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Heroes is an American drama television series, created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the story of several people who "thought they were like everyone else... until they woke with incredible abilities" such as telepathy, time travel and flight. These people soon realize they have a role in preventing a catastrophe and saving humankind.

The series loosely follows the writing style of American comics by doing short, multi-episode story arcs that build upon a larger, more encompassing arc. Even with small story arcs that move the story forward, Kring said "we have talked about where the show goes up to five seasons".

When the series premiered in the United States, it was the night's most-watched program among adults aged 18-49, attracting 14.3 million viewers overall and receiving the highest rating for any NBC drama premiere in five years.

On October 6, 2006, NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly announced Heroes had been picked up for a full season.On January 17, 2007, Reilly announced Heroes had been picked up for a second season.



Characters

The show features an ensemble cast of twelve main characters. Although NBC's cast page lists only ten characters, Leonard Roberts, who first appeared in the series' fifth episode, was an additional member of the original full-time cast. Later Jack Coleman was upgraded from a recurring role to become the twelfth full-time cast member as of the eleventh episode.[6]

The main cast, not all of whom have been shown to possess powers, currently consists of:

* Mr. Bennet (Jack Coleman), a father who works for the Primatech Paper Company, which is actually a cover operation for an organization that investigates people with superhuman abilities.
* Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere), Mr. Bennet's adopted daughter, who lives in Odessa, Texas, and whose injuries immediately heal.
* Simone Deveaux (Tawny Cypress), an art dealer and gallery owner whose skepticism and complicated romantic life are tested.
* D.L. Hawkins (Leonard Roberts), Once an escaped criminal, he has the power to alter his physical tangibility and phase through solid objects, both inanimate and organic.
* Isaac Mendez (Santiago Cabrera), An artist living in New York who can paint future events during precognitive trances. He also writes and draws a comic book called 9th Wonders! which has also been shown to depict the future.
* Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), A programmer[7] from Tokyo with the ability to manipulate the space-time continuum.
* Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg), A Los Angeles police officer with the ability to hear other people's thoughts.
* Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), a New York Congressional candidate with the ability of self-propelled flight. He is Claire Bennet's biological father.
* Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia), A former hospice nurse and Nathan's younger brother. He is an empath with the ability to absorb the powers of others he has been near and can recall any ability he has used in the past by focusing on his feelings for those from whom the abilities originate. He has shown that he is capable of manifesting multiple abilities simultaneously. He also experiences clairvoyant dreams.
* Micah Sanders (Noah Gray-Cabey), D.L.'s son and a child prodigy, Micah has a technopathic ability enabling him to communicate with machines and electronics, and manipulate them.[8]
* Niki Sanders (Ali Larter), The wife of D.L. and mother of Micah. A former internet stripper from Las Vegas who exhibits superhuman strength when her alternate personality, Jessica, surfaces.
* Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy), A genetics professor from India who travels to New York to investigate the death of his father, Chandra. Through his investigations, he comes into contact with people his father listed as possessing superhuman abilities.

The show features many guest and recurring characters, such as friends and family of the main cast, criminals and villains, and other people with remarkable powers. The most notable is Sylar, a serial killer that serves as the series' antagonist.

Plot

The plot of Heroes is designed to be similar to the stories of comic books. Like comic books, Heroes has large overall arcs and small arcs within the main arc. No matter what characters exist and what events makeup a season, all seasons of Heroes will involve ordinary people who discover their abilities and their reactions to their self-discovery. [1]

Each episode reveals new answers and questions and progresses the story and/or the characters. There is an overall arc of the first season that revolves around stopping an explosion of immense proportions that happens in the future. That arc is initially carried by two characters, Hiro Nakamura and Isaac Mendez, where the former saw the act in the future and the latter painted it with his visions.

The first four episodes of the first season primarily revolved around characters discovering their powers, dealing with the issues of normal life and coping with the consequences of their discovery.

At the end of the fourth episode an event occurs that kicked off a smaller arc revolving around a message received by Peter Petrelli, "Save the cheerleader, save the world" which is tied to the explosion already forseen. By the end of that arc, the characters slowly discovered their abilities and the existence of others like them, and some of them even began to realize the need to come together to prevent a catastrophe.

As characters progress through the first season learning of others similar to them, the plot turns to the question of how the explosion seen in Hiro's trip to the future and Isaac's paintings will occur and what role the various characters will play to stop it or cause it.

Heores is telecasted on every Wednesdays on Star World at 9:30pm
For Zip Users, you can view the first 16 of the Heroes episodes of Season 1 from VOD/Free Section
Official Website for Heores Heroes TV Show on NBC: NBC Official Site

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