Wed 23 Sep 2009
Is Heroes Back?Check out The Ratings For Its Premiere!
Posted by Brian S under Brian S, NBC
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So, did anyone watch Heroes Monday night on NBC?
It grabbed in over 6 million viewers and finished at 8th place. I really enjoyed the story and where it’s going. It has something last season didn’t have. It is going back to what made the show the phenom that it once was,it has character mystery and it seems a bit scaled down! Now, I DO NOT think 6 million viewers are going to save the already doomed show but at least it still has a fan base, interest and finished in the TOP 10. The CW would be so grateful for ratings like this, too bad they can’t afford this show.
Source: TV By The Numbers
It once had 15 million viewers, it now has 6. The 2nd hour was the least watched ever.
It can’t keep good writers attached (they are choosing to leave on their own).
Also it finished in 8th place for what? demo for the night? Out of 12 shows that isn’t anything to brag about. In total viewers it was 9th place, and really if we eliminate The CW as a major network (and we should) it finished 8th out of 10 and 9th out of 10.
6 million viewers is nothing to be excited about. Ask CHUCK fans.
Oh i know! It’s really poor for a mojor network like NBC,which struggles these days anyway.
Question Nick C:When will a Cable Network take a chance and pick up one of these once Monster hits?TBS almost did it with ‘My Name Is Earl’,and we all went through our ‘Reaper’ teases back in early summer.Do you think this will ever happen?Can a Cable Network revive a Network show and save it once it’s in decline?
I tried to watch it…but I found it to be slow and boring. It seemed like it took an hour for ANYTHING interesting to happen. They should have just had an hour long premiere and cut out all the fat. It felt like they were just trying to stretch it into two hours, rather that giving us one solid hour…
Jenna,i did like it but i’ve stuck with it even through the writers strike and last years luke warm story line.I thought it resembled more of how it was the first season.I still don’t think it’s enough to save it but i’ll watch it till the end!
I started off as a huge Heroes fan. Season 2 was even ok for me (I loved David Anders and Kensei – great flawed character that should have been further explored). But Season 3 quickly became a “if time allowed, NBC.com viewing on weekends”. I didn’t tune in live for the premiere – I Hulu’d it though because I have horrible insomnia lately.
They sure opened up a few can of worms that could make the show interesting again (Peter-HRG bonding is interesting, so is Claire dealing with normal life with a few insiders, and Hiro has license to time travel without messing up anything major – kudos on that plot device).
But the execution was far too slow and they didn’t do enough to cut ties with horrible plot decisions from the past 2 seasons. I thought they were onto something with the Angela/ Nathan scene – just let Sylar re-emerge. Did Sylar really have to pop out at Parkman? Lame. Danko’s dead- that’s good – but super speedy knife guy shoulda just killed off Tracy as well.
I like the potential of Heroes. It will NEVER regain its initial audience, but it is a worthy franchise in the dimension it can offer tv audiences. Here’s hoping some of the glimmers of reversion stay true and not just playing with the diehards who are holding on by a thread.
I can honestly say that I didn’t enjoy any of the Heroes return on Monday.
The problem as I see it is that the characters are now all damaged beyond repair and as a result so is the show. Its actually astonishing to look back at season one and realise how quickly and irreversibly Heroes has unravelled. Its gotten to the point now that any tiny glimmer of hope is very quickly cut of by huge painful mistakes and to make matters worse they’re usually the same mistakes. NBC should have axed Kring when they had the chance last year and let someone, anyone else take over this year that might have at least meant this season wasn’t a complete disaster for them.
Having said that I know NBCU still likes the show because they’re still making money from it and I suspect they probably will this year as well, which brings up an interesting split in what will happen with the show next year. I would love for NBC to be brave and ‘rest’ the show next year before launching Heroes 2.0 the following year with a brand new cast, brand new creative team and Tim Kring nowhere to be seen. At this stage a full scale reboot (which will take time to get right) is the only way the Heroes brand survives.
A Heroes re-boot is definetely a good call. If the procedurals can franchise concepts then so can Heroes. Afterall it’s not the concept that is flawed (several unique, strangers learning to deal with extraordinary powers).
Heck, you can even keep Hiro – as long as Kring isn’t involved, any doof could return Hiro to his lovable character. NBCU still has boatloads of cash to rake in with this franchise but only if they make some drastic changes.