Review : Gypsy Blood
January 30, 2012 – 12:25 pm | One Comment

“It is a lovely thing to see when two men has got a problem. It just gives you confidence that there is proper men out there still that’ll have a fair fight and sort it out like men.” Gone were their Gaga-esque flamboyant meringue dresses and provocative hip wiggling, and in its place were deadly [...]

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Heroes Jack Coleman to star in Hallmark Original Movie
January 6, 2011 – 12:44 pm | Comments Off
Heroes Jack Coleman to star in Hallmark Original Movie

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 [...]

Tim Kring talks Heroes regrets
January 6, 2011 – 11:55 am | 3 Comments
Tim Kring talks Heroes regrets

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 [...]

Top 5 TV Panels at Comic-con 2010
July 13, 2010 – 6:36 pm | Comments Off
Top 5 TV Panels at Comic-con 2010

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 [...]

Fandom Friday : Heroes fans need a Hiro
May 14, 2010 – 11:42 am | One Comment
Fandom Friday : Heroes fans need a Hiro

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 [...]

Sendhil Ramamurthy leaves Heroes
April 14, 2010 – 10:05 pm | 3 Comments
Sendhil Ramamurthy leaves Heroes

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 [...]

Review : Heroes – An Insider’s Guide
October 26, 2009 – 10:46 pm | 3 Comments
Review : Heroes  – An Insider’s Guide

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 [...]

Heroes Achieves ‘Redemption’
September 23, 2009 – 10:18 am | 4 Comments
Heroes Achieves ‘Redemption’

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 [...]

‘Shameless’ returns to Channel 4
May 27, 2009 – 1:01 pm | Comments Off
‘Shameless’ returns to Channel 4

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 [...]

EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s Axe Continues to Fall as Allan Arkush fired from Heroes
May 5, 2009 – 10:50 am | 8 Comments
EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s Axe Continues to Fall as Allan Arkush fired from Heroes

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 [...]

Heroes’ Greg Beeman Fired by NBC
April 28, 2009 – 10:03 am | 4 Comments
Heroes’ Greg Beeman Fired by NBC

  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 [...]

Oliver Grigsby is our new Hero
March 11, 2009 – 11:10 am | Comments Off

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 [...]

New York Comic-Con coverage
February 9, 2009 – 12:44 pm | 13 Comments
New York Comic-Con coverage

  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 [...]

NBC Hustle to keep in the game
February 3, 2009 – 10:41 am | Comments Off

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 [...]

Heroes goes hostile with episode titles
January 16, 2009 – 1:42 pm | One Comment

**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 [...]

Loeb and Alexander – Still Heroes
November 3, 2008 – 12:58 pm | Comments Off

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 [...]