The number one genre show on television returns tonight and begins wrapping up its first monumental season.
With all new episodes “Heroes” returns to NBC tonight at 9/8C. The producers have promised that the remaining episodes will be real nail-biters (as if every one so far hasn’t been).
Beginning with this all new episode we start getting more answers about the past of many of our heroes, blemishes and all. Upexpected alliances are forged. The truth about the coming disaster is revealed. Some of the heroes will meet their final destiny.
In particular, on tonight’s new show the madman Sylar and Peter Peterelli face off as Linderman plots his own deadly game.
And about time, too. What is up with TV this year taking absurdly long hiatuses? (Hiatusi? Hiatusees? Hiati?) Lost, Heroes, BSG. It’s getting frakking annoying
In many cases, the breaks are so they can line up with sweeps months (when ratings count the most).
Heroes in particular has been using the breaks to catch up on filming. It takes them twice as long to produce an episode than most other shows. They just put the finale in the can last week!
In the battle between sweeps and continuity, there’s only two options. Have breaks like Lost and BSG, or start the season in January (like 24 and the next season of BSG) to avoid the breaks. It’s up to the viewers which one is going to win out. Just don’t whine if Heroes doesn’t come back for 7 months after the finale 😉
Anyone know if this has been given the go ahead for another season? The commercials are saying the “Final” five chapters…Is this the end for Heros?
Six weeks is not an absurdly long hiatus. Up until recently, most series just showed re-runs of previous episodes during their “breaks”. Apparently, viewers became angry about that when it came to serials.
So, the networks came up with the idea of not airing re-runs, so that viewers wouldn’t get confused, thinking that the old episodes were new episodes.
Yeah, right.
And what an excellent episode it was. Hiro meets Hiro !