When showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar introduced “Smallville” in 2001, the WB made a point of insisting that the Superboy series would be devoid of certain traditional comic-book elements, most notably by adhering to the rule, “No tights, no flights.”What a difference 15 years – and an explosion of Marvel properties – can make. Gough and Millar are back doing genre television, with two series premiering in relatively short order: “Into the Badlands,” a martial-arts drama set in a post-apocalyptic future and starring Daniel Wu, which arrives Nov. 15 on AMC; and “The Shannara Chronicles,” adapted from a series of fantasy books, which brings its Elf and human heroes – at war with a demon army – to MTV in January.Obviously, a lot has changed in terms of TV’s appetite for superheroes since “Smallville” made its debut, with “Supergirl” donning tights and flying all over the place, and “The Flash” chasing down strong ratings for the CW. “The climate is more favorable toward genre television,” Gough says. “Obviously, the biggest show on television is ‘The Walking Dead.’ When we developed ‘Smallville’ in 2000, the Bryan Singer ‘X-Men’ film had just come out, and the last Superman series was ‘Lois & Clark.’”
