[Cancelled] Heroes Season 4 (Volume 5 : Redemption)

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'Heroes' for 13-episode final season?

Heroes could reportedly be heading back to screens for a fifth and final season of 13 episodes.

Following rumours that NBC is unsure over the future of the show, the network's primetime president Angela Bromstead has now reassured fans that Heroes is likely to be given another run.

The programme is expected to receive a 13-episode final season order along with NBC's other main title up for renewal Chuck.

"It is all yet to be debated," Bromstead told The Hollywood Reporter. "Both of those shows make sense with the new shows we'll be bringing on."

If this is true, a shorter season would be better. Wasn't it 19 episodes last season, and 23 before that?

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I've always believed that if this constantly dwindling show got a fifth season, that it should be a short one so that it can wrap things up as opposed to dragging on the inevitable. The ending of season 4 was a bit open, so even if it ended there it wouldn't have been too bad, but full closure is always better than partial.

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Does Heroes actually have any fans left?

Yep me

Yes actually Heroes does have fans left, imagine that!

I just hope they un-gimp Peter for the final season, I mean come on already.

Yeah I want Peter with full powers.

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Good riddance to Heroes, but I'm sorry they lumped Chuck into the same situation, the show has really gotten it's legs now (insert obvious pun).

so Chuck under performing is Heroes fault?

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so Chuck under performing is Heroes fault?

Who said that? But they are in the same boat, with short runs leading to cancellation. Chuck has been a far better show through it's lifespan than Heroes, which really went to hell after Season 1 (season 2 half good, season 3 same, season 4 disposable). Heroes is a missed opportunity at best.

Although being slotted near something as awful as Heroes has been the last couple years probably didn't help with live viewership for Chuck, didn't hurt the DVR crowd but probably didn't help with channel surfers.

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Heroes Cancelled?

For weeks, even in the face of Heroes' bottom-dwelling ratings, conventional wisdom among TV-industry insiders has been that NBC was leaning heavily toward bringing back its once-mighty superhero series for a fifth and final thirteen-episode wrap-up season. But as NBC has become more confident in its slate of new shows, all indications are that our Heroes are dead.

Believe it or not, this is actually something of a surprise. Even though less than 5 million die-hard fans bothered to tune into last February's season-four finale (down from a peak of just under 17 million viewers who were watching at the start of season two), observers had figured NBC would find a way to keep Heroes around, if only as an insurance policy in case all of its new offerings flopped this fall. And since the show is wholly owned by NBC Universal, some speculated that the money generated by DVDs and international sales of the show would be enough of an incentive for NBC to give the show one more shot.

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Can't say I'm sad. Show has been downright awful since the writer's strike blew up the storyline.

yep if only we got what they had planned this show would still be loved globally.

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Or since the end of the first season...

Nah, S2 started well. Its when they chopped up the storyline to end S2 instead of having a giant break that screwed it up.

Watch the special features on the S2 DVDs. The plans were AMAZING.

Basically, the virus from that season was planned to get out and start killing people. The heroes would close off the town to prevent it from spreading outside, and eventually Maya would have used her ability to take in the virus and save the world.

Also, they are still releasing graphic novels. I don't think they'd be doing that if it was already dead. So theres at least hope.

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Can't say I'm sad. Show has been downright awful since the writer's strike blew up the storyline.

Another +1 episode :p

I'm not surprised that it might be cancelled. Season 4 was poor :/

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First of all, there is still NO OFFICIAL STATEMENT yet. This story has been growing all morning since a story was posted on the NY Mag site that Heroes is likely to be canceled.

The story cites the recent NBC pilot pickups and the combination of a potential Chuck pickup (as reported in the TV Spoilers section of the site) could be the end of Heroes. Of course, no comment from NBC and when I contacted one of our sources, they did not seem happy about the reports being leaked and said:

"It does not look good, BUT there is still a chance for Season 5."

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Vulture reports that NBC is so confident in its new line-up of shows, six of which have already been commissioned as series, that plans to bring back "Heroes" for a truncated fifth season now look to be deader than corduroy.However there's apparently a good chance the network will at least try to find a way to fund a 2-4 hour movie event in order to give some finality to the franchise. The final decision won't be revealed until the upfronts.

"He's dead Jim."

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Or since the end of the first season...

The other seasons had their moments but it really has been rubbish after Season 1. They blew it. Glad to see it get canned and put out it's misery along with the characters.

I wouldn't be surprised to see them try again with a new TV series on a similar idea but actually make it have a story past the first season to build on which leads to a satisfying conclusion over a number of seasons.

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