New HEROES minseries
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NEW EVENT MINISERIES ‘HEROES REBORN’ COMES TO NBC IN 2015
NBC is bringing back its conquering “Heroes.”
An iconic series that still commands a rabid fan base, “Heroes” will return to the network in 2015 as an event miniseries with original creator and executive producer Tim Kring at the helm, it was announced today by NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke.
NBC has ordered 13 episodes for a new stand-alone story arc entitled “Heroes Reborn,” with all details of storylines and characters being kept under wraps.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/02/22/new-event-miniseries-heroes-reborn-comes-to-nbc-in-2015/239277/
NBC is bringing back its conquering “Heroes.”
An iconic series that still commands a rabid fan base, “Heroes” will return to the network in 2015 as an event miniseries with original creator and executive producer Tim Kring at the helm, it was announced today by NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke.
NBC has ordered 13 episodes for a new stand-alone story arc entitled “Heroes Reborn,” with all details of storylines and characters being kept under wraps.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/02/22/new-event-miniseries-heroes-reborn-comes-to-nbc-in-2015/239277/
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Wonder if they'll try to tempt back any of the original cast ?
The last series was ok compared to 2 and 3.
Season 4 was fairly good, especially considering how awful 2 and 3 were.
Having said that I would like to see two things:
1. The focus on new characters. I think it will be cool to center around new people whilst old cast members can appear in supporting roles.
Heroes was ultimately a victim of the writers strike, I feel. I think the first series is good but is very overrated. The second series had some great ideas but took a long time to get anywhere and was of course cut to just eleven episodes (instead of the intended 22 or so). It meant that Series 3 had to wrap up everything that had been left unresolved, which then also meant it wasn't able to develop its own ideas very well and is very flawed (though I still think people just like moaning as there was a lot to enjoy in Series 3).
Funnily enough, Series 4 which was free of the clutches of the strike turned out to be really rather decent - a great treat for the people who stuck around with it. One of Heroes' biggest problems was its reluctance to get rid of characters and bring the focus around to newer ones... there were several actors who kept in work playing completely different characters to whom they started out as and I think it grew a bit stale around the edges. But the fourth and final series introduced some fantastic new characters and really got things moving again - it wasn't perfect, but then neither again was Series 1.
I can't wait to see what they do. If they give some closure to the open ended fourth series, and focus mainly on newer characters then I'll be very pleased.
The last we saw of Sylar he had become a good guy. I'm hoping that that doesn't get undone in any way. The good/bad dance he did for so long became repetitive and I was satisfied with the way it was wrapped up. Series 4 introduced a new main villain and it was all the better for it.
http://www.avclub.com/article/nbc-inexplicably-orders-a-heroes-reboot-201391
Killing Nathan only to bring him back as Sylar, Peter losing all his powers (though to be fair the fact he could have anyones did seem a little Deus Ex and all that being too powerful.) THen having Hiro stuck in Japan being killed by his powers.
Season 1 was great because of the characters and writing but by the end that had gone to pot for silly stories where Peter falls for some deaf woman who can see music and Claire joins the Circus.
If they can get the quality of Season 1 then I'm all for it.
I do agree that 24's return and all the buzz around it had a big part to play in NBC's decision. A brave but risky decision, but one that they deserve credit for. Not many networks would be willing to bring back a cancelled show.
Could this start a revival of more cancelled shows? I certainly can see it happening if 24 and Heroes turn out to be a success. Who knows, Jericho could be the next show in line for a return. I wouldn't count it out.
13 episodes is a good idea. What US TV networks need to understand is, 24-episode seasons are very hard to pull off without hurting the quality of a serialised TV show. If you look at all the best TV shows on at the moment, they're all 13 or 13+ episode seasons. So I'm glad the likes of FOX and NBC are starting to see that.
If I was NBC I'd be telling him to stay far away from the time travel gimmick, as it pretty much renders the whole thing nonsense instantly.
Do audiences actually want to watch a new series of "Heroes"? We have no guarantee
that it will be as good as S1- quite the opposite.
Not to mention Kring's last series, "Touch", had very poor ratings and split the reviewers. Sounds like NBC are going
"We need something -anything-besides "The Blacklist" that people might watch"!
Why not a reboot of "Matlock" instead? People would actually watch
that- look here:
http://ohiomediawatch.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/the-matlock-incident/
Agreed. It became too convoluted and silly.
They should focus more on "street-level" superpowers like telekinesis, accelerated healing and mind reading, rather than overly fantastical powers like time travel, teleportation and shapeshifting. Keep the show grounded I say. Otherwise it becomes too OTT - which is what happened with Heroes the first time around.
"Believe".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_%28TV_series%29
Seems like they're justing shooting themselves in the foot by putting out two rival
shows with a very similar theme- it's like launching reboots of "The Twilight
Zone" and "The Outer Limits" on the same channel.
Every way I look it, this Heroes reboot just comes across as a worse and worse
idea...
They could co-exist, I feel. It's a little bit like Breaking Bad and Weeds... both are about drug distribution and illegal activity, but one is a character-led drama whilst the other is another genre altogether. Aside from the 'superpowers' buzzword, this sounds very much the same. Heroes was always quite innovative with the extent of its ensemble cast (to its appraisal and detriment at different times).
Fair point, but BB and Weeds ran on different networks (AMC and Showtime).
I suspect this was the same reason Fox turned down "Torchwood: The New World"
(because they felt it was too similar to "Fringe", and they didn't want two
"team investigates weird scientific stuff" shows).
Miniseries? Ha it would almost double the number of Firefly episodes in existence
I did stick with Heroes till the end but to be honest can hardly remember how most of the plotlines turned out.
As someone said above this should probably focus on New Characters with a few cameo's for characters from the original.
Wasn't that what SyFy tried with Alphas & it didn't draw enough to stay around. Agents of Shield gets criticised by some for not having enough superpowers considering the MCU it is linked to (I like all three for the record).Basically they could go either way and get it wrong!
Having said that Peter was way too powerful in the early seasons and the writers couldn't keep track of what abilities he had absorbed!
They could have characters fearful when they discover they have abilities and how they will be treated if people find out in the aftermath of Claire reveal. Heroes going missing with scientists trying to replicate abilities by experimenting on them etc.