The production team behind the CW’s “Smallville” has brought a lawsuit against the CW network and Warner Bros. TV. Miles Miller and Alfred Gough, creators and executive producers, along with Tollin/Robbins Productions, the series’ co-producer, are suing the studio and network for breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.

The producers blame Warner Bros. for “depriving them of compensation to which they are entitled … by failing to maximize profits from the series” and “are looking to recover ‘millions of dollars’ of unpaid compensation”, claiming that Warner Bros. practiced “unfair self-dealing include licensing the series for broadcast on its own affiliated WB and CW networks for unreasonably low, below-market license fees, resulting in lower gross revenues for the series and less compensation for plaintiffs, and failing to renegotiate the series’ license fee to cover its production cost.”

Warner Bros. has not commented to this lawsuit. “Smallville” has been renewed for a tenth season on The CW.

[Source] THR