Fresh from a great episode of House and a stint on The Office, Jack Coleman will star in a Hallmark Original Movie about an ageing rocker trying to re-ignite his relationship with his teenage daughter through music.  Max Petersen is a hard-working lawyer who finds more time for his daughter Karen after an old band [...]

In an interview with the Metro Heroes creator Tim Kring has admitted that competition from expanding movie budgets and reliance on shock value was what caused the show’s popularity to fall. “The TV screen on your wall has a $200 million movie on one channel and a $2 million episode of a show on the [...]

We’ll be in San Diego for Comic-Con next week so keep checking back for updates, videos and pics throughout Comic Con week. Don’t forget you can follow us on Twitter to keep up with the news. In the meantime, here are our pics for the top five TV panels at this year’s Comic-Con. 1. Tim [...]

Spare a thought for Heroes fans as the renewed/cancelled notices start to appear. This one has been particularly difficult to call due to the flip-flopping of Angela Bromstad and her ilk, the excellent DVD sales and the fact that Heroes has in the region of 80 trillian downloads a second. Some pointed directly to the [...]

In a move which will surprise few, Sendhil Ramamurthy has confirmed he has officially left NBC’s ‘Heroes‘. The actor – in London to promote Gurinder Chadha film ‘It’s A Wonderful Afterlife’ – told Priyal Sanghavi that he has left ‘Heroes’.  He also cast doubt upon the show returning, saying it would be announced either way [...]

I was very excited when I received this guide book as I am a massive fan of the television series and Titan Books. I was not disappointed in the slightest. This book is an amazing depiction of each of the complicated characters and explains brilliantly how their lives intertwined as the story progressed. Amazingly this [...]

This review contains major spoilers for episodes 1 and 2 of Heroes season 4. In early Summer it appeared that there would be a muted Heroes presence at the industry’s pep rally Comic Con International. For some this was no surprise, after all, Heroes had seen some pretty dire ratings, the much touted third season [...]

by Kirsty Walker Scumbag drama Shameless returns to Channel 4 with a guest part for Father Ted actress Pauline McLynn as the new love interest (sorry if you’re eating) of Frank Gallagher (David Threlfall). Filming had begun on the seventh series of the award-winning drama which will also see the arrival of Karen and Jamie’s [...]

The latest victim of cost-cutting at NBC is veteran Heroes director/Executive Producer Allan Arkush.   At this weekend’s Eclipse 3 convention in Northampton, UK, actor Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman) revealed that Arkush had called him to give him the news. He commented “This is someone who’s been working with Tim Kring since the beginning and [...]

  The latest casualty of Heroes’ dramatic slump is long time director Greg Beeman, who also blogs weekly about goings on behind the scenes. His special relationship with fans of the show has seen angry reaction on his blog and across the web. NBC are thought to have axed him a cost cutting exercise to [...]

Debutante Heroes writer knocks it out of the park by Kirsty Walker Doom and gloom forecasts, ratings plummets, rumours of stars wanting to move on…it’s been a difficult few months for fans of Heroes, brought crashing down to earth by naysayers from the mid-summer high of season 3 opener ‘The Second Coming’ being screened to [...]

  I knew it was going to be A Very Special Day when I overheard not one, but three Whedonverse conversations on my way to the Javits Center (located in a lovely area known as the ‘armpit of Manhattan’). While trying to hold back my friend, henceforth referred to as Riley’s Only Fan, from interrupting [...]

US network NBC are trying all sorts of tricks to revive their flagging fortunes, and got off to a bombastic start with a Super Bowl which pimped their shows to high heaven. Heroes returned to US screens last night with a high-octane (by that we mean racy, not full of gas) episode to launch the [...]

**HERE BE SPOILERS – CONSIDER YOURSELVES WARNED** This way for groundless speculation! Episode titles have been released for the start of ‘Fugitives’, the second volume of Heroes’ Season 3. The most recent episode saw Senator Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar) goading the President (Michael Dorn) into seeking out and capturing those with abilities, and the episode names [...]

Kirsty Walker reflects on the controversial loss of Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander as ‘Heroes’ producers. In a world where ratings mean all, television as an art form cannot flourish. As a commodity, as a distraction or as a snare for advertising revenue, television exists without purpose, and viewers are short-changed. In firing Jeph Loeb [...]