People lose interest and find something else to do.

“I blame the fans because they keep sending Kring mixed signals. Everything he’s done so far has been to try and win the viewers back. I think that the show is much better than it was last season. Is it as good as Season 1? No, but then what show can top it’s magical debut? As good as Lost was last season, it still didn’t match it’s first season.”

In my response to that, Battlestar Galactica has definitely progressed in each season and with it the writing continues to better. In my opinion, it was poor managing of the producers and creator that led to a dismal second and third season. As a creator, the show is your baby, he shouldn’t be influenced by outside qualms as to where the show should go or however long to tell a story. I also agree that I prefer quality over quantity.

I cant really comment if this move by NBC is the right one or not. I am a fan of the show regardless of how well it does, and I dont really pay attention to who writes/produces which episode.

What it seems to me is the show has not found the right areas to focus on and develop a season long plot. It seems like since Season 2, there has become this fascination with the past and elder generation of Heroes. We also waited all through season 1 for these people to find each other, form lasting friendships, aliances, and grudges. They sorta of accomplished that toward the end, but then they tore it all apart. Which is where i am lost on the show. If you find a group of people that are like you, why wouldnt you stick together? Misery loves company and there is strength in numbers.

The bad guys have figured this out. I dont know why the heroes wouldnt?

AND, i heard from a friend the next chapter will be called fugitives. Which means all the good guys will be on the run from the bad guys… which is a reverse level 5 game play (ie with the company hunting down the bad guys and putting them on level 5.) So once again, the heroes are going to be scattered and desperate to find one another.

That is the plot I think they need to kill. I dont care who they fire/hire. Just dont keep up with the same rinse and repeat drill.

To me, that’s just spin to sound better (I’d do the exact same thing in their shoes), but I don’t think it’s meaningful at all to the business.

“One bright spot, NBC executives say, is that while only about 8.3 million viewers have watched the show during its regular time slot, nearly 2 million more record and watch it within a week, according to Nielsen. That is one of the highest rates of DVR viewership gain among all shows on television. The show also is among the most-viewed online on NBC.com and Hulu.com, the site owned by NBC Universal and the News Corporation, parent company of the Fox network.”

Ummm, I thought execs didn’t care about DVR and Internet viewership?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/arts/television/10hero.html?ref=television

he created the premier episode of PD season 2 and it wasn’t so great.

but hey, i like heroes and pushing daisies if bryan fuller can save the show, okay then

Remember the good old days before the internet and you actually had to wait a whole seven days before the next episode. The ‘Who shot JR?’ scenario in Dallas is a classic example. The British press didn’t spoil it for UK viewers. Now we can find out what colour Peter Petrelli’s underwear is months before he has even worn them in the season finale let alone broadcast. (NOTE: It is not yet another hidden power that Peter possesses; he can’t self clean his skids. He must put fresh pants on every day. His mother even dreamt it so there.)

“The final blow came from last week’s Entertainment Weekly cover, which I’m told was reported on under the ruse of a promotional story for the series. The surprise—a cover story pointing out Heroes’ third-season flaws and fan discontent—did not go over well with higher-ups.”

1.) NBC isn’t making money or
2.) Nissan is *unhappy*

..it just means I don’t think it is as happy as last year. Just assume there’s absolutely NOTHING — not even a glowing Nissan press release to the contrary — that will change my mind here

I understand that, Nick. I’ve done some writing myself so I know the rules of the game. I guess I don’t agree with everyone else that the current writing for Heroes is as bad as people make it out to be. I’m not talking about Season 2. Even I can’t defend that crap. However, this season seems better to me. To each his own, I guess.

Picking up the pace is not a problem. Having characters do things that make no sense in either in terms of intelligence or sense of their character is just bad writing. Bad writing generally weakens characters and viewers don’t like that.

Season 1 was generally smart and well crafted. Season 2 and Season 3 have been far from it.

My point still stands, Heores does fine with money, but it’s not the money that NBC wants. Going over budget and losing viewers is not what they want. They want to stay on budget and gain viewers.

I don’t have a problem with Sylar remaining on the canvas. And I like this idea that he’s actually trying to be a Hero. The whole “cutting open your head to steal your power” was getting old.

I blame the fans because they keep sending Kring mixed signals. Everything he’s done so far has been to try and win the viewers back. I think that the show is much better than it was last season. Is it as good as Season 1? No, but then what show can top it’s magical debut? As good as Lost was last season, it still didn’t match it’s first season.

I think that Heroes will make it thorough the end of this season (NBC has nothing else to put on) and then next year will be it’s last. I’ll be sad that the show is gone, but I’ll be glad to be rid of all of the whinning.

viewing in Japan has no bearing on ad dollars paid in the US, while it may factor into “product placement”, NBC is likely still under delivering on what was sold.

It really doesn’t matter what it is, BAD writing will always ruin a show and ratings WILL suffer. However your idea that FANS are the problem does make sense. It was fans that wanted the return of Sylar (who was supposed to die) and that alone screwed with where the story was going. The biggest problem was Tim Kring came up with the idea behind HEROES and never knew where it would go. He had an excellent opening act so to speak and in this case really had no 2nd or 3rd acts.