Wow, it looks like they couldn't even come up with their OWN crappy ideas, so they had to steal others...

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/05/sue_the_che...

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/05/17/Damned...

Don't cancel Heroes!!!

well remember the most watched show was wwe monday night raw and that was the same time as heroes dont you think they should switch the time slot then.

Yep. I think most of the fault was his. He kept firing writers when he was the problem.

I agree. He became a joke after while as did the show.

First season had so much potential and then it just got more and more rediculous.
Kripke should have been dumped.

this is bull i only just watched all 4 seasons and loved it in my eyes heroes isnt dead NBC is let the show be picked up by someone else the show has that factor where they can do anything or go anywhere wit it and bring it up to the level of supernatural smallville ghost whisperer ect

I agree, Heroes was suffering but I still think the worst Heroes episode was better than any Chuck episode.

Thank God! I will be happy with a 4-hour wrap-up (thought a 13-episode season would have been best), its nice to see that fans who have bought DVD's, books etc. supported the show will be rewarded. Though it will still be the end of a really great show, plus (in my opinion) season four has been amazing so it will go out on a high

Well at least NBC has made one (almost) sensible decision this season...

Obviously now I've said that they'll do a TV movie mid season and which will do better than they expect and announce another season 2011-2012 just to make me look foolish.

I wonder who Kring is going to blame for this? I remember when the ratings took a dive after the writer's strike he was quoted saying the problems lay in the fact that the viewers themselves didn't know how to watch TV. I'm sure they never learned.

Or at least cleaning a room or two. ;)

You know, I can be a bit of a pompous jackass from time to time, and lord knows I accuse others of being so, but is there a bigger pompous jackass in the world than Nikki F? Her "I toldja" post linked her is insane. She's claiming clarvoyance because she earlier "toldja" that Heroes would either be picked up, canceled, or brought back as a TV movie special.

WOW--how clairvoyant.

In related news, I want to remind everyone that I predicted Chuck, Law and Order, PnR, Community, Scrubs, Better Off Ted, and really every other show on television would either be canceled or renewed.

Toldja!

NBC is Cleaning House

Finally a light at the end of the tunnel. A chance to get those thespians who were spinning their wheels in this off/on series to get on something worthwhile. Movies and mini series await. Good luck.

Noooo! It's a very bad news. Heroes was my favourite show, and I can't believe that it's over. I really hope that it will get a 2 or 4-hours movie at least. Now I am so sad. I always loved Heroes.

A very big fan from Hungary.

No!

Sylar is my favorite character on the show. When he's bad, he's very good to watch.

Except for the Claire storyline, I thought Heroes was still pretty good. I'm glad they are going to try and wrap it up for the fans. It's nice when they can do that.

I still say Heroes should have been like The Twilight Zone. A different character and story every week. You could of had them discovering their powers or how characters deal with their powers. You could have a comedy one week or a sad, drama the next.
You could of still had things like newspaper headlines or people reading 9th wonder comics to unify the universe.
I would have made HRG the only reoccurring character. They could have gone years without revealing who he was. Then after a few years, take the most popular characters and throw them together. You could have had Heroes:NY and Heroes: L.A.
I think Heroes was so bad it might actually have ruined the "superhero" genre on tv for some time.

Just let it go. Get someone to do a wrap up comic if you really have to, but there is no need to waste one second to actually film something. You're stealing from a corpse.
The possibilities were endless when it came to this show. Yet they found a way to ruin it. I still can't believe how fast it took to make the show into crap. Any writer involved after season one should be blacklisted.
Heroes and the last season of Lost will go down in tv history as what not to do.

If Heroes uses the movie event to go to a future reality where Peter gets the scar, Hiro becomes the bad ass samurai, Clare turns into the baddie, we finally see Barbara, the helix symbols finally get explained, Sylar has that Noah kid, and Peter and Sylar have an epic duel, I actually think that would be better than a whole new season. And this is coming from someone who loves the show and has seen every episode. I can see it happening now too, since Clare outed everybody and Sylar went good. Plus if Noah dies, that could explain why Clare would go bad and how kiddie Noah gets his name, and if kiddie Noah dies, that could explain Sylar going bad. It would also set up a big final confrontation. However 2 hours minus commercials seems rushed for everything I mentioned, so I hope the rumors about a 4-6 hour miniseries event are true. I think this could really help NBC. It would pretty much render most of the last 3 years irrelevant lol, and cool commericals with the "epic finale" hard sell could bring viewers back, sell DVD's, and perhaps even help hype the new shows too.

Chuck has to be a lot cheaper to make, not much CGI in Chuck

Can the two hour wrap-up be two hours of Claire being run thru a blender or is that too sick? :-P

Does anyone here actually care?? I mean even its fans have been wanting the show to get canceled because it wasn't "as good" as the first 2 seasons and what not.

Heroes and Chuck should have both been cancelled according to ratings.

I am a fan of both Chuck and Heroes. I watched every episode of the last season of Heroes. And I'm glad it was canceled. I don't like to give up on shows but I don't know if I could force myself to watch another season. The arguments that Heroes should have been renewed instead of Chuck because it used to have good ratings doesn't make sense at all. Chuck isn't a huge success, but at least it's consistent. NBC knows what it's getting into with the show and apparently the network is ok with that. Heroes, on the other hand, became a mockery of itself as far as ratings go. With a 3 year decline and terrible reviews of the last season, even by fans, it wouldn't be a very wise move to renew it no matter how cheap it cost. And especially if the network is trying to recreate its image, renewing a show most people didn't like anymore and even the fans had a hard time defending is not a wise move.

As for a wrap up, I think it's a bad idea. Never mind the fact that I thought the finale was all together anti-climatic and didn't really inspire me to care what happened now that everyone knows their secret. That story is way too big to tell in a couple of hours without having yet another episode of terrible quality.

Um, Heroes has always had preferential treatment - they've had the better timeslot (Chuck was against Dancing with the Stars, House, and HIMYM, while Heroes was against Two and a Half Men, TBBT, The Bachelor and Fringe...come on) , and the bigger budget. And yet Chuck was beating or matching their ratings. So yeah, who had an audience at the end?

It pretty much went downhill after Eccleston left.

I'm glad it's at least getting closure, which is all it really needed anyway. Not to mention, Ugly Betty got syndication at 85 episodes, so if anybody, years from now want to pick up Heroes, it's still possible, especially if it gets a four hour finale. We shall find out on Sunday (or is it Monday, most websites still say Monday).

Heroes - Squandered potential. See also: FlashForward

Byesies to you too. Nice knowing ya!

Because one has good writing and the other Did not.
Heroes was a big mess after season 1. They didnt know what to do with it.
So much potential and then it became a bore.

not a surprise

So sad what happened to this show. I loved the first season, and could never get into it after that.

I haven't watched Heroes since they jumped the shark with the lesbian kiss angle/promo early in the season. That was it for me. NBC is just as to blame in this. You can't let a show run it's course, then pit it on the shelf from March to September, with no promos or very little promo, and just expect people to pick up where they left off.

I got tired of people coming back to life, too. It got to the point where you didn't care who died, because you knew that, somehow they were coming back to life. Just as well. It was a good show for the first two seasons, then the strike took a bad bite out of the fan base, and then sloppy stories took the other bite. RIP Heroes.

P.S. Whatever happened to that spin-off show? See how NBC just messes EVERYTHING up?

> where were all these people when 75% of the fans who watched the show bled away over the course of it's run?

LOLOL. This is the other 25%. ALL OF THEM.

I'll miss the show, I think people are way too hard on it. But c'est la vie. There have certainly been better shows cancelled. Dollhouse. Journeyman. Day Break. Wonderfalls. Love Monkey. And so forth.

Thought i would care more than i do.

ah darn :( but with the more recent news of cancellation, i'm not surprised now.
but i REALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY hope it gets a wrap-up because i really really loved heroes. it was only this past season that i just thought was okay. i loved the first 3; don't care what anyone says.. i enjoyed them. so i hope it gets an epic 4-hour movie farewell!

Maybe because season 1 is the only season of the series that doesn't deserve to be burned, never to be seen again.

A 2-Hour TV movie series finale would work out I guess but with a reduced budget of course. But since HEROES sell DVDs then maybe NBC shelling out money to finance a wrap hour movie might benefit them with the sales. They could also make it a direct-to-DVD series finale, But well it's all about the money

Why'd you use a season 1 picture?

I believe (even though I never watched the show) that it deserves a proper ending. I believe that networks should put in every shows contract that incase the network cancels that show that it will get a proper ending to the storyline.

oh well you can't have them all, i'm pleased that v and human target were renewed which I wasn't expecting but I guess there must be some bad news as well, at least it looks like we'll be getting a 2 hour movie to wrap it up. adn stop saying NBC sucks, I don't blame them for this decision, NBC needs a fresh start in their current situation and it's clear they're doing that with the large number of pilots they are greenlighting, renewing heroes wouldn't help their situation, at least a cancellation in this cas was somewhat expected, I feel sorry for the law and order fans, they were fully expecting a renewal and it was cancelled in a surprise move, though i don't blame NBC for that decision.

This is a good decision. I'm not a fan, but I DO hope they have some kind of wrap up event for all the fans who've been following since the beginning.

Just because u like Heroes, doesn't mean I can't be happy about its cancellation. Just like in sports, when a team loses that I hate and is in direct competition with my team, I cheer. Though it is malicious joy, its nothing to take personal :)

Another show that really lost it's way. It was good in the first season discovery of powers phase. But it became slapstick ridiculous with super Sylar and other resurrected/unkillable characters.

This show should serve as a lesson. If you there is no permanence to death or anything because of rampant invulnerability, rampant time travel, there is no more dramatic tension because nothing matters anymore.

NBC confirms the cancellation. You won't see any press releases unless they get the wrap-up event worked out. If there is, there will likely be something in Sunday's announcement about the fall schedule, if not sooner.

I'm disappointed but I think it's the right decision. The season finale works as a series finale of sorts so I'm not concerned about wrap up. The quality has been picking up slightly so I'm glad it ended on a relatively good note.

where is the nbc announcement of it though?

I don't want to prejudge anything but isn't science fiction pure tv ratings poison? Lost is the big exception but that show was the genre closet until season 4/5. Anyway best of luck to Summer Glau, hopefully it will be third time lucky for her.

There is potential in the outing storyline. But Heroes is like the poster child for squandering potential. The whole series has been potential awesome storyline after potential awesome storyline that the writers somehow managed to screw up beyond all comprehension.

So I don't really trust them at this point to carry out that cliffhanger properly.

@jenn That's the problem. I can think of potential storylines with Claire revealing the Specials to the world but as a tie up, I can't. I really wanted to see where the Peter/Sylar story went.

@Doug Even Lost has lost its stellar ratings and people are complaining about some episodes. I watch just to see how the writers intend to wrap up all the questions.

Face it, TV is not what it was years ago. Too many reality shows, too many shows with similar themes. Shows that make asses of anyone willing to be one publicly. Turner has all the good old movies so we see the same 20 repeated over and over on TNT or TBS.

I watch more DVDs and play video games, or just goof on the Net, rather than watch TV.

As a Fan of Both 'Chuck' And 'heroes' I said that if chuk got picked up i would be ok with heroes Being Cancled, and on this day, I Am! So long Old Friend...

This is great irony. Back when it premiered, people where trashing Lost and holding Heroes up as an example to follow. 4 years later, Heroes is unceremoniously dumped and Lost is going to as one of the biggest events of the year. Love it.

No surprise here, folks. The haters are celebrating, and the fans are mourning.

bulllllshit.

I pity the people that were fans of the show, I agree they should have renewed it if they renewed Chuck. Glad Law and Order is gone I am sick of Forensics , court-room shows. Please cancel their reality shows it's enough of that crap, put it on daytime TV or something.

Daaaamn. Well, fine with me. Give it a wrapup whatever and I'll be happy.

For whatever reason, the writers decided to end last season on a cliffhanger. Claire purposefully used her power in front of television cameras, outing them. So I guess that's the wrap up? Other than that, there's not actually much left to get closure on.

Agree, What drove me away is that Sylar was all powerful and never died and the heros were a bunch of idiots. Peter loses his powers and can only use one but Sylary is unstopable. Yeah Okay.

Well glad for the fans that it is getting a seriest wrap up event.

The first season,was pretty awesome.The second one...just so so.The third very boring and this last one,i just saw the first episodes til i can't no more with that boring show it become.

Thank God. With a 4 hours event I would be happy, I would've prefered a 13 episodes volume (its premise looked promising), but that would be fine.

By the way, everyone being so happy about its cancelation makes me sick, I wouldn't be happy if a show someone likes got canceled, it's just plain stupid.

P.S. Sorry for monopolizing the comments.

I'm not being flip when I ask this but what exactly do they need to wrap up? The wildly inconsistent characters? Do they need to kill Sylar and bring him back for the 47th and final time? Maybe they will introduce another bevy of new characters and then woefully mismanage them or give them nothing to do? Can't WAIT!

I do find the sudden vitriol sprouting up over this cancellation to be mildly amusing....where were all these people when 75% of the fans who watched the show bled away over the course of it's run?

Heroes had fantastic 1st season, but turned into a turd by the end of the 2nd - and never got any better. So it was a mercy killing by NBC...

RIP Heroes

**POST UPDATED** though the show is canceled, it seems that NBC is still working on some way to wrap-up the series.

Not even a 2 hour finale movie. I am officially jumping on the bandwagon that NBC sucks. I keep trying to defend them all these years, and I'm not even sure why. No more!!

NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux! NBC sux!

That felt good.

Seems like the internet is going crazy about this news now. But where were they for the last 2 years? Pfft.

I thought it had a slightly better chance than Chuck. So I'm a little bit surprised, but not really shocked. I actually watched all the seasons of Heroes, and even when some people thought it was at its worst in Season 3, it still entertained me. But the show just became so abominably bad in Season 4.

Both Chuck and Heroes have low enough ratings to be canceled, but if NBC decided to hold its nose and only renew one, I'm glad they picked the show that actually produces quality episodes.

Well, at least we had 1 really good season (the first). Damn you Tim Kring for sucking and not understanding the "superhero world".

Chuck doesn't deserve another season either, its ratings are worse than Heroes' and it's not produced by NBC.

By the way, has NBC said anything "official" yet? I will have hope 'til the very end, as I really love the show.

Thank goodness. While I would've been fine with two hours to wrap it up, really it didn't "deserve" to get a proper send-off anymore than other beloved series that didn't get a chance to wrap things up.

As much as I like Zack Quinto, he should have left at the end of Season 1 and made a major comeback in Season 4 as the big bad pulling the strings of another villain. Sylar became too powerful (nearly omnipotent) and just made no sense (is he good or is he bad). I made my peace with the final episode back in February. RIP Heroes.

Boy, I would have been really upset if they would have done this last season! But this season, watching Heroes was like being forced to eat your veggies, except these veggies carried no nutritional value.

Its sad!!!!!!!!!! but i guess im prepared :( 2day is now a very very very sad day




My fan repsonse: I h8 NBC, I will never watch that terrible channel again - it wasn't given enough promotion and had the bad timeslot ;)

Thank god they show lost its way a long time ago... should have done away with CHUCK to

In my opinion, Sylar should have been a one season villain. His storyline was carried out FAR too long.

Thank God they put this out of it's misery. I watched the 1st 3 seasons and 14 of the 19 from last season before I gave up. I recall it was barely over 4M viewers and 1.0 in the demos. After a disastrous 2nd season they tried 2 reboots (season 3 and 3.5) and both were failures...I'm still puzzled how it even got 19 episodes last season. No I can move on and hopefully enjoy some better scripted shows on NBC.

This is great news! Although the cancellation of L&O; was NOT needed. I was very disappointed to hear about it.

JFrick I do like that in NBC right now their cleaning house right now and revamping this network.

They need to destroy that Thursday lineup next and get us back to the Must See TV days and now you're talking a network that goes from 4th to 2nd.

They're really serious about rejuvenating the network. Good on them.

I have to say my tender ego has taken a bit of a slap. Given Heroes was produced by NBC and Chuck's ratings have been on a downward slide I thought Heroes would outlast Chuck

(Actually I thought they'd both get cancelled but I thought Heroes had a slightly better chance)

I guess Heroes' suckiness had reached a point where even the financial incentive didn't make it worth NBC's while.

I hope they make a TV movie at least. I can't describe how pissed off I am right now.

Heroes has been dead since 2008 why was it still alive?

Time to see Ali Larter and Hayden Panettiere in something new.

I think it's kinda funny how nbc choose CHUCK instead of HEROES
NBC was trying to shove CHUCK to people for 3 years and always get the same crappy ratings while HEROES has or HAD a real audience

HEROES still have a life in it somewhere, NBC just didn't see it while CHUCK here have always have a life but viewers just can't see it!

but in retrospect, I enjoy CHUCK better than HEROES... i will sure miss the bads and goods of HEROES

When Law & Order was officially canceled, I'm sure the cancellation for this is a sure thing. I jumped ship in season 2 but I do feel bad for the remaining fans of the show. Maybe they will provided closure in comic book form

Congratulations to THE CAPE for taking their place. Cannot be any worse.

It was the right decision. The show was a shadow of its former self and was an albatross around the network's neck.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

No way! It's impossible Chuck is getting another season and Heroes is not.