The 10th Wonder Heroes Podcast

Heroes Season 4 “Redemption” has been given an official street date.  While it’s not as early as some reports had speculated, at least we won’t have to wait until September.  August 3rd is the official date that Universal has promised to release the 4th and final season of Heroes.  We’re accustomed to getting commentary on almost every episode but it’s been scaled back just a bit this time around.  Fortunately there’s a decent amount of other special features to keep us entertained.  You can pre-order through Amazon via The 10th Wonder special links and you’ll be guaranteed the lowest price between now and the actual release.

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We’ve all been waiting anxiously to see what (if anything) would come of the Heroes cancellation.  While we hoped we’d get a solid indication right after the up fronts, we were still left wondering if we had seen the last of Heroes.  Well we’ve got some good news and some potential bad news. Let’s just start off with the good news.  Tim Kring has outlined his idea for a wrap-up mini series that involves a one year time jump, Claire as the spokesperson, some of our specials exposed while others hide, and the big kicker; somehow bringing back the beloved Adrian Pasdar.  I’d like to point out it won’t be in the form of Nathan Petrelli and I’m not really sure how that will work.  Now the bad news.  Tim Kring is confident that all the cast members are on board for this, but it can be very very tough to bring back a cast of this size while they’re trying to move forward with their careers.  Additionally, NBC still needs to  green light this project and that’s the biggest hurdle.  NBC hasn’t had the best track record as of late and it could be difficult for them to fund the event (no pun intended).  We’d like to remain optimistic and NBC did say they would like to appease the fans, but it’s pretty tough to bring something together in these kinds of situations.  So far NBC has not commented on anything but keep your fingers crossed!  You can read the full story at TVGuide.com “Is there Power Left in Heroes”

Source:  TV Guide.com

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

Heroes: Season 4 is officially available for pre-order but the release date is yet to be announced.  No details yet on bonus content and the artwork is yet to be determined.  If you order through our Amazon link and the price drops, you will always pay the lowest price.  We’ll update the news as more information is available on bonus content, artwork, technical specs and the release date.  Until then you can use the following links to pre-order your copy today:

Heroes Season 4 Blu-Ray

Heroes Season 4 DVD

Well that’s exactly what the good people at “The Hollywood Reporter” are saying!  This has actually been floating around the internet for a few days…THR is reporting that Angela Bromstad (NBC President of Primetime) is indicating that Heroes will likely return with a 13-episode “Final season.”  NBC recently renewed Parenthood.  At the same time, Heroes and Chuck were being discussed on The Hollywood Reporter website.  In response to reports that NBC still has a couple of major titles on the bubble for renewal and that sources indicate both Heroes and Chuck will probably return (with Heroes likely receiving a 13-episode final season) Bromstad had this to say- “It is all yet to be debated, both of those shows make sense with the new shows we’ll be bringing on.”

This is making my thoughts on the return of Heroes more and more plausible but I will wait to get excited until we hear official word one way or another.  Either way, it’s more positive news!!

Source: HollywoodReporter.com

THR is reporting that Heroes is still among shows that are “on the bubble” and “the Peacock strongly considering a final-season order.”  That’s back to back stories of encouragement for Heroes fans.  First we here from Ali Larter that she believes Heroes will be back for a 5th season and now we have word that NBC is strongly considering more episodes.  Oh yeah, in case you missed it, Ali Larter recently spoke up about Heroes during the Resident Evil panel at WonderCon.  Even though Larter feels that the show will be back, she encourages everyone to tweet and blog about it.  You can check that out HERE.

My Personal Opinion

If NBC had plans to cancel Heroes, wouldn’t they have done it by now? I know some people are saying we’ll find out in May but Heroes has a big following and usually we would have heard something by now.  Why keep the actors waiting and why not try to promote this as the final season in the U.K. if they had decided on ending with Season 4?  This season might be over and done with in the U.S. but there are still more episodes airing in other places.  Okay that last part may be a bit of a stretch but it would seem to me that NBC might be past the cancel/renew stage and they are trying to determine how to market the final season of Heroes. I’ll even go as far as to speculate that NBC might be considering more than just one more season.  With the ending we were given for Volume 5 it might be tough to end the series with one final comeback.  Would I be happy with only getting one more order of episodes? Sure I’ll take what I can get, but we have no idea what Tim Kring has actually pitched to NBC.  I do feel that Heroes has a good chance of being back and the only thing that NBC is deciding on is how they’re going to market the show.  I don’t want to give fans false hope so I want to clarify that this is completely personal opinion with zero inside knowledge on the situation. I may very well end up eating my words but I strongly believe there’s hope.  What do you think? Sound off!

-Joe

Sources: The Hollywood Reporter and Celebrity-Mania.com