{"id":1895,"date":"2010-03-07T18:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T23:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2010-03-07T18:55:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T23:55:30","slug":"smallville-gets-its-decade-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"Smallville Gets Its Decade Run."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 10 Years ago, the WB created a show about a young Clark Kent in high school. They wanted to show his origin in a way that wasn&#8217;t done before, to show Superman growing up. The show starting in his freshman year of High School, now leading a post college Clark Kent trying to balance his day job at the Daily Plant sitting across from Lois Lane, and crime fighting at night with the Green Arrow, Cyborg, Aquaman, Black Canary, Impulse, and the most recently shown JSA.<\/p>\n<p>Sites like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2010\/03\/04\/smallville-renewed-for-tenth-season\/\">\/Film<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/superherohype.com\/news\/supermannews.php?id=9131\">Superhero Hype!<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookmovie.com\/fansites\/VoicesFromKrypton\/news\/?a=15520\">Comicbookmovie<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5486573\/look-up-in-the-sky-its-a-decade-of-smallville\">io9 <\/a>have all reported the news that the CW has renewed this show for what many of them are calling its 10th and Final Season.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cSMALLVILLE\u201d TO RETURN FOR A TENTH SEASON ON THE CW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 4, 2010 (Burbank, California) &#8211; The CW Network has announced that its hit series \u201cSmallville\u201d will return in the fall of 2010 for a momentous tenth season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSmallville,\u201d a modern retelling of the Superman legend, stars Tom Welling as Clark Kent. The series moved to Friday nights this season, where it currently ranks as network television\u2019s #1 show in its time period among men 18-34 and men 18-49. Additionally, \u201cSmallville\u201d has dramatically improved The CW\u2019s ratings performance in its Friday 8:00-9:00p.m.time period by 67% among adults 18-34 (1.5\/6), 200% in men 18-34 (1.8\/7), 75% in adults 18-49 (1.4\/5), 183% in men 18-49 (1.7\/6) and 74% in total viewers (3.12million).<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cSmallville\u201d joins the five previously announced series &#8211; \u201cThe Vampire Diaries,\u201d \u201cGossip Girl,\u201d \u201c90210,\u201d \u201cSupernatural\u201d and \u201cAmerica\u2019s Next Top Model\u201d &#8211; which will all return for another season on The CW.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSmallville\u201d was developed for television by Alfred Gough &amp; Miles Millar (\u201dShanghai Noon,\u201d \u201cThe Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor\u201d), based on the DC Comics characters. Kelly Souders &amp; Brian Peterson serve as executive producers, along with James Marshall, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola. The series is produced by Tollin\/Robbins Productions, Millar\/Gough Ink and Warner Bros. Television. SUPERMAN was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While rumors are stating that this new season may include Lex Luthor&#8217;s return, the appearance of DarkSeid and Apokolips, and Clark wearing the Superman suit and actually flying on his own for a change, fans really cant say for sure what this show is going to give next season, all we can do for now is finish season 9 in the coming weeks and wait for the announcements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/smallville-doomsday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1931\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/smallville-doomsday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode (middle, 1) --><!-- \/adman_adcode (middle) --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nNearly 10 Years ago, the WB created a show about a young Clark Kent in high school. 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