"Delay of Game"

Apparently it's raining... or snowing... or somthing. Heroes is not going to continue the season until the beginning of February. Looks like I'm not alone in my critique.

Here's a quote from NBC's President of Primetime Entertainment (yeah that's a long title) Bromstad:

“‘Heroes’ is very secure,” she says. “We have a great relationship with Tim Kring … what’s important is we never lose sight of being responsible in production. And television is about the characters and the writing, and we want to make sure that that show is on track. But very secure. I think that what Tim is interested in doing is getting back to the core of the show and that it’s these ordinary people with extraordinary powers and that they may have taken on too much in terms of characters and multiple storylines.”

I'd bet that their interest in "characters" and "writing" will really only extend to keeping the core TV basics: a hot teeager/model, a hot young hero, obligatory sidekicks, one attractive arch-nemesis and plenty of less-attractive villains.

Basically stated, I think their executive problem with the show is the large number of actors' salaries they were having to pay in a show whose ratings are dropping. The easy way for them to "fix" the show is to trim the "dead wood." While this is a good idea, I doubt it will help their writers to actually make the story cool again.