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episodes. The NBC superhero serial drama series Heroes follows the lives of people around the globe who possess various superhuman powers as they struggle to cope with their everyday lives and prevent foreseen disasters from occurring. The series premiered on American and Canadian television on September 25, 2006. [1]
- Heroes (Season 4)
The NBC superhero serial drama series Heroes follows the...
- American TV Series
The first issue is a 100-page premiere issue. Feature...
- Heroes season 1
List of episodes The NBC superhero serial drama series...
- Heroes (Season 4)
The first issue is a 100-page premiere issue. Feature articles include a cast group interview, a secret origins featurette, and a season one episode guide. Greg Beeman, executive producer of Heroes has confirmed that this is an official Heroes release, with the full support and cooperation of Tim Kring and the rest of the Heroes production team.
- 4
- 77 (list of episodes)
- September 25, 2006 –, February 8, 2010
- NBC
Episode list. Heroes. Top-rated. Mon, Apr 30, 2007. S1.E20. Chapter Twenty 'Five Years Gone' Hiro and Ando find themselves five years after the destruction of New York. People with extraordinary abilities are labeled as terrorists and Sylar, who has assumed the form of Nathan, is the President. 9.0/10. Rate. Top-rated. Mon, Feb 26, 2007. S1.E17.
- Plot
- Cast and Characters
- Production
- Reception
- DVDs
The plot of Heroes is designed to be similar to the stories of comic books with small story arcs built into the series' larger story arc plot. Each season of Heroesis designed to involve ordinary people who discover extraordinary super powers, and how these abilities take effect in the character's daily lives. The first season, known as "Genesis", ...
Milo Ventimiglia as Peter Petrelli, the protagonist; a nurse and Nathan's brother, gains the abilities of evolved humans who come near him.Hayden Panettiere as Claire Bennet, a high school cheerleader with the power of rapid cellular regeneration. Marc Hirschfeld, executive vice president of casting for NBC Universal Television stated...Jack Coleman as Noah Bennet, or "Horn-Rimmed Glasses" (recurring episodes 1 to 10), Claire's father and employee of the Company.Tawny Cypress as Simone Deveaux, Peter's friend and Isaac's girlfriend.Conception
Heroes began development early in 2006, when Tim Kring, creator of NBC's Crossing Jordan, came up with the show's concept. Kring wanted to create a "large ensemble saga" that would connect with the audience. He began thinking about how big, scary and complicated he felt the world is, and wanted to create a character-driven series about people who could do something about it. Kring felt that a cop or medical drama did not have characters that were big enough to save the world. He came up with...
Critical reception
During the series' first season, the American Film Institute named Heroes one of the ten "best television programs of the year."Doug Elfman of the Chicago Sun-Times stated, "the show's super strengths are its well-developed filmmaking, smooth pacing and a perfect cast. It views like the first hour of a fun, thoughtful movie." Barry Garron at The Hollywood Reporter also stated, "Heroes is one of TV's most imaginative creations and might, with luck, become this year's Lost." Less favorable revi...
Ratings
The pilot episode generated 14.3 million viewers, with the season high topping out at 16.03 million viewers for episode 9. When the series returned from hiatus on January 22, 2007, the ratings averaged about the same as the pilot with 14.9 million viewers. When the show went on a second hiatus during the first season, from March 4, 2007 to April 23, 2007 (7 weeks), ratings hit a new low; the lowest being 11.14 million viewers during part one of the three part finale, "The Hard Part."
Awards and nominations
By the time Heroes completed the first half of the first season, the show had already collected an assortment of honors and accolades. On December 13, 2006, the Writers Guild of America nominated the program for "best new series" of 2007. On December 14, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated the program for a Golden Globe Award for "best television drama", and nominated Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura) for Best Supporting Actor on a TV Series. On January 9, 2007, Heroes won the award for...
The first DVD release of Heroes was a sampler disc, containing only the first episode, and was released in Ireland and the UK on September 3, 2007. UK Region 2 split Heroes into two halves on its initial release; part one being released on October 1, 2007 and part two on December 10, 2007. When the second part was released, a complete first season ...
Heroes: Created by Tim Kring. With Jack Coleman, Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglia, Masi Oka. Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
- TV-14
- 2006-09-25
Episode list. Heroes. Seasons Years Top-rated. 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010. S3.E1 ∙ Chapter One 'The Second Coming' Mon, Sep 22, 2008. In order to change the course of history, a scared and cynical Peter Petrelli travels back in time from four years to the day his brother Nathan revealed the existence of the super-humans and was the one who shot him.
English. Home. Welcome to the Heroes Wiki. Heroes chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities, and in doing so use them to prevent catastrophic futures. The series ran for 77 episodes from September 25, 2006 to February 8, 2010.
