Smallville Season 8 – It begins with Odyssey…..

With just 20 days before Smallville's Season 8 flies into the tv sets around the US, The CW has released a number of images, the official synopsis, cast and crew updates.

SPOILERS: The episode 801 Odyssey is decribed by The CW as, “The Justice League, led by the Green Arrow (Justin Hartley), hits the Artic in search of Clark (Tom Welling), who disappeared after the fortress collapsed. The team immediately has a confrontation with the new CEO of Luthorcorp, Tess Mercer (Cassidy Freeman).

Meanwhile, Chloe (Allison Mack) is being held prisoner by a suspicious group who has discovered she has a new power, and Clark has been stripped of his powers by Jor-El”. To find out more please go over to The Happy Place Forums Smallville Season 8 Sheds >>

Smallville airs on TEN HD, the series is currently between seasons 7 and 8 in Australia

Smallville S7 Final ep tonight

Tonight at 830pm the final episode of Smallville season seven airs on TEN HD, sadly only about 200,000 of the 1,000,000 or so fans will see it on Aus TV. Most have already seen the series. The episode 720 Arctic briefly, "Kara (Laura Vandervoort) tells Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) he is destined to defeat the Traveler and offers to take him to the Fortress to learn how". Meanwhile in Vancouver Canada Season 8 is underway with production starting on 7 July 2008 and progressing to 3 April 2009.There are some changes for the eighth season. Kristen Kruek (Lana Lang) and Michael Rosenbaum (Alexander (Lex) Luthor) will become guest cast members, Alison Mac (Chloe Sullivan) and Erica Durance (Lois Lane) has signed on as has the series lead Tom Welling (Clark Kent) and Aaron Ashmore (Jimmy Olsen).

Two new baddies will be introduced

Doomsday
Real name: Davis Bloome, played by Sam Witner
He's in his mid-20s.
He works as a bartender at the hip new Metropolis lounge Ace of Clubs (get it?).
He plays down his smouldering good looks with a self-effacing wit and down-to-earth soulfulness. But he has long felt like an outsider (hence his nickname). And beneath his charismatic, easy-going demeanor lies a brooding sense of isolation and insecurity. When he begins to delve into the haunting mysteries of his true origins, a darker truth begins to emerge, one of blood and serial murders, one of survival and utter destruction — one in which he is forced to confront the true evil inside of him."

Tess Mercer played by Cassidy Freeman
Drop-dead gorgeous (duh)
Roughly 28 years old
She's determined, sexy, vengeful and has super-strength.
"While Lex is away, she is in control of his estate and rules it with aggression. She's had intellect and the confidence all her life, though it's obvious she's had some training from Lex as well. But as much as Lex has helped fortify her power, he is also her biggest weakness. She harbors an undying devotion to Lex, claiming he saved her life a few years ago. She carries out his wishes with coercion, force, seduction — anything to get what she wants. And no one can resist her beguiling ways. Even Clark Kent. She doesn't remember anything before the day she met Lex. Once she realizes her previous life is buried below the surface, she's desperate to dig it up."

And there's more over at The Happy Place

TEN HD' Incredible Shrinking SciFi Thursday

When the TEN Network announced a while back that their high definition channel was about to launch they stated that there was to be a dedicated SciFi schedule, which at that time was SciFi Saturday.

Long story short, it quickly turned into SciFi Thursday, on the first night it started at 7.30 and went through to after midnight, four scripted series and a SciFi film.

First to fall off the sked was the late night SciFi flick, offed next was the 7.30 sked when Smallville (Season 7 Shed) (Season 8 Shed) was moved to 8.30. Eureka (Season 3 Shed) finished its season 1 run and fans are waiting for it's return. Jericho was dropped for a couple of weeks for the season changeover and replaced by X-Files and is now back. The 4400 finished it's run with the series finale The Great Leap Forward on Thursday 31 July. It has since been canceled by the CBS Paramount Network Television and not replaced by TEN HD.

There is a sad 3 hours (incuding commercials, 2 and a bit hours without ads) left of the once proud SciFi Thursday. Aussie SciFi fans live in hope

Next up on Thursday 7 August at 8.30pm Smallville S19 Quest, 9.30pm The X-Files 105 The Jersey Devil and 10.25pm Jericho moves straight into S2 with Reconstruction