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Think that Heroes' "Claire Explores Her Bi-Curious Side" plot is cheap exploitation designed by male writers to titillate a diminishing core of male fanboy viewers? You're only half right. Turns out, the whole thing is star Hayden Panettiere's idea. More »
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When NBC's Heroes returns later this month, expect the best season since season one, according to stars Masi Oka and Hayden Panettiere. Just don't expect to see too much Ando/Hiro bromance, and not because of Hiro's terminal illness. More »
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A new poster for Heroes season four offers you two reasons to give the show one more chance. Just follow Masi Oka's stare. Yatta! More »
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Heroes' flaxen-haired cheerleader wants Peter Petrelli dead. Now that Hayden Panettiere has stopped dating Milo Ventimiglia, she's miffed that producers insist on keeping him on set. More »
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Hayden Panettiere let it leak that Heroes won't be back for the rest of the season, even though the strike is coming to an end. Maybe this will allow the writers to focus on Season Three (Season 2.0 Redux?) and come out of the gate with a bang instead of a whimper. After all, we know they've filmed part of Volume Three: Villains and that it's all about the bad guys, so how can they screw that up? Plus Zachary Quinto will be done with Spock duty, so they can cram more Sylar in there for extra brain-munching action. [Ain't It Cool News] More »
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At the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival last month during the Heroes event, we noticed that Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden Panettiere were canoodling with each other the whole time, whispering back and forth like giddy schoolkids. But, we chalked it up to nerves and confusion about what was going on during the Q&A. For instance, Milo's answer to "How has Heroes changed your life?" was "I don't really know what to say." Nice. Our tabloid-papparazzo circuit wasn't working properly that day and anyhow, now it's official. The brother/sister set of Peter Petrelli and Claire Bennet are Hollywood's newest incestuous power couple. At least until Sylar swoops in and eats their brains, hoping to gain some of their couple-of-the-moment pheromones. More »
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Jack Coleman has the enviable position of breathing life into television's best and worst father each week on NBC's Heroes. During the day he'll be bringing home teddy bears to his indestructible daughter Claire, while that night he'll gun someone down and work with genetically mutated viruses. He's gone through more character twists than a corkscrew and returned from the dead. We caught up with him at a Beverly Hills lunch spot to find out exactly what's going on with the show and his parenting skills. More »
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It's not quite Monday without a new episode of Heroes, so we're bringing you the next best possible thing: an interview with creators Tim Kring and Jeph Loeb and a slew of photos of the cast. Check everything out after the jump — it's something to do while you wait impatiently with the rest of us for the writers strike to end sometime before reality TV eats our brains faster than Sylar ever could. More »
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Heroes continues to one-up Lost as often as possible; as the cast of ABC's castaway drama get continually arrested for DUIs, actors from NBC's superhero soap are now in danger of finding themselves arrested for saving the world. More »
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Is season two of Heroes all about incest? It sure starts to look that way. The uber-connected Kristen at EOnline speculates that Claire's new boyfriend could be her cousin, since he has the same power as Claire's biological dad. And Claire has the same power as the fake Samurai hero Kensei — who will soon be turning up in the present day, 400 years older. Is everybody on this show related to everybody else? The good news is, the scriptwriters are deliberately playing up the "two gay dads" subtext with Mohinder, Parkman and Molly. Gay dads are so much more wholesome than flying quasi-incest! More »
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