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Predefinição:Characterbar 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 begins 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 will consist of two volumes. The first 13 episodes would be Volume Three "Villains", and the last 12 would be Volume 4 "Fugitives".
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 is currently in development, including all of the novels published during 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
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen Ratings/Season Three For ratings of previous seasons, see the full article.
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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
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 aqquired 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
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
See Also
The World of Heroes
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The Heroes Graphic Novels
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