Superman And Lois Premiere was 5 years ago today

Back on February 23, 2021 a show that many people were eagerly anticipating arrived on our screens.

SUPERMAN AND LOIS

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