TVGuide.com's Natalie Abrams has been stringing Smallville fans on Twitter along so long now that it seemed like she'd been doing it since season five! But, finally she posted her Q&A with Smallville executive producer Kelly Souders and thankfully she did sneak in a question about the prospects for a tenth season:
TVGuide.com: What are the prospects of a 10th season right now?
Souders: We're just going gung-ho. We are planning to break a season finale and not a series finale. We have our fingers crossed. The fans have just been amazing. Nobody knew what was going to happen when we moved to Friday night and the fact that fans showed up and have been enjoying the show, it's meant everything to us and I know it's meant a lot to the studio and the network. I think that's given us a much better chance of coming back for Season 10. We're hopeful.
I hope they do a season 10. If Tom Welling is up for it, I am too.
If would be good if they’ll have a 10th season which should be the final season. If the finale would be announced earlier, the CW could capitalize on this opportunity to promote the final season very well, make it an event, and who knows ratings will go up.
I would like to see a 10th season but it should be the last. No ifs ands or buts. Clark Kent is moving one step closer to becoming Superman.
Go for TEN!! It’s still worth watching.
Sign me up for 10. That would be epic! Come on CW…just one more…
I really dont think CW is ready to give up on Smallville just yet, they still need a series to hold up fridays, at least into next season.
I hope they end at 10 seasons
10 seasons is already too much especially for a serial show. So they should end it at the next tv season.
Way 2 Go SV- I can’t wait! bring on the 10!
The show should’ve stopped after season 5 or so. I’m a big superhero fan, but I think this show is getting bad. Its called Smallville, yet the spend 95% of the time in Metropolis. But if you’re going to do a season ten, BRING IN BATMAN FOR GOD’S SAKE!!!
As a loyal fan who has been watching since the very beginning, I think it should’ve been cancelled after season 7, when Lex and Lana left the show. The quality has been downhill ever since. I don’t even know where they are going with it anymore. It keeps getting renewed because the ratings are good. But the quality isn’t. I continue to watch because I want to see how it ends, not because I still enjoy it. Sort of how the loyal Heroes fans continue to watch Heroes, even though they secretly wish it to be cancelled.
im ready for 10, 11, 12, 20…
Put on the suit already. f’ it. Make it a full on superman show. i’d watch.
It’s nice to see Smallville getting some attention here, Robert, thank you.
What I always find interesting about this issue (whether they’re going to be get a renewal or cancelation) is the fact that they always say: “We really don’t know, because there’s been no communication either way.”
I don’t know that I buy that anymore, especially since most cast members, except for maybe Allison Mack, are already under contract for a 10th season.
Someone has to have an inkling that they’re going to get a pick up. Otherwise, why would they even be planning a season finale instead?
The only reason it would be renewed is solely for the fact that the network NEEDS a show to bring in viewers on a Friday night, which is what the show has done, regardless of your opinion on the ratings.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that…Smallville is actually surviving because The CW is not in the best shape in terms of profit, especially on Friday night. At this point, even though “Dawnsday” would love to axe it, she cann’t, because she NEEDS the show to bring in viewers now that they’ve failed at making Friday comedy night.
Whatever happens, I hope the showrunners are prepared enough to give this show a fitting end. Last season, they didn’t have a firm renewal until fairly late in the season, and the result was a totally botched season finale. I hope we won’t see that same sort of mistake repeated. And if S9 ends up being the last one, I hope they have a series ending in place that does justice to 9 years of SV.
Andrew, I agree smallville doenst get the attention that it deserves from u people I mean these days most shows dont go more then 7 or 8 seasons because the economy and everything that has happend the past 3 years but Smallville is in it’s 9th season and most likely going 10 seasons all together. Although we know for sure that Allison Mack will not be back for a season 10 her character will either die like in lois’s visions or she will leave like lana did. Tom Welling is signed on for a 10 so he has to and he is now a exectutive producer for the show so theres a possible chance that he, the cast, cw, and kelly/brian will want more then 10 seasons. right now its like a 2% chance of that. The reason there would be a season 10 is because right now Smallville is doing really good on fridays and its a hit for the cw and they will most likely wanna keep it. Erica Durance is signed on for a 10th season, Callum Blue signed on for a 2 year story arc so he will return, Justin Hartly has STATED he would love to return if they have a season 10, and knowing cassidy freeman she will probably want to continue being tess for one more year otherwise she would’ve left after season 8 if she didnt like it.
if Smallville is getting expensive, The CW may uncerimoniously dump the series. They do it every year
2007 – 7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls
2008 – Girlfriends
2009 – Everybody Hates Chris
I just think Smallville is 50/50 right now and knowing CW they wont decide until May because it would seems they really want to keep the show and at the same time they may want to find something else.
I wouldnt write a full on cliffhanger for Smallville but maybe a finale that could work either way like how Everybody Hates Chris ended.
SMALLVILLE improved a great deal after Lana left — while I miss Michael Rosenbaum’s Lex, the writing on this series has gotten markedly better over the last couple of years. This is a series that has gotten a major second wind, mainly in Erica Durance’s Lois being the total reverse of Kristin Kreuk’s mopey, sad-sack Lana Lang. I find it funny a few people think the show has gotten worse after Kreuk left — IMO it’s MUCH better, and the only time the series sagged was when Lana came back for a horrible story arc last season. Once she left, things got back on track again.
Bring on Season 10 — the fans know the show still has a lot of life, and the ratings have shown cause for optimism.
Season 10 makes sense to air in the same slot (Fridays at
The tenth season should be the last however. And CW should announce it to give the show a proper finale.
Dan, while I agree that The CW should be developing new shows for Wednesday and Friday night, I haven’t seen any news that they’re doing so, which could mean that they might keep SV.
It should also be noted that Warner Bros. owns HALF of The CW network and have some power over what Dawnsday can do (since Smallville is a WB property), and if they see Season 10 as profitable as far as syndication and DVD/Merchandising sales, they will TELL her that she HAS to renew it, whether she likes it or not.
I’m up fpr season 10 – though i think CW should announce it to be the fianl season and promote it more…most of the promotions i see for SV are moments before it starts or an occasional daytime plug…i never see them promote it on other nights…I love how deep their getting into the history of the Legion of Superheroes, The Justice Society & The Justice League this year…plus some villians from both the comics and animated series and…I say season 10 OR spin off the Green Arrow on his own!