In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, executive producer Kelly Souders stated that the team behind the show is hoping for a 10th season. Here’s what Souders had to say:
“We are really, really pushing for season 10. I think the word still isn’t out there that we’re on Friday nights. So if people keep tuning in and telling their friends about it, I think [a 10th season] is quite likely.”
With the current uncertainty about the show’s future, the question has arisen once again this season of whether it will be ending with a series finale or a season finale.
“It’s something that we faced last year, too. To try and break two different endings for a season kind of puts you at cross-purposes a little bit. For one, you’ll rev things up, and for another, you’re trying to bring everything to the finish line. But we’re really planning on breaking a season finale and not a series finale.”
Souders was also asked whether we’d ever see Clark don the iconic red, blue, and yellow suit and said the following:
“We think Smallville from the get-go was about how a young man turns into Superman. And it’s really about the journey getting there. I can’t make any promises, but if it was ever going to happen, it would be at the very end.”
So what do you think, readers? Do you want to see a season 10? Sure, Smallville has had its rough moments, but it’s also had plenty of amazing ones. In addition, I think the brilliant start to this 9th season has more than earned the show its right to continue with a 10th one. And in response to Souders’ quote regarding the shows’ decline in viewers:
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