No big news here on Ali Larter. Just a beautiful photo of the Heroes actress on the red carpet:

TV Guide recently joined Hayden Panettiere at a Heroes Sunday-morning shoot.

Also present? Hayden's 12-year-old brother, Jansen. He'll be starring in the Nickelodeon movie The Last Day of Summer (premiering this Friday at 8 pm/ET) and the siblings hope to do a movie together some time in the near future.

For now, though, the Heroes actress began the interview by asking questions of her adorable little brother...

Hayden: Why are you so handsome?
Jansen: 'Cause I got good genes from my mom.

Hayden: You are hurting Dad's feelings.
Jansen: [To his father, Skip, who is also at the shoot] Dad, you gave me a very balanced body. [To Hayden] Now, why are you so gorgeous?

Hayden: Because I am related to you. Why did you get the dark skin and the dark eyes?
Jansen: It is a lot harder for me because [Hollywood] likes blond, blue-eyed kids.

Hayden: No one wants him to play white. He is doing a feature film, The Perfect Game....
Jansen: I play a Hispanic baseball player from the 1950s.

Hayden: What's your character like in The Last Day of Summer?
Jansen: I don't think he is extremely... energized? How do you say it?

Hayden: Energetic. You, by the way, are very energetic.
Jansen: Thank you for noticing. My character does not have the electricity that I have. During the film his confidence gets a total boot.

Hayden: Boot! You mean boost.
Jansen: Oh my god. I can't work with her. [To his mother] Mom, Hayden is picking on me.

Hayden: I am just correcting his grammar. [Mom shoots them a look and they quickly get back to the "interview."]

TV Guide: How would you describe your relationship?

Jansen: We still fight, we still argue and stuff.
Hayden: I can still beat him in a fight.

Jansen: When I turn 14, dude, I'll beat the shiitake mushrooms out of you.
Hayden: Bring it on. [They both look at their mother and realize they'd better get back on track.] What is it like having me as a sister?
Jansen: An inspiration.

Hayden: What is it like having a sister that is on a hit show?
Jansen: All my friends are jealous.

Hayden: I mean what is it like having your photograph taken with her when you are walking down the street with the dogs and when you want to be left alone?
Jansen: She gets me a little more noticed; she gets me in magazines. She gives me a kick-start. With The Last Day of Summer, they will notice me more because she is my sister. It is almost like you are looking in a book, and the bookmark is my sister and she is basically showing me, she is able to push me out there. She helps me tremendously.

TV Guide: Heroes and The Last Day of Summer both demand tremendous physicality.
Hayden: It is a blast. I always love doing my own stunts. Being on the set of Heroes keeps me in shape. I don't have time to go to the gym and I don't have a chance to be on teams anymore, so anything I get to do that is physical is a blast.

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Guess those Emmy Award rumors held true:

Heroes has been nominated for Best Drama. It faces some stiff competition, but you know what everyone says: it's an honor just to be nominated.

Here are the five shows up for this trophy:

1. Heroes
2. The Sopranos
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. Boston Legal
5. House

Meanwhile, congratulations to Masi Oka for his nomination in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.Here are those nominations:

1. Masi Oka
2. Michael Emerson
3. William Shatner
4. T.R. Knight
5. Terry O'Quinn
6. Michael Imperioli

Heroes cheerleader Hayden Panettiere will make a guest appearance with fellow cast member Greg Grunberg's all-star Band From TV this weekend.

"I sang with them at the wrap party for our show," Panettiere told People magazine Tuesday at a party in L.A. celebrating NBC's fall season. "I saw them and said, 'Anytime you guys want me to perform with you I'm totally up for it.' "

Panettiere, who has an album on the way and recently made headlines with her rendition of the National Anthem at the July 4 fireworks ceremony in Washington, D.C., will take the stage with Grunberg and his fellow actor/musicians on Saturday in Orange County, Calif. at Cal State Fullerton, after the Orange County Flyers baseball game.

The celeb-heavy Band From TV is a rock 'n' roll cover band featuring Grunberg on drums, Desperate Housewives' James Denton on guitar, House's Hugh Laurie on piano and both Bachelor star Bob Guiney and Kitchen Confidential actress Bonnie Somerville on vocals.

Panettiere says she'll jump at any chance to practice singing onstage. "I have terrible stage fright and [with an album coming out] I'll need to go on tour at some point – so I need to practice."

But Grunberg later laughed off Panettiere's claims. "Give me a break," he said. "She just played in front of like 500,000 people!"

This weekend's audience is expected to be closer to 5,000, according to the Heroes actor.

"That's like the biggest audience we've played. It's really exciting," he says. "We're going to do a whole set, and then [Hayden] is going to do two amazing songs."

So what exactly will Panettiere sing? "I'm singing Meredith Brooks's 'Bitch,' and then I'm singing Alanis Morissette's 'Ironic,'? she says. "It'll be fun!"

None of the Heroes ended season one on more of an obscure note than Hiro himself: the character played by Masi Oka was somehow whisked back to 16th century Japan.

How long will he stay there? Oka recently spoke with SCI FI Wire and said his character will remain in Japan for a while. He'll enjoy have a parallel story separate from the rest of the show when the second season kicks off in the fall.

"Season two is going to begin with two parallel timelines going on," Oka said in an interview at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 17. "One starting four months after the explosion and another-mainly Hiro's storyline-starting 400 years in the past. And we'll see how they kind of affect each other."

According to Oka, Hiro will spend at least eight episodes in old-day Japan before returning to the present.

There, he will encounter some of the characters from the stories of his childhood, including the legendary samurai Takezo Kensei, who will be played by David Anders. The show is currently finishing the third episode of the upcoming season.

"There's a princess," Oka said. "Princess Iako, played by [Japanese pop star] Eriko Tamura, who's going to be in that world, as well as David Anders, who plays Takezo Kensei. That was Hiro's childhood hero that he's always heard about these stories.

But David Anders, last time we checked, he was Caucasian. So there's a mystery there."

The cast of Heroes is growing by the week.

Aside from fairly well-known actors such as David Anders and Dianna Agron, one of the new stars will be Dania Ramirez. Here's her background:

Ramírez was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She dreamed of acting since her childhood, reenacting Spanish soap operas for her family as she grew up.

Dania was discovered by a modeling scout while working in a New York City convenience store at the age of 15 and was cast in a small part in a soda commercial. Years later, she decided to pursue acting seriously and studied at the Actor's Workshop in New York City.

After completing a degree at Montclair State University in New Jersey, Ramirez moved to Los Angeles. She was an extra in the HBO film Subway Stories (1997), where she met filmmaker Spike Lee who later cast her in his film, She Hate Me (2004).

Other credits for this actress? She appeared as Potential Slayer Caridad in the final episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer; as Callisto in the film X-Men: The Last Stand (2006); and as Blanca Selgado (AJ Soprano's new love interest) in the sixth season (part one) finale of The Sopranos.

During the 2007 off-season, it was announced that Ramirez was tapped to portray new character Maya Heroes. It's unclear right now just what power she will possess.

The Envelope recruited three groups of Emmy experts to predict who'll nab nominations when bids are unveiled at 5:35 a.m. PT on Thursday.

Two actual voters who judged episode samples submitted in the races for best drama and comedy series squared off against top TV journalists and two of The Envelope's message board moderators known for their Emmy expertise.

There's strong disagreement over many of the contenders. The Emmy voters, for example, don't believe "Lost" or "Friday Night Lights" will make the list for best drama, but both shows have strong support among journalists and Envelope moderators. As for Heroes? Read below.

Here's the breakdown:

2 EMMY VOTERS (Anonymous)

Judges agree in both drama and comedy series categories:

BEST DRAMA SERIES
"Grey's Anatomy"
"Heroes"
"House"
"The Sopranos"
"24"

BEST COMEDY SERIES
"Entourage"
"The Office"
"30 Rock"
"Two and a Half Men"
"Ugly Betty"

*******************

TV JOURNALISTS

Marc Berman, Mediaweek
Robert Bianco, USA Today
Hal Boedeker, Orlando Sentinel
Michele Greppi, TV Week
Tom O'Neil, Gold Derby, TheEnvelope.com
Ray Richmond, Hollywood Reporter
Matt Roush, TV Guide
Mo Ryan, Chicago Tribune
Diane Werts, Newsday
David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun

BEST DRAMA SERIES
"The Sopranos" -- Berman, Bianco, Boedeker, O'Neil, Richmond, Roush, Ryan, Werts, Zurawik
"Friday Night Lights" -- Berman, Bianco, Boedeker, Richmond, Roush, Ryan, Werts, Zurawik
"Heroes" -- Berman, Boedeker, Richmond, Roush, Ryan, Werts, Zurawik
"Lost" -- Berman, Bianco, Boedeker, O'Neil, Richmond, Roush, Ryan
"House" -- Bianco, Boedeker, O'Neil, Roush, Ryan, Zurawik
"Grey's Anatomy" -- Berman, Bianco, O'Neil, Roush, Zurawik
"24" -- O'Neil
"Brothers and Sisters" -- Werts
"Rescue Me" -- Richmond
"The Shield" -- Werts

BEST COMEDY SERIES
"30 Rock" -- Berman, Bianco, Greppi, O'Neil, Richmond, Roush, Ryan, Werts, Zurawik
"Ugly Betty" -- Berman, Bianco, Boedeker, O'Neil, Richmond, Roush, Ryan, Werts, Zurawik
"The Office" -- Berman, Bianco, Boedeker, O'Neil, Richmond, Roush, Ryan, Werts
"Entourage" -- Berman, Bianco, Boedeker, Greppi, Richmond, Werts
"Scrubs" -- Berman, O'Neil, Richmond, Roush, Ryan
"Two and a Half Men" - Greppi, O'Neil, Roush, Ryan
"Desperate Housewives" -- Boedeker, Werts, Zurawik
"My Name Is Earl" -- Boedeker, Greppi
"Extras" -- Zurawik
"The New Adventures of Old Christine" - Bianco
"Weeds" -- Zurawik

ENVELOPE FORUM MODERATORS

Chris "Boomer" Beachum, Robert "Rob L" Licuria

DRAMA SERIES
"The Sopranos" -- Beachum, Licuria
"Grey's Anatomy" -- Beachum, Licuria
"Lost" -- Beachum, Licuria
"Friday Night Lights" -- Beachum, Licuria
"24" -- Beachum, Licuria

COMEDY SERIES
"The Office" -- Beachum, Licuria
"30 Rock" -- Beachum, Licuria
"Ugly Betty" -- Beachum, Licuria
"Two and a Half Men" -- Beachum, Licuria
"Scrubs" -- Beachum, Licuria

** We'll have the official word on whether or not Heroes make the cut as soon as it's announced.

Unlike other, concrete news about the cast of Heroes - such as the fact that fans are excited for Dianna Agron to join the series - the following is largely based on conjecture.

But Zachary Quinto told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette in December that he'd love to take on the rold of Spock in the next Star Trek film:

"I missed the Superman Returns boat ... so I'm angling for Star Trek. People are constantly telling me I bear some resemblance to Leonard Nimoy."

He then joked about getting Greg Grunberg (good friend of Trek director J.J. Abrams, and fellow Heroes star) to put in a good word for him.

"Maybe Sylar should tell Greg, 'I promise I won't kill you if you get me an audition.' We'll see what happens."

That was last year. Rumors are now swirling, however, that Abrams will announce the official Star Trek XI cast later this month at ComicCon.

As of now, Star Trek XI is due to hit theaters on Christmas Day, 2008.

Yes, you read that headline correctly.

Before season two of Heroes hits the airwaves in September, you can relive season one with a collection of Heroes trading cards. Pre-order them today.

And don't worry about breaking that Hayden Panettiere card. It'll regenerate.

Not much news to report as the cast of Heroes embarks on its world tour. So we figured we'd bring fans a quick look at Milo Ventimiglia.

The young actor can't exactly absorb super powers like his alter ego, Peter Petrelli, but here are some interesting tidbits about him:

Milo Ventimiglia Fast Facts:

• Interned at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
• Was onced asked by an agent to shorten his last name to Venti.
• Is an accomplished cook.

Milo Ventimiglia Relationships:

• Alexis Bledel - Ex-significant Other
• Rose Ventimiglia - Sister

College:

• Attended University of California, Los Angeles, CA