Beating Dead Kryptonian Horses

Hey guys, I used to love Smallville—there, I said it—but it's gone from acceptably campy to the sort of hammy, unintended cartoonishness that epitomized Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Sacagawea. They must be doing something right, though, since the CW (haha!) has renewed the show for a tenth season. Jesus. The whole "Clark Kent will never fly on Smallville" idea was only tenable if the show tanked after four seasons, Mssrs. Gough and Millar. Don't you fuckers want to see that blue-and-red flying already? And I don't mean as a possessed Kal-El version of Clark. That was lame. And not a flying Bizarro, either.

Anyway. Smallville is a pretty good example of why you don't let lead actors become executive producers on their own shows. You let them direct. Have we learned nothing from the lessons of Star Trek?

Also, the girl from NBC's delayed-then-destroyed series Kings has signed on to a new show called Betwixt being developed for the CW, and you get bonus points if you guessed that it involves the supernatural. Futon Critic is reporting that Allison Miller—my sister would flip shit over those two L's in her first name—will be one of "three teenagers who discover their lineage has granted them special abilities which they use to fight evil." Hey, look it's based on a YA novel!

Eastern Cynic Fun Fact: I used to work at Barnes & Noble because it was preferable to being the only person in Park Slope with nothing to eat, so if the CW is picking up an adaptation of a book I've never seen in my life, you can be sure they're getting to the very bottom of that particular barrel.