The 10th Wonder Heroes Podcast

It’s a sad day for Heroes fans… NBC has officially canceled the show.  We’ll have a lot more to talk about as more information is given by NBC. There are also many people to thank for the last 4 seasons but  right now it’s all still sinking in.  I don’t want to leave anyone out, including all the fans so we’ll update you soon.  Expect somewhat of a response, retrospect and a special thanks to everyone through the years.  With that said, we wanted to at least get the main story out.  We do have word from TheODI and Deadline Hollywood that NBC may still be planning a finale event to give us some closure.  While it’s not even close to the fans getting a full season of our favorite show, it’s still something to [potentially] look forward to.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

After all the positive news we received regarding the return of Heroes for a 5th season run, more and more reports are coming in stating the opposite.  Vulture.com broke the news yesterday morning with the headline “Vulture Learns NBC Is Likely to Cancel Heroes“.  If that wasn’t enough the story spread like wildfire and was picked up by many news outlets.  Our good friends over at TheODI.com quickly reached out to their NBC contacts.  While NBC expressed their concern for this information being out there, they did say “It does not look good, BUT there is still a chance for Season 5.” Furthermore Grunberg had an interesting tweet this morning “The Fat Lady is doing her vocal warm-ups!!” I’m not sure if this applies to the Heroes situation but it’s worth mentioning.

While the ratings have been on a steady decline  since early on in the 3rd season, the community has always been strong.  International and domestic DVD sales have been tremendous for every volume of the series.  Heroes was the number one downloaded show (albeit illegally) beating the likes of “Lost”, “Dexter” and “House”.   Simply going off of Nielsen ratings, the immediate reaction after last season was that Heroes wouldn’t live to see another day.  That started to change and we were hearing a lot of encouraging news in favor of Heroes coming back.  More and more steam picked up and it appeared we would at least get one more run of the show.  Unfortunately NBC is in a really bad spot right now and they are trying to rebuild their prime-time line up.  Angela Bromstad (NBC Prime time president) has said from the beginning that NBC had a tremendous amount of pilots to review and that the fate of Heroes could be decided by their interest in those pilots.  With J.J. Abram’s new series (”Undercovers”) being picked up and a slew of other new pilots being green lighted by NBC, it would appear that the chances for Heroes returning are looking more and more grim. I do want to point out that the Vulture.com article does imply that if Heroes doesn’t return for a 5th season there is the chance of a 2 or 4 hour movie.

With all this said, nothing has been officially decided or communicated by NBC.  At least nothing that’s been made public, so we still have some hope. We know they have their upfronts this Sunday where they sell advertising space for their Fall shows. At that time NBC will release their Fall lineup and we’ll probably know for sure if Heroes is coming back or not. Unless their Spring lineup is not included and we’re asked to a wait a bit longer….  While I’m sure most things have already been finalized for NBC, it can’t hurt to let them know how you feel as a fan of the show.  The quickest way to do this is to send tweets to @NBC and express your love for the show.  If you do send NBC a message, keep it professional and courteous.  The Heroes community has always been the best so let’s hope for a surprise this weekend and maybe Heroes will be back along with the 10th Wonder podcast!  We’ll keep you posted!

Sources: NYMag.com and TheODI