Why heroes cancelled

Heroes would have gone even further and actually killed off its season 1 cast as it moves on to new characters. The pilot for Heroes begins the series on an encouraging note, but an even longer and more detailed version exists.

Another alternate version of the pilot was also made with more significant changes, like changed characters. Heroes grounds itself in many of the ideas and tenets that are present in superhero comics, and even though Heroes is an original property it still uses the medium of comics in some creative ways. Heroes wanted to honor comic book fans and the series enlisted Tim Sale and Alex Maleev, acclaimed comic book artists , to provide content for the show.

Heroes is a show with a very large cast and it becomes fairly common for characters to exit and new ones to enter. However, one of the stranger treatments of a character on Heroes involves Leonard Roberts' D. Hawkins, who is in a relationship with Ali Larter's Niki Sanders. See: Season 4 of The OC , which rediscovered the season 1 mojo when no one was looking.

I always hoped Heroes would be that kind of series. There are some rumors of a wrap-up TV movie. PopWatchers, are you sad, happy, or just glad that our long national nightmare is finally over? Home Article 'Heroes' finally canceled: You won't have Sylar to kick around anymore.

Darren Franich. After becoming an almost immediate hit for NBC in Fall of , Heroes dropped significantly in the ratings over the past couple seasons. NBC has opted to cancel it anyway. Heroes follows a group of ordinary humans who have developed extraordinary powers that end up affecting their lives in positive and negative ways. The network had reportedly been considering three options to wrap up Heroes — a 13 episode order for mid-season, an order of four to six episodes that could be aired over a couple nights in the fall, or to just cancel the series outright.

The network has a large selection of new hour-long dramas to choose from and so, has decided to cut Heroes. On the bright side, NBC is supposedly working on a plan to wrap up the series. Right now, it sounds like there will be a two or four hour event that will air mid-season. My Next Tweet will explain!! From the disastrous amount of time Hiro spent trapped in ancient Japan to the increasingly ridiculous number of powers both Peter Petrelli and his nemesis, Sylar, managed to acquire, it became obvious that Heroes was a show buckling under the weight of its own mythology.

Meanwhile, the tantalising hints of a dystopian future world where no one could be trusted turned out to be less than enticing once we realised that the writers had no idea how to get their Heroes there.

The show's creator, Tim Kring, remained bullish after the cancellation, thanking both fans and network and saying that he was "finalising discussions [with NBC] about a number of ways to keep the Heroes universe alive for its fans". Those discussions are expected to centre on a two-hour, made-for-television film, although - as fans of shows as diverse as Deadwood and Veronica Mars could tell you - just because they talk a good game about a movie, doesn't mean it's actually going to happen.