172-721: Joseph " Jeph " Loeb III ( / l oʊ b / ) is an American film and television writer, producer and comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series Smallville and Lost , writer for the films Commando and Teen Wolf , and a writer and co-executive producer on the NBC TV show Heroes from its premiere in 2006 to November 2008. From 2010 to 2019, Loeb was the Head of and Executive Vice President of Marvel Television . A four-time Eisner Award winner and five-time Wizard Fan Awards winner, Loeb's comic book work, which has appeared on
344-630: A Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Tom Welling won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout TV Star — Male in 2002. Allison Mack won the Teen Choice Best Sidekick award in 2006 and 2007, and in 2009 Welling received the Choice TV Actor Action Adventure award. Millar stated that Smallville "visually and aesthetically, was a celebration of Americana", with aspects such as Clark's red, white, and blue apparel. Being an "idyllic portrait of America", he said, helped
516-657: A Super Bowl since Super Bowl XL in 2006. ABC currently holds the broadcast rights to the Academy Awards , Primetime Emmy Awards , and the Country Music Association Awards . ABC has also aired the Miss America competition from 1954 to 1956, 1997 to 2004, and 2011 to 2018. From February 2001 to February 14, 2020, ABC held the television rights to most of the Peanuts television specials, having acquired
688-560: A "Middle America landscape". The city provided a site for the Kent farm, doubled for Metropolis, provided a cheaper shooting location and was in the Los Angeles time zone. Smallville's Main Street is a combination of two locations in the town of Merritt and Cloverdale . Vancouver Technical School doubled as the exterior for Smallville High, since the school had the "mid-American largess" wanted by
860-500: A "serialized show". According to Gough, although each succeeding season relied more on season-long story arcs, an occasional villain-of-the-week story was necessary. The villain-of-the-week stories were more harshly criticized by fans of the Superman mythology, but Gough wanted to please them and the WB's general audience (teenagers who preferred villain-of-the-week stories over episodes focusing on
1032-578: A , a design known as the ABC Circle A. In 1962, graphic designer Paul Rand redesigned the ABC logo into its current and best-known form, with the lowercase letters "abc" enclosed in a single black circle. The new logo debuted on-air on October 19 of the same year, but it was not until the following spring that it was fully adopted. The letters are strongly reminiscent of the Bauhaus typeface designed by Herbert Bayer in
1204-541: A Canadian actor of Japanese descent who played recurring villain Nobu Yoshioka on Daredevil , suggested that Loeb forced the show's writers to drop proposed storylines fleshing out Nobu and fellow recurring villain Madame Gao . Shinkoda accused Loeb of explaining to writers that "there were three previous Marvel movies, a trilogy called Blade that was made where Wesley Snipes killed 200 Asians each movie. Nobody gives
1376-403: A Dramatic Series for "Sacred". Smallville's sixth season won a Best Dramatic Series Leo. James Marshall won Best Direction for "Zod", Caroline Cranstoun won Best Costume Design for her work on "Arrow" and James Philpott won Best Production Design for "Justice". In 2008, Smallville won Leos for Best Dramatic Series and Best Cinematography. The visual-effects team was recognized for its work on
1548-464: A French exchange student. Aspect published its final novel on March 1, 2004. Written by Devin K. Grayson , City follows Clark and Lex on a trip to Metropolis. In the city, they are caught between the Japanese Yakuza and a secret agent who thinks he has found an alien. In Little, Brown Young Readers' final novel, "Sparks" by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld, Chloe is hit by kryptonite sparks from
1720-560: A Good Skate, Charlie Brown , Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! , The Mayflower Voyagers , A Charlie Brown Valentine , Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales and I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown ). ABC also broadcasts the annual Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade special on Christmas morning. Since 1974, ABC has generally aired Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve – a New Year's Eve special featuring music performances and coverage of festivities in New York's Times Square . ABC
1892-449: A Series Emmy for season seven's "Bizarro". Smallville has received a number of Leo Awards . Make-up artist Natalie Cosco won two Leo Awards for Best Make-Up: for her work in the fourth-season episode "Scare" and in the sixth season's "Hypnotic" and "Wither". At the 2006 Leo Awards, Barry Donlevy won Best Cinematography in a Dramatic Series for his work on the fourth-season episode "Spirit" and David Wilson won Best Production Design in
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#17328851603222064-417: A big part of the success a show with eight Emmy nods and a win this year for NBC.com. I will miss the superb cast and writing staff and wish everyone the best." At the time, Loeb had completed writing and producing the third-season episode, " Dual ". On June 28, 2010, Marvel Entertainment, as part of its expansion into television, appointed Loeb to the position of Executive Vice President, Head of Television of
2236-532: A boy named Sam serves as the inspiration for Clark Kent to later become Superman. During Loeb's tenure as the head of Marvel Television, the Netflix shows Daredevil , Iron Fist and The Defenders were criticized for promoting negative stereotypes of East Asians and East Asian culture . Following the controversy surrounding Iron Fist ' s casting , Loeb defended the casting of white actor Finn Jones , emphasizing that Danny Rand 's status as an "outsider"
2408-614: A camp for disadvantaged youths. When a boy falls into Crater Lake, he develops the ability to foretell the future and Lionel tries to exploit this. Pete also tries to exploit Clark's abilities by tricking him into playing in a basketball game and betting on the outcome. Alan Grant returned to write Curse , about a gravedigger who unleashes a 150-year-old curse onto Smallville and Clark's attempts to put things right. On February 1, 2004 Little, Brown Young Readers published Suzan Colon's Temptation , where Clark uses red kryptonite in an attempt to impress Lana and Chloe when they are infatuated with
2580-495: A combined 105,000 square feet (9,800 m ) across two blocks with a total area of 159,000 square feet (14,800 m ). This main set of buildings includes: ABC also owns 7, 17 and 47 West 66th Street, three buildings on a 375-by-100-foot (114 m × 30 m) plot. The block of West 66th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, which houses the ABC News building, was renamed Peter Jennings Way in 2006 in honor of
2752-423: A compulsory widescreen format, either in high definition or standard definition. With this change, some programs also began positioning their main on-screen credits outside the 4:3 aspect ratio. The ABC logo has evolved many times since the network's creation in 1943. The network's first logo, introduced in 1946, consisted of a television screen containing the letters "T" and "V", with a vertical ABC microphone in
2924-608: A dark path. Roth appreciated Clark's conflict in dealing with the fact that his arrival caused so much pain. The creators also had to address why Lex Luthor would socialize with young people. They created a loneliness in the character which they felt would drive him to reach out to the teenagers, a loneliness echoed in Clark and Lana. Gough and Millar wanted a parallel to the Kents and created Lionel Luthor , Lex's father, whom they saw as conducting an "experiment in extreme parenting". They wanted
3096-548: A digital subchannel or because a primary feed ABC affiliate has not yet upgraded their transmission equipment to allow content to be presented in HD. Although ABC has not fully transitioned to 1080p or ultra HD , some stations such as ABC affiliate station KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, transmit the network's programming at 1080p via an ATSC 3.0 multiplex stations, such as KASW with KNXV-TV. ABC began its conversion to high definition with
3268-571: A facility on Empire Avenue near the Hollywood Burbank Airport . In nearby Glendale , Disney/ABC also maintains the Grand Central Creative Campus , which houses other company subsidiaries, including the studios of KABC-TV and the Los Angeles bureau of ABC News. ABC owns several facilities in New York, grouped mainly on West 66th Street, with the main set of facilities on the corner of Columbus Avenue. These facilities occupy
3440-399: A few markets, such as Birmingham, Alabama ( WBMA-LD ), Lima, Ohio ( WPNM-LD ) and South Bend, Indiana ( WBND-LD ). In some markets, including the former two mentioned, these stations also maintain digital simulcasts on a subchannel of a co-owned/co-managed full-power television station. The network has the unusual distinction of having separately owned-and-operated affiliates which serve
3612-461: A fireworks display. The sparks make Chloe the desire of every man, but when they wear off an admirer kidnaps her and she is rescued by Clark. Smallville ' s first venture into comics was "Elemental", a one-off story by Gough and Millar which appeared in TV Guide during the series' first season and set in that period. Before the start of season two, DC Comics published a one-off comic based on
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#17328851603223784-411: A ghostly presence in a Smallville house. Little, Brown Young Readers then published Animal Rage by David and Bobby Weiss, about animal-rights activist Heather Fox (who can change into any animal she touches). Heather uses this ability to harm people who hurt animals until Clark discovers it and stops her. Aspect published Dean Wesley Smith 's Whodunit , in which Clark, Chloe, Lana and Pete investigate
3956-437: A local multicultural festival. In Buried Secrets Clark and Lex fall in love with a mind-reading substitute Spanish teacher, jeopardizing their friendship. On September 9, 2004, Aspect published Diana G. Gallagher 's Shadows , about a girl and her father who move to Smallville; the father creates murderous monsters. Jonathan Kent assumes that the deaths are related to LuthorCorp, creating tension with his son. Clark discovers
4128-833: A mere 55-mile (89 km) distance between the two cities and the Kansas City-based stations (including KMBC) providing better city-grade to Grade B coverage to the area compared to the signals of the primary ABC affiliates in the other aforementioned dual-affiliate markets. (KQTV was St. Joseph's lone major network affiliate until 2011, when locally based News-Press & Gazette Company began establishing low-power affiliates of ABC's four English-language competitors and Telemundo on three low-power stations to end St. Joseph's dependence on Kansas City.) WWSB, KHGI and WOTV, meanwhile, serve areas that do not receive an adequate signal from their market's primary ABC affiliate. (Of note, ABC initially affiliated with WWSB to cover southern portions of
4300-573: A number of game shows, including The Dating Game , The Newlywed Game , Let's Make a Deal , Password , Split Second , The $ 10,000/$ 20,000 Pyramid , Family Feud , The Better Sex , Trivia Trap , All-Star Blitz and Hot Streak . Sports programming is provided on occasion, primarily on weekend afternoons and Saturday evenings. In 2006, the ABC Sports division was shut down, with all sports telecasts on ABC since then being produced in association with sister cable network ESPN under
4472-471: A number of opportunities to try different music to enhance an episode's storyline. Pyken and Wade-Reed chose and coordinated music on the show when Snow and Febre's scores were not used. In season three's "Slumber", producer Ken Horton wondered if they could get a band to provide music for the entire episode. During a breakfast meeting with the music department of Warner Bros. R.E.M. was suggested, and Pyken and Wade-Reed immediately saw an opportunity to connect
4644-612: A plot device developed by Gough and Millar. Smallville ' s first season primarily dealt with Clark Kent 's coming to terms with his alien origin and the revelation that his arrival on Earth was connected to the death of Lana Lang 's parents. After the first season the series had fewer villain-of-the-week episodes, focusing instead on individual-character story arcs and exploring Clark's origins. Major storylines include Clark's discovery of his Kryptonian heritage and Lex Luthor 's escalating conflict with his father, Lionel. The disembodied voice of Clark's biological father, Jor-El ,
4816-466: A production company. However, between the publication and implementation of these regulations, the separation of the network's catalog was made in 1973. The broadcast rights to pre-1973 productions were transferred to Worldvision, which became independent in the same year. The company has been sold several times since Paramount Television acquired it in 1999, and has most recently been absorbed into CBS Media Ventures (formerly CBS Television Distribution),
4988-555: A radio network called the NBC Blue Network . It became an independent radio (and eventually television) network known as the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1943. ABC later joined United Paramount Theatres forming American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres (later American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.). After its venture into radio and television throughout the 1960s and 1970s and the purchase of ESPN in 1982,
5160-458: A ratings record for a WB debut, with 8.4 million viewers. Over ten seasons, the series averaged about 4.34 million viewers per episode, with season two the highest-rated at 6.3 million. By the end of its run, Smallville passed Stargate SG-1 as the longest-running North American science fiction series by episode count. Since its first season , the series has received accolades ranging from Emmys to Teen Choice Awards . Smallville spawned
5332-422: A script font. Ten years later, in 1993, the "ABC Circle" logo reverted to its classic white-on-black color scheme, but with gloss effects on both the circle and the letters, and a bronze border surrounding the circle. The ABC logo first appeared as an on-screen bug in the 1993–94 season , appearing initially only for 60 seconds at the beginning of an act or segment, then appearing throughout programs beginning in
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5504-577: A seasonal channel dedicated to Freeform's 25 Days of Christmas original content. On August 23, 2024, it was announced on the network's website that the ABC app would be shut down a month later, on September 23. It was later reported that it would be shut down along with all of Disney's other TV Everywhere apps, including those of ABC's sister networks, except for ESPN's. However, the websites belonging to said networks will still operate after September 23, and users will still be able to log in with their TV providers to watch full episodes. ABC's master feed
5676-497: A sequence of still photos of the stars of its programs during the timeslot card as well as the schedule sequence that began each night's prime time lineup). A new four-note theme tune (composed by Mad Bus Music) was introduced alongside the package, based around the network's then-new "We Love TV" image campaign from the 1998–99 season, creating an audio signature in comparative parlance to the NBC chimes , CBS's various sound marks (including
5848-473: A series of young adult novels , a DC Comics bimonthly comic book, soundtracks , and series-related merchandise. All ten seasons are available on DVD in regions 1, 2, and 4 . After the series finale in 2011, the story resumed in comic book form, with 22 issues of Season 11 from April 2012 to November 2013. The regular cast is introduced in season one , with storylines involving a villain deriving power from kryptonite exposure. The one-episode villains were
6020-445: A series on a young Superman. That year, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar developed a pilot based on the film Eraser . After watching the pilot, Roth approached Gough and Millar about developing a pilot about a young Superman; the two made a "no tights, no flights" rule that Clark would not fly or wear the Superman suit during the series. Gough and Millar wanted to strip Superman to his "bare essence", exploring why Clark Kent became
6192-417: A shit so don't write about Nobu and Gao." Shinkoda also claimed that he and Gao's actress Wai Ching Ho were not invited to the season 2 premiere of Daredevil and received less payment than the extras. Co-star Tommy Walker said that Daredevil and Defenders showrunner Doug Petrie had previously pitched a multiracial Asian American version of Iron Fist to Marvel Television in early development, but
6364-656: A six-story building occupying a 196-by-379-foot (60 m × 116 m) plot at 121–135 West End Avenue . On July 9, 2018, the Walt Disney Company announced that it was selling its two West 66th Street campuses (except for the National Guard Amory) to Silverstein Properties and purchasing one square block of property in lower Manhattan to build a new New York-based broadcast center. ABC maintains several video-on-demand (VOD) services for delayed viewing of
6536-471: A slate of original digital series for the WatchABC service, internally codenamed ABC3. In July 2016, ABC re-launched its streaming platforms, dropping the WatchABC brand, adding a streaming library of 38 classic ABC series, and introducing 7 original short-form series under the blanket branding ABCd. The most recent episodes of the network's shows are usually made available on the ABC app, Hulu and ABC on Demand
6708-495: A supervising producer and has written many episodes since then. He signed a three-year contract, and although producers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough offered to keep him on for future seasons, Loeb left to care for his son, who had cancer ( See Comics career below ). Loeb later became a writer/producer on the ABC TV series Lost during that show's second season. Leaving Lost , Loeb went on to become Co-Executive Producer and writer on
6880-506: A three-year battle with bone cancer . In June 2006, Sam had a story published in Superman/Batman #26, which was nearly completed before his death. His father finished the work with the help of 25 other writers and artists, all of whom were friends of Sam, including Geoff Johns , John Cassaday , Ed McGuinness , Joe Madureira , Rob Liefeld , and Joss Whedon . The issue also featured a tale titled "Sam's Story", dedicated to Sam, in which
7052-467: A unit of Paramount Global , which owns the competitor CBS . Nonetheless, Worldvision sold portions of its catalog, including the Ruby-Spears and Hanna-Barbera libraries, to Turner Broadcasting System (now a part of Warner Bros. parent company Warner Bros. Discovery ) in 1991. With Disney's 1996 purchase of ABC, ABC Circle Films was absorbed into Touchstone Television, a Disney subsidiary which in turn
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7224-408: A week. After the series concluded, TNT began airing episodes on October 3, 2011. Smallville began streaming on Hulu on October 1, 2016. Smallville set a WB record as its highest-rated series debut, with 8.4 million viewers tuned in for the pilot. Its premiere set a WB record for adults aged 18–34 and finished first among viewers aged 12–34, with Warner Bros. president Jordan Levin crediting
7396-408: A weekly TV show. It gives it a lot more production value and inventiveness than I thought I was going to see when I first heard about the series. I think the show is doing a really good job following the mythology, and Tom is doing a good job following the tradition. According to MTV's Karl Heitmueller, Smallville's Clark Kent was a better representation of the original material and remained "true to
7568-416: A young actress who wants to attend Juilliard . Dawn, who can become invisible, wants to get revenge on the people who have been talking behind her back but is stopped by Clark. See No Evil was one of the original storylines for season one's "Shimmer". On November 1, 2002, Aspect published Alan Grant's Smallville: Dragon , about an ex-convict who assumes the abilities and appearance of a dragon after he
7740-475: A younger Kent couple, to be involved in Clark's life and help him on his journey. Chloe Sullivan (another character created for the series) was considered the "outsider" the show needed to ensure that someone would notice the strange happenings in Smallville rather than a "precursor to Lois Lane ". Smallville has been described by Warner Bros. as a from-the-roots reinterpretation of Superman mythology. Since
7912-638: Is also among the broadcasters of the Tournament of Roses Parade (although as mentioned, the Rose Bowl Game now airs exclusively on ESPN as a College Football Playoff " New Year's Six " bowl). ABC owns nearly all of its in-house television and theatrical productions made since the 1970s, with the exception of certain co-productions (for example, The Commish is now owned by the estate of its producer, Stephen Cannell ). Worldwide video rights are currently owned by various companies, for example, Kino Lorber owns
8084-730: Is also provided from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific weekdays (subtract 1 hour for all other time zones) (with a one-hour break at 12:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific for stations to air newscasts, locally produced programming or syndicated programs) featuring the talk-lifestyle shows The View and GMA3: What You Need to Know , and the soap opera General Hospital . In addition, ABC News programming includes Good Morning America from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. weekdays and Saturdays (along with one-hour Sunday editions), nightly editions of ABC World News Tonight (whose weekend editions are occasionally subject to abbreviation or preemption due to sports telecasts overrunning into
8256-637: Is also the broadcast television rightsholder of the National Hockey League (NHL), with its package (under the NHL on ESPN branding). In this deal, ABC broadcasts at least 10 regular season games (mostly afternoon), the NHL All-Star Game , the NHL Stadium Series , and four Stanley Cup Finals . During college football season, ABC typically carries an afternoon doubleheader on Saturdays, along with
8428-471: Is an American superhero television series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar , based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster . The series was produced by Millar/Gough Ink , Tollin/Robbins Productions , DC Comics , and Warner Bros. Television . Initially broadcast by the WB , the show premiered on October 16, 2001. After its fifth season ,
8600-455: Is being abused by her father, and teach her to overcome her fear of flying so she can find her mother. Flight (like See No Evil ) was a planned episode, but the crew was uncertain that they could get the flying effects right and the idea was scrapped. Nancy Holder wrote the third novel in the Aspect series. Published on January 1, 2003, Hauntings follows Clark and his friends as they investigate
8772-459: Is broadcast in 5.1 surround sound . On September 1, 2016, ABC began to use 16:9 framing for its most graphical imaging (primarily the network's bug , in-program promotions and generic closing credit sequences as well as sports telecasts, where the BottomLine and scoreboard elements now extend outside the 4:3 frame), requiring its stations and pay television providers to display its programming in
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#17328851603228944-423: Is exposed to kryptonite in a cave; the mutation drives him to try to kill everyone who testified against him. In the novel, Clark is hypnotized into believing that he is a normal teenager with no special abilities. A month after the publication of Grant's novel Bennett and Gottesfeld wrote Little, Brown Young Readers' Flight , about a young girl (Tia) who Clark discovers has wings. He and his friends believe that Tia
9116-776: Is introduced; he communicates to Clark through his spaceship, setting the stage for plots involving his role in fulfilling Clark's earthly destiny. In a fourth-season arc Clark, instructed by Jor-El, searches for three Kryptonian stones which contain the knowledge of the universe and form his Fortress of Solitude . Clark battles Brainiac in his attempts to release the Kryptonian criminal General Zod , and must capture (or destroy) other escaped Phantom Zone criminals. His cousin Kara arrives, and Lex Luthor discovers Clark's secret. The eighth season introduces Davis Bloome ( Smallville ' s version of Doomsday ), and Tess Mercer replaces
9288-506: Is licensed to Boston while WMUR-TV is licensed to Manchester, New Hampshire (which is officially part of the Boston market). WCVB is easily receivable in Manchester with a good antenna as well as having its own news department that covers New Hampshire ; it is the only station licensed to the state that does such. Both WCVB and WMUR are owned by Hearst Television . The Sinclair Broadcast Group
9460-433: Is safe at home, the colors are "warm and gentle" earth tones and the camera movement is "very gentle". When Clark is keeping his secret and not in danger, the lighting is more neutral and the camera more mobile. When danger is present, the lighting becomes colder and the camera is handheld to allow for more "extreme angles". In Metropolis "clean, hard-lined architecture" predominates, with blues, purples and reflective metals
9632-531: Is the largest operator of ABC stations by numerical total, owning or providing services to 28 full, primary ABC affiliates and two subchannel-only affiliates. Sinclair owns the largest ABC subchannel affiliate by market size, WABM-DT2 / WDBB-DT2 in the Birmingham market, which serve as repeaters of WBMA-LD (which itself is also simulcast on a subchannel of former WBMA satellite WGWW , owned by Sinclair partner company Howard Stirk Holdings ). The E. W. Scripps Company
9804-407: Is the largest operator of ABC stations in terms of overall market reach, owning 15 ABC-affiliated stations (including affiliates in larger markets such as Cleveland , Phoenix , Detroit and Denver ), and through its ownership of Phoenix affiliate KNXV, Las Vegas affiliate KTNV-TV and Tucson affiliate KGUN-TV , it is the only provider of ABC programming for the majority of Arizona (outside
9976-454: Is the only major broadcast network that carries games from all of the traditional "big four" sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL). During the late winter months, ABC airs both men's and women's college basketball games on weekend afternoons. In the spring and summer months, ABC also airs games (usually on weekends) from the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and is the broadcast home of
10148-498: Is transmitted in 720p high-definition , the native resolution format for the Walt Disney Company's American television properties. However, most of Hearst Television 's ABC-affiliated stations and some of Tegna 's ABC affiliates transmit the network's programming in 1080i , while 11 other affiliates owned by various companies carry the network feed in 480i standard definition either due to technical considerations for affiliates of other major networks that carry ABC programming on
10320-577: The Daily Planet and introducing other DC comic book superheroes and villains . Before the production, Bruce Wayne , a drama series chronicling the young protagonist's journey toward Batman , was proposed first. Although that series failed to generate interest, it inspired the idea of a Superman origin story , which later became Smallville . Gotham later used that idea three years after Smallville ' s conclusion. Series developers Gough and Millar pitched their "no tights, no flights" rule to
10492-727: The New York Times Best Seller list , includes work on many major characters, including Spider-Man , Batman , Superman , Hulk , Captain America , Cable , Iron Man , Daredevil , Supergirl , the Avengers , and Buffy the Vampire Slayer , much of which he has produced in collaboration with artist Tim Sale . Jeph Loeb was raised in a Jewish family in Stamford, Connecticut . He began collecting comic books in mid-1970. His stepfather
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#173288516032210664-414: The 1995–96 season , the respective iterations of the translucent logo bug were also incorporated within program promotions until the 2011–12 season. During the 1997–98 season, the network began using a minimalist graphical identity with a yellow and black motif, designed by Pittard Sullivan, featuring a small black-and-white "ABC Circle" logo on a yellow background (promotions during this time also featured
10836-735: The People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Drama, as well the Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series. It was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Dramatic Television Series. Loeb and Tim Kring were presented with the Jules Verne Award for Artistic Achievement at the Jules Verne Festival in Paris , France, on April 22, 2007, for their work on Heroes . Loeb himself
11008-449: The Red Hulk . In 2006, Loeb chose his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut , to be subject to superhero destruction in the first issue of the 2006–2007 Marvel miniseries Civil War , the central title of the crossover storyline of the same name. That same year, Marvel announced an untitled Spider-Man series by Loeb and J. Scott Campbell , to be released "sometime in 2007". The series
11180-521: The X Games and Little League World Series . In 2015, ESPN's annual ESPY Awards presentation moved to ABC from ESPN. Bolstered by Caitlyn Jenner accepting the inaugural Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the ceremony, the 2015 ESPY Awards ' viewership was roughly tripled over the 2014 ceremony on ESPN. After the NFL signed a new contract with the Walt Disney Company , ABC will air Super Bowl LXI in 2027 and Super Bowl LXV in 2031. The network has not aired
11352-968: The Yuma - El Centro market) and Southern Nevada . Scripps also owns and operates several ABC stations in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, including in Denver, San Diego , Bakersfield, California , and Boise, Idaho , and when combined with the ABC-owned stations in Los Angeles , Fresno , and San Francisco , the affiliations from the News-Press & Gazette Company in Santa Barbara , Palm Springs , Yuma-El Centro , and Colorado Springs-Pueblo , and Sinclair's affiliations in Seattle and Portland, Oregon , these four entities control
11524-412: The programming block is syndicated exclusively to ABC owned-and-operated and affiliated stations, rather than being leased out directly by the network to Litton. ABC's daytime schedule currently features the talk show The View , news show GMA3 , and the soap opera General Hospital . Originally premiering in 1963, General Hospital is ABC's longest-running entertainment program. In addition to
11696-445: The " Heroes Reborn " version of Captain America in 1996–1997. He and Tim Sale crafted several limited series for Marvel including Daredevil: Yellow Spider-Man: Blue , and Hulk: Gray . Loeb became the writer of Superman with issue #151 (Dec. 1999). His tenure on the title, largely drawn by Ed McGuinness , included the "Emperor Joker" and " Our Worlds at War " crossovers. He left Superman with issue #183 (August 2002). At
11868-458: The 1920s, but also share similarities with several other fonts, such as ITC Avant Garde and Horatio, and most closely resembling Chalet. The logo's simplicity made it easier to redesign and duplicate, which was beneficial before the advent of computer graphics. A color version of the logo was also developed around 1963, and animated as a brief 10-second intro to be shown before the then-small handful of network programs broadcast in color (similar to
12040-443: The 1980s, after purchasing an 80 percent interest in cable sports channel ESPN , the network's corporate parent, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., merged with Capital Cities Communications, owner of several television and radio stations and print publications, to form Capital Cities/ABC Inc. , which in turn merged into Disney in 1996. ABC has eight owned-and-operated and more than 230 affiliated television stations throughout
12212-497: The 2005 feature film Batman Begins , the others being Batman: The Man Who Falls and Batman: Year One . Other Loeb-Sale collaborations at DC include the Superman for All Seasons limited series and Catwoman: When in Rome . At Marvel Comics, Loeb worked on the " Age of Apocalypse " crossover storyline in 1995 and co-created the character X-Man with artist Steve Skroce . Loeb wrote
12384-433: The ABC Circle logo's many variants was a 1977 ID sequence that featured a bubble on a black background representing the circle with glossy gold letters, and was the first ABC identification card to simulate a three-dimensional appearance. In 1983, for the 40th anniversary of the network's founding, ID sequences had the logo appear in a gold CGI design on a blue background, accompanied by the slogan "That Special Feeling" in
12556-493: The Man of Steel. They felt that because they were not comic book fans or familiar with the universe, they would have an unbiased approach to the series. Gough and Millar learned about the characters, researching the comics and choosing what they liked. They pitched their idea to the WB and Fox on the same day. A bidding war between the networks followed, with the WB committing to thirteen episodes. Although Roth, Gough and Millar knew
12728-599: The Marvel Universe to the loss of the assassinated Captain America. The first issue ranked No. 1 in sales for April 2007, and the fifth and final issue, dated July 4, 2007, was the "Funeral for Captain America", which was covered by the Associated Press and The Washington Post . Loeb wrote two miniseries for the Ultimate Marvel Universe . His work on The Ultimates 3 in 2007, with artist Joe Madureira,
12900-588: The NBC "Laramie" peacock intro used during that era). The "a" was rendered in red, the "b" in blue, and the "c" in green, against the same single black circle. A variant of this color logo, with the colored letters against a white circle, was also commonly used throughout the 1960s. The 1970s and 1980s saw the emergence of many graphical imaging packages for the network which based the logo's setting mainly on special lighting effects then under development including white, blue, pink, rainbow neon, and glittering dotted lines. Among
13072-403: The NBC drama Heroes , which his colleague Tim Kring had created. Loeb wrote the teleplay for the first-season episodes " One Giant Leap " and " Unexpected ". The show prominently features the artwork of Tim Sale, Loeb's longtime comics collaborator. The series was nominated for the 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, and a Writers Guild of America award for Best New Series. It won
13244-523: The North American home video rights to the ABC feature film library (along with some lesser known live action films from Disney's library, mostly from Touchstone Pictures , Hollywood Pictures and 20th Century Studios ). When the FCC imposed its Financial Interest and Syndication Rules in 1970, ABC proactively created two companies: Worldvision Enterprises as a syndication distributor, and ABC Circle Films as
13416-611: The November 2004 reacquisition of Superboy by the Siegel family , a copyright infringement dispute has arisen over ownership of the fictional town of Smallville and a claimed similarity between Superboy and Smallville ' s Clark Kent. According to the Siegel heirs, " Smallville is part of the Superboy copyright" (which they hold). In April 2008, after seven seasons with the series, Gough and Millar left Smallville . The developers thanked
13588-433: The Superman mythology). Christopher Reeve , star of the Superman films , expressed his approval of the show: I was a little bit skeptical when I heard about [ Smallville ] at first, but I must say the writing, the acting, and the special effects are quite remarkable. In 1977, a big stunt scene would have taken us a week to film—it's pretty impressive what they are able to do with computers and effects technology today on
13760-400: The TV series Heroes . Four years later, Loeb was working on a script for The Flash as a feature with Warner Bros. While the script deal fell through, Loeb met then publisher Jenette Kahn who asked Loeb to write a comic book for DC Comics . In 2002, Jeph Loeb wrote the script for the episode of Smallville , entitled "Red", which introduced red kryptonite into the series. He became
13932-475: The TV series, there was an occasional continuity overlap because of differences in production schedule between the comic and the series. In one instance, the comic book showed Clark robbing an ATM and the season-three premiere showed him robbing multiple ATMs. The series tied into the TV series, the Chloe Chronicles webisodes and Smallville -related webpages, with cast and crew interviews and information on
14104-584: The Tampa–St. Petersburg market—including WWSB's city of license , Sarasota —as the transmitters of WTSP , the market's former primary ABC affiliate from 1965 to 1994, and Miami affiliate WPLG had been short-spaced to avoid interference between their respective analog-VHF channel 10 signals, WWSB remained an ABC affiliate after its Tampa affiliation moved from WTSP to WFTS in December 1994, even though WFTS's signal reaches Sarasota and some surrounding areas.) WCVB-TV
14276-911: The United States and its territories. Some ABC-affiliated stations can also be seen in Canada via pay-television providers, and certain other affiliates can also be received over-the-air in areas near the Canada–United States border , although most of its prime time programming is subject to simultaneous substitution regulations for pay television providers imposed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to protect rights held by domestically based networks. ABC News provides news and features content for select radio stations owned by Cumulus Media , as these stations are former ABC Radio properties. In 1927, NBC operated
14448-770: The WB and UPN merged to form The CW , the series' later United States broadcaster until its tenth and final season ended on May 13, 2011. Smallville follows the coming-of-age adventures of teenage Clark Kent ( Tom Welling ) in his fictional hometown of Smallville , Kansas , before he formally becomes the Man of Steel. The first four seasons focus on the high school life of Clark and his friends, his complicated romance with neighbor girl Lana Lang ( Kristin Kreuk ), and his friendship with future nemesis Lex Luthor ( Michael Rosenbaum ). From season five onwards, Smallville ventures into Clark's early adult years, eventually focusing on his career alongside Lois Lane ( Erica Durance ) at
14620-655: The Walt Disney Company . ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California , directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan , New York City , which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News . Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks )
14792-506: The access of ABC network programming in most of the Western United States, particularly in terms of audience reach. All of ABC's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates have had their own facilities and studios, but transverse entities have been created to produce national programming. As a result, television series were produced by ABC Circle Films beginning in 1962 and by Touchstone Television beginning in 1985, before Touchstone
14964-630: The branding ESPN on ABC . General industry trends and changes in rights have prompted reductions in sports on broadcast television, with Disney preferring to schedule the majority of its sports rights on the networks of ESPN (until 2020). Since 2020 ESPN has prioritized ABC with airings of its sports telecasts with occasional simulcasts and exclusive games of ESPN Monday Night Football broadcasts on ABC. Since 2006, ABC has at least aired ten weeks of primetime sports programming, and since 2020 has aired sports programming almost every week from September to May each year (with primetime encores and movies airing
15136-568: The broadcast rights from CBS, which originated the specials in 1965 with the debut of A Charlie Brown Christmas (other Peanuts specials broadcast annually by ABC, in addition to A Charlie Brown Christmas , include Charlie Brown's All Stars! , It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown , You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown , A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving , It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown , Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown , She's
15308-475: The cast and crew for their work, acknowledging that they never stopped fighting for what they saw as "their vision" of the show. The reason for their departure was not provided. Gough and Millar were replaced as showrunners by Todd Slavkin , Darren Swimmer , Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson. All began writing for the series at the start of the second season, and were executive producers by the seventh season. In 2009, after one season, Swimmer and Slavkin took over
15480-461: The center, referencing the network's roots in radio. When the ABC-UPT merger was finalized in 1953, the network introduced a new logo based on the FCC seal, with the letters "ABC" enclosed in a circular shield surmounted by a bald eagle. In 1957, just before the television network began its first color broadcasts, the ABC logo consisted of a tiny lowercase "abc" in the center of a large lowercase letter
15652-460: The company after nearly a decade. Loeb had been planning his departure, however, before Feige's promotion. Loeb is known for his extensive use of narration boxes as monologues to reveal the inner thoughts of characters, though the character interactions he writes are sparse in terms of dialogue. Jeph Loeb's first comic work was Challengers of the Unknown vol. 2 #1 – #8 (March – October 1991), which
15824-493: The company was acquired and merged with Capital Cities, forming Capital Cities/ABC in 1986. The company was sold to the Walt Disney Company in 1996. The ABC television network currently provides an average of 89 hours of network programming each week. It also offers 22 hours of prime-time programming to affiliated stations from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday (Eastern and Pacific Time) and 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Sundays. Daytime programming
15996-502: The current five-note version introduced in 2020) and the Fox fanfare (which was phased out by the Fox network in 2019). The four-note signature has been updated with every television season thereafter until 2020–21 season. In 1999, ABC launched a web-based promotional campaign focused around its circle logo, also called 'the dot', in which comic book character Little Dot prompted visitors to "download
16168-399: The day after their original broadcast. In addition, ABC on Demand disallows fast forwarding of accessed content. In 2021, ABC updated the app to allow app users to watch shows from ABC's sister networks: Freeform , FX , and National Geographic . Free ad-supported streaming television channels were added to the ABC app in 2022 and 2023, including a 24-hour version of ESPN8 The Ocho and
16340-522: The departing Lex Luthor. Justin Hartley becomes a series regular as Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) after being a recurring guest in season six . In the ninth season Major Zod ( Callum Blue ) and other members of Zod's military group are revived (without their Kryptonian powers) by Tess Mercer, and their efforts to regain their powers are the season's central conflict. The final season revolves around Clark's attempts to lose his doubts and fears and become
16512-418: The dominant scheme. The same concept is used for the characters; Lex usually has a "glass, steel background", and Lionel has a white or "clinical blue" background. Lex typically wears black, grey and "cool tones" (purples and blues). Clark is represented by red, yellow and blue, similar to the traditional Superman costume, and "All-American" red, white and blue. From season two onward, Entity FX produced all of
16684-639: The end of 2002, Loeb teamed with artist Jim Lee to create the year-long story arc "Batman: Hush", which spawned three lines of toys, posters and calendars, and sat at the #1 spot for eleven of the twelve months it was in publication. The following year, Loeb and McGuinness launched Superman/Batman . Loeb's run on the title spawned a new ongoing Supergirl series, and an animated film adapted from Loeb's "Public Enemies" story arc. After signing an exclusive contract with Marvel in September 2005, Loeb launched Hulk with artist Ed McGuinness, in which he introduced
16856-418: The end of season one. DC Comics then began publishing a bimonthly comic with stories about Smallville characters. Writer and script coordinator Clint Carpenter called the comic a companion to the series rather than a non-canonical version. According to Carpenter, the series expands on events in the series (such as season-ending cliffhangers) and gives "additional depth" to characters with limited screen time on
17028-645: The entire Ultimate Universe and in the long run brought about its cancellation. "Over the course of just five issues, 34 different heroes and villains were murdered, often by gruesome means: Doctor Strange was squeezed until his head exploded; Magneto was decapitated; the Blob ate the Wasp and, while holding her half-devoured corpse, belched out, 'Tastes like chicken'; and so on." The review site Let's Be Friends Again described Ultimatum as "a base and insulting comic book." Critic Jason Kerouac wrote, " Ultimatum #5 could quite possibly be
17200-456: The episode's featured band with its story (which revolved around REM sleep ). That season, Al Gough wanted to use Johnny Cash 's cover of the Nine Inch Nails song " Hurt " for the final scene of "Shattered" (when Lionel Luthor looks at Lex through a one-way mirror at Belle Reve sanitarium) as soon as he read the episode's script. Cash died while Wade-Reed was trying to obtain the rights for
17372-487: The episode's final scene, telling Wade-Reed that he saw the song as being about mothers. In that scene Clark tells Martha that his first childhood memory was of his mother, Lara . Season three's "Velocity" provided the music editors with the opportunity to use hip-hop , rarely used in the series. The episode, similar to The Fast and the Furious , focused on Pete. Wade-Reed heard of British hip-hop artist Dizzee Rascal , and
17544-600: The episodes' production. The comic series ended in January 2005 with #11, with no comics published until the Season Eleven series debut. The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of
17716-676: The film crew (which had to shoot when school was in session), and when a class was dismissed the crew stepped aside so the students could move the equipment to get to their lockers for the next class. The Kent farm is a working farm in Aldergrove . Owned by the Anderlinis, the crew painted their home yellow for the show. Exterior shots of Luthor Mansion were filmed at Hatley Castle in Victoria . The interiors were filmed at Shannon Mews in Vancouver, also
17888-517: The filmmakers and was in keeping with Millar's idea that Smallville should be the epitome of "Smalltown, USA". Templeton Secondary School was used for Smallville High's interior. During season one, the production team repainted most of Templeton in Smallville High's red and yellow and distributed large Smallville High Crows logos; so much of the school was painted that it adopted red and yellow as its school colors. The students became accustomed to
18060-422: The first stations to offer streams of their programming on the service, with the six remaining ABC O&Os offering streams by the start of the 2013–14 season. Hearst Television also reached a deal to offer streams of its ABC affiliates on the service, though as of 2016 these stations are only available for live-streaming for DirecTV subscribers. In November 2015, it was reported that ABC had been developing
18232-438: The footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC , as well as the lesser-known DuMont . In the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres (UPT), a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures . Leonard Goldenson , who had been the head of UPT, made the then-new television network profitable by helping to develop and green-light many successful television series. In
18404-471: The headquarters building on Riverside Drive, other ABC facilities in Burbank include a building at 3800 West Alameda, known as 'Burbank Center', which is primarily associated with Walt Disney Television and functions as the headquarters and broadcast center for Disney Channel , Disney Junior , Disney XD , Freeform , FX , National Geographic , and Radio Disney . Additionally, Disney Television Animation has
18576-452: The heart of the story" by showing Clark's selflessness and his struggle between his desires and his obligations. However, Heitmueller wrote that the series would have a difficult time addressing why no one in Smallville (including Lex Luthor) recognized Clark when he put on the suit. TV Guide's Michael Schneider called it one of the best examples of a superhero adaptation for television, but Christopher Hooton of Metro wrote that Smallville
18748-471: The hero he is meant to be, while confronting his biggest challenges: the coming of Darkseid and the return of Lex Luthor. Tollin/Robbins Productions originally wanted to do a series about a young Bruce Wayne, but the feature-film division of Warner Bros. decided to develop an origin movie for Batman and did not want to compete with a television series. In 2000, Tollin/Robbins approached Peter Roth, president of Warner Bros. Television , about developing
18920-605: The in-house productions it continues to produce (such as America's Funniest Home Videos , General Hospital , ABC News productions, and series from Disney Television Studios ( ABC Signature and 20th Television ). Disney–ABC Domestic Television (formerly known as Buena Vista Television and 20th Television) handles domestic television distribution, while Disney–ABC International Television (formerly known as Buena Vista International Television) handles international television distribution. Since its inception, ABC has had over 300 television stations that have carried programming from
19092-411: The joint workload of Smallville and Ghost Whisperer , but would return for the latter. Reminiscing about his work on the show, Snow said that much of the music had not changed during the series and agreed with Larson that it was "more [about] maintaining the heroic concept and the mythology than progressing through specific changes". Louis Febre, who worked closely with Snow from the beginning, became
19264-424: The largest U.S. broadcast television network by total number of affiliates. The network has an estimated national reach of 97.72% of all households in the United States (or 305,347,338 Americans with at least one television set). Currently, New Jersey , Rhode Island , and Delaware are the only U.S. states where ABC does not have a locally licensed affiliate (New Jersey is served by New York City O&O WABC-TV in
19436-442: The launch of its simulcast feed, ABC HD, on September 16, 2001, at the start of the 2001–02 season , with its scripted prime-time series becoming the first shows to upgrade to the format, the simulcast feed was launched first on ABC's owned television stations that same date with many major affiliates following after that. Both new and returning scripted series were broadcast in high definition. In 2011, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
19608-449: The long-running All My Children (1970–2011) and One Life to Live (1968–2012), notable past soap operas seen on the daytime lineup include Ryan's Hope , Dark Shadows , Loving , The City and Port Charles . ABC also aired the last nine years of the Procter & Gamble -produced soap The Edge of Night , following its cancellation by CBS in 1975. ABC Daytime has also aired
19780-472: The miniseries The Defenders , along with younger adult shows like Runaways and Cloak & Dagger , and other live action or animated shows based on Marvel characters like M.O.D.O.K. , The Gifted , Legion , Helstrom . In October 2019, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige was promoted to Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment , which includes Marvel Television, prompting Loeb to leave
19952-558: The murder of a boy and his sister while Lex tries to decide whether to ransom his kidnapped father or try rescuing Lionel himself. Little, Brown Young Readers published the next two books in April and June 2003. The first, Speed , was written by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld. The second, Buried Secrets , was written by Suzan Colon. In Speed , a boy uses an hourglass his father gave him for his birthday to stop time and commit hate crimes without being caught. Clark stops him before he disrupts
20124-476: The music for the first six seasons was composed by Mark Snow , who incorporated elements of John Williams 's musical score from the Superman film series . Louis Febre (who worked with Snow from the beginning) became the series' primary composer in season seven . Smallville was generally positively received when it began. Former Superman star Christopher Reeve approved of the series, making two guest appearances before his death. The pilot episode set
20296-487: The network at various times throughout its history, including its first two owned-and-operated and affiliated stations, founding O&O WABC-TV and inaugural affiliate WPVI-TV . As of 2020 , ABC has eight owned-and-operated stations, and current and pending affiliation agreements with 236 additional television stations encompassing 50 states, the District of Columbia, four U.S. possessions, Bermuda, and Saba . This makes ABC
20468-438: The network's existing streaming portal at ABC.com and a mobile app for smartphones and tablet computers. This service provides full-length episodes of ABC programs and live streams of local affiliates in select markets (this was the first such offering by a U.S. broadcast network). Live streams are only available to authenticated subscribers of participating pay television providers . WABC-TV New York and WPVI-TV Philadelphia were
20640-440: The network's programming, including a traditional VOD service called ABC on Demand, which is carried on most traditional cable and IPTV providers. The Walt Disney Company is also a part-owner of Hulu , and has offered full-length episodes of most of ABC's programming through this streaming service since July 6, 2009. In May 2013, ABC launched "WatchABC", a revamp of its traditional multi-platform streaming services encompassing
20812-558: The new CW series Melrose Place and did not return for Smallville ' s ninth season; Souders and Peterson would continue as showrunners. Tom Welling became co-executive producer of the series that July. In March 2010, Millar, Gough and co-producer Tollin/Robins Productions filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and The CW charging that Hollywood's " vertical integration " cost Millar and Gough millions of dollars. The suit claimed that Warner Bros. failed to "maximize profits" in marketing Smallville , misrepresented production costs and sold
20984-558: The newly created Marvel Television , in which Loeb would work with publisher Dan Buckley, to create both live-action and animated shows based on Marvel's catalog of characters. During his time as the head of Marvel Television, he executive produced live-action shows within the Marvel Cinematic Universe such as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , Agent Carter , and Inhumans , shows on Netflix such as Daredevil , Jessica Jones , Iron Fist , The Punisher , Luke Cage , and
21156-536: The north half of the state and Philadelphia O&O WPVI-TV in the south, Rhode Island is served by New Bedford, Massachusetts -licensed WLNE , though outside of the transmitter, all other operations for the station are based in Providence , and Delaware is served by WPVI in the northern two thirds and Salisbury, Maryland , affiliate WMDT in the southern third of the state). ABC maintains affiliations with low-power stations (broadcasting either in analog or digital) in
21328-451: The opening song " Save Me ", for their contributions to the series; the award was given to individuals who wrote the theme (or underscore) for the highest-rated television series in 2001 for their network. The American Society of Cinematographers awarded David Moxness for the sixth season's "Arrow", giving Glen Winter the same award the following year for his work on "Noir". Series regulars have also won awards; in 2001, Michael Rosenbaum won
21500-453: The other television series which aired during primetime hours. During its ten seasons, Smallville won awards ranging from Emmys to Teen Choice Awards . In 2002, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series for its pilot episode. Four years later, it received an Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series for the fifth-season episode "Arrival". In 2008, Smallville again won an Outstanding Sound Editing for
21672-481: The pilot with a 2002 Best Visual Effects Leo, and received 2004 VES Awards for Outstanding Compositing in a Televised Program, Music Video or Commercial for the second season's "Accelerate" and Outstanding Matte Painting in a Televised Program, Music Video, or Commercial for "Insurgence". In 2002 the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers honored composer Mark Snow and Remy Zero , who provided
21844-410: The president of Warner Bros. Television, reducing the Man of Steel to the bare moral essentials and examining what led Clark Kent to become the iconic superhero. After seven seasons with the show, Gough and Millar departed with little explanation. Smallville was primarily filmed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia , with local businesses and buildings substituting for Smallville locations. Most of
22016-435: The primetime Saturday Night Football . ABC also airs coverage of selected bowl games, ABC is also the secondary broadcast partner of Major League Baseball (MLB) with the network at least airing wild card series games since 2020 (except for 2021), and select Sunday Night Baseball games by sister network ESPN. Beginning in the 2015 NFL season , ESPN agreed to begin simulcasting/exclusively airing NFL games on ABC. Thus, ABC
22188-527: The program's timeslot), the Sunday political talk show This Week , early morning news programs World News Now and America This Morning and the late-night newsmagazine Nightline . Late nights feature the weeknight talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! . The network's three-hour Weekend morning children's programming timeslot is programmed by syndication distributor Litton Entertainment , which produces Litton's Weekend Adventure under an arrangement in which
22360-570: The remainder of the year). ABC is the broadcast television rightsholder of the National Basketball Association (NBA), with its package (under the NBA on ESPN branding) traditionally beginning with its Christmas Day games , followed by a series of Saturday night and Sunday afternoon games through the remainder of the season, weekend playoff games, and all games of the NBA Finals . ABC
22532-499: The same market in Tampa, Florida ( WFTS-TV and WWSB ), Boston, Massachusetts ( WCVB-TV and WMUR-TV ), Lincoln, Nebraska ( KLKN and KHGI-TV ), and Grand Rapids, Michigan ( WZZM and WOTV ), with an analogous situation arising in Kansas City, Missouri ( KMBC-TV and KQTV ). KQTV is licensed to St. Joseph , which Nielsen designates as a separate market from Kansas City, despite
22704-515: The script of Teen Wolf . The film was released on August 23, 1985, and was a notable starring role for Michael J. Fox . Loeb and Weisman then collaborated in writing the script of Commando . The film was released on October 4, 1985, and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger . His next screen credit was the film Burglar , released on March 20, 1987. The plot was based on the novels of Lawrence Block about fictional burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr . His collaborators were Weisman and Hugh Wilson . The film
22876-557: The series aired in Canada a day earlier than it did in the United States. In May 2009, Smallville ' s ninth season moved to Friday at 8:00 pm, considered the " death slot " for television programs. By the end of its tenth season it was the longest-running science-fiction TV show in the United States, breaking the record held by Stargate SG-1 . Syndication rights became available in October 2004 when it began airing alongside Gilmore Girls on ABC Family (now Freeform ) five nights
23048-409: The series or whose storylines needed additional explanation. Carpenter was not the first person asked to oversee the comic; Mark Verheiden, who co-wrote the one-off comic, was originally intended to be in charge of the bimonthly series. Verheiden's commitment to the TV series kept him from working on the comic books, so he asked Carpenter to take them on. Although the comic book was intended to expand on
23220-552: The series with invigorating the network's Tuesday-night lineup. Smallville appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly as one of five new shows to watch. After its first season, the series was sixth on the Parents Television Council 's 10-best list of broadcast programs. Levin, acknowledging early concerns that Smallville had become a villain of the week series, said that season two would introduce "smaller mini-arcs over three to four episodes" and become less of
23392-432: The series' final issue a scathing review, saying, "Ultimatum is one of the worst comics I have ever read," and called it "the ultimate nightmare." Points of criticism among these reviews included the level of graphic violence, which included cannibalism , and the notion that the series was sold on the basis of its shock value, with some reviewers singling out Loeb's dialogue, characterization and storytelling, others asserting
23564-599: The series, along with King-Size Hulk #1, were collected into a trade paperback volume, Hulk: Red and Green , which made the New York Times Graphic Books Best Seller List in May 2009 (as did Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 , Volume 4, on which Loeb collaborated). The first issue of Loeb's The Ultimates 3 continued the series' history of ranking at No. 1 in sales, though the series
23736-522: The series. Titled Smallville: The Comic , it has two stories. The first, "Raptor" by Mark Verheiden and Roy Martinez, is about an abused boy who mutates into a velociraptor (thanks to kryptonite) and tries to get revenge on the Luthor family. Michael Green and John Paul Leon wrote "Exile and The Kingdom", with insight into why Lex remains in Smallville after his father offers him a position in Metropolis at
23908-616: The set for the Dark Angel pilot and the film Along Came a Spider . Clova Cinema, in Cloverdale was used for exteriors of the Talon, Smallville ' s coffeehouse. Reeve's guest appearances in the second and third seasons were filmed in New York City . The story is told from Clark's point of view, so color schemes and camera selection illustrate how he interprets his environment. When he
24080-500: The show to foreign markets at "well below the value of the series", not specifying the amount of compensation sought by the plaintiffs. The lawsuit ended with an undisclosed settlement in May 2013. Tom Welling was appointed an executive producer for Smallville ' s tenth season in May 2010. The series was filmed at BB Studios in Burnaby , British Columbia. Although production was initially planned for Australia, Vancouver had more of
24252-400: The show would be action-oriented, they wanted to reach 7th Heaven ' s "middle America iconography". To create atmosphere, the team decided the meteor shower bringing Clark to Earth would be the ironic foundation of the show. The primary source of his life on Earth and the super-powered beings Clark must fight, it would take away the parents of the girl he loves and start Lex Luthor down
24424-658: The show's popularity after the September 11 attacks on the United States. Actors reported that many United States military veterans told them of watching the show as a distraction from combat while serving overseas. Smallville has generated other media and spin-offs, from young-adult novels and comic books to Internet-based mini-episodes with characters from the series. It influenced the British TV series, Merlin . Two series of novels have been published since Smallville ' s second season. A series of eight young-adult novels
24596-464: The single worst piece of writing in recorded history." A Captain America: White limited series was announced in 2008 but only a #0 issue was published. The long-delayed project was scheduled to finally see print in September 2015. Loeb shares his writing studio, The Empath Magic Tree House, with Geoff Johns and Allan Heinberg . Loeb's son, Sam, died on June 17, 2005, at the age of 17, after
24768-448: The sole composer for Smallville in season seven. Febre said that since he began composing for Smallville there was a shift to "thematic development" in the score, paralleling the characters' growth: "As Clark grew emotionally and intellectually more complex, I found a need to comment musically on his growth, and as he drew closer to his Superman persona, it became obvious that a 'Superman' theme would be required". The creative team had
24940-493: The song and his heirs, believing that the song's use in the episode would honor his memory, gave Smallville the rights. For season three's "Resurrection" and "Memoria", songs were chosen as symbolism for the characters. In "Resurrection", The Rapture 's " Infatuation " was used during a scene with Lex and Lana to symbolize the question, "Are we ever going to figure out what these two people think of each other?" For "Memoria" Gough wanted to use Evanescence 's " My Immortal " for
25112-407: The song's lyrics. Smallville premiered at 9:00 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2001 on the WB. For five seasons, the series aired on the WB, moving from Tuesday at 9:00 pm to Wednesday at 8:00 pm and eventually to Thursday at 8:00 pm. In 2006, before the start of Smallville ' s sixth season, the WB and UPN merged into The CW and the series continued in its lineup. During its seventh season,
25284-439: The soundtrack. Their choices were discussed by the producers, who decided which songs they wanted and secured their rights. Although Snow said it initially seemed odd to combine two types of music on a "typical action-adventure" television show, "the producers seem to like the contrast of the modern songs and the traditional, orchestral approach to the score". I get a locked picture on a videotape which syncs up with all my gear in
25456-644: The story's lack of originality, or opining that the series would've been better suited to someone who had previously been more involved with the Ultimate line, such as Brian Michael Bendis or Mark Millar . In 2009 Ultimates 3 and Ultimatum were included on ComicsAlliance 's list of The 15 Worst Comics of the Decade. Loeb was also awarded an honorary doctorate by St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas , and an Inkpot Award . Smallville (TV series) Smallville
25628-463: The studio. I write the music, finish it up, mix it up, send it through the airwaves on the internet, and the music editor puts it in. They call up usually and say, 'Thank you, well done'. Sometimes they call and say, "Thank you, not so well done—can you change this or that?" I say "Sure", make the changes and send it back. —Mark Snow, on composing music for each episode. The main Smallville theme
25800-474: The then-recently deceased news anchor. Disney formerly leased 70,000 sq ft (6,500 m ) at 157 Columbus Avenue, on the northern side of 67th Street. ABC also owns the Times Square Studios at 1500 Broadway, on land owned by a development fund for the 42nd Street Project. Opened in 1999, Good Morning America is broadcast from this facility. ABC News has premises on West 66th Street, in
25972-505: The truth to prove Lex's innocence, stopping the creatures before they can kill again. Colon returned to write Runaway , in which Clark runs away to the city and lives with other homeless teenagers; he falls in love with one of the girls before returning home. In Smallville: Silence by Nancy Holder, the characters investigate zombies in town. Little, Brown Young Readers published its eighth book, Greed , by Bennett and Gottesfeld in which Clark and his friends take summer jobs as counselors at
26144-531: The visual effects for Smallville , including the view of the Metropolis skyline. Composer Mark Snow worked with producer Ken Horton to create Smallville ' s score. Snow composed music as he watched the picture, and tweaked his performance when he reviewed his initial recordings. He then sent the music to the producers, who sent it back for recomposition if needed. Individual episodes have their own soundtrack, comprising one (or more) songs. Jennifer Pyken and Madonna Wade-Reed of Daisy Music looked for songs for
26316-433: Was a story which did not need to be told: "No-one bothered to follow Bruce Wayne's tedious years spent manufacturing microchips before he became Batman, so why must we endure a decade of flannel shirt-wearing Clark Kent bucking hay?" The following is a table for the seasonal rankings, based on average total estimated viewers per episode, of Smallville on the WB and The CW. "Rank" refers to how Smallville rated compared to
26488-546: Was a vice-president at Brandeis University , where Jeph met one of his mentors and greatest influences in comic book writing, the writer Elliot Maggin . Jeph attended Columbia University , where he was a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master's degree in Film. His instructors included Paul Schrader . Loeb's debut in filmmaking was his collaboration with Matthew Weisman in authoring
26660-473: Was a vital theme of the show. While promoting the second season of Iron Fist at San Diego Comic-Con 2018, Loeb appeared on stage wearing a karate gi and headband as part of a comic bit with Iron Fist actress Jessica Henwick , who forced him to remove the costume. The stunt was heavily criticized as culturally insensitive . During the #SaveDaredevilCon panel for Comic-Con@Home in July 2020, Peter Shinkoda ,
26832-591: Was also presented with a belated 2005 Jules Verne Award for Best Writing for his work on Smallville , which he had not previously been given because his trip to the Festival that year had been cancelled due to his son's ill health. On November 2, 2008, Daily Variety reported that Loeb and fellow Heroes co-executive producer, Jesse Alexander , were no longer employed on the series. In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Loeb stated, "As of today, Jesse Alexander and I have left Heroes . I'm incredibly proud to have been
27004-404: Was atypical for the time, featuring a female comedic role for starring actress Whoopi Goldberg . His second film that year was Teen Wolf Too , a sequel of Teen Wolf , which was co-written by Weisman and Tim Kring . The film was released on November 20, 1987. The film featured teen idol Jason Bateman and veteran actor John Astin . Loeb would re-team with Kring almost two decades later for
27176-466: Was more "heroic" and "in-your-face". Snow was told during season two that the closing credits needed new music, since the show had evolved and the existing music was no longer suitable, and he created a new, toned-down score with a more "melodic" sound. Snow has also reworked music from the previous Superman films . John Williams 's musical score for the Krypton sequence in the opening credits of Superman
27348-424: Was much less well-received critically than its predecessors. The first issue of Ultimatum ranked No. 1 in sales for November 2008. At Weekly Comic Book Review , Andrew C. Murphy gave it a B+ , praising David Finch's art, while Ben Berger gave it a C, opining that there was too much exposition , but praising Finch's art. The rest of the series, however, received more negative reviews. IGN 's Jesse Schedeen gave
27520-414: Was not composed by Snow, although he composed opening themes for other shows (including The X-Files ). The series' opening theme is the short version of " Save Me " performed by Remy Zero . Snow composed the closing-credits music, which was intended as Smallville ' s theme. During the first two seasons, the closing-credits music was a potential theme for the series (before "Save Me" was selected); it
27692-542: Was panned by critics for its use of transgressive sexual and violent content for shock value "without the political relevance or epic pacing of the first two volumes." In 2008, Loeb returned to the Ultimate Universe with artist David Finch for the critically reviled five-issue miniseries Ultimatum . Described in a 2015 Vulture retrospective as "one of the biggest creative disasters in comics history", Ultimatum' s gratuitous murder scenes permanently damaged sales across
27864-434: Was published by Aspect Publishing from October 2002 to March 2004, and a second series of ten young-adult novels was published by Little, Brown Young Readers from October 2002 to April 2004. A bimonthly comic book series, which often tied into the series, was also published. Three novels were published on October 1, 2002: one by Aspect and two by Little, Brown Young Readers. The Aspect novel ( Smallville: Strange Visitors )
28036-508: Was rejected by Loeb. Many of Loeb's books, such as Batman: The Long Halloween , Superman For All Seasons , and the Marvel "color" books ( Daredevil: Yellow , Spider-Man: Blue , Hulk: Gray ) have garnered critical praise, and have been adapted into other media. Hulk #1, in which Loeb introduced the Red Hulk , was the #1 selling comic book for January 2008. Subsequent issues sold well, but received mixed to negative reviews. Issues #7–9 of
28208-536: Was renamed ABC Studios in 2007. Also part of the library are most films in the David O. Selznick library, productions from their previous motion picture divisions ABC Pictures International , Selmur Productions , and Palomar Pictures International (before its takeover by Bristol-Myers-Squibb) released by Cinerama Productions (films produced by the company themselves are now under the control of Pacific Theatres ), their later theatrical division ABC Motion Pictures , and
28380-654: Was reorganized as ABC Studios in February 2007 and later renamed to its current name ABC Signature in August 2020. Since the 1950s, ABC has had two main production facilities: the ABC Television Center (now The Prospect Studios ) on Prospect Avenue in Hollywood, California , shared with the operations of KABC-TV until 1999, and the ABC Television Center, East, a set of studios located throughout New York City. In addition to
28552-636: Was sold to Citadel Broadcasting , ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the " Big Three " U.S. television networks, the network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network , as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the English alphabet in order. ABC launched as a radio network in 1943, as the successor to the NBC Blue Network , which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble . It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in
28724-423: Was subsequently cancelled and then brought back on the schedule in 2010, with a 2011 article mentioning it was "still being worked on". In 2021, Campbell confirmed that the project has been cancelled despite having two fully pencilled issues. In 2007, Jeph wrote the miniseries Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America , which used the five stages of grief as a motif to explore reactions of various characters of
28896-472: Was the first of many collaborations with Tim Sale. Their later collaborations included the "Year 1" -centered Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Specials ; Batman: The Long Halloween , a 13-issue limited series ; and Batman: Dark Victory , a 14-issue limited series set in the first years of the hero's career. The Long Halloween was one of three noted comics that influenced
29068-489: Was the first person in the United States to secure the rights to Rascal's album. Greg Beeman directs episodes, and sometimes scenes, with particular songs in mind. For "Vortex" in season two, he used Coldplay 's " In My Place " for the final scene. In the season-two finale "Exodus", Beeman directed the scene where Lana shows up at the Kent barn before Lex's wedding to Matthew Good 's "Weapon". The lyrics speak of an angel and devil "by my side", and Beeman timed specific shots to
29240-442: Was the last program on the network's schedule that was broadcast in 4:3 standard definition. All of the network's new programming has been presented in HD since January 2012. The affiliate-syndicated Saturday morning educational and informative ( E/I ) block Litton's Weekend Adventure was the first children's program block on U.S. network television to feature programs available in HD upon its September 2011 debut. The HD programming
29412-406: Was used in season two's "Rosetta" (which featured a guest appearance by Christopher Reeve ) and several times in the season-two finale. To save money Snow recorded his version of Williams's score, since using the original version would have required the team to pay Williams's orchestra. In an interview with Randall Larson in May 2008, Snow said that he would not be returning to Smallville , citing
29584-436: Was written by Roger Stern , with Clark and his friends trying to uncover the truth about two religious con men who set up shop in Smallville and use kryptonite in their spiritual seminars to rob the townspeople. Little, Brown Young Readers first published Arrival by Michael Teitelbaum, chronicling the series' pilot . The second novel ( See No Evil , by series writers Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld ) follows Dawn Mills,
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