Heroes: Origins Spin-Off to Begin Airing After Season Finale
NBC’s fanboy-fueled smash hit Heroes will finish its first season run next week, leaving a lot of unhappy superhero junkies looking for their next fix. Well don’t get your tights in a bunch, true believers, because NBC wants to give you that fix. They’ve just announced that there is a Heroes spin-off series in the works, and it could launch as early as the week after the season 1 finale.
Details are still a bit scarce, but the show is entitled Heroes: Origins, and will introduce a group of completely new characters, focusing on a different one each week. NBC will then ask viewers to vote on their favourite new hero, who will become a regular on the next season of the original show. I guess a lot of TV networks are concerned that when they do a long hiatus for a series, viewers lose interest and don’t come back, so they want some filler to keep them hooked during the downtime. Personally I think this is just going to water down the shows even more and weaken them in the long run, but in the case of Heroes, viewers are probably desperate for anything more that they can get their hands on, regardless of quality. I guess we’ll see what happens… it seems weird that the spin-off could already start airing a week from Monday. Shouldn’t they have been promoting it earlier?
In other Heroes news, Season 1 will come to DVD and HD-DVD on August 28th.
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Comments (9)
Yeah, this seems to be a last minute twinkle in someone’s eye and they’re scrambling a bit to get it to work.
I’m looking forward to the 1st season on DVD. I only managed to catch a portion of the 1st episode before I had to turn the channel, never to see it again.
Sounds interesting enough to invest a little time with the rental.
Posted by Marina on May 15th, 2007The thing is with new character,not such a good idea,they should use the one we already know and like/dislike go deeper . if they do like in loste and put character we vever seen before and tell there story we won’t care for them as much and the big picure will suffer at the end i think . and with the voting thing not a good idea at all.
Posted by Sebastien on May 15th, 2007Is every creative tv/hollywood mind just living in the here and now? This is bad, bad, very bad.
Tarnishing the Heroes mystique/brand/aura with an “after thought” product will be Heroe’s downfall.
Posted by SNARE on May 15th, 2007Just because its a show in a comic world does not mean it has to branch off into a million pieces/spin offs like comic books. Comics do this to stay afloat in a brutal & competitive industry. This show is firmly standing on 2 feet & needs nothing of the sort.
What next, a Lost origin show called Un-Lost: A day in the life of the average joe? Or how about a Mulder & Scully FBI Accademy series?
this series for me has been a rollercoaster ride, i love it one show and then it blows the following. i dont know about the spinoff show, sounds kind of homer, if you know what i mean.
Posted by Chopper Sr. on May 15th, 2007Lost kind of did this last year with their alternate reality game and online webisode crap. Thankfully, it was just throwaway stuff that only the really hardcore fans paid any attention to.
Posted by Sean on May 15th, 2007Uh, I don’t believe thia show is starting right after *this* season ends. It was announced at NBC’s fall line-up gig and they still haven’t decided whether they are going to tack it on at the end of next season or throw it into the middle when the main show is on repeat hiatus. Either way this is not a rush job, like this article seemed to be.
(Note: I know you guys are too busy trying to keep Dennis Dyack from going off on some poor gaming journalist, Sean, so I’m giving you a pass for the misleading articles appearing on the site lately.)
Posted by Dave on May 15th, 2007Mmm yes I suppose that makes more sense. I guess I was confused by the fact that it said it will air “after the original completes its season run”, which for some reason made me think first season.
Consider yourself the official Film Junk fact checker Dave. (Note: Like all of our positions, it is, unfortunately, unpaid.)
Posted by Sean on May 15th, 2007Love the show, except for the Nikki/Jessica character.
Actually, the spinoff is closer in intention to the original plan for the series. There were meant to be a lot more Heroes and not so many recurring cast members.
Posted by darkbhudda on May 15th, 2007If it’s done well, I’m all for it. Spin-off’s ARE a great way to eat up the time between seasons. It worked well for Doctor Who! In the spring we get new Who, in the fall we get Torchwood. Everybody’s happy.
Posted by Jim Squires on May 17th, 2007Leave a Reply