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Characters
	Claire Bennet A rapidly-healing teenager struggling with the idea of immortality.
Noah Bennet The head of a new company for keeping superpowers a secret.
	Maya Herrera A woman who had her deadly ability removed after months of running.
Ando Masahashi A hero who shoots red lightning and supercharges abilities.
	Hiro Nakamura A hero who can stop time with the cost of his health.
Matt Parkman A telepath who would do anything to protect his son.
	Angela Petrelli A mother with a dark secret.
Nathan Petrelli A deceased U.S. senator who could fly.
	Peter Petrelli An empathic hero who can copy the abilities of others.
Tracy Strauss A vengeful woman who can turn herself into water.
	Mohinder Suresh A super strong geneticist, very knowledgeable about superhumans.
Sylar A former serial killer now led to believe he is someone else.

Heroes is an award-winning internationally-broadcast science-fiction drama by creator/writer Tim Kring and premiered in the United States in September 2006. Heroes chronicles the lives of a series of people who discover they have special abilities.

Season One

Season One contains 23 episodes and consists of one volume, entitled "Genesis".

The first season of Heroes begins on the day of a solar eclipse. Various people throughout the world discover they have super-human abilities. The story revolves around the attempts to prevent an explosion threatening to destroy New York City, as predicted by Isaac Mendez. Further complicating issues is a man named Sylar, who is killing other people with special abilities and stealing their abilities, and a Company that tracks and kidnaps evolved humans.

The complete first season is available on DVD and HD-DVD set, both compiled of seven discs. A five-disc Blu-Ray set was released on August 26, 2008 when the second season DVD was released.

Season Two

Season Two consists of one volume, "Generations", and includes 11 episodes.

The events of Kirby Plaza have changed the lives of the Volume One survivors, and not necessarily for the better. Meanwhile, several new characters are introduced, and the origins of the Company begin to be revealed, as its founders are faced with a mysterious figure from the past determined to kill them off. Eventually, an even bigger threat occurs: a virus, threatening to kill 93% of the world's population.

The complete second season is available on 4-disc sets, on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Season Three

Season Three consists of two volumes. The first 13 episodes are Volume Three "Villains", and the last 12 are Volume 4 "Fugitives".

Volume Three "Villains" starts right after Nathan's assassination, and the shocking revelation of the shooter is revealed. Meanwhile, 12 villains from Level 5 escape after the battle between Sylar and Elle. Volume Four "Fugitives" begins with Nathan revealing the existence of evolved humans to the President, therefore leading to anyone with special abilities being hunted.

The release date for Heroes Season Three DVD is yet to be revealed.

Season Four

NBC announced that they plan to order 18 to 20 episodes for Season Four of Heroes. Season Four will feature Volume 5, with the working title "Redemption". Season Four will also most likely air in September 2009.

Other Heroes projects

Graphic Novels

In addition to the episodes each week, NBC releases online graphic novels the following Tuesday. They are usually first-person, and focus on a specific incident in a character's life.

Issues 1-34 were published by DC Comics as a graphic novel collection, and a second collection has also been released, and includes all the graphic novels from after the first season to the end of the second season. [1]

Heroes 360/Heroes Evolutions

NBC announced the Heroes 360 Experience in January 2007, just prior to the airing of Godsend following the first hiatus. Heroes 360 is a multimedia interactive experience comprised of both expanded web content and an alternate reality game.

With the launch of Heroes 360, a great deal of new content became available on NBC.com, including online viewing of episodes with video commentary, "two-screen" Heroes Interactive content during broadcasts, an interactive version of Chandra Suresh's map, and more.

The alternate reality game has players working closely with Hana Gitelman to unlock the secrets of the Company by exploring websites associated with many of the show's characters and institutions, including primatechpaper.com, corinthianlasvegas.com, and activatingevolution.org. Guided by text messages and emails from Hana and posts on her website, players solve puzzles and unlock clues to reveal exclusive content related to the show.

In September 2007, NBC renamed Heroes 360 to Heroes Evolutions. In 2008, the Heroes Digital Experience (Heroes Evolutions) was recognized for excellence in Interactive Media with the win of a Creative Arts Emmy award.

Webisodes

NBC introduced a series of webisodes on NBC.com before the airing of Season 3. The first series, Going Postal, features the introduction of new characters, new abilities, and ties it into previously established characters and new plots for the upcoming season. The first webisode aired July 14, 2008.

Broadcasts

Heroes is broadcast on the following stations around the world.

Nielsen Ratings

Season Three

For ratings of previous seasons, see the full article.

TAMi

Season Three (as of 6/2/09)

Archive

TAMi only lists results for the latest 5 episodes. The below listing contains the latest TAMi ratings for Season Three episodes that are no longer listed in TAMi.

Video on Demand

Episodes of Heroes are available to be viewed as video on demand (VOD) on several different media.

NBC.com

In the United States, current episodes can be viewed online at NBC's website. Video commentaries of current episodes by cast and crew members are also available.

Amazon

On Amazon, the episodes are available for download the day after they are broadcast ($1.99 per episode or $49.99 for the entire season). It can only be viewed with the Amazon Unbox Video Player which is available as a free download on Amazon.

iTunes

iTunes is a digital media player application for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The pilot episode for Heroes was available for a free download on iTunes on September 1, 2006, three weeks before it appeared on network television. Since then, episodes of Heroes have consistently appeared among the top 10 shows downloaded on iTunes. The episodes are available for download one day after they are broadcast ($1.99 per episode or $49.99 for the entire season). The contract with NBC and Apple expired in December 2007. In September 2008 Apple announced that NBC would be returning to iTunes.

Netflix

Netflix allows people to view episodes a week after they are broadcast. The episodes are streamed and a Netflix account is needed in order to view them.

BBC iPlayer

From Season 3 onwards residents of the UK can watch the latest aired episode of Heroes for up to seven days after its air date. This service was not available for Heroes during Seasons 1 and 2 because the BBC did not have the rights.

Awards

Heroes has won various awards in a number of different categories.

UK Broadcasts

In the United Kingdom, Heroes Season One was first broadcast on The Sci Fi Channel. The BBC then acquired the rights to both Season One and Season Two; since then the BBC have acquired the rights to air Season 3, and has said "As long as Heroes is on in the US, we will show Heroes." [2].

Heroes on the SCI FI Channel

The Sci Fi Channel first broadcast Heroes in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2007. The premiere ratings were approximately 579,000; approximately 464,000 tuned in for the finale.

Heroes BBC Two

The BBC2 Heroes Ident

BBC Two first broadcast Heroes on July 25, 2007. It airs Wednesdays at 9:00 pm, followed by Heroes Unmasked, a 15-minute documentary about the show's creation. Following Heroes Unmasked, the next episode of Heroes is shown on BBC Three exclusively. BBC Two aired the first two episodes at its launch and gained an audience of 4.54 million at its peak. The BBC has now acquired lifetime rights to show all subsequent seasons of Heroes. Their head of acquisitions said, "As long as Heroes is on in the US, we will show Heroes." [3]

Website

The BBC hosted a mini-site of Heroes with information, games, pictures, and a podcast (which is also aired on BBC 7 radio). BBC has also included a mirror of the regular Heroes Evolutions information, including introducing a new evolved human, Bridget Bailey.

Trivia

• Because the BBC has no advertisements, Heroes is shown without breaks and is therefore only about 45 minutes long.
• BBC Two is a terrestrial channel and is therefore accessible by anyone, whereas the Sci Fi Channel is only available on satellite or cable subscriptions, hence the significant difference in viewing figures.

External Links

• BBC — Heroes

See Also

The World of Heroes

Abilities        Characters        Episodes        Events        Groups        Locales        Things        Timeline

The Heroes Graphic Novels

Abilities        Characters        Groups        Issues        Locations        Places

Heroes Evolutions and the iStories

Evolutions Abilities        Evolutions Characters        Evolutions Locations        Evolutions Websites        Miscellaneous Evolutions              iStory Chapters        iStory Characters        iStory Locations

About the Show

Cast          Crew          Heroes Evolutions        Heroes Interactive        Inside Heroes        Production          Recurring Themes        References          Speculation

For other uses of Heroes, see Heroes (disambig).