Heroes News (Page 11)

As you might have predicted, the cast of our favorite show will be present for the 2007 Comic Con convention on Saturday, July 28 to promote the show.

Reportedly, the Heroes panel will last approximately 75 minutes - and you'll get a glimpse of some exclusive clips from the upcoming season, while also enjoying a question and answer session with the cast and crew.

Heroes will get its chance at the spotlight on Saturday, from 12:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Here's Comic Con's blurb on the event:

12:45-2:00 Heroes: Exclusive Volume II Clip and Q&A: Heroes chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. Be the first to see an exclusive clip from Volume II and learn more about the DVD Heroes 360 and more.

Participate in a Q&A session moderated by co-executive producer/comic book writer Jeph Loeb, with creator Tim Kring, comic book artist Tim Sale (Batman: The Long Halloween), and the entire cast: Jack Coleman (H.R.G.), Noah Gray-Cabey (Micah Sanders), Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman), Ali Larter (Niki Sanders), James Kyson Lee (Ando), Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura), Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet), Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli), Zachary Quinto (Sylar), Sendhil Ramamurthy (Mohinder Suresh), Dania Ramirez (Maya), Milo Ventimiglia (Peter Petrelli), and more.

The official Emmy Award nominations don't come out until July 19.

But there's been a leak!

TheEnvelope.com has apparently managed to track down the Academy's top 10 choices worthy of Emmy nomination in a few categories. These are unconfirmed, but should make fans of Heroes excited:

Drama Series/Episode being screened
Boston Legal/"Angel of Death"
Dexter/"Born Free"
Friday Night Lights/"Pilot"
Grey's Anatomy/"From a Whisper to a Scream"
Heroes/"Genesis"
House/"Half-Wit"
Lost/"Through the Looking Glass"
Rome/"De Patre Vostro"

Drama - Supporting Actor
Masi Oka/Heroes

We hope these come true. Meanwhile, we know for a fact that certain actors, such as Zachary Quinto, have been nominated for Teen Choice Awards.

On August 26, FOX will air the Teen Choice Awards.

And young fans of Heroes will have plenty of chances to vote for their favorite show and cast members. Here are the categories within which various actors are up for awards:

Drama series: "Grey's Anatomy," "Heroes," "House," "Lost," "Kyle XY."

Dramatic actor: Hugh Laurie of "House," Jared Padalecki of "Supernatural," Matthew Fox of "Lost," Milo Ventimiglia of "Heroes," Wentworth Miller of "Prison Break."

Dramatic actress: Emily Deschanel of "Bones," Evangeline Lilly of "Lost," Hayden Panettiere of "Heroes," Jennifer Love Hewitt of "Ghost Whisperer," Katherine Heigl of "Grey's Anatomy."

Choice breakout show: "Ugly Betty," "Friday Night Lights," "October Road," "Heroes," "South of Nowhere."

Choice breakout: America Ferrera of "Ugly Betty," Matt Dallas of "Kyle XY," Taylor Kitsch of "Friday Night Lights," Hayden Panettiere of "Heroes," Masi Oka of "Heroes."

Choice villain: Michael Rosenbaum as Lex on "Smallville," Vanessa Williams as Wilhelmina on "Ugly Betty," Zachary Quinto as Sylar on "Heroes," Michael Emerson as Ben on "Lost," Robert Knepper as Theodore Bagwell on "Prison Break.

Gosh, will the original cast of Heroes even have screen time next season?

Yet another actor has been hired to join our favorite show: Shalim Ortiz will be joining the cast as an illegal immigrant trying to make it to the USA to be with his sister, played by Dania Ramirez. There's no word yet on super powers for either character, nor how prominent their parts will be.

Early in Heroes first season, Buddy TV reports, creator Tim Kring told various news outlets that he was intending to start each new season with a new set of Heroes involved in their own adventure. Somewhere along the way, he back peddled and said that instead he was going to stick with the current group, which would be no problem for fans of the series of course.

While we have no idea how strong of a role any of these newbies will play, we also don't know for certain who survived the season one finale.

Kring told a group of journalists at the kickoff for the world tour that just because an actor was touring in support of the show did not mean their character survives. The tour, after all, is being conducted to promote the international release of Heroes season one, not season two.

During the on-set press conference in which creator Tim Kring announced a Heroes global tour, sponsored by Nissan, other details about season two emerged.

Here is a summary:

• According to Greg Grunberg, he begins filming today. After realizing that he'd sort of let the cat out of the bag, he said: "Well, I could be on a hospital bed ... or in a coffin."

Hayden Panettiere tried to help by joking that the entire cast would be standing around, lowering him into the ground. Therefore, it's a pretty safe bet Matt will survive those four bullets to the chest.

• Sylar (pictured) will be back.

• The end of season one, with Hiro in Japan wasn't really the ending ... it was a teaser of the first scene from the first episode of season two. Hiro will be in feudal Japan for "a handful of episodes," according to Kring.

• Kring envisions season two as consisting of three big story arcs.

• Heroes: Origins is an "anthology show." However, it's not a midseason show; it will air after the season two finale, and not during sweeps. They have not yet begun writing or filming it.

• Adrian Pasdar was sporting a full beard, and Milo Ventimiglia had an extremely short haircut.

NBC had a special event on the set of Heroes today to announce that they're going global. Literally.

The cast and creators will be traveling to at least seven major cities to promote the first season of the show in places in which it hasn't premiered yet. The confirmed cities so far are:

• Toyko
• Hong Kong
• Singapore
• Munich
• Paris
• London
• New York

Hmmm.... hasn't it been on in New York already? Anyway, we'll move on.

As reported by TV Squad, Nissan will be sponsoring the tour, which will also be going green in an effort to "reduce the carbon footprint," Kring said. Whatever that entails.

Greg Grunberg, who plays the mind-reading Matt Parkman, said he was visiting Paris with his wife recently, and emphasized hat show hasn't even premiered on the air there. However, he had people coming up to him left and right who recognized him from seeing the show on their computers.

The tour is focusing on season one and the upcoming August 28th release of the DVD box set, which includes 50 deleted scenes, commentaries, and the full 73 minute premiere episode.

Get ready to grow attached to a handful of new Heroes.

We've already reported that Dania Ramirez and Nick D'Agosto will be joining the show in the fall. Meanwhile, TV Guide now tells us to lookout for these series newcomers in season two, as well:

• David Anders (Alias‘ Sark) will play Takezo Kensei, an ancient samurai warrior and Hiro's childhood hero. Kensei, of course, is the original owner of the sword Hiro sought during much of season one.
• Asian pop star Eriko Tamura has been cast as a Japanese princess.
• Barry Shabaka Henley will portray Detective Fuller, a New York police officer.
• Holt McCallany is Ricky, the ringleader of a group of Irish thugs.
• Lyndsy Fonseca (Ted's future-daughter on How I Met Your Mother) and Dianna Agron (pictured) are cheerleaders, one sweet, one tart, in a Southern California town to which Claire is expected to move.

Nick D'Agosto has landed a recurring role on our favorite show for next season.

The young actor he will play Claire Bennet's (Hayden Panettiere) boyfriend, West, who is said to have "a very cool superpower."

D'Agosto is the second new addition to the cast of Heroes for next season, joining recently appointed new regular Dania Ramirez.

This past development season, D'Agosto co-starred opposite Marisa Tomei in CBS' comedy pilot The Rich Inner Life of Penelope Cloud. Last year, he played the male lead opposite Mena Suvari in another CBS pilot, the drama Orpheus.

D'Agosto will next be seen in the indie Rocket Science, which premiered to strong reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

Greg Beeman is a producer on Heroes. Somehow, with all his job entails, the man finds time to blog about the show.

We thank him for it - and present this take on the show's final episode and first season.

There you have it 23 episodes of Heroes. Wow. What a long strange trip it's been. Everyone else who works with me on the show will agree that it has been one of the hardest and most creatively satisfying experiences of our professional careers.

The fans frequently sight that the show looks like a mini-feature every week. That is a great compliment to all of us. But, as you can imagine, it's not easy to do that. The sheer logistics of doing this series have been quite challenging mentally and physically.

So, while you guys may have to wait three months or so for the next installment, let me encourage you with the following news: First we here at Heroes are already all back at work. Episode 1 is being written as we speak and we begin shooting episode 1 in about 1 short month. I have heard the writers pitch out the story lines for the next season and lemme tell you they are freakin' awesome. There are new characters. New powers. Some of the characters you have come to know and love, in fact, DID die last night.

And ALL those who survive will be moving on in new and unexpected directions. We are all ABSOLUTELY COMMITTED to not repeating ourselves next season – but in bringing you a freshly conceived show. Also, the reason we are beginning so early is that we are all committed to long runs of the show next year with very few, and very short hiatuses. We don't want to be off the air with new episodes for 5 or 6 weeks anymore.

Also, the DVD will be out on August 28th and it will be loaded with lots of extras. We have been working on many of those extras for several months already.

OK – that's it. As for me, my blog will go dark for a couple of months. But this season, my plan is to come back online a few times before we air, to fill you in on what's developing, and maybe to answer some questions you have. I'm sure the official NBC site and Herosite.net will alert you when new blogs are up.

Hang in there. And we'll see you next year!!!

At least one of the mysterious new Heroes has been revealed.

Dania Ramirez, who enjoyed a recurring role on HBO's The Sopranos as AJ's ex-fiancee, will join Peter Petrelli, Hiro Nakamura, and the rest of the super friends next season as a regular, reports Reuters.

Ramirez should have no problem conjuring up a few powers for the part: she played Callisto in X-Men: The Last Stand.

Heroes still has yet to announce which actors will take over the remaining new characters that season two will introduce fans to: an Irish mobster; a surrogate for Niki/Jessica's son; a late-20s African-American mother; and a boyfriend for Claire.