The show would go on for only 4 seasons, and 53 episodes despite being seen by most fans of the superhero shows that The CW would air, as the best quality of all the shows. It sadly was a victim of bad timing. The Sale of The CW, along with the sale of WB, all around the same time was too much for the show to handle, and it was ended much MUCH earlier than expected.

Below are some photos I took on the set. If you are a regular to my blogs, you have probably seen some, or all of them. If you are a newcomer to my blogs, I took photos of their filming from the pilot episode, right through to the final episode.

I have divided the photos into different groups, to make sure they didnt just all go in as a jumbled mess.
First off, Mr. Clark Kent, aka, Superman. The 1st two photos of this set are probably my 2 favorite of all the photos I took of the show.

One shows him giving the peace sign during the COVID restrictions era of the 1st season. At first, I thought he must be waving at some crew member around where I was, but I looked saw no one even close to me.... so I do think he saw me, across a park, and gave the peace sign. The 2nd photo, is another classic. He was at set, with a camera for some reason (it wasnt used in the scene, so I guess he was just randomly taking photos of something that day). He saw me with my camera, and he wanted me to take a photo of him taking a photo of me.... I hastily lifted my camera up, my settings werent perfect, as I wasnt expecting to take a photo so close, but it still went pretty well. The others are through out the run of the show, including the very 1st set I ever photographed him on (unfortunately, from the distance of about 3 football fields away...... at dark.... in weird lighting.... so it wasnt the greatest (shot 5).

Of course, the show wasnt all about Clark Kent, it had many other characters. Lois Lane of course, along with their sons, Jordan and Jonathan. There was John Henry Irons as Steel, and Natalie Irons as Starlight. There was a plethora of villains as well, and I did manage a few photos of them over the years too.... although I never photographed Lex Luthor on set.

I did get to break the scoop of what Michael Bishop would look like as Jonathan Kent after the recast with the 1st photos of him on set, I also got to be the 1st person to photograph Jordan Elsass as Bizarro Jonathan.

I got to see the downtown Smallville set 3 times over the years, but only once when something was filming for me to see. There were lots of other sets I was at where there were multiple cast members there.... and even got to photograph the actor for Lex Luthor one set, when he was directing.

Last but not least, I got to meet the cast. In some cases, several times. Every single one of them were class acts. I got to get photos with most of them, many of those photos, coming when I was meeting them as they were going  into, or coming out of, the series wrap party. But none of them are cooler than when I got a photo with Tyler Hoechlin in the Superman suit on the season 3 finale set.

You can find 100s more photos that you see in this blog in the rest of this blog section. They are in chronological order by most recent set, the series finale (sorry, there isnt a way to reverse the order that I have found).

Huge thanks to the cast of the show. Always class acts when I interacted with them. While I did have a couple issues with a couple different crew members over the year (especially in the first season), the majority of this crew was great to interact with. I do miss this show. It ended too early.
You can see them in the tags on the right side of the screen, or HERE
You can see the set videos I took on my youtube channel (these ARE in chronological order from the pilot to the finale) HERE

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Early this year, I took a gamble and went on a 2 hour bus trip out to Cloverdale, which is at the far end of the region Vancouver is in. I just had a hunch they might be filming Superman & Lois out there after someone had told me they saw the crew out there a couple days earlier. Since it was the week of the season, and series finale filming, I had to try.

My hunch paid off, as I caught the very final "public" (even though it was on Private Property, it was still visible from public property) shoot for the series in mid April, at their "downtown Smallville" set they built for the show for episode 4x10. Titled "It Went By So Fast", directed by Gregory Smith.

On this day, they were filming what appeared to be a large battle in the streets of downtown Smallville. On set was Tyler Hoechlin in his Superman costume, Bitsie Tulloch as Lois Lane, Alex Garfin as Jordan Kent, Michael Bishop as Jonathan Kent, Wole Parks as John Henry Irons, and Emmanuelle Chriqui as Lana Lang. I also saw who I believe to be Paul Lazenby (Atom Man) on the set, but could not see where he fit into the filming, although I did see him at one point rehearsing with Tyler for something, but never saw it being filmed.

We see Superman donning several scratches on his face, and looking like hes in a battle. We also see Lana looking like she has been through something, as her jeans are all dirtied up. UNFORTUNATELY much of the filming that took place was just mere metres out of my line of sight. Mostly all I saw was Superman marching towards something, or someone in 1 scene. Later, Lois, Lana & John walk towards where Superman just left. We then see a scene with the Kent boys in the middle of the road, and the three prior names move towards them. Part of the town seems to be on fire (with the use of some orange plastic & lighting mainly...but there were some real flames), a downed helicopter was also in the middle of the street.

One thing I photographed that was not in the shot for the scenes I was there for, was a mural they had put up this seasons at some point of Steel & his daughter on a wall that used to have a slogan "We grow it in Smallville" on it.

If you are a fan of The Last Of Us as well, you will be able to see this set again in season 2 of the series, as they filmed a few days at the downtown Smallville set (just obviously edited the building names to fit their show instead) after Superman & Lois wrapped.

Several days later, I caught up to the cast at the series wrap party. I managed a few autographs, which are now for sale on my Superman & Lois Autographs gallery HERE. I also managed a few photos with them, as well as some of the tickets for the event after it had wrapped & were no longer useful, which are posted below, along with a few other photos with I got over the shows run.

Superman & Lois season 4 s premieres TONIGHT October 7th, 2024 on The CW in the U.S. 

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If you want to see my past behind the scene shots for Superman & Lois go HERE


You can check out ALL of my Superman & Lois videos from the pilot, right through till the finale HERE.
Video for this episodes filming is up on my Youtube Channel here right now.