**It’s now official!!!**
A number of sources are reporting that The CW started their day making phone calls to discuss renewals with the executives of their top shows. Supernatural and Smallville both made the cut, one more expected than the other.
Smallville nearly went away last year but a major turn around in the story line has breathed new life into the waning series.  But would Tom Welling sign on for yet another year as the boy-turned-man of steel? The answer appears to be yes, though I imagine his contract came with a very large number in the salary space.

Two classic Superman villains worked overtime to ruin Clark Kent’s life in the newest Smallville episode Persona. New SFUniverse columnist Brian Allen gives his take on this one.
I ordinarily have mixed feelings about reimaginings of classic comic book baddies for TV. But I have to say I love the new take on Bizarro, or as they seem to be calling him, “The Lost Phantom.” To paraphrase Arsenio Hall’s barbershop character in Coming to America, his creator named him Bizarro, I’m gon’ call him Bizarro. In the comics the Super Duplicate, despite all his powers has become something of a …read more