Smallville Trial Won’t Go Forward As Co-Creators Settle

Lawyers for Warner Bros. Television and Smallville co-creators/writers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough announced in a hearing today that they have reached a settlement in their breach of contract and conflict of interest dispute, Deadline reports.Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson gave the litigants until August 30 to file a formal request for dismissal. Millar and Gough along with Tollin/Robbins Productions back in March 2010 that Warner Bros. gave artificially low licensing rates to The WB and The CW. They claim that the transactions were conducted in bad faith. Tollin/Robbins came to a settlement with Warner Bros. earlier this year.Smallville premiered on The WB in 2001 and ran until 2011 after the network rebranded itself as The CW in 2006. The case was scheduled to go to trial June 10.