‘Smallville’ and ‘Supernatural’ Live On
Series Get Early Season Orders
The CW released some of this young month’s best news earlier today: both Smallville and Supernatural will return later in the year for their eighth and fourth season, respectively. Woot!
The renewals are an excellent and moderately unexpected development for various reasons. In the case of Smallville, people who care have been speculating for quite some time that the current season could be the show’s last.
Talk really intensified in February 2007, after longtime star Michael Rosenbaum stated his plans to leave the series after this year. It looks like the show will now go on without him … or will he change his mind since another season is firmly in everyone’s pocket?
Followers of Supernatural have also done their fair share of worrying about the show’s future given its inexplicably low ratings — I cannot understand why more people don’t watch a program that essentially delivers the equivalent of a spine-tingling movie during each episode — and lack of prominent promotion.
Apparently, the Powers That Be are either wiser than they seem from afar or satisfied with the show’s hardcore fan base. Whichever is true, TV watchers stand to gain the most when such an entertaining series earns another go-round.
Smallville and Supernatural aren’t the only lucky series today. Other shows The CW has extended for an additional season include America’s Next Top Model (Duh!), Everybody Hates Chris (which was just picked up by Nick at Nite for a Fall 2009 cable debut), Gossip Girl, and One Tree Hill.
Tom Welling/Smallville photo courtesy of Lorenzo Agius/The CW
