Archive for the ‘Heroes’ Category
Now that Pushing Daisies is dead, Brian Fuller has signed a deal to return to NBC’s Heroes beginning with episode 20.
His exact role on the sci-fi drama has not been determined, but he is expected to play a key role in the writers room alongside “Heroes” creator/executive producer/showrunner Tim Kring.
After the end of the season, Fuller might continue on “Heroes” or join another UMS-produced series while also developing his own projects.
That last line might be pretty telling. If the ratings don’t rise, the show may find itself on the chopping block, so Fuller’s seven-figure deal to work on other Universal Media Studios projects is pretty smart thinking for the producer.
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NBC announced its midseason lineup yesterday, and while the network has stated Heroes will return in February, no start date was attached. Compare that to Knight Rider, which is getting a series reboot, and a confirmed January 7th start date. There are a couple of reasons both Chuck and Heroes are being vaguely scheduled for a February launch; the first being two reality contest shows the network wants to try out, and the other being those really low ratings.
On the plus side, it looks like Pushing Daisies may get the axe from ABC, which means show creator Bryan Fuller might be able to make a return to Heroes. Fuller is currently exclusive to Daisies, and if the show is cancelled, he has expressed intrest in returning to NBC.
It was only a matter of time before fan and reviewer trashing of the third season of Heroes led to changes in the show. The first casualties of the shakeup find co-executive producers Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb being shown the exit.
It’s understood that Alexander and Loeb were let go because of Peacock execs’ frustration with the creative direction of the show. The show is also said to have been grappling with hefty budget overruns this season, that are going well beyond its already sizable $4 million per-seg pricetag.
I can’t say that I’m not surprised, but I axing two-thirds of the team that understood how hero stories should be told is a bit odd. Expect the rest of the season to feature more teen oriented melodrama and sappy love stories before the show is axed in May.
Another week, and another week of tumbling ratings for NBC’s Heroes. Once on of the best rated show on television (can you believe it was only a short two years ago?), Heroes has slumped into the red warning zone following Monday night’s ratings.
Not to gawk at the overturned semi-truck on the freeway, but that “Heroes” number is startling — a series low by far (as is “Chuck”) and marking the drama’s third week of decline. “Heroes” was NBC’s strongest scripted series the past couple years and its now fading quickly. It’s a clear problem without a clear solution. Episodes this season have continued the show’s dense and sometimes difficult-to-follow mythology, but they’ve still been readily superior to last season. One can only hope the show has now established its third-week ratings bottom.
A clear problem without a clear solution? How about giving the story some direction, where something actually happens in an episode? What about removing some of the bloated characters and slimming back the cast? What about having them actually team up X-Men style, or having the mutants actually come out to the public? I would really like an episode that is a done-in-one without the constant dragging week after week.
What are your thoughts? Can Heroes be saved, or was the first season the best its ever going to be? Anyone want to take bets on if the show gets picked up for a fourth season?
I think I mentioned Greg Beeman’s website about this time last year (yeah, it was during THAT time), and I think it needs to be mentioned again. If you are a fan of Heroes, or if you are someone that digs the behind the scenes look at the process of making a television series, then the Beaming Beeman website is worthy of checking out. I love reading Director/Producer Greg Beeman’s take on each episode of NBC’s Heroes, not only for the behind the scenes stories, but for the behind the scenes photos.
There were a lot of complaints about the second season of NBC’s Heroes – from the lackluster storyline to the writer’s strike causing the season to end abruptly, fans were less than amused with the sophomore trials of the series. Unfortunately, those feelings are still reverberating into the third season.
The Hollywood Reporter has viewership for the season three two-hour premiere down 25% from last year.
The “Heroes” debut (9.9 million viewers, 4.9 preliminary adults 18-49 rating and a 12 share and matched its lowest original episode rating ever. (”Heroes” was actually down even more, 33%, if you include NBC’s heavily protested move last fall to roll its Saturday encore rating into its premiere). Clip show lead-in “Heroes: Countdown to the Premiere” (6 million, 2.6/7) placed third in the hour.
If the ratings don’t pick up, you can expect some heavy changes and shuffling to occur as the network scrambles to save the show. I did get a chance to watch the premiere, and while good, it felt a lot like season one mixed with the remake of the Fly movie.
NBC has released a series of promo images hyping the upcoming third season of Heroes. While season 2 ended up being rather wonky, I’m hoping the third volume of tales gets the action up and moving in the first two episodes.
The season premiere of Heroes: Villains kicks off on September 22 at 9:00 PM EST.
Check out NBC’s Heroes Primetime Preview special, that is supposed to air on August 30, but thanks to the YouTube, we have it here early.
Press Release
LOS ANGELES, Calif., August 4, 2008 – Top Cow Productions Inc. announced at San Diego Comic-Con they will partner with Milo Ventimiglia and Russ Cundiff of DiVide Pictures to publish Berserker, a new comic book series created by Rick Loverd.
Here you go, the panel I’ve been waiting for NBC to post – Season 3 of Heroes.
This trailer reveals more about what is happening in the third season of NBC’s Heroes. Welcome to Level 5 indeed…
Seems the three day weekend, did nothing for “breaking news”, instead there is a plethora of video clips and what-not hitting the interwebs today.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIdVO97hYjo[/youtube]
I really hope the third season of Heroes is better than season two. I’m still not convinced adding more characters to the storyline is going to make the show better, but the story turn this season seems to be interesting. I wonder if Kring will bring forth giant robots to hunt down the mutants at season’s end.
Hayden Panettiere’s got black hair and packing heat – guess Chapter Three of Heroes is going to focus on heroes as villains.
This NBC promo is all over the Interwebs today, and I figured I better share it with you here, before you see it somewhere else first.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ur-iKnIzgk[/youtube]
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