News: Finally! Some Good News For Heroes!!! (Monday Night Ratings)

Jayma Mays' return to Heroes helped to boost the show's ratings, overnight viewing figures show. Which is about time, because Heroes (As Mentioned before....) is looking like it might be on its last legs...

Last night's episode, which saw Hiro travel three years into the past to try to save Charlie from the hands of Sylar, pulled in 6.2m for NBC in the 8pm hour - the best figure for season four so far. The previous high of 6m was achieved in the 'Redemption' opener. So what does this mean for Heroes??? Maybe that the series' fans are clamoring for more of what made the first season so great! (I know that this is my opinion!)

After Heroes, NBC scored the following with: Trauma and The Jay Leno Show logged 6.2m and 4.3m at 9pm and 10pm respectively.


However CBS (My personal favorite network for Monday night programming) did much better than NBC, with How I Met Your Mother and Accidentally On Purpose put in 9.1m and 8.5m for CBS during the 8pm hour, then 13.6m watched Two And A Half Men at 9pm. The Big Bang Theory followed at 9.30pm with 12.7m.

Over on ABC, a two-hour episode of Dancing With The Stars managed 16.2m at 8pm, then 9.7m tuned in for Castle at 10pm.

One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl interested 2.4m and 1.9m for The CW at 8pm and 9pm respectively.

Fox's coverage of the World Series Game 5 averaged 17.1m between 8pm and 11pm.
Related articles. Let's just hope that the Yankees don't win, because I seriously will barf out my lungs if they do... (Crossing fingers.... Go Phils!)

So what does this mean for NBC? That means they placed fourth place of five networks. Not good at all. Heroes used to be a ratings powerhouse, and now it isn't. CBS clearly has the best Monday night lineup. (Lord knows I was tuned in non-stop for the three hour stretch 8-11pm)


By Forch F. Fortier (Who believes that if Sheldon Cooper ran the world, it would be a much better place. Things would be in order, people would have regular bowel movements, and everyone would wear two shirts, always... (Something that Sheldon and I have in common.) Oh what a world that would be! NOW MOVE! You're in my spot!)

Circling The Drain: Heroes Set To End in May???

Well they were able to save the Cheerleader, which then allowed them to save the world, but now the characters of Heroes are facing the one thing that they don't have a power to prevent..... CANCELLATION!!!

I can't say that this is coming as any of a shock. (Especially to those who actually watch the show) Let's face facts. After season one's awesome finale, the show has been steadily falling since. Characters who we were enamored with, are now people who we could care less about, and what has been done to win us back?Cheap stunts that are, at best, the work of desperation. (A Lesbian Angle with Claire? Really?)

The idea of the show, when it first came out was awesome. A bunch of normal, every day people suddenly find themselves empowered with abilities far beyond those of mortal men, and how they deal with said powers is the premise.

Slowly as the characters start to come to grips with these abilities, a web of mystery and intrigue is unraveled before our eyes, and we have been given the task to watch those series of events unfold.

Characters like Hiro Nakamura, Peter Petrelli, Claire Bennett and Matt Parkman were people who not only entertained us, but in my case inspired me. I was abuzz with creative ideas about the direction of the series, and even my (Then) wife was totally into the show, and couldn't wait for the second season.

Of course, as the second season came to pass, a lackluster storyline, and a writer's strike really did not help. But we say the characters we cared so deeply for fall into less interesting storylines, as well as a complex, and sometimes completely asinine situations. For example, what the hell happened to Caitlin McKenna, the Irish woman that Peter fell in love with???? Did he really just leave her in the future??? Apparently, because of the writer's strike, that storyline never came to pass...

Well it looks like the end for Sylar and the gang, as according to internet reports, it appears that inside sources at NBC have claimed that the writers for Heroes are being told to prepare themselves for the series finale in may, basically telling them to wrap up all of the storylines before then.

I think that this might be a good idea. NBC has totally dropped the ball with this series, and I think that perhaps it's time to send it off to pasture. Allow everything to wrap up, and give us some closure. Most of the cast will move on to bigger and better things, anyway. Look at Zachary Quinto. He'll be playing Spock for the foreseeable future, Greg Grunberg will always have work as long as J.J. Abrams is making TV and movies, Hayden Panetteire will be working for quite some time, as not only is she beautiful, but she's not that bad of an actress as well, and Milo Ventimiglia? Well he'll be able to find work, I am sure, and if not, I can imagine he'll make quite a killing doing the Comic Book convention circuit... Look at how well Lou Ferrigno does!

It's sad to see Heroes go, but like a rabid Dog, it's best to just put it down... Let me go get my shotgun, you take "Old Yeller" out to the back of the barn...


(By Forch F. Fortier, who feels that Tim Kring's biggest mistake on Heroes, was not to give Christopher Eccleston a permanent role on the show!)