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No, you’re not experiencing déjà vu. Heroes really is staging another comeback.
Heroes: Eclipsed, a new iteration of the much discussed sci-fi series, is in the works from creator Tim Kring, TVLine has confirmed. Per our sister site Deadline, who was first to report, the project is set years after the events of the original show’s series finale and centers on new Evos being awakened and discovering their life-altering powers.
This comes after 2015’s Heroes Reborn, the franchise’s first reboot, which saw Jack Coleman reprise his original series role as Noah Bennett. The 13-episode limited series followed a different group of Evos who were targeted by the U.S. government, which blamed them for a terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas. The series finale ended with the super-powered crew saving the world from a solar flare-induced apocalypse and going on to live normal lives.
Heroes, meanwhile, ran from 2006 to 2010 and also followed strangers with unique abilities working together to save the world. The original ensemble included Coleman, Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglia, Masi Oka, Zachary Quinto, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Adrian Pasdar, Ali Larter, Leonard Roberts, Greg Grunberg, David Anders and Kristen Bell.
Although an instant hit, later seasons of the NBC show didn’t quite live up to expectations and have since been heavily criticized for overly ambitious plots. Kring addressed what went wrong with the show during a panel for Heroes Reborn at the Television Critics Association summer press tour back in 2015.
“The biggest pitfall was always the amount of story that we had to tell,” Kring said at the time. “Our [episode] order was for 23 the first year, then 26 in the second year, 25 in the third year. We were facing a mathematical difficulty, an uphill battle.”
How are you feeling about a third iteration of Heroes? Sound off below!
Do we really need this?
Don’t watch it if you don’t want to. Pretty simple.
Do we really need any specific show? Nobody has to need or ask for a specific show or movie to be made in order to potentially enjoy it if it is.
Don’t they, though? For reboots and sequels and spinoffs you generally want SOME kind of buzz or fan push or at least a fandom that’s still fairly active. This feels like just…oh they’ve been sorting thru the properties they have rights to and think this is a recognizable enough name to get a few eyes.
Love this!! Anything not a police or medical drama wb refreshing
Given the lessons Tim Kring says he learned producing the original three-year run, perhaps this new iteration could be worthwhile. I’d like to give him another shot at it; that first season of the original series was incredibly entertaining.
No mention of how Reborn only became a limited series because NBC cancelled it? The last episode ended with the beginning of “Chapter 2” to set up a second season which never came to be.
This one could be it.
The original Heroes had one of the best opening episodes of any T.V series. The few after were also good, The problem after that was every episode went downhill.
Killed off characters for just killing of characters sake, no reason, added nothing to the story. Spent to little time working on how they were going to do the villain of the series and wrote themself into a corner, to such a degree the character of Styler was the Death Nell of the program original run.
Sorry I know that this will be done by Tim Kring, which is a reason not to watch as he spoiled both the two previous runs. also No, it was not that about the amount of story you were telling. You just tried to shock the audience with pointless deaths which were A. not shocking but were B. off putting to the series future that you were telling. It got to the stage that none of us had any reason to care about any character.
Sounds pretty accurate.
The entire first season was good and was in a time when Sci-Fi shows were hard to catch on. It was comparable to Lost. Then the second season came during the strike and was all wishy washy and people switching sides, and being killed off like you said. I don’t even remember the third season besides something to do with a carnival
Good Lord No!!!!
Just let it die! Tim Kring was the reason the show went down hill. After the first season he introduced no interesting characters, no interesting powers, no villain lived up to Sylar and with him they couldn’t decide if they wanted him to continue to be a villain or turn him into a hero, give him more power or take away his powers.
Let’s not even talk about Heroes Reborn.
The show was at it’s best when Bryan Fuller was running it.
Based on they way the storylines went I’m not sure if Kring ever read a comic book in his life.
And that excuse about having too many episodes in a season is garbage. So many other shows manage to put out good seasons with 23-26 episodes. I can’t imagine this will be any good.
I do not agree on some of that regarding post s1.
IDK, just b/c other shows (which are PROCEDRUALS or Star Trek) could manage 22+ decently doesn’t mean that people who were planning a seasonal anthology with little to no procedural element can suddenly pivot into super high quality storytelling over a long, bloated timeframe. And stay in budget. A lot of other shows failed at it, too, even while being less ambitious. (See: DC tv on the CW.)
Of course it was better with Fuller running it. Things generally are. He’s also, imo, a lot of the reason some of that Trek back in the day that I mentioned was so good episode after episode just with him as story editor and writing some scripts. But he’s not professionally functional anymore, so it’s moot…
I mean honestly I probably wouldn’t watch this reboot as I don’t really remember much of the old show and I don’t care. But it could be better. I think it was made for the kind of formats we have now, and he could hire better writers.
Season 1 was pretty good and the demands of network television is pretty much spot on as far as why it failed. The best outcome would be to be picked up by Streamer in order to be forced to stick with shorter Seasons. A good 3 season, 8-10 episode a season run would be nice if he has a great storyline idea for it.
“The biggest pitfall was always the amount of story that we had to tell,” Kring said at the time. “Our [episode] order was for 23 the first year, then 26 in the second year, 25 in the third year. We were facing a mathematical difficulty, an uphill battle.”
Seasons with 20+ episodes was standard for broadcast network shows in 2006. Other shows that also premiered 2006 alongside Heroes faced the same “uphill battle”: Brothers & Sisters (23/16/24/24/23) and Ugly Betty (23/18/24/20) are two examples. And TV shows that debuted before 2006 like Smallville and Supernatural also had similar episode orders (22 episodes for both shows in the 2006-2007 season). There were shows here and there that had smaller episode seasons like The OC – only 16 episodes in its final year in 2006 – but that was after having 27/24/25 episodes in its first three years.
Most shows flag creatively by the end of their run but few declined so steeply and quickly as Heroes did. Episode count is a convenient strawman.
And season 2 only ended up having 11 episodes anyway due to the strike.
I feel like Kring has blown all his chances, and there’s no reason to expect this revival to be any better than the last one.
Keep it self-contained, with mostly new characters, and I’m in. I seem to recall, that was the original plan of the first series. Have it be almost an anthology. New characters and locations each season.
I am sooooo un for another reboot of Heroes. Bring it on!!!!
Let it go. I enjoyed the first season, but I couldn’t get through the second.
The first season of heroes was perfection and that was it, the rest were average at best and I’m being generous
Yes!!!! I love heroes. Bring it on!!!!!
Honestly, with all the ‘mutant’ shows around, this isn’t going to really get up and running. Yes, season 1 of the show was brilliant, but it went downhill fast I am more excited for The Boys and Gen V to get my mutant/evo/people with powers fix in the current tv market.
Sure, if it is as good as the first season of Heroes. I still remember the line “Save the Cheerleader save the world!”
I still regret staying through the end of the original run. I fell for the reboot. I’ll pass on this one.
I’m all for it as long as Milo comes back as Peter!
I am into if they have Peter and Tracy Strauss…I have always like Ali Larter.
What you’re describing is a sequel series or a continuation of the original series, not a reboot. Why do you guys label everything as a reboot?
They do not label everything as a reboot. Here’s a few quick examples and I am sure there are more…
https://tvline.com/news/alan-ritchson-blue-mountain-state-sequel-series-1235173392/
https://tvline.com/lists/the-librarians-the-next-chapter-cw-spinoff-everything-we-know/
https://tvline.com/news/spartacus-sequel-series-house-of-ashur-nick-tarabay-returning-starz-1235077891/
NBC cancels Quantum Leap only to bring back this?? Ugh……
Great news! I like superhero shows. More the better. I have nothing to watch right now. Is it on NBC?
The only thing that worked in the original show was Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia, so give them a new show together if you want the same success.
Justice for Peter’s abandoned Irish girlfriend! Lol
She can be the lead hahaha
YES! I loved Heroes. Would watch this.
“They can’t just cancel a show… they have to help the viewers let go. ‘Firefly’ did a movie to wrap things up. ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ continued on as a comic book. ‘Heroes’ gradually lowered the quality season by season, till we were grateful it ended.”
— Sheldon Cooper
not with him on board if they want it to work.
chris carter also made ‘x files’ revival a near car crash.