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Justin Hartley will be a regular as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow this season.  Kristen Kreuk will play Lana in about a half-dozen episodes.  Sam Witwer (Crashdown, Battlestar: Galactica) will play Davis Bloome, a paramedic who becomes the fearsome Doomsday.

Smallville renewed for an 8th season!!

From Buddy TV:

Exclusive Interview with Kristin Kreuk and Allison Mack
Exclusive Interview with Smallville’s Erica Durance
Smallville Uses Lex as Bait for Fans in WGA Strike

From Warner Brothers:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - CRIME FIGHTING NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD WHEN WARNER HOME VIDEO RELEASES BIRDS OF PREY: THE COMPLETE SERIES ON JULY 29, 2008
Warner Home Video Finally Brings Your Favorite Crime Fighting Trio to DVD
BURBANK, CA (April 2, 2008) - The wait is over! Birds of Prey, the hit WB show and the #5 most requested unreleased show on TVShowsOnDVD.com, will finally make it to DVD. Three young female heroines will be fighting together, living together, and soaring into adventure together when Warner Home Video's (WHV) releases of Birds of Prey: The Complete Series on July 29, 2008 for $39.98 SRP. Birds of Prey: The Complete Series includes all 13 episodes from the series plus all-new bonus features in a 4-disc collection.
From the creators of the CW hit Smallville, Birds of the Prey was produced in 2002 for the WB and is loosely based on the DC Comics series with the same name. The hit show brought in 7.6 million viewers each week and was the largest audience in the 18-34 demographic for the network at that time. While the world was sleeping at night, the Birds of Prey flock together to fight crime on the streets of New Gotham City. Several years after the city was abandoned by Batman, the awesome threesome of Huntress (Ashley Scott), Oracle (Dina Meyer), and Dinah (Rachel Skarsten) was formed. Huntress is the daughter of Batman and Catwoman and can smell danger from miles away. Dinah has the gift of clairvoyance and Oracle leads the team through her cyber experience, despite being wheelchair bound by the Joker. During the course of the show, the girls are often confronted with schemes masterminded by Dr. Quinzel, but always prevail and beat him at his own game.
"The Birds of Prey continues the legacy of Batman in an action-packed show with a trio of female heroines that are adored by fans," said Rosemary Markson, WHV Vice President, TV Marketing, "We are delighted to finally release Birds of Prey: The Complete Series for the very loyal fan base and a new generation of comics lovers."
In addition to the entire series, complete with 13 full episodes, Birds of Prey: The Complete Series includes never-before-seen special features such as: * Gotham Girls S1-3 - An animated series of shorts starring the Birds of Prey characters.  Sign up to get notified when Amazon gets the DVD!

From Gianfranco

The Associated Press
Posted at 2007 /11 /26 20:46:18

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- It was a Thanksgiving weekend wedding for "Superman Returns" star Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford. Routh, 28, married the 29-year-old actress Saturday at El Capitan Ranch, according to People magazine and the celebrity news site The Insider. The couple met four years ago. The bride wore a Junko Yoshioka sheath dress with Chantilly lace and platinum beading, and the groom wore a cashmere suit. In a People interview in June, Routh called Ford his personal kryptonite, saying, "She brings me to my knees." Telephone messages left with Routh's publicists, Emily Yomtabian and Simon Halls, weren't returned. Routh starred in last year's "Superman Returns." Ford starred in the 2004 science fiction film "Outside," and her TV credits include appearances on "Ugly
Betty" and "Moesha."

From BuddyTV

Smallville, the Writers’ Strike and Episode 7.7 “Wrath” Spoilers

by Deanna:

Early Season 7 Start In Canada? POSTED 8-2-07
Some fans have reported seeing an advertisement on Canada's SPACE Channel saying that Smallville Season 7 would begin on their station on September 23, four days before the U.S. premiere on Sept. 27. Now it COULD be mistaken (after all, this is the same station that said Season 5 was the last)... but it could be for real. If true, we'll just have to be really jealous of our friends up North.

Eric Johnson (ex-Whitney) stars in the new SciFi show "Flash Gordon".  Here is an article about how they want him to bulk up more. Studio Tells New Flash Gordon Star to Bulk Up.

From Supermanhomepage.com

Actress Allison Mack is nominated for a Teen Choice Award this year in the best TV Sidekick. Michael Rosenbaum is also nominated for best TV Villain. The Complete nominations are:
Choice TV Sidekick
Donald Faison- Scrubs
Allison Mack-Smallville
Jorge Garcia- Lost
kevin Dillom- Entourage
Jerry Ferrara-Entourage
Choice TV Villain
Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor- Smallville)
Vanessa Williams (Wilhelmina Slater-Ugly Betty)
Zachary Quinto(Sylar- Heroes)
Michael Emerson (Ben-Lost)
Robert Knepper (Theodore Bagwell-Prison Break)
The Teen Choice awards air live in the U.S. starting at 8:00 p.m. on August 26 on FOX.

Reminder: You can now pre-order the Season Six of Smallville in our store. The cover features Clark Kent (Tom Welling) Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) You can also pre-order The Smallville 2008 Calendar which is scheduled for release in July 2007.

Season 7 of "Smallville" will return next Fall 2007.

Source: scifi.com

Smallville Heads Toward Cliff

Steven DeKnight, co-executive producer of The CW's Smallville, told SCI FI Wire that Lana Lang's (Kristin Kreuk) pregnancy will be the main focus of the series when it returns with original episodes, starting on April 19 with "Progeny," an episode that features former Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter. "That's going to come to a head," DeKnight said in an interview. "It won't be resolved, but twist and turns will be revealed. ... Definitely. The triangle [of Clark, Lex and Lana] will definitely become more pointed on all corners. Cross my fingers, the end of the season looks pretty damn exciting."

Meanwhile, Lois Lane (Erica Durance) will be featured in a big way in "Prototype," an episode DeKnight wrote. "She's always a delight to write for," he said. "I really like the way we've moved the Clark/Lois storyline along this year. You're starting to see glimmers of interest, even though neither one of them would ever admit it."

Also look for Clark Kent (Tom Welling) to face a new, formidable foe who may have some roots in the Superman comic mythology. "Or Clark fights a dinosaur," DeKnight said with a laugh. "I'm not sure which yet."

DeKnight added that for Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), "an old venture comes to fruition in [a] catastrophic way. It's the culmination of years' worth of planning."

It all leads up to another big cliffhanger for the sixth season. "No cities are going to burn, but [the characters] will definitely be in trouble," DeKnight said. Smallville airs on Thursday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT. —Kathie Huddleston

From DTS:  In today's Watch with Kristin's atE! Online.com confirms, the casting of Lynda Carter the former Wonder Woman as Chloe Sullivan's mother in the upcoming episode "Progeny" to air on April 12th. but according with Kristin we should expect her visit a little bit sooner.
To read the blurb click HERE or go to Watch with Kristin Blog on E! Online.com

From tvguide.com

Question: Wow! "Justice" was, like, the best Smallville episode ever! Are there any plans for a spin-off?— Jeremie
Ausiello: "We've been talking about it," CW boss lady Dawn Ostroff told me. "I don't know if it's going to happen. It's hard; there are so many pieces to the puzzle, [including] rights issues. But it's something that we talked about. It's not going to happen immediately, but I wouldn't say never. Maybe somewhere down the road."

From The Futon Critic
[10.13.06 - 01:05 PM]
THE CW'S "SMALLVILLE" AND "SUPERNATURAL" POST WEEK-TO-WEEK GAINS AGAINST TOUGH THURSDAY COMPETITION
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THE CW'S "SMALLVILLE" AND "SUPERNATURAL" POST WEEK-TO-WEEK GAINS AGAINST TOUGH THURSDAY COMPETITION

October 13, 2006 (Burbank, CA) - Both of The CW's Thursday dramas, "Smallville" and "Supernatural," delivered week-to-week growth in viewers and key demos despite facing increasingly tougher Thursday competition, according to preliminary live plus same day Nielsen ratings for Thursday, Oct. 12.

Compared to last week, "Smallville" gained 9% in adults 18-34 (2.5/8), 10% in adults 18-49 (2.2/6), 33% in women 18-34 (2.4/7), 11% in women 18-49 (2.0/5) and 9% in viewers (4.9million). "Smallville" hit its season best performance in women 18-34.

"Supernatural" posted increases over last week of 7% in adults 18-49 (1.6/4), 6% in women 18-34 (1.8/4), 14% in women 18-49 (1.6/4) and 11% in viewers (3.70mil).

The CW's Thursday line-up of "Smallville" and "Supernatural" mark a considerable improvement over UPN's Thursday night from a year ago, with increases of 11% in adults 18-34 (2.1/6), 12% in adults 18-49 (1.9/5), 50% in men 18-34 (2.1/6) and 58% in men 18-49.
From the Daytona Beach News Journal Online
Next week, on Smallville - a Toyota Camry

Soon Clark Kent will face the one foe that can control his actions and dictate his movements, and he won't be able to do a thing about it.

Advertisers.

When you watched "Smallville" last night, while you were grumbling about the 27 minutes of commercials for other CW shows that kept interrupting you from watching this one, and all with those green construction-paper style graphics that made you wonder if they decided to save money by hiring kids to do them -- you might have missed this:

Chloe and Jimmy Olson were in a car in the woods at night. They talk, there's some playful banter... and they both stop, wrapped in their own thoughts, giving us plenty of time to clearly hear the commercial for the new Toyota Camry hybrid on the car radio. Ha! Take that, TiVo!

A few weeks ago Clark fought a Batgirl-ish heroine who used Acuvue contacts, according to the carefully placed box. Last season Lois happened to be driving the same model car that was sponsoring the show and she even used its custom features to distract a security guard (guard distraction not guaranteed, see local dealer for details).

Hardly new, of course, and hardly surprising. TV shows started out blatantly sponsored, and with people buying shows on DVD and skipping past commericials with their DVRs the ad people have to do something in defense. So we get Buicks in "Desperate Housewives," Oreos in "7th Heaven," Chilis in "The Office," and probably Home Depot shovels for "Heroes."

What do you think? Annoying? Invisible? Inevitable? How long before characters in one CW show start talking about how great the others are?
From Seattle Times.com
Big day in "Smallville" for a teenage super fan
By Julia Waterhous

Special to The Seattle Times

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Clark Kent (Tom Welling), right, confronts Green Arrow (Justin Hartley) during the filming of "Smallville."



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Jimmy Olsen (Aaron Ashmore, left) joins the staff of the Daily Planet on this season's "Smallville."


BURNABY, B.C. — "I think we have time for one more question," says Kendra Voth, a production executive on "Smallville."

"Um, I think I've asked all mine." No, I haven't, why did I say that? This is my last chance!

"Oh, come on, you've come all this way," says star Tom Welling with a smile. "Ask me one more question."

OK, this was it; whatever I asked, it had better be good.

"Will we ever see Clark Kent don the red cape and become Superman?" It was one of the questions I had been dying to ask the whole time — the whole time I've watched the show, in fact. And much to my surprise, I got a very direct reply, and not the one I had been expecting.

It's a bright September Monday outside Vancouver; I've been invited to the set of "Smallville" after writing an appreciation of the show ("Why 'Smallville's' Clark Kent is way cooler than 'Superman,' " July 19). Voth walks a friend and me up a warehouse ramp and into a short hallway, at the end of which are two massive wooden doors. As Voth opens one, we hear two male voices.

"They're rehearsing," Voth whispers. We take this as an immediate cue to be as silent as possible. We pick our way over cables, wires, cords, all snaking their way to various pieces of equipment. We emerge in front of the Green Arrow's penthouse, a beautifully built, very modern, angular-looking apartment, set behind a huge clock, which can be seen from the inside.

On TV

"Smallville," 8 p.m. Thursdays on the new CW, KSTW-TV.
This is season 6's newest set, and home to "Smallville's" latest superhero, Green Arrow, played by former soap star Justin Hartley. But unlike the other heroes and villains in "Smallville," Green Arrow doesn't derive his powers from meteorites; in fact, he doesn't even have superpowers.

"Green Arrow is the closest to Batman we get," Voth whispers. Like Batman, Green Arrow is not exactly lacking financially and he's extremely enigmatic. He has a huge company devoted to making arrows and other weapons, some of which he stores in his secret lair, behind that giant clock — and like Batman, as soon as darkness falls, he undergoes a transformation, all to fight the powers of evil.

Around 10:30 a.m., director Jeannot Szwarc, who has been with "Smallville" for many seasons, decides he's ready for filming. As the crew sets up, Hartley darts off the set for a one-on-one interview, which we do in the nearby set of The Daily Planet (perfect for an interview!). I try to keep myself composed: It's your first interview; don't blow it. You'll be fine, just stay calm. Keep breathing, in, out, in, out, in... .

"Nice to meet you," Hartley says graciously.

"Nice to meet you, too." Thank goodness, my voice still works! In the interview, Hartley seems absolutely ecstatic about everything to do with the show. Asked how he feels about being the newest "Smallville" cast member, he replies, "When you see someone at 6 in the morning with a smile on their face, you know they're having fun."

This upbeat attitude shines through everything Hartley says. He gives some background on how Clark and Green Arrow — also known as Oliver Queen — met. Oliver had come to Metropolis for a class reunion, but all of his classmates seemed to be meeting untimely deaths. His suspicions for the cause of the deaths rest on (who else?) Lex Luthor. So Oliver begins his quest to form a team of heroes to fight back. First recruit: Clark Kent.

Hartley says being the new person on the set has been pretty painless. "It's smooth running, [after five seasons] the people know what they're doing, and can welcome the new guy more."

And, says the former "Passions" actor, it's a great change from soap operas. With soaps, he says, he could have 30 to 40 pages of lines to memorize per night. But on "Smallville," "there's less to memorize, and we're allowed to be more creative with our characters."

The only down side: "My family is not with me." Justin's wife, Lisa Hartley, and their 2-year-old daughter, Isabella, are back home in Los Angeles. Hartley's eyes sparkle as he tells how when he calls his wife, he can always hear the "Aquaman" pilot, of which he is the star, playing in the background.

"Aquaman" was never picked up, but that doesn't stop little Isabella from using the name for her daddy. "She calls me Aquaman, which is kind of embarrassing, having your daughter call you the name of a canceled show. When she's being a little smarty-pants, she calls me Justin."

We go back to the set and watch Hartley and Welling rehearse some emotional scenes, as the crew and the cast members get used to their gorgeous penthouse set. (Green Arrow has an amazing collection of colorful furniture, art and books. And high-tech arrows, of course.)

Late in the afternoon, I finally get my chance to interview Welling, and we walk back to The Daily Planet set.

I sit only a few feet from Welling. He looks exactly like the farm boy from Kansas we see every Thursday. His smile is that perfect movie-star smile no mortal can achieve, and his eyes are such an intense blue that they nearly match the trademark Clark Kent blue shirt he's wearing.

About those shirts: It seems like Welling, after all these years, would go through a lot of them. So how many has he actually worn? "Thousands — not hundreds, thousands," he says.

"We have a whole trailer full of them. And it's funny, because if I get a stain or something I go and say, hey, can I get another shirt? And they're like, sure, just a second, and they actually go through the shirts before giving me one, even though they're all the same!"

This season, Welling says, he is most excited about seeing the forming of the Justice League, with Green Arrow and Jimmy Olsen.

Welling also expresses relief that the show has finally come to the point where "characters are making choices and leaving the whirlpool of drama," much of which centered on Clark's high-school experience.

Can Welling relate to Clark's adolescent angst?

"I think anyone who has been through high school can associate with Clark's journey," he says. "People eventually grow up and realize that there is no normal, there is no cool group."

Welling is perfectly charming, though his answers are more guarded than Hartley's. I ask him if it's ever difficult to play someone who is so purely good all the time.

"So purely good?" he asks, surprised. "I don't know if Clark is purely good. He battles with what's right and wrong. He causes a lot of collateral damage, and he does go through a lot of inner turmoil."

Then Voth reminds me that I have time for one more question. With Welling's encouragement, I ask it: "Will we ever see Clark Kent don the red cape and become Superman?"

"No," he says emphatically. "This show will always be about Clark Kent. The transition to Superman is so catastrophic that it's a whole new show once he starts flying around."

And with that, Tom Welling and Clark Kent disappear, back to Smallville. All is right in the world, for now.

Julia Waterhous is a high-school student in Corvallis, Ore.: jsw_618@yahoo.com 

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