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Apr 08
Heroes Returns; Origins Canned
The good news first: The popular TV show Heroes will return to NBC on September 15 and according to SciFi.com it will return big. Ben Silverman, co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, said that it will be a three-hour event. They will kick off with a one-hour “clip show” to bring the audience up to date and then they will air “a massive two-hour Heroes film”. Chapter Three will be subtitled “Villains”. If you can’t wait until fall, never fear: NBC is planning to offer up Heroes webisodes in July.
Now let’s move on to the bad news: Heroes: Origins is officially dead. For now. Silverman explained that they were taxing their creative team to do too much around that and so they decided to drop the idea. He went on: “We wanted 35 Heroes [episodes] and 12 Heroes: Origins, each of which was supposed to be a mini-movie and backdoor pilot. We reached far and challenged our people, and we decided it was better to focus on keeping the Heroes mothership as strong as possible.”
