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The CW Says Next Season Will Be The Last For SMALLVILLE!!
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The CW, which gave “Smallville” an early renewal this spring, has now given it an early cancellation, announcing that the series’ next season, its 10th, will be its last.
The series’ ratings have fallen considerably since its move to Fridays this season. Its ninth-season finale scored a 1.0 in adults 18-49 and was beaten in total viewers by a Fox repeat of “House.”
Friday 18-49 finals (repeats in gray; previous Fridays in parentheses):
1.9 (1.9) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (-----) (-----) (----) Primetime
1.8 (1.6) (1.4) (1.2) (1.4) (1.3) (1.3) (1.9) (1.2) (1.6) (1.5) (1.2) (1.4) (----) (1.8) (1.7) (1.5) (1.4) (2.3) 20/20
1.5 (1.6) (1.5) (1.1) (0.9) (1.5) (1.3) (----) (----) (1.8) (1.6) (1.2) (1.1) (----) (2.2) (1.9) (----) (2.2) (2.2) Ghost Whisperer
1.5 (1.8) (1.4) (1.0) (1.0) (1.7) (1.3) (----) (----) (1.6) (1.9) (0.9) (1.1) (----) (2.1) (1.8) (0.9) (2.2) (2.1) Medium
1.5 (1.5) (----) (----) (1.2) (1.5) (1.5) (1.7) (1.9) (1.7) (1.4) (----) (1.1) (1.5) (1.7) (1.4) (----) (-----) (-----) Kitchen Nightmares
1.3 (1.3) (1.6) (1.6) (1.3) (1.3) (1.6) (1.4) (1.4) (1.6) (1.7) (----) (----) (----) (1.5) (1.5) (1.4) (1.6) (2.2) Dateline
1.3 (1.4) (1.1) (1.0) (----) (----) (1.2) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (-----) (-----) (----) Wife Swap
1.3 (1.2) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (-----) (-----) (----) Friday Night Lights
1.2 (1.3) (1.2) (1.0) (1.2) (1.4) (1.6) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (-----) (-----) (----) Miami Medical
1.0 (1.1) (0.9) (0.8) (0.9) (1.1) (0.9) (1.2) (1.2) (1.0) (1.0) (----) (1.0) (1.4) (1.2) (----) (----) (----) (-----) House
1.0 (0.8) (0.8) (1.0) (0.7) (0.8) (1.0) (----) (----) (----) (0.7) (1.1) (1.0) (1.0) (1.2) (1.1) (----) (0.5) (0.6) Smallville
0.4 (0.4) (0.4) (0.5) (0.4) (0.4) (0.5) (0.6) (0.5) (0.5) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (----) (-----) (-----) (----) America’s Next Top Model
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Since they know in advance that it's their final season, they better tie up all loose ends and turn him into Superman.
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10 had to be the last season. That a show about Superman's early years in Smallville, it was getting pretty ridiculous. The ratings took a huge hit this season. Plus, Allison Mack announced tonight that she wasn't returning as a regular and only doing a handful of eps to wrap up her character. So now, every original character besides Clark is gone. I mean, it's just TIME.
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But Herc seems to be borderline retarded anyway so who am I to call him on his semantics.
Anyway, using Herc's own words, who is excited for the Lost cancellation this weekend? -
Pete!
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Never would have expected that when I started watching it during the first season. Nice job, just wish they hadn't lost me along the way. I too hope the final season is a great one.
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They all agreed that season 10 was gonna be it's last because the story is running it's course about Clark becomming Superman. Season 9 was gonna be it's last until they green-lit an entire next season. If it were cancelled, there wouldn't be a next season, they would save it's money.
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Smallville really needs to end on its own terms. I'd rather the producers call next season the last rather than get canceled and be forced to tie everything up.
Having said that, I've felt pretty 'meh' about this season. The convoluted Zod/Kandorian storyline hasn't really interested me and I haven't mustered the interest to watch the last half dozen episodes. Maybe the final season will give it some extra zing. And maybe Clark will finally learn how to fly! -
First season it did great, but wow did the majority of the series suck.
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May 20, 2010 1:53:06 AM CDT
lex luther to return! We all new the 10th season was going to b
by professor_bedlam
And so did they! No surprise! We all new that Lux Luther would return for the final season Hint his picture in the news paper in clarks dream!
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At least that what I think, he is dressed as the old lady with the man hands and takes Tess away at the end. That said, Lex Luthor is the most overrated villain of all time. Unless he is making giant freaking robots like in the cartoon version, season 10 needs a better villain than Lex.
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It's already been said, but love how Herc finds a way to use the words "early cancellation" despite this really, in my estimation, having absolutely nothing to do with the actual scenario of choices in how they're ending the show... i.e., it's been RENEWED for a 10th SEASON, it hasn't been "CANCELLED" a la your latest Whedon overly-plotty dialogue-hitched debacle... Semantics? Possibly, but I'd lean toward Welling and the Producers (probably mostly Welling) saying, "It's time." Warner Bros. could make a mint off of this show for *another* decade, if they (and Welling) really wanted to. Just like Mack's choice -- She's had enough. Simple as that.
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Just think, reporting on all these shows that have small audiences must be a pain in the ass.
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It was WELLING who revealed this news early. Technically, the CW hasn't "ANNOUCNED" anything yet, as of this writing. Do AICN reporters check facts anymore? Guess not...
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It's ridiculous to suggest that the show received an 'early cancellation' because it's doing so poorly on Friday nights. SV has greatly improved Friday night ratings for The CW, that's why it was given an early renewal. Everyone already expected that Season 10 would be its last. Ten seasons is quite an accomplishment. As for Lex returning next season, I personally don't feel it's necessary. His story on SV already ran its course. We know that Lex will be Superman's ultimate enemy in the future, but there's really no point in him returning now. Dark seid is supposed to be the big villain next season and I'm guessing that the old woman at the hospital was Granny Goodness.
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next season will be the end for
supernatural as well? if so i hope both shows go out with a bang and then i can finally stop watching the cw -
when it aired the episode that faced Clark with a choice - save Lana or Pa Kent via wacky Kryptonian timejump hokum. Thank god the set of talking hooters won out, otherwise fanboy outcry of them changing up the source material too much would've leveled coastal cities everywhere.
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and I'll say it again: the knitter was carrying Fate's helmet. The lingering shot of the bag was the dead giveaway here. The Granny Goodness angle still seems like unplausible bullshit to me.
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unforgivably bad. Get off me telly.
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It wasn't cancelled. It's ending.
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That's more than BSG, more than Dollhouse, more than Buffy, more than Angel...more than the Wire...look, some of you hate the show - we get it. But the fact that it gets to 10 seasons is a triumph and shows that it has fans. It is a good show with highs and lows and the lowest it has ever been was always 5 times better than the shit that was the BSG finale.
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The the last season is going to involve Darkseid in some form.
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There's a line in the JSA episode about the coming apocalypse and John's confirmed that it was actually a reference to Apokalips.
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it'll end on a cliffhanger
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the good outweighs the bad
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But this is a good thing, the show can have a proper ending.
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The show is just ending, not cancelled at all.
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of Welling in the Superman costume by the end of the series finale...and fuck Warners' if they don't like it! And P.S. - Welling & Durance should be Clark & Lois in the next damn Superman movie!
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But her dialog became beyond retarded. Still a fun, geeky show to watch sometimes on a rainy afternoon.
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Uh, the ratings didnt take a huge hit at all this season, the Justice Society special got some of the highest ratings the show has had for years, and "Salvation" the season finale also got higher ratings than Herc's little graph suggests.
This has nothing to do with ratings, it has to do with the fact that very few shows reach 10 seasons, and Smallville hasnt been cancelled, they have chosen to go out on a high. -
It's obvious CW is wanting to end smalville then start up a full superman show (called metropolis) which takes place with the same cast, but a good 5-10 years after the last smallville epiosode. Clark will go of for his training at the end of smallville then return in the first episode of metropolis
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May 20, 2010 6:02:10 AM CDT
Sure, like Season 8 was going to be the last. Or Supernatural's
by mrfloppy
I don't believe them anymore.
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THAT shit was cancelled. Dropped like a brick out of a 5-story window.
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Either way its done. Its time for a full season of Superman instead of dicking around with Clark/Blur especially if he is going to fight Darkseid. I hope they at least throw Diana and Bruce, go balls out.
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Cancelling a show just after you've renewed it, and still allowing it an entire season is different then outright ending it. Maybe they see that it can't last much longer, but figure if they can give us one last season and hype the hell out if it being allowed a real finale, they'll get some last minute ratings.
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...and start flying for that last season, huh?
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they knew advanced that season 10 was going to be the series finale. is not a cancellation. because if they waned to cancel the show. they would have done so already . and we wouldn't have gotten so many seasons of smallville. so Hercules!! u can trash talk about this show all you want. but as mot of us here are saying. is not a cancellation. is a series finale.
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