NBC might not be saving Heroes

[KB24]

MY husband has lost total interest in this show. I know the writer's strike seems like the place where it went to shIt; but I don't understand why they didn't pick up where they left off after the strike? Oh no, we can't continue with the volume we intended as if no strike happened! Let's just scrap all the good writing we had and go the crappy route instead.

Oh well.

 

[startrekwatcher]

I mean how many shows in this day and age are allowed to run for many seasons anyway.

Law & Order - 20th Season
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - 11th Season
CSI - 10th Season
Smallville - 9th Season
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - 9th Season
24 - 8th Season
CSI Miami - 8th Season
Cold Case - 7th Season
NCIS - 7th Season
CSI: NY - 6th Season
House - 6th Season
Medium - 6th Season
Desperate Housewives - 6th Season
Grey's Anatomy - 6th Season
Lost - 6th Season
Criminal Minds - 5th Season
Bones - 5th Season
Ghost Whisperer - 5th Season
Supernatural - 5th Season

The Simpsons - 21st Season
South Park - 14th Season
Family Guy - 9th Season
Curb Your Enthusiasm - 7th Season
Two and a Half Men - 7th Season
American Dad - 6th Season
The Office - 6th Season
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - 5th Season
How I Met Your Mother - 5th Season
Rescue Me - 5th Season

I should have clarified sf/f. By the way that list just shows how a lot of crap gets to stick around while quality stuff is junked.

 

[FordSVT]

They should only agree to air shows where the writers have thought up two seasons in advance before production. That gives them enough time to think up further stuff with plenty of time.

Problem is, most writers only bother thinking up one season's worth of a show with no idea how to continue past that which screws things up to begin with.

Wrong. They should be willing to produce a single season as a standalone series. Then the writers can pitch a second season as another standalone. If a story can be complete in one season then it shouldn't automatically be forced to produce a second season just because the first season was good. It should only produce a second season if it needs one/can show what it would do with it.

And I'd like a money tree and for my farts to smell like roses but none of these things are possible in real life.

 

[Hermiod]

South Park's been on for fourteen years?!?

It costs approximately $5 an episode to make and makes a crapload of money back.

Compare that to Heroes which costs a crapload of money an episode to make and makes $5 back.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I hope the 6-episode wrap-up happens. I hate it when shows end without actually ending, ya know?

Agreed. There was so much potential with Heroes. Maybe someone in the future will look at this idea again.

 

[firehawk12]

And with the Mohammed thing again, South Park is still relevant.

 

[Mr Light]

South Park has always been good. Sure they have periods of lame-ness but they always manage to come back. I think it's a better show now than it was in the first three years.

 

[startrekwatcher]

I've never seen what was so crazy about South Park--everytime I've caught an episode it looks it aims for the lowest common denominator and its humor is ridiculously low-brow. How something like that crap stays on for 14 years is astounding and what it says about our society is astonishing.

 

[wamdue]

would quite like some offical news on Heroes from NBC now, like we just had for L&O

 

[melancholymecha]

I was mostly following the show for Adrian Pasdar's character, so no big loss(for me.)

 

[jamestkirkfan]

Is Heroes definitely not coming back

 

[Christopher]

Is Heroes definitely not coming back

There is still some talk of an abbreviated run to wrap things up, maybe six episodes or a 4-hour miniseries, but it's very tentative. It's probably not coming back in any form, but it's not absolutely definite yet.

 

[MichaelDornFan]

Officially canceled according to tvbythenumbers.

It certainly deserves it, even if I probably would have watched a fifth season. :P

 

[boobatuba]

Is Heroes definitely not coming back

Ask startrekrcks...or startrekk...or chriskirkgeek...I hear he knows for sure.

 

[wamdue]

http://www.deadline.com/2010/05/nbc-cancels-heroes/

confusing

 

[DarthPipes]

Zachery Quinto is finally free!

Seriously, the only downside of being cast as Spock for Quinto was that NBC refused to let him go afterwards.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

As a rule, yes. Does that mean it's impossible to try to change it?

No, it's not impossible. But it probably would have been a failure unless the casting dept for Heroes was incredibly good and not just lucky the first season. But from their track record, they were just lucky. Maybe someone can create a successful series someday that rotates casts entirely each season, but Heroes couldn't have done it.

Meanwhile, to assess the likelihood of TV trying anything risky, just observe the 2010-11 pilot season, which is about 50% cop shows. Yup, real gutsy there.

 

[wamdue]

Zachery Quinto is finally free!

not yet, NBC have not completely axed it.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Zachery Quinto is finally free!

not yet, NBC have not completely axed it.

Well there won't be much more to the show even if they do a few more eps, and that seems like no more than an outside chance.

But even if Quinto is "free," does that mean he will deign to do TV anymore? I'd love to see him in a decent TV role that isn't a poorly conceived character like Sylar.

There was so much potential with Heroes. Maybe someone in the future will look at this idea again.

There are two ordinary-people-superhero shows launching this fall: No Ordinary Family on ABC and probably The Cape on NBC (midseason?) So the basic idea seems far from dead. Both these shows are family-centric, which will focus the action more than was true on Heroes. But I liked the epic feel of Heroes and it's too bad that is now lost.

 

[Tulin]

Reading stuff like this makes me feel sorry for American wrighters. There could be no stimulation for creativity in wrighting on demand of the TV stations and viewers.

*Deleted*

"All too easy"