If you are a fan of the superhero genre on television, you are amongst a dwindling audience. For some as-yet unknown reason, viewers are turning their backs on superheroes – on television, at least. Superheroes at the box office still seem able to lure viewers into theater seats. With the Internet still buzzing about [...]
Recent Posts
Archive for the ‘Heroes’ Category
Superheroes Are Dropping Like Flies! We Investigate Why Television Seems to be the Genre’s Kryptonite
By Tiffany Vogt on March 8th, 2011 at March 8th, 2011

Your TV Tech Fix: Awakened = HEROES in Video Game Form
By Matt Whitlock on February 6th, 2011 at February 6th, 2011
If you’ve spent your days and nights wishing for NBC to bring back Claire, Sylar, Peter and the rest of the HEROES for a fifth season, you may be waiting a very, very long wait. However, if all you miss is the premise that ordinary people can wield ultra-crazy super powers (along with Sprint cell [...]
Good News, Bad News: FOX, NBC, HEROES & More!
By theTVaddict on May 13th, 2010 at May 13th, 2010
Good News: FOX has officially awarded HUMAN TARGET and LIE TO ME 13-episode commitments for a second and third season respectively. Bad News: For slightly-less-than-super-scooper Michael Ausiello who we’re pretty sure reported earlier in the week that execs at FOX were being asked to choose one or the other. Awkward. [Source] Good News: According to [...]
This Just In: The Inexplicable LOST + HEROES Connection
By theTVaddict on February 23rd, 2010 at February 23rd, 2010
Good News, Bad News: GILMORE GIRLS, HEROES & SMALLVILLE
By theTVaddict on January 27th, 2010 at January 27th, 2010
Good News: GILMORE GIRLS creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Dan Palladino are returning to the CW, with the network giving the green light to their UNTITLED WYOMING PROJECT which is said to revolve around a family horse farm in the Midwest. Bad News: For the future of Sherman-Palladino’s HBO series, remember that? [Source] Good [...]
3 Stories We Missed While Up in the Air (On our way to the January 2010 Television Critics Association Press Tour)
By theTVaddict on January 7th, 2010 at January 7th, 2010
The unmitigated ratings disaster that is the Jay Leno experiment may soon be coming to an end, with NBC reportidly mulling over ways in which to turn back the clock and return Leno to his now tarnished late night throne. [Source: [ NYTimes, Updated] Your Monday night just got a wee bit funnier thanks to [...]
Morning Static: Jim Belushi, Naveen Andrews, Jimmy Fallon & More!
By theTVaddict on November 3rd, 2009 at November 3rd, 2009
• For the Love of God No! Jim Belushi plots TV comeback. • Naveen Andrews gets lost… in New York, we’re he’ll guest on LAW & ORDER: SVU. • Jack Donaghey would be proud. In lieu of GLEE, Jimmy Fallon will get his own Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Float. • One hero down, how many to [...]
Good News, Bad News: BROTHERS & SISTERS, UGLY BETTY & HEROES
By theTVaddict on October 30th, 2009 at October 30th, 2009
Good News: The TV Addict and Harrison Ford have something in common. Bad News: Turns out, we both watch BROTHERS & SISTERS alone. [Source] Good News: America Ferrera doesn’t care about UGLY BETTY’s ratings. Bad News: We have a feeling ABC doesn’t feel the same way. [Source] Good News: According to reports NBC has asked [...]
Question of the Day: HEROES
By theTVaddict on October 7th, 2009 at October 7th, 2009
What’s more distressing: (a) That in a last ditch effort to attract viewers to the sinking-ship we like to call HEROES, NBC emailed this TV Addict a photo of Hayden Panettiere’s Claire making-out with roommate Gretchen (Madeline Zima). Or (b) that said roommate is played by none other than THE NANNY’s youngest daughter Grace Sheffield, [...]
Channel Surfing: HOUSE, HEROES, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER & THE BIG BANG THEORY
By theTVaddict on September 22nd, 2009 at September 22nd, 2009
Call us crazy, but last night’s two-hour season premiere of HOUSE that had the good doctor (not to mention us viewers) stuck in Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital for what felt like an eternity alongside some very talented guest stars (including Franka Potente, Andre Braugher and Broadway’s Lin-Manuel Miranda) was an epic fail. Okay sure, Laurie now [...]



