In the TV series ', when Lois finds out about Superman's secret identity and yells at Clark about how he's been hiding his secretly being Superman, he responds, "A little louder, Lois. I don't think they could hear you in Gotham City." In the TV series "Smallville", Linda Lake, a columnist for the "Daily Planet", once boasted that she could see Gotham City from her new office. In ', Bruce Wayne is shown taking his private jet aircraft to Metropolis, indicating that the two cities have at least some distance between them.