While Superman is off fighting super villains like the Stranger, Lois Lane will tackle a few giants of her own. During Superman & Lois' TCA panel, showrunner Todd Helbing and star Elizabeth Tulloch revealed Lois' crusade against online journalism and media mogul Morgan Edge.
"Lois' arch nemesis in the season is a billionaire entrepreneur who is trying to destroy journalism," Tulloch explained. "He would probably use a different word for it, but you know, it's very timely."
"A lot of what she is writing about is what capitalism is doing to these small towns all over the States, and Smallville in particular. Definitely, the journalism is an important part of her story," she emphasized. "Superman is doing his stuff with his superpowers and she's fighting against these injustices with words."
"When the story starts out, Lois is at the Daily Planet," Helbing added. "There's no Perry White, but Sam Fozwell has taken over and Morgan Edge has purchased it. He's slowly taking the Daily Planet and moving it online. There's a line that Lois says in the pilot about moving online. What these billionaires do, is it just becomes about click-throughs, right? It's not about personal stories anymore. It's about headlines and gossipy headlines and just drawing people to click-through to advertisement."
"So to get Lois to come back to Smallville and to actually go back to real journalism -- feet on the ground, knocking on doors, finding personal stories, human stories that move not just her as a journalist, but everybody in the community, I think those are the stories that we really want to tell," he continued. "Adam Rainer is playing Morgan Edge and... this billionaire is going to have an impact on Smallville as well. It's going to be fun to see what he does and why he's in Smallville and why Lois is really going after him."
On The CW's Superman & Lois, Tyler Hoechlin reprises his Supergirl role as the Man of Steel alongside Tulloch, who plays the intrepid Lois Lane. When a family emergency brings them back to Smallville, Lois and Clark decide to raise their twin sons Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) and Jordan (Alex Garfin) there, only to find new adversaries in Wolé Parks' The Stranger and Morgan Edge (Adam Rayner). Then, as the boys begin to display some spectacular abilities, life gets even more complicated for the Kents and their new hometown.
Superman & Lois stars Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Dylan Walsh, Alex Garfin, Jordan Elsass, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Inde Navarrette and Wolé Parks. The series premieres Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.