September 20, 2011 11:01 AM PDT

Scoop: Secret Circle Gets Major Smallville Infusion

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Michael Ausiello

The Secret Circle is getting some fancy new super powers — two of them, to be precise.

Longtime Smallville showrunners Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders are returning to the CW fold with a consulting gig on the bewitching freshman drama, sources confirm to TVLine.

The pair — who have a development deal at Warner Bros. (which produces Secret Circle) — will work alongside current showrunner Kevin Williamson.

Secret Circle got off to a promising ratings start last Thursday, retaining 100 percent of its Vampire Diaries lead-in among total viewers and nearly matching VD in the demo.

Tags: Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders, Smallville, The CW, The Secret Circle

Comments (38)

Yay, congrats to B&K on the new gig. Hoping to see them create a show of their own sometime soon.
Comment by Tucker – September 20, 2011 11:07 AM PDT Reply To This Post
I liked the character and will be watching a couple more episodes before making up my mind. Still can’t decide whether I like the two other girls or not….
Comment by Gabbie – September 20, 2011 11:08 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- There are three other girls . . .
  Comment by JC – September 20, 2011 12:40 PM PDT Reply To This Post
I enjoyed Smallville, but I hope they don’t ruin the show.
Comment by ErixN – September 20, 2011 11:13 AM PDT Reply To This Post
They ruined Smallville. Once Millar and Gough left it was all downhill. Best of luck to Secret Circle.
Comment by Jason – September 20, 2011 11:28 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- I really wish Millar and Gough would do a Wonder Woman series on the cw.
  Comment by CHRIS – September 20, 2011 11:34 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Anyone who saw the awful Season 4 of Smallville, the bounce-back in the first half of Season 5, and then the slow decline of the show afterward leading to the horrible Season 7 knows the show was creatively spent under Gough and Millar. To see the show spark and catch life again under Souders and Peterson was a joy.
  Comment by Tucker – September 20, 2011 12:10 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- clearly you weren’t watching cause the show was rejuvenating during B&K’s reign. S8,9,&10 were a welcome breath of fresh air after the mess that was Season 7
  Comment by Jess – September 20, 2011 01:06 PM PDT Reply To This Post
  - I agree. Even though I liked Supergirl, Season 7 was my least favorite. I thought the show was going to go downhill at that point, but it improved tremendously once they left. Seasons 8, 9 & 10 were the best of the series. I’m sure Tom Welling also deserves some credit, since he became a producer in the later seasons as well.
    Comment by Carrie – September 20, 2011 01:17 PM PDT Reply To This Post
    - I wasn’t such a fan of Season 8, but that was Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer anyway (who went on to ruin Melrose Place), but I really loved Season 9. Bar a couple of dull episodes, it was a great season. I haven’t seen 10 yet as I live in Australia and buy the DVDs.
      Comment by Darcy – September 20, 2011 05:03 PM PDT Reply To This Post
  - I agree that season 7 was a mess, and season 8 felt like a breath of fresh air, BUT the season finale of season 8 made season 7 look like Oscar material. Also, I was not a huge fan of season 9 and 10 besides the Chloe/Oliver scenes. I just thought the show became more mediocre.
    Comment by AT – September 20, 2011 05:01 PM PDT Reply To This Post
    - Ugh! Peterson’s and especially Souder’s insistence on ramming ‘chlollie’ down our throats ruined season 10 for me. And Souder’s insistence on making the ‘cless’ scenes as hot as possible turned me off completely. A Clark that was capable of incest in an alternate universe was not a show I wanted to watch any more.
      Comment by jo – September 23, 2011 04:26 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Lol, what? Smallville got SO much better once Millar and Gough left.
  Comment by Angie – September 21, 2011 06:09 PM PDT Reply To This Post
No. No. No. No. Let Kevin Williamson do his thing. Why would you take the creative force behind a show that wandered in its storylines and was mediocre at best, and put them over a creative force that has consistently pulled out fabulous shocker moments and some great storytelling. No.

One of the things I admire most about TVD is the deftness of the pacing. They know what things to hurry along, and what things to move at a snails pace. In this way, it never feels too slow, there’s plenty of shocking moves, but at the same time, they never undermine themselves with pulling out all they’re big stops too fast. This is exactly what Smallville did *not* know how to do. Why? Just, why?
Comment by Fiona – September 20, 2011 11:28 AM PDT Reply To This Post
I didn’y like the pilot anyway, I don’t see how the Smallville staff could make any difference.
Comment by Guess – September 20, 2011 12:08 PM PDT Reply To This Post
this is the exact thing this series does NOT need.
Comment by jrp001 – September 20, 2011 12:14 PM PDT Reply To This Post
So apparently I was the only one never disappointed with Smallville. Silly me. Anyway, the Secret Circle pilot was so slow, I couldn’t get into it. But I’m still gonna give it another chance because I love Kevin Williamson and he’s made some of my favorite shows and movies. Maybe bringing Smallville people in to the mix is just what the show needs. I guess we’ll see. (:
Comment by Casey – September 20, 2011 01:35 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Yeah, I wasn’t immediately hooked but then I wasn’t with The Vampire Diaries either. It’s generally agreed that it took TVD four or five episodes to really figure out what they were doing with the show.
  Comment by Angel – September 20, 2011 04:20 PM PDT Reply To This Post
NOW I have more than good reason to watch it. Kelly did amazing things for Chloe especially in the last season, she’s my hero. =D
Comment by Val – September 20, 2011 02:14 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Of course she is, she wrote all your stupid fanfiction on the show didnt she. She was just a delusional fan girl just like the rest of you. Not a single proffesional bone in her body, she takes things personally and write from a biased point of view. Don’t even care if she ruin a show and destroys characters. its quite ironic really in trying to pimp Chloe she actually did the opposite and ruined her too even worse. You were actually happy with that, Low standards.
  
  That infamous duo is going to ruin Secret circle, this is one show I wont be watching, same with Vampire diaries, anything those Smallville pathetic crew touch I won’t watch.
  Comment by Kal – September 20, 2011 11:07 PM PDT Reply To This Post
  - We won’t miss you
    Comment by Angie – September 21, 2011 06:11 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Now I have ONE very good reason and excuse not to bother with this show.
  Comment by Matt – September 21, 2011 12:53 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Trouble in the witch world? TSC already has Andrew Miller and Kevin Williamson as head writers, and show-runners/executive producers.

Why enlist help from the SMALLVILLE team?
Comment by Sid – September 20, 2011 03:14 PM PDT Reply To This Post
NNNNNooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! They RUINED Smallville. Well, made it worse than it already was. Then there was Failsday with Davis which I don’t even want to talk about….I really don’t want them touching my favorite books as a teen because they are my LEAST favorite writers. I’ve seen what they do with “soul mates” and characters seeking redemption like Davis. Gosh, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Comment by Autumn – September 20, 2011 04:36 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- And I just want to add that TSC is a paranormal romance. Chloe and Davis is a paranormal romance. Fans of this genre do not want people who cannot write paranormal romance well touching it. Just saying.
  Comment by Autumn – September 20, 2011 05:01 PM PDT Reply To This Post
WORST NEWS EVER! No offense to Souders and Peterson as human beings, but they single-handedly created my WORST television experience in my entire life. I’m talking about Doomsday, er Failsday. They destroyed Davis Bloome, one of the best things that ever happened to Smallville. They created a disgusting message by saying that Davis, a foster kid, who grew up to be a great guy, and had no free will, could not find redemption in the end. Bad blood=Bad blood. I guess they never read Oliver Twist or Jane Eyre. I felt SICK watching that episode. I’m sorry, but these two writers destroyed the whole message of Superman, spit all over Chloe and kept Chimmy (the worst TV couple in history) together even though they knew everyone hated it. I could go off and off, but I LOVED these books growing up and the thought of their storytelling even touching them scares me. Let me guess. Nick, the bad boy, will become a psycho in the end and try to kill Cassie. Then he won’t even get a funeral after the rest of the circle group together and kill him. They ruined the Chlark friendship, ruined the epic Chlavis which could give Adam and Cassie a run for their money, made Superman a narcisstic jerk who wore black leaving his mark like Zorro, and took away Lex’s memories in the end. Also, I find it hilarious that a lot of the people excited about Souders and Peterson don’t like Secret Circle. I thought it was a great pilot, but now I’m worried for its future.
Comment by Anon – September 20, 2011 04:56 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- On a more positive note, I wanted to add that I do think they have some writing talent, so I’m going to hope that they learned from their Doomsday mistakes, and what they add to the Secret Circle will be good.
  Comment by Anon – September 20, 2011 05:37 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Ugh! Gough and Millar may have been pretty inept as showrunners but their replacements Peterson and Souders took incompetence to a whole new level. They were responsible for the lousiest Smallville episodes ever – Power, Requiem, Doomsday, Warrior, Turbulence, Luthor, Kent, Patriot and Prophecy being the worst, IMO. The series finale sucked really hard too. What in the world was Kevin Williamson thinking? Do the doodoo duo have compromising photos of him or something?
Comment by Kim – September 20, 2011 05:36 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- I almost forgot Scion, Collateral, Fortune and Supergirl (I wish I could!) They stank on ice too. Season 10 was mostly a colossal waste of time. It it wasn’t for Erica Durance as Lois Lane I would have ditched Crapville long ago.
  Comment by Kim – September 20, 2011 05:47 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Secret circle have been bewitched, what a cursed show!!. kelly soulders destroys everything she touches, and Brian peterson follows around her like a puppy dog with no opinion of his own. This shows has gone to the dogs, unlucky secret circle fans. Thank god I dont watch the show, even If i was considering, its a good thing I didnt and won’t be, Thank god its not a DC comics show. Wait till they start obsessing with Allison Mack their pet favourite and giving in to her whiny delusional fangirls wanting her on the show, and toss away the actual leads of the show and the story gone.

Im just sad really that losers like this are going to destroy a brand new show that could actually have potential. CW you suck even worse for letting these two incompetent idiotic writers work anymore on any show.
Comment by Max – September 20, 2011 10:57 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- As someone who is a huge fan of Chloe, and not that big of a fan of Souders and Peterson, all I have to say is HUH? Their pet favorite? Oh you mean the character that was sidelined for the last two seasons? Even though I appreciated her ending, it was rushed. They didn’t give her story much consideration. It was more of an afterthought. On that note though, it could have been an ending most Chloe fans hated. I was just relieved it wasn’t.
  
  But as a fan of BOTH Chloe and Secret Circle, I find your comments insulting. This isn’t Smallville so no one is touching your precious comics. Delusional fangirls? Give me a break. No one is demanding Allison Mack join the show (although she would be very welcome back to television wherever she went as a talented actress). And calling the writers (even though I don’t love their writing much of the time) losers is way too harsh and out of line.
  Comment by Autumn – September 21, 2011 05:59 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - “harsh and out of line”
    
    Do I look like I care, I don’t. The truth needs to be said. Those two are bad writers and showrunners,everything I said about them is true. What I said of (most) Chloe/Allison fans is also very true, I know it, you know it, they (the Smallville writers know it). if you are not the one I’m taking about then its not you. No problem with you, the loud mouthed delusional fanatic ones know themselves.
    
    Anyway good LUCK to secret circle fans they are going to need it.!!!!
    Comment by Max – September 21, 2011 08:33 PM PDT Reply To This Post
= CANCELLED
Comment by kaL – September 20, 2011 11:09 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Clearly NO-ONE here has read the article. It says Peterson and Souders are going to be consultants on the secret circle. It doesn’t say anything about them producing, writing or anything other than offering a bit of friendly advice.

Sheesh people on the internet need to learn to read the whole thing before ranting on about what is essentially invalid points.
Comment by James – September 21, 2011 09:37 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Oh we read it loud and clear, COUNSULTING GIG. As if that is any better. Brian & kelly=bad news =Bad advice.
  
  Look at how they ruined Smallville, after Almiles. S10 was crap and a disgrace to the legacy of Smallville, s9 barely just performed. Anyone who takes serious advice, probably doesnt have high hopes or ambition for this show.
  Comment by Lisa – September 21, 2011 08:25 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Wow- talk about kiss of death….
Comment by Dee – September 21, 2011 03:33 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Peterson & Souders’s bad mojo has started already. Secret Circle’s ratings were horrible last night!
  Comment by jo – September 23, 2011 04:13 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Thats an all round amazingly written piece!!
Comment by txt – December 4, 2011 09:41 AM PDT Reply To This Post

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