“Smallville“ got four nominations for the Teen Choice Awards ‘08, but went home with nothing at all. In fact, none of the Smallville stars seem to have been present (sans photos), unless I missed them in the throng of celebrities that came.

• Instead of Smallville, the Choice TV show for Action Adventure went to Heroes.
• Instead of Kristin Kreuk, the Choice TV Actress for Action/Adventure was Hayden Panettiere of “Heroes”.
• Instead of Michael Rosenbaum, Choice TV Villain went to Ed Westwick of “Gossip Girls”.

Now what’s weird was there was no winner announced for Choice TV Actor for Action/Adventure in which Tom Welling was nominated.

This doesn’t bode very well for Smallville, which is on its last season this year.

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Just Jared has the list of winners.

One of the best things the Smallville execs did was to hire Justin Hartley as a regular cast member. He plays the Green Arrow/Oliver Queen like it was meant for him, and he has such a following that fans really wanted to see more of him since he first appeared in season 6. I think he deserves a spin-off after Smallville.

At the Comic Con, Sci Fi Wire touched based with Justin Hartley about his excitement to play the green archer in Smallville, and included some SPOILERS in the interview.

• In season 8, we get to explore the mythology and origin behind Green Arrow
• Oliver is going to question his motives for being a hero
• Clark starts to embrace his destiny a little bit more

Read the complete interview here, and hat tip to spoiler-TV.

image used with permission from Newscom

Is Kristin Kreuk really saying goodbye to Smallville?

The Lana Lang of television admitted that Smallville is the longest relationship she has had in the past 7 years. “And it has now pretty much ended.” As a way to seal the freedom, Kristin Kreuk cut off ALL her hair!

I (Kristin) just went in there on my own and Sarah (she is the key hairstylist on Smallville, and is freakin rad) tied it in a ponytail and sawed the sucker off…

The cut looks great on Kristin, but I’m surprised to find her very thin and haggard-looking in this photo. She looked different at the Comic Con last week. Maybe it’s the stress of filming a new movie.

She landed the title role for the movie adaptation of the video game “Street Fighter 4: The Legend of Chun-Li“. The film is still in productions and very few pictures have appeared… up until now…

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The Smallville cast was actually introduced by Jeph Loeb, who still loves Smallville! Fan-favorite Allison Mack (Chloe) and Justin Hartley (Oliver) were there with newcomers Sam Witwer (Davis Bloome/Doomsday) and Cassidy Freeman (Tess Mercer). The four new producers were also there - Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson, Todd Slavkin, and Darren Swimmer. No Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, or Kristin Kreuk?!

A preview of season 8 was shown, and a fan captured it on vid. It’s not too clear but we can figure afew familiar spoilers from it -

Allison Mack answered a fan question at the San Diego Comic Con this week. How has life changed for her character? She was with Smallville since season 1, at age 18 and now she’s 26 - “this show was a huge part of (my) growing”. Looks like Allison will be directing episodes 13 or 15.

What? Nothing about season 8?!

The CW Network announced the premiere dates of its fall 2008 line-up, including returning shows Smallville, Supernatural, Gossip Girl, and new show 90210.

Smallville season 8 will begin on September 18, for the top Thursday primetime spot 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. It will be followed by Supernatural at 9:00 p.m. which also premieres the same night.

Here is the full list of The CW’s Fall 2008 primetime premiere dates:

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Last weekend’s spoilers for Smallville season 8, episode 1 “Odyssey” have the Justice League members rescuing Clark. Green Archer (Justin Hartley) is leading the pack in this new expedition. And they’ll be successful, so we can assume there will be some celebration going on.

Another celebration in the wings might be… Chloe’s wedding! Chloe will accept Jimmy’s proposal!

In other news, the producers are looking to cast several guests:

• Kat - a young eager assistant for Tess, who takes over Luthorcorp in the absence of Lex.
• Nicolai - man who works on a boat with Clark near the Arctic
• A scientist, a guard and a researcher. Now you wonder what’s going on in the Arctic to have these extras being cast.

Smallville season 8 premieres October 2, 2008.

Tigergal05 led the community to Kryptonsite for more spoilers for Smallville season 8. Here’s the gist:

• Episode 2 is titled “Plastique“
• Bette Sans Souci, the character from the DC Comics universe, will appear as a 15 year-old street kid who is injured in in explosion.
• In the DC universe, Betty Sans Souci is Plastique, an explosives expert
• Chloe, no longer incarcerated (from season 7) takes the teenage Betty in
• It’s Clark’s first day at the Daily Planet, and he teams up with Lois
• Paramedic Davis Bloom (younger Doomsday) will appear in this episode, and he interacts mainly with Chloe

Smallville season 8 returns to CW in September.

TV Guide scooped several very juicy news about the Smallville season 8 premiere!

• Premiere episode titled “Odyssey” will be all about searching for a missing Clark Kent.
• Green Arrow/Oliver Queen (Justin Hartley) is leading the rescue… and Hartley is a mainstay for 12 episodes.
• The Justice League comes back with Green Arrow, Aquaman (Alan Ritchson), Black Canary (Alaina Huffman), along with the Martian Manhunter (Phil Morris)
• This season’s theme is “double identities” as Clark Kent begins to take on his role as a superman
• The Lois-and-Clark team will be born as Clark takes a desk job at the Daily Planet across the desk from Lois Lane (Erica Durance)

Despite the departure of Smallville creators/executive producers Al Gough and Miles Millar, the remaining producers of the show says that they’re staying true to the vision laid out by Miles and Gough. “Luckily [Al and Miles'] voices are still talking to us in our heads as we’re breaking stories,” producer Kelly Souders said. “Their visions come to us all the time, so I think they did a great job of preparing us for this day.”

Smallville season 8 will come back in September on its regular Thursday 8pm schedule at the CW.

 image: newscom

SmallvilleSW took the time to get the clips featuring Kristin Kreuk, and the way she laughs, from the bloopers. It’s actually infectious!