Michael Rosenbaum, Smallville
Over Smallville's nine-year run, the show's universe has fittingly expanded; yet, fans would like to see a few characters come back.
Though we haven't see her in quite a while, Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole) is still alive and well. Even though Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) is presumably dead, the Superman mythos would have to disagree. Jimmy Olson (Aaron Ashmore) was also lost last season, but the real photog and eventual best friend to Clark Kent (Tom Welling) is still running around somewhere.
Executive producer Kelly Souders discusses the fate, fortune or future of various Smallville characters who've been missing in action...
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Cote De Pablo, Felicity Huffman, Patrick Swayze
Every week, senior editors Matt Webb Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor and Tim Molloy satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
I only have one question about the NCIS finale: Is Cote de Pablo returning to the show next season? — B.C.
MATT: Why, did it look like Ziva was on death's doorstep in that secretly filmed torture scene? If so, think back to what NCIS boss Shane Brennan said about that grim cliff-hanger: Come September, "all will be revealed and you will be surprised. It will come at you from left field." (But, in a word: Yes. Sources whisper to me that Cote will be back.) Bonus buzzlet: Season 6 arrives on DVD Aug. 25!
Please tell us the rumors aren't true, and that Desperate Housewives isn't going with a melodramatic miscarriage storyline for Lynette. — Steph
MICKEY: Egads, this is morbid, Steph, but let's retrace our steps: Marc Cherry has said that he thinks a mother losing a child would be ...
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Sam Witwer, Smallville
What will be the fallout of the ultimate wedding-crashing? The CW's Smallville resumes its eighth season this Thursday at 8 pm/ET — free of any presidential interruption! — and Sam Witwer is here to share a look at what's ahead for mild-mannered Davis Bloome and his less-mannered alter ego.
TVGuide.com: When Smallville first approached you, how up front were they about who and what they wanted you to play?
Sam Witwer: Oh, they lied. They just lied left and right. No, they were very up front. I walked into a room full of producers, and they started telling me this story about a guy named Davis ... who winds up eventually being Doomsday. [Doomsday] was something that I had just become aware of, because two weeks before I had ...
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Now playing in this week's Mitovich Mega Minute:
• Will Smallville's Clark — or perhaps Superman himself? — eventually get a piece of Doomsday?
• More Lost teasers found: a slap, a shared interest and a gunshot!
• Which Brady kid is popping by Privileged?
Watch the new MMM after the jump!
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Smallville
Previously, on the CW's Smallville....
Chloe and Jimmy's wedding was spectacularly crashed by the arrival of dreamy Davis Bloome's nightmarish alter ego, Doomsday. Large and in-charge and sporting the latest in bony protrusions, the creature grabbed the bride and spirited her away to the Fortress of Solitude. Once she came to, it became evident that Chloe Sullivan Olsen was not herself.
What's next in this harrowing tale, starring one of Superman lore's most formidable baddies? This exclusive video, narrated by Sam Witwer's Davis, should give you a tantalizing taste — and in a small way, help you get through the next six weeks, until fresh episodes of Smallville return on Jan. 15.
Check out the hot new promo, after the jump.
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Sam Witwer by Michael Courtney/The CW
Over the past seven seasons Smallvilles Hunk of Steel Clark Kent has toiled with friends and foes from the DC Comics pantheon In the September 25 episode Clark Tom Welling has his first meeting with a character who could fit into both categories the one and only Doomsday Just dont call him that to his face Its an interpretation of the character explains Battlestar Galactica vet Sam Witwer the actor playing Davis Bloome a Metropolis paramedic with the worst split personality this side of Jekyll and Hyde Contrary to popular belief were not trashing the Doomsday backstory that hes this [alien] experiment from Krypton were adding to itIn fact the story has DCs blessing We always work with them really closely says exec producer Kelly Souders They were very much in support of Smallville giving a new spin on his origin story But eventually it does link up with what people know from the comicsIntroduced as a fast friend of Chloe Allison Mack Bloom
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Kristin Kreuk, Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum by Timothy White/The CW
In Part 2 of TVGuide.com's Smallville preview, exec producers Brian Peterson and Todd Slavkin give their take on Season 8 (which arrives Sept. 18) by talking about the return of Green Arrow and offering an update on important people in Clark's life (Lex, Lana and Martha included). Plus: Which DC Universe players you will — and won't — be seeing this year. — Michael MaloneyTVGuide.com: How did the WGA strike affect your storytelling last season?Brian Peterson: We were only short two episodes; we did 20 out of the 22 [originally planned]. We actually got to complete most of our storylines that we set, especially the dynamics with Clark and Lex and also Lex and Lionel, including the final turn of Lex killing his father.TVGuide.com: It was tough seeing John Glover leave, because he made such a great Lionel.Todd Slavkin: John's a great actor and a great man — we miss him dearly — but it was always in the cards that Lex murdering his father would aid in his descen...
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Sam Witwer by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
If I've been reading (and re-reading, and re-re-reading...) my sons' D.C. Comics Encyclopedia correctly every night at bedtime, this should be one very neat trick. With Lex Luthor quietly exiting stage right, no less than Doomsday is coming to Smallville. Though the CW's official announcement dare not actually utter the big guy's alias, Sam Witwer — whom Battlestar Galactica fans may remember as Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo — will fill the role of Davis Bloome.Doomsday, of course, is the baddie who according to canon one day will kill Superman. On Smallville, though, he'll start out as just a charismatic paramedic... though one with a deep-seeded dark side. (No, I didn't say Darkseid.)In addition, lest Lex's affairs go untended in his absence, nubile newcomer Cassidy Freeman is also joining the 'Ville as Tess Mercer. Her name an obvious nod to "Miss Tessmacher!", this spunky gal is the acting CEO of Luthorcorp — and she boasts a cunning ruthlessness to match her mento...
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