 |
Remember when NBC’s “Heroes” couldn’t do any wrong? Yeah, that was a while ago. It has done a lot wrong ever since that magical first season, but then again, maybe a show like “Heroes”, with its time-traveling protagonists, was just never really meant to keep going and going.
With the networks officially kicking off their upfront presentations this month, we’ve now gotten official (and in some cases, semi-official) confirmations about which shows are coming back, which ones are gone, and what new offerings will be available to the genre fans out there. The schedule for the upfronts are: FOX’s begins today, followed by ABC on Tuesday, and CBS on Wednesday. NBC already did theirs earlier this month.
As reported here and elsewhere, we already suspected that FOX would be renewing Fringe for a second season, but it took them today to make it official. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the J.J. Abrams sci-fi show will be returning for a second season with a full 22-episode order. Heroes on NBC, meanwhile, has also officially been renewed for a fourth season, but may return with as few as 18-20 episodes this time around. Fans of Chuck, on the other hand, will have to wait a little longer for official word that their spy show is coming back for a third season. Or not.
You may or may not have heard, but there are rumblings aplenty about the fate of NBC’s superhero show Heroes. The whole crisis seems to stem from a very innocent twitter by one of the show’s stars, Greg Grunberg, but it sure set off a firestorm. Everyone and their momma who never liked the show in the first place have begun pontificating the show’s end. Well guess what, guys, screw you. The show is coming back for a fourth season. Probably.
Curmudgeon alert. Heroes is a show I have a rather intense love/hate relationship with. I want to be a total fanboy but unfortunately, various evil elements in writing and production are conspiring to make me throw (soft) objects at the big screen. Last night was no exception.
NBC has released their schedule of shows they expect back for next season — they include the third season of Heroes, the second season of which was shortened because of the writer’s strike, and the second season of the new series Chuck. The Heroes renewal is no surprise, but Chuck was a little uncertain, since the show fell in the ratings after a strong start.
Despite sagging ratings and what is almost universally considered a “sophmore slump”, NBC’s Heroes TV show lead in the ratings for 2007 among science-fiction/fantasy themed TV shows. Coming in second was Pushing Daisies, followed by the lackluster Bionic Woman and CBS’ vampire show Moonlight, which after a strong start, has fallen way below average in the ratings.
