While we all rejoice that Smallville’s been renewed for a 10th season, not everyone is rejoicing with us.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Creators/executive producers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough and series co-producer Tollin/Robbins Prods. on Friday sued Warner Bros. TV, the studio behind the long-running sci-fi series, and with the CW, the network that recently renewed the show for a 10th season.”

Apparently there’s been a huge breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty in the producers’ eyes. “Warner Bros.’ practices of 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,” reads the suit’s claims.

The suit is filed against Time Warner and its divisions — WBTV, Warner Bros.

Domestic TV Distribution, the now-defunct WB network (Smallville started there) — and the CW, a co-venture with CBS.  The main complaint is that WBTV made license deals with the WB and then the CW that “were not arms-length.”  The also claim that Warner Bros. sold the show to foreign markets lumped with other less successful shows in a package deal.  As a result, the less successful shows “allocated a higher per-episode fee than Smallville” in regards to licensing fees and Smallville’s allocation was “well below the value of the series in the foreign markets.”  Additionally, there are claims that Warner Bros. improperly withheld foreign taxes at $3.3 million and improperly reported production fees that resulted in $4 million of missed revenue.

Whether this will go to court or not is debatable, but it seems the producers have the right to fight for lost money, especially with such a popular show.