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Last night, Fox aired a preview of its new series Touch, which kicks off properly in March. What we saw was a just barely decent show about connectivity, fate, lost cellphones, and the mysterious, mystical powers of numbers. More »
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Tonight sees the launch of Touch, Kiefer Sutherland's show about a father whose non-neurotypical son turns out to be able to predict future events. This comes on the heels of Alphas, which also gave us Gary, another person who appears to be on the autism spectrum but who has the ability to see hidden energies. And the notion of autistic people as savants or special fixers has been around forever. More »
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Check out the first trailer for Fox's spring drama series about Kiefer Sutherland and his special little boy. Turns out Sutherland's child, who doesn't communicate and climbs cell phone towers, can see the present, past and future all at once. And now it's up to Kiefer to decipher his kid's coded message — which is obviously very important, and not just "we're out of Honey Nut Cheerios." More »
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Now that we know Kiefer Sutherland's going to be starring in Tim Kring's new show, Touch, people are starting to wonder what it's about. And the first details are starting to leak out. More »
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Tim Kring created Heroes, the show that blew our minds for one season, then tried our patience for three more. And now his long-awaited book project Shift is coming out. Here are five reasons you should watch the book trailer. More »
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Word on the street is that NBC is approaching the producers of their recently canceled superheroic drama about some kind of closure event, a climactic good-bye movie. Should they even bother? More »
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Production Weekly is reporting that Tim Kring is working on a new series for NBC, whose working title is III, about alternate world war. Does this mean that Heroes has gone to the great cathode ray tube in the sky? More »
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As much as I hate to disappoint Meredith, fans of NBC's Heroes who happen to be attending this year's San Diego Comic-Con should keep their Saturday afternoon free - Turns out that there will be a Heroes panel after all. More »
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Call it internet irony; for a show that attracts so much snark, criticism and hatred on the web, was NBC's Heroes saved from cancellation because of its online popularity? Possibly. You're all to blame. More »
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Tim Kring, creator of NBC's Heroes has found the culprit for the super-mutant soap opera's problems — its most loyal viewers. In an interview, Kring called viewers who watch the show live "saps" and "dipshits." Strong (and sort of weird-uncle-ish) words, but Kring was grappling to explain a change in viewing habits that could sink science fiction shows in future. Will his latest mistake hurt his already-struggling show? More »
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Hope is just around the corner for those of us burned out on time travel plots in NBC's Heroes, according to the show's creator Tim Kring. Talking to an audience of screenwriters and press at last weekend's Screenwriters Expo in LA, Kring explained why the show won't have that plot crutch to rely on for much longer, and also talked about why there are so many damn heroes anyway. More »
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So now we know that NBC is paying attention to all the complaints about the direction of Heroes, and has fired two of the show's co-executive producers in response. Now they're rumored to be considering bringing in Pushing Daisies' Bryan Fuller to replace them. But what changes - if any - will the loss of Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander bring to the superhero soap? And are they the right changes to save the show from itself? More »
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The super-powered soap opera Heroes has been in danger for so long, it's starting to look bad. First, the slow-moving second season was such a flop that creator Tim Kring apologized. And now, the new fast-paced third season has been losing viewers and annoying fans. But the show's problems have reached a new level of direness today: an Entertainment Weekly cover story on why Heroes is struggling. It's like the kiss of death. The article also includes some spoilers for upcoming episodes, including next spring's "Villains" storyline. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5067894&view=rss&microfeed=true As NBC's superheroic drama prepares to return for its third season, creator Tim Kring is trying to remind people that its second wasn't the disaster that so many people seem to remember it as. Talking to the Official Heroes Magazine, Kring said, "You can't really plan for the audience's reaction to things and one of the things we found out was that the audience did not want to start slowly and build... But sure enough that happened in the first season and I think people don't really remember that." Of course, perhaps the criticism is based more on the fact that audiences didn't want to see a re-run of the first season's pacing the second time around... [Digital Spy] More »
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They've gone from "Genesis," through "Generations," but for the second half of their third season, NBC's Heroes are going to go from being "Villains" to being "Fugitives." Or, at least, that's what show creator Tim Kring let slip while talking at the Edinburgh TV Festival this weekend. More »
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A collaboration so unlikely, it could have come from alternate history: Tim Kring, creator of TV's Heroes, is teaming up with Dale Peck, the literary author and critic best known for calling Rick Moody the worst writer of his generation. Their trilogy will be an alternate history/science fiction story that starts in the 1960s and runs to the near future. And, as you might expect from Kring, it involves uncanny superpowers. The unnamed series joins a new vogue for literary alt-history. More »
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Heroes 360 is a lot more than your basic network half-assed attempt at a web presence for a show. This site for NBC's mutant soap opera is packed with original content like Heroes web comics, blogs, stories, and interviews. New stuff goes up every week, and this is only going to happen more now that the writer's strike has made comics one of the only formats where you'll be able to see your favorite Heroes characters for the next three months. Here's our quick guide to getting started with the Heroes site. 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 »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=334809&view=rss&microfeed=true Now that psychic cop Matt has basically adopted mutant kid Molly, we've been getting some seriously twisted family drama on NBC's superhero show Heroes. Last night's episode was no exception. More »
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NBC's superpowered phenom show Heroes has been so bad this season that series creator Tim Kring talked to Entertainment Weekly from the WGA strike (where he was picketing his own show!) to apologize for the mess they've made. He cited poor character introductions (the oily black-eyed Wonder Twins), a romance that isn't working (Claire and The Boy Who Could Fly), and the fact that they've kept the time-traveling geek icon Hiro back in ancient Japan way too long. So what drastic change will NBC making to improve the show? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=322555&view=rss&microfeed=true So after weeks of draggy plots involving romance with flying boys and time travel to samurai world, we've finally gotten to the Heroes episode that explains what the hell happened at the end of last season when omni-mutant Peter went explodey and then suddenly showed up in fake Ireland with no memory. Show creator Tim Kring recently apologized for how badly the season started off, but he made up for it last night with lots of psycho, lightning-wielding Elle (Kristin Bell, lately of dark sleuth series Veronica Mars). Click through for spoilers! More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=322142&view=rss&microfeed=true One of the more uneven subplots in the second season of NBC's mutant soap Heroes involves time-master Hiro traveling back to feudal Japan, tangling with a white samurai, and falling in love with a lady. To keep the space-time continuum intact, Hiro has to bring the white samurai and the lady together. So he's kept his cross-temporal lust under wraps. But last night, the floodgates opened. More »
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