Is that show still on? Why?

Heroes is still on TV?

Holy crap, they cancelled Ugly Betty?!?

So Heroes costs NBC $1 per viewer per episode to be a laughingstock.

Jesus Christ, I swear, if Chuck gets cancelled and Heroes does not, I am gonna rage.

"although creator Tim Kring supposedly feels optimistic".

Well, after their very good first season, many of the behind-the-scenes people seemed to display an arrogant attitude of "Heroes is awesome, and therefore everything we do on Heroes is awesome, which is what makes Heroes awesome, because we're totally awesome!" That kind of circular logic makes it impossible for the showrunners to improve things, since if you think you're practicaly perfect, you reject any suggestion that maybe you could do better. They've been enthusiastically drinking their own Kool-Aid for three seasons, so it's no surprise to hear that Kring thinks he'll get renewed. As an ex-fan, I wish NBC would just put the show out of its misery so that the actors can move on to other projects. I'm still bitter about Sendhil Ramamurthy being prevented from filming that pilot with David Tennant.

I have friends who keep urging me to watch Heroes. But after reading your continual posts about how senseless it is, I've decided to avoid it like the plague and save myself the frustration.

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Please just kill this fucking show!!! Put it out of my misery... For some reason I feel compelled to watch each week and hate myself for doing so.

Heroes in its 1st season show cased some of the best TV going, but it has fallen a long long way since then and the chances of it redeeming itself seem next to none existent.

I can remember a time when "the financial building in front of which they filmed the final battle with Sylar" was something of a tourist point in Los Angeles.

How the mighty have fallen.

"as whatever WWE show USA has on Mondays "

Geez, Rob, I know you don't exist in a nerdery bubbly since you're a football fan so you don't have that excuse, so how the heck could you not know the show's named Raw? It's only been on the air for 17 years.

I hope they keep running 'heroes' for years and years. It's my favourite cripple to kick, now that 'prion break' is gone...

Totally unrelated to this post - I gave up on Heroes almost immediately after the introduction of Sylad - but I'm curious as to whether or not anyone else is having odd issues with this site in Firefox.
When I come to TR in Firefox one of two things happens:

1. I get a page that's entirely blank except for the words "It works!" in bold letters at the top of the page.

2. The page loads, but with no updated content since the Pac Man bookcase post.

I've cleared my cache and etc., but the issue persists. The site loads normally in IE.

I watched for the entire run, up until this week.

When I saw in the blog that PETER LEFT A VOICEMAIL FOR A DEAF GIRL I said enough and just didn't even bother.

When you've become that lazy with the script, I have no more intrest left in hearing what they're trying to say.

Also, Ugly Betty was in the Friday night deathslot. Heroes has a decent time slot (even if it is up against 24, a show on Monday night at 9 stands a better chance then a show on Friday night).

I think Heroes will get renewed. The cast keeps talking about how amazing it does overseas (no idea how), that a lot of people watch it on DVR (probably so they can fast forward through it so they can mock it without wasting an entire hour), and it's downloaded a lot illegaly.

Plus, by the end of this season it will be 22 episodes away from reaching 100 episodes.
I'm predicting that the next season will be 22 episodes long just so NBC can get a series into syndication. (even if the audience only watches the first 1/5th of it when it re-airs)

Are you taking into account that Heroes is available to watch in about 4 other formats, plus DVR so there's absolutely no reason to rush home to watch it on Mondays aside from the Live Blogs. Heroes is available in the following formats for watching new episodes other than watching it on Monday's.

-DVR
-Netflix streaming on Demand (They stream new episodes every week)
-On Demand from Comcast
-NBC.com
-Hulu

The DVR rating are always higher than people that get counted in the nelson ratings and as far as I know, no one ever counts the people that watch it in the other various formats. The DVD sales are strong because people still watch the show, just not on the night it airs.

LOST's ratings have dropped too.. but it's alternative viewings for new episodes are slim in comparison.
-ABC.com
-DVR
-On Demand from Comcast

Many people think it's too much work to get caught up on shows like this so falling ratings are a given, but Hero's is at a handicap with all the options to catch new episodes. I myself caught up on the entire series by streaming everything from netflix in 2 weeks.

The show isn't bad...it just used to be great. I'm personally engaged and locked into the series. It won't get canceled because it's one of the few shows not on Thursdays that people still watch and From what I read the creators have no plans to cancel the show either. In fact this season will end with a cliffhanger.

And yet SOUTHLAND got canned.

Come on, NBC. Get your sh*t together.

My wife and I are still watching Heroes (on TV) because well...... we started watching it when it premiered and there's no other replacement options that we want.

If you have friends telling you to watch Heroes, beware.
These people are not your friends.

After ignoring this season mostly, I checked out the last two episodes at the urging of a "friend".

It is just as bad as it ever was.

Good shows get cancelled, yet this charity case for terrible writers abides

So Ugly Betty is getting cancelled? Thats too bad.

On the subject of Heroes, I would like to see it get one more season to wrap things up but knowing the way the show has gone if Heroes were given one more season instead of quality story telling and closure they would have the heroes fight aliens and end the show with some kind of stupid cliffhanger just to give us all the finger one last time.
I hate to make light of a serious issue but at times it feels like us devoted Heroes fans are in an abusive relationship with the show and its producers.

Hey maybe the next TR contest can be what should all the actors on Heroes do after the show gets cancelled. Hayden Panettiere will have to go back to doing teen comedys and Jack Coleman will have to go back to character acting. I'm not sure about the rest of the cast. I have a feeling if Heroes does get cancelled Milo Ventimiglia will be screwed. Greg Grunberg will be fine though, he'll find something, he always does.

That picture perfectly describes everything about Heroes.

Heroes DVDs sell well?

I've got Season 1 and 2 on DVD. Only watched once. Like new! Anyone wanna make me an offer?

To be honest, it was the potential of the show, not the show itself, that people liked.
Whenever you heard people talking about this show it was always "well, now they'll do this thing..." or "the show could go in this direction..." and if it happens, it goes and happens in the blandest, most pablum way imaginable.

Watching Heroes is like reading 90's Valiant comics and that's an insult to 90's Valiant Comics...

Let's face it, a soap with people with powers could have been awesome. This had the potential to be freaking awesome...and it wasn't. Kill the dayum cheerleader already.

Yeah, I'd love it if it got renewed for another season so that it could wrap up. If not, though, I'd rather they just end it now. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one that's thought of my continual Heroes watching as being akin to an abusive relationship...

It brings joy to my heart that my kids watching iCarly contributes to Heroes' ownage.

Never watched Heroes, never will. Why? One word: BORING!

"Save the cheerleader" my fat pock-marked hiney.

I am contributing to Heroes low ratings by not bothering to watch, but didn't Leno have more viewers and was just cancelled ?

Heroes has been so bad for so long, I can't believe I held on this long. You can count me as one of the 1.9 million who cut the cord between the season premiere and last night's episode. I have to tell you, it felt sooo good to delete the three unwatched episodes and remove it from my DVR's "series recordings."

Season one was so good I just kept holding on, hoping it would someday return to that glory. I can't believe it took so long. Now I know why some women seem to never leave their jerk of a boyfriend.

Heroes was so bad I even wrote a whole post about it on my business blog:
http://motivationalsmartass.com/index.php/2009/10/what-we-all-can-learn-from-nbcs-heroes-suckitude/

I mean, the only people who watch Heroes anymore are the ones there to mock it (I include myself in this.) It is beyond clusterfuck status. Just let it die.

Hey, Heroes. Fire your writters; I hear Conan Obrian is looking for work and a masturbating bear (or especially cheerleader) could only improve your ratings.

I stopped after the first hour of the season 3 premier and never looked back. It's sad that its hard to suffer for this long. Just kill it NBC, you have taken everything else I love, just put this one out before it embarrasses it self further.

As I "watched" the recent episode, I say it like that because normally I use it for background noise as I work on my laptop, I came up with a question for the cast.
Out of all the mockery the show has been getting, and rightly so it seems, does the cast acknowledge or even realize what the show has become? Do they not pay attention to the infinite stupid plotholes, character changes, and overall mistakes that seem to go on in each episode?
Or, do they just do it and not care? Like, does Zachary quinto come in and say "Am I good or bad this week?" and begin to recite his lines? Does Milo enter and just whine about his brother, try to call deaf people on the phone or player supeerpower roulette to see what he can do this week? Does Hayden come in and just whine about wanting a normal life, then accept being a super to turn lesbian, whine for a normal life, accept the power, cry for normality......oh for the love of God some body please shove a metal spike in the back of her head and get rid of her character.
Anyway, I'll keep watching for three reasons, to continuously mock and laugh, to have something providing noise when I need it, and because I will admit, I still enjoy the Hiro character, despite all the recent silliness.

My wife still watches for some reason, but even she's slowly giving up on it. Thank God the season finale is in a couple weeks so it won't clog up the DVR.

This is all my fault. I went to see Hausu at the IFC Center on Monday instead.

I was P.O'd when the writers strike happened during season 2, and then muddled through season 3 with the intro of way to many new characters and the risk of death and the death of some of the key characters (Why did Nathan die if he has Claire's blood in him?)

Season 4, well I just kinda save the episodes convert to avi and wait until I have a few to watch all at once, not going to bother trying to keep up.

Keep the show alive it has possibilities. And yes it's huge overseas, there are at least 3 or 4 people here in our Sydney office that constantly talk about the show, and we're half a season behind.

Whether NBC is enough of a mess to think it deserves renewing or not, it's just cruel to the actors that can genuinely act to keep them chained to that sinking ship for another x amount of episodes.

Should I feel bad that the most important news here to me is that "Ugly Betty" was cancelled? When did this happen anyway?

given the shape NBC is in after the late night war. hate to say it but heroes will wind up be given another season which means zackery quin should really use some of his star trek money and see how much it will cost to buy out his contract and make syler vanish for good and run like hell after this season ends.

I stopped watching when they abandoned internal consistency.

I can handle fantasy when it's consistent to itself.

Heroes is not.

I hate Heroes on a deeper level, since I speak Japanese and have to put up with non-Japanese speakers pronouncing awful nihongo, at least back in season 1 when I watched.

Kill it and take a chance on a new show that might actually get some ratings. There comes a point where you just have to let it go.

I doubt NBC will cancel it this season. They're too desperate for programs to fill the Leno slot to cancel anything else.

This season of Heroes has been a god awful boring snoozefest. The deaf chick storyline -- BORING. The circus storyline -- BORING. Heroes without Adrian Pasdar -- BORING. This show is only good when there is 1. Conspiracy and 2. Bad guys blowing stuff up. Why don't the writers get that? I have also quit watching. Just let it die.