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Superheroes Are Dropping Like Flies! We Investigate Why Television Seems to be the Genre’s Kryptonite

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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 [...]

10 Posted in Featured, Heroes, NO ORDINARY FAMILY, Smallville, The Cape

Your TV Tech Fix: Awakened = HEROES in Video Game Form

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 [...]

0 Posted in Heroes, NBC, Your TV Tech Fix

Good News, Bad News: FOX, NBC, HEROES & More!

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 [...]

1 Posted in Fox, Heroes, NBC

This Just In: The Inexplicable LOST + HEROES Connection

9 Posted in Heroes, Lost

Good News, Bad News: GILMORE GIRLS, HEROES & SMALLVILLE

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 Posted in CW News, Heroes, Smallville

3 Stories We Missed While Up in the Air (On our way to the January 2010 Television Critics Association Press Tour)

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 [...]

8 Posted in CBS, Heroes, Jay Leno

Morning Static: Jim Belushi, Naveen Andrews, Jimmy Fallon & More!

• 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 [...]

1 Posted in Glee, Heroes, Jimmy Fallon, Morning Static

Good News, Bad News: BROTHERS & SISTERS, UGLY BETTY & HEROES

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 [...]

6 Posted in Brothers & Sisters, Heroes, Ugly Betty

Question of the Day: HEROES

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, [...]

9 Posted in Heroes

Channel Surfing: HOUSE, HEROES, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER & THE BIG BANG THEORY

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 [...]

15 Posted in Big Bang Theory, Channel Surfing, Heroes, House, How I Met Your Mother