Michael Rosenbaum (Lex) spoke with Damian Holbrook with “TV Guide” about returning to Smallville for the series finale, working with Cassidy Freeman (Tess), his new show on Fox, “Breaking In,” and more.

Read a snippet:

TV Guide Magazine: OK, what took so damn long?
Rosenbaum: It just never quite clicked, and I felt like I had accomplished what I needed to. I’m so flattered that the fans wanted me back, but I was busy. I was doing other things, working on me, growing my hair. [Laughs]

TV Guide Magazine: How did that go for ya?
Rosenbaum: [Laughs] I got a new agent about a year ago and I said that I wanted to take a general meeting with every executive in town, because if you just tell them my name, they will associate me with Smallville. Let me go in there and charm them. And that’s what I’ve been doing, trying to reestablish who I am.

Continue reading Michael’s interview at TV Guide here.

Greg Beeman looks back on his time with Smallville as a producer and director, and shares his experience with the show. He also added behind-the-scene photos from the episode, “Kent” of Tom Welling, Greg Beeman, Jeannot Szwarc, John Schneider and Glen Winter.

Read a snippet below:

The fact that Smallville is ending next week has me thinking. So, I thought I’d write about how it began for me. I know…I hope you’ll forgive me if I reminisce about the past.

For Smallville, as with any project that achieves greatness – whether it be in the world of television, film, the arts, sports, and probably even politics and finance – A lot of people and elements have to come together just right. When this happens it can feel that there are outside forces drawing things together at just the right time and to just the right place. And this was definitely the case with this series…

Read his entire entry on his personal blog at “Beaming Beeman” here, and be sure to have some tissue handy.

Tune in next Friday, May 13th, for Smallville’s final 2-hour episode, with the second half of the show directed by Greg Beeman, himself!

According to “TVbytheNumbers,” the ratings for last night’s penultimate episode, “Prophecy” was steady:

Friday, May 6th at 8:00 p.m.

FOX:  Kitchen Nightmares (1.6/6, 3.66 million)
ABC:  Shark Tank (1.2/5, 4.48 million)
CBS:  Flashpoint (1.1/4, 6.89 million)
NBC:  Friday Night Lights (0.8/3, 2.72 million)
CW:  Smallville (0.8/3, 2.00 milliion)

Tune in next week (May 13th) for Smallville’s 2-hour final episode, “Finale” at 8/7c on The CW.

Tom Welling (Clark) and Michael Rosenbaum (Lex) were on the MTV show, “10 on Top” this morning, where they talked about Smallville, karoke, break dancing, Pac Man, and Lady Gaga.

In case you missed it, check it out below. Special thanks to “Kimmiecoomd” for the clip!

I added 4 additional photos to the gallery of Tom Welling leaving the “Live With Regis And Kelly” taping at the ABC Lincoln Center Studios on Friday, May 6, 2011 in New York City.

MTV’s “10 on Top” has a short preview of Tom Welling’s appearance on the show this Saturday, May 7th at 11:30a/12:30c.

Tom Welling was spotted at the Regis & Kelly studio in New York today, promoting the Smallville series finale. This episode was pre-taped to air on Tuesday, May 17th. Check your local listings for channel and air times.

The Smallville 2 hour series “Finale” episode airs next Friday, May 13th at 8/7c.

I added 14-gorgeous images of Tom to the gallery, thanks to “Socialite Life.”

Smallville is featured in the May 13th issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine – “A Fond Farewell: Smallville: Five Super Episodes.”

View the scan in the gallery.

I added two new photos to the gallery of Tom Welling from two recent LA Times articles.

• LA Times Show Tracker: Tom Welling says goodbye to Clark Kent as the end of ‘Smallville’ approaches
• LA Times Hero Complex: ‘Smallville’ Tom Welling on saying goodbye to Superman

The CW released a clip looking back at Season 3 of Smallville, counting down to the series finale on May 13th.