HEROES Shake-Up
November 3, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
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According to Variety, the catchphrase from the first season of HEROES was “save the cheerleader.” This season, it could be “save the scripts.”
Tim Kring, the series creator and executive producer has axed his co-exec producers and writing team, Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb, in an effort to prove to the network that he will be taking a more personal hands-on approach to the upcoming season. NBC has been hinting that he’d delegated too much of the story development to the two and that the series had gone from a fan-favorite good-vs.-evil virtual live comic book to an overly convoluted, overly plotted confusing mess. Given the $4M an episode price tag, NBC is definitely interested in getting the show back to its old numbers. (Viewership dropped almost 21% from season 2 in the main demographics.)
The firing, however, may now prove a little awkward: On Nov. 15, Kring is supposed to appear at the Screenwriting Expo at the L.A. Convention Center, with Alexander and Loeb. (Oops.) However, it looks like it may be great for us fans if we can get back to the characters we all love to hate and hate to love…
HEROES – Season 3 Spoilers
March 8, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
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In an interview she did with Sci Fi Wire, Eriko Tamura, the Japanese actress who plays Hiro’s love interest from the 17th century, gave away a few possible spoilers for the upcoming season which should begin production in May now that the writers’ strike is over.
According to Tamura, her character, Yaeko, was supposed to be transported to the present in episodes that had been started before the writers’ strike commenced last fall but which still needed finishing touches. “I am going to be in the present, yes,” Tamura said in an interview.
“I actually had a few episodes of the script then,” Tamura said, adding: “Suddenly, the strike happened, so we had to stop the shooting. We are not to that point where they think about the storylines yet … because of the strike.”
So no definite word on how her character will interact with Hiro (Masi Oka) and/or Adam aka Takezo Kensei (David Anders) when Yaeko arrives in the 21st century…
According to the interview with Sci Fi Wire, HEROES Season 3 will be back starting Fall 2008.
HEROES Re-Upped for 3rd Season
February 16, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
Filed under Heroes, TV SHOWS
According to TV GUIDE Online, HEROES has definitely been picked up for a 3rd season and it will be at least 22 episodes, possibly more. Too bad we haven’t even gotten to see much of the 2nd season to date! At the rate they’re going and showing, they’ll have to run the 2 seasons concurrently. Yeessh. Wouldn’t THAT be different!
Makes me wonder if the frequent writers strikes and not showing reruns is one way to force everyone to buy the DVDs to get their HEROES and other show fixes, especially if the writing contracts specify getting a kickback on the current and future DVD sales… <rodents>
In the meantime, the official HEROES website just keeps getting busier and more cluttered with behind-the-scenes stuff, interviews and adding episodes to the ‘comic’ version – they’re up to Chapter 72 and counting – instead of Season 1 & 2 ‘regular’ info. It’s almost as if the TV show has been forgotten and the website is now the show. Hmmmm.
At least Amazon has a way for me to catch up on the episodes I’ve missed for a lot of my favorite shows (HEROES, EUREKA, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, DOCTOR WHO, and more) without having to get the whole season and I can watch them at my leisure on my computer while waiting for the new shows to start:
HEROES – Greg Grunberg’s ‘GROUP SEX’
January 31, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
Filed under Heroes, TV SHOWS
According to an interview with TV Guide, Greg Grunberg, the actor who plays Matt Parkman on HEROES, has a new project he’s tackling while he has “a little free time” (hmmm): a new movie he and long-time friend J. J. Abrams (ALIAS) have written and are co-producing called GROUP SEX.
It’s about a guy (played by Josh Cooke) who falls in love with a girl (Odette Yustman) only to find out she’s a sexaholic. So in order to get closer to her, he pretends to be one, too… Greg Grunberg’s playing the guy’s best friend who isn’t quite down with the whole thing.
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES’ James Denton, Tom Arnold, Katherine Narducci and HAPPY DAYS star Henry Winkler help round out the cast.
Grunberg says about the chance to work on this movie, “I had all of this free time and decided to get naked and laugh my ass off!” Definitely a reason to go see this one, eh? 
Now, if only they’d get back to the darn series as I need a new episodes of HEROES fix and soon. (The online eps and comics are okay, but just not quite the same thing.)
