said no to that quite emphatically. What no one has asked and no one has shot down is the possibility that vampires, especially male ones, could have the ability to get a human woman pregnant.

Of course, I do understand that vampires are essentially dead, and sperm and eggs in vampires are dead as well. However, that also somewhat denies the science and technology available in the True Blood world.

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By Graeme McMillan at io9: New Smallville Trailer Finally Shows The JSA In Action

With only a week left, the CW is getting their trailer money out of Smallville: Absolute Justice, the Justice Society-guest starring two hour movie. Click through for the final trailer, complete with glimpses of the team in action.

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If you go to the CW site, there are a couple more trailers for Smallville. It looks like a good episode, and I do love Michael Shanks. I’m so glad Vampire Diaries is back on, it’s driving me crazy not knowing what’s going on!

What do you think of the videos? What do you think about the True Blood article? What are you looking forward to watching this week?

Adam B. Vary at EW.com: 9 TV Shows We Can’t Wait to See

CAPRICA
Sci-fi
Premieres Jan. 22 at 9 p.m. on SyFy

What it’s about: If you ever wondered how the robotic Cylons from Battlestar Galactica were born, this prequel series from Battlestar exec producers Ronald Moore and David Eick serves as a sexy, soapy origin story. Set on the eponymous planet 58 years before Battlestar, the sci-fi family drama follows two tragedy-stricken patriarchs: Joseph Adama (Esai Morales) — a Mob lawyer who’s mourning the death of his wife and daughter in a terrorist bombing while raising a young son who will grow up to be BSG’s Admiral Adama — and Daniel Graystone (Eric Stoltz), a Bill Gates-like technology genius whose daughter died in the same attack and whose efforts to resurrect her lead to the creation of those frakkin’ toasters.

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by Jean Bentley at MTV: ‘True Blood’: Joe Manganiello Dishes On His Alcide Workout And How Facebook Landed Him The Role

The folks at the “One Tree Hill” podcast have been doing a great job of getting our favorite “OTH” actors to talk about their upcoming projects. Last week’s edition brought us news on Bethany Joy Galeotti’s “The Notebook” Musical, and this week they’ve gotten sometime “OTH” guest star Joe Manganiello to dish on his major new gig: playing werewolf Alcide Herveaux on HBO’s “True Blood.”

Joe credits his technologically savvy fans for helping him get the role. “Facebook and the internet were integral to me getting this part. There are ‘True Blood’ bloggers that were fans of the books. They knew this character was coming up — that it appeared in book three — so they knew it was coming up for season 3. They would blog about who should play the character, and some of these bloggers put up pictures of me.”

After a friend brought the posts to Joe’s attention — “that is really what got me into the books” — he called his agents and managers and began posting the links on his Facebook page. When someone who was friends with the “True Blood” casting people mentioned Joe’s campaign to them, “it got me in,” he said.

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from Alan Stanley Blair at Airlock Alpha: The CW May Renew ‘Smallville,’ ‘Supernatural’

If you thought the Man-of-Steel would be calling it quits after his ninth season, you’d better think again as reports now point toward a 10th season pickup for The CW’s Superman-in-training series, “Smallville.”

“I’m really pleased with the show,” The CW president Dawn Ostroff said during the Television Critics Association winter press tour. “Creatively, I think they’ve done a great job. And the ratings are [strong] on Friday night. I have to commend [the producers] … It’s not easy in Season 9 to keep a show fresh. And you know what I think? The fans have really liked the show this season.”

“Smallville” isn’t the only other series that is likely to receive another year as the demon-filled “Supernatural” also is expected to return for a sixth season despite news that Eric Kripke is treating the finale as its series finale, wrapping up the majority of plotlines.

Traditionally, “Supernatural” always has been considered an on-the-bubble series (meaning that it tends to teeter between renewal and cancelation on a yearly basis). However, this year the show has gone from strength-to-strength critically, if not in the ratings. And it looks like that has been noticed.

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By Jeremy Barker at The National Post: The Return of Futurama

Good news everybody, Futurama is back, in black and white and filmed in glorious cellphone shakey-cam! Topless Robot has unearthed a video of the first three minutes of storyboard animatics from “Rebirth” from the next season of Futurama. Watch it quick before FOX stomps all over it.

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The video premiered at Comic-Con this summer (I believe). I cannot wait for new Futurama. I have actually worn out one of my dvds-there are lines all over it when it plays. I think Caprica looks good, but since I haven’t seen Battlestar yet, I might wait.

What do you think of the CW renewing Smallville and Supernatural?  Are you excited about the return of Futurama?

The Twilight Saga News Wrap-up:

HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS OFFICIAL TEASER TRAILER!!

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SUMMIT BRINGING US A REAL VAMPIRE MOVIE WITH A DRACULA REMAKE

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The 10 best Sci-Fi movies of the past decade

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Peter Jackson Talks ‘Temeraire’ Adaptation

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YOUR FIRST LOOK INSIDE TRON LEGACY REVEALS A SEXY UPGRADE

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Natalie Portman to star in, produce ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’; movie of best-selling book

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Author & Book News Wrap-Up:

COVER ART FOR 10TH SOOKIE STACKHOUSE NOVEL

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Best Books of 2009

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Fears and fantasies: Books help define a troubled decade

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TV Show Wrap-Up:

LOST SCHOOLS FAN WITH ‘LOST UNIVERSITY’ BLU-RAY FEATURE

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‘TRUE BLOOD’ BARFLY BECOMES A REGULAR

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ABC CUTS V, FLASH FORWARD EPISODES, BUT NOT BY MUCH

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Smallville, Heroes and Fringe? They just might survive

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OBS Fun News Wrap-Up:

RETWEET CONTEST: “OBSessesd WITH TWEETING”

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OBS SPEAKS OUT: THE RISE OF VAMPIRE CULTURE AND THOSE WHO JUST MISSED IT

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NEW MOON BOOK QUIZ PART 2

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OBS RECAPS & REVIEWS: FRINGE S2 – EPISODE 10: GREY MATTERS

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OBS PRESENTS: FAN ART MADNESS – SOOKIE STACKHOUSE EDITION 2

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Have  great weekend!