The CW announced that it is renewing SMALLVILLE for yet another season! Yes, friends and fans…

Smallville Season 9!

CW and the fans have been very excited with the ratings and responses that Smallville received this season. Writing and directing have been superb, even after Millar and Gough left the show, and even with the absence of two main characters Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk), who left after seven seasons when their contracts ended.

Negotiations with Tom Welling have been happening since late last year, and CW president for entertainment Dawn Ostroff “hoped” the network will extend one of it’s most established series for another year. Smallville exec Darren Swimmer already has big plans for the show!

Fans overwhelmingly support an extension of the series (from a poll at Superhero Profiles). And finally, we have it!

So, thank you CW, and thank you, Tom Welling and the other cast members who are continuing onto season 9!

Just imagine what Clark Kent will be doing next year! Man, the possibilities are endless, even if they decide not to let him don the suit and fly.

What’s next for Clark Kent? Who do you want to see again in season 9? Chloe? Oliver Queen? Lois? Are there any new heroes, villains or characters you want CW to add to the guest list? 

I mean, are you thrilled about this, or should Smallville bow while it’s on top?

Fill the comments with your reactions to the news!

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Clark Kent looks for trouble. This season, Clark Kent is no longer waiting for trouble to knock at his doorstep. Nooo. Clark Kent gets a job at the Daily Planet and goes where the action and trouble are. Clark will be “stepping up in a big way to his destiny.”

Clark Kent gets into the “S”. (spoiler ahead) Blame it on the snoop Jimmy who sees something and connects it to Clark, and the superhero “will have to dig himself out of it”. Mums the word about a full costume, but the Superman brand is definitely in development.

Lana comes back to mess things up. Daily Planet equals “Lois and Clark” and Clark is almost ready to move on, but Lana Lang still owns Smallville’s heart. So what happens when Kristin Kreuk comes back for five episodes?

Things become a lot more complicated for Clark, especially when Lana catches Lois and Clark making out in a closet? .. uhmm.. “It won’t be that drastic, but you’re not that far off,” admits Swimmer.

The Legion of Superheroes is recruiting. The Legion of Superheroes will get new members, from the future! “Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad—although we might not use those names—on a mission from Superman in the future, who sends them back to help make things right.”

Meet old friends and new enemies.

• Michael Rosenbaum is NOT coming back. But expect the female version of Lex Luthor Tess (Cassidy Freeman) to continue the havoc.
• Laura Vandervoort IS coming back for episode 8 or 9, to wrap up her story.

Read the complete interview of Darren Swimmer at Kristin’s blog.

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