Tim Kring, Heroes‘ creator, has released a statement on the demise of his show (via THR.com’s Live Feed):
Regarding NBC’s decision not to renew the international hit Heroes for a fifth season, creator and executive producer, and award winning transmedia storyteller, Tim Kring commented: “I want to first extend my deepest gratitude and heartfelt appreciation to the legion of enthusiastic fans who have watched Heroes on TV, online, DVR, DVD and mobile over the last four seasons.
Every week more than 45 million TV viewers around the world, as well as millions of social and digital media-based fans, have made Heroes one of the five most-watched shows across traditional and digital media screens in the history of television.
For NBC, I certainly understand the challenge of creating a business model around a show which arrived precisely as the audience was finding new ways to watch traditional content on multiple screens.
I personally have had 12 great years with my friends at NBC, and with Heroes, they provided me a rare opportunity to put a message of hope, interconnectivity and global consciousness into the world. For that I am grateful and look forward to finalizing our discussion about a number of ways to keep the Heroes universe alive for its fans.”
I haven’t ever watched even five minutes of this show, but I’m aware of how fan support for it crashed and burned like the Hindenburg in the seasons following the first. So is Kring’s hope for other transmedia (heh, love that word, sounds like a crossdressing TV station or something) incarnations like comics or movies realistic?
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even in his press statements he's shining shit and calling it gold
45 million fans worldwide? Kring pulled that number straight out of his ass. This show was a turd and no one gave two shits about it after the first season. So to answer your question David, No.
To be honest, I got into this show not having seen the first two or three seasons and I must admit: I loved it. I really cared about the characters, most of the situations, especially last season's finale with the potential epic proportions and story lines that could have stemmed from the heroes being SPOILER "outer" by Claire. Bummer.
Yeah, keep telling yourself all that bullshit Kring.
I'm sorry but isn't Tim Kring also the guy who started apologizing to his fans at one point for making a large number of mistakes with the show when people started talking about how "Heroes" had gone from must-see television to oh-dear television? And wasn't he also the guy who once claimed that he had a five year plan for the show's storyline? What happened to that? I don't trust a thing that comes out of this guy's mouth and it's his own fault this show was cancelled. I stopped watching after season three and I LOVED "Heroes" throughout most of the first season.
The "international hit?" Yeah, that and David Hasseloff. Douche.
I guess if they did comics it could work. At least line delivery wouldn't be the massive issue that it was while I was watching.
HEROES was never a really great show. The show started going downhill in pretty much the first season finale, when it became obvious that Kring and Co. had no idea how to payoff their arcs and have a really strong climax.
It's sad that HEROES went the way it did, it would have been nice for the show to have a superhero show that could champion intelligent genre storytelling side-by-side with LOST and BSG.
Eh, I guess all we can do is roll the dice on THE CAPE come fall. Maybe those guys can learn from this one's mistakes.
Heroes, Lost, Fringe, V, FlashForward…
These shows and others like them will always fail to keep me as a viewer. Give me planning and writing of 3-4 seasons' material; build up strong story and character arcs that lead to satisfying emotional/dramatic payoffs, as opposed to empty weekly cliffhangers, characters who overtime make NO sense (i.e. Sylar), immemorable number of plotlines, etc.
And then, END the series. I'd love to see more 1-season-only series – Lost and Heroes could have ended brilliantly after their first season.
/Naruto fan
Comment #3—"I got into this show not having seen the first two or three seasons…"—Well, the show seemed to repeat itself constantly, so you didn't really miss much. Despite just having saved the world after a warning from the future, they're AGAIN warned by someone from the future that the world is still in danger? Happened a couple times. Claire gets mad at her dad for not telling her the truth and runs off? Happened at least once a month. "I can't let you do this, Peter", says Nathan, followed by Peter doing something Nathan wouldn't let him do? Every other week. I stuck with it from beginning to end, and it was incredibly frustrating to watch. I had already thought that the show had been canceled before the finale hit, so I don't know what this "stopped mid-storyline" crap I've been reading was all about. It seemed like enough of a planned ending if it had to be the end, though if it had continued, they at least had new places to go. If they want to wrap it up in a TV movie, fine. If someone other network wants to pick it up and ditch half the cast as a cost-cutting measure *coughGrunbergcoughLartercough* , that would be fine too. As it stands though, I'm not going to miss the series too much.
On the plus side, the incomprehensible new age drivel that Mohinder used to spout in voice over is a great subject for retro hipster mockery. Heroes' version of "yes MacGyver really blacked up to play a Cuban once" hilarity/disbelief.
Okay, so maybe the show went to hell after the first season. Claire still had one of the coolest dads on TV. Obviously, someone on that production staff must have liked the guy as he was put in the position of a Ali Larter – Elizabeth Rohm love triangle there for a while.
I love how the comments are being tailored to fit the mood of the article. The article says Heroes is trash, the comments follow suit. It's amazing what censorship will do…
I followed the show from start to finish. The quality came and went, but in the end I looked forward to watching it after work on Mondays. I'm disappointed to see it go.
bob… this is heroes we're talking about.
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shitty mcshitburger on a shit sandwich.
I heard that the if they had gone from teh comics' story line, then it would be much better, but I think more TV shows could be inspired by comic writers.
@12- Seriously? Your thesis is that whatever the article says will thoughtlessly be parroted in the comments? Have you even BEEN here before?
everyone keeps commenting on how much heroes sucked. we know it sucked. but what about the mediababble kring was spouting… like he was advertising the way of future technology, or perhaps just trying to convince the world his show was popular on cell phones just not tv.
I followed the show and I even liked the concept of the storylines…but they were executed soooo poorly or never paid off. But you know something, that's entirely Tim Kring's fault. Every shitty decision in Heroes can be attributed to him. NBC tried to fix the show and he wouldn't let them. They wanted the Heroes to team up earlier in each season and they wanted him to quite flip-flopping characters but he wouldn't. He said he thought characters changing was really interesting and Heroes teaming up was gay. He repeatedly gimped Hiro and Peter's powers because (by his own admission) that he couldn't think of what to write about their abilities. So I'm disappointed that the show is over because like every season, there was so much potential for their final season
Those stupid sprint tie-ins were one of the most irritating aspects of the show. What the hell is this guy talking about. This show was great as of the season 3 premier, then it went straight down the shitter and it had nothing to do with too many media platforms existing.
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