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.”