After five years, Heroes is returning to NBC this Thursday via Heroes Reborn, a new 13-episode series. Once more guiding the series is Heroes creator Tim Kring, and I sat down with him to discuss bringing the series back.
Kring chatted about why he wasn’t surprised Heroes was revived, his approach to the story and how he thinks they can avoid some of the pitfalls they encountered the first time around.
IGN: When Heroes came on the radar as possibly coming back on NBC, was it an out of nowhere surprise to you?
Tim Kring: The honest answer is no. There had been talk all along, in various ways. Some of that was just that there was a recognition of what the audience really was out there for the show. Even when the show was cancelled, there were many people who were aware of what was happening with the audience. The last full year we were on the air was 2009 and we were the number one most downloaded show in the world back then. We were one of the most DVR’d shows, we were certainly one of the most streamed shows in the world. I think that year we sold two million units of DVDs, which is a lot. I remember reading that article at the end of 2009, in December when they do those kind of year-end wrap ups of things. I think it was March of 2010, a few months later, we were cancelled. So reconciling this idea that a show that had sold two million units of DVDs and was one of the most downloaded shows in the world, one of the most streamed shows in the word, one of the most DVR’d shows, was also cancelled, was something that was talked a lot about internally.
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Kring chatted about why he wasn’t surprised Heroes was revived, his approach to the story and how he thinks they can avoid some of the pitfalls they encountered the first time around.
IGN: When Heroes came on the radar as possibly coming back on NBC, was it an out of nowhere surprise to you?
Tim Kring: The honest answer is no. There had been talk all along, in various ways. Some of that was just that there was a recognition of what the audience really was out there for the show. Even when the show was cancelled, there were many people who were aware of what was happening with the audience. The last full year we were on the air was 2009 and we were the number one most downloaded show in the world back then. We were one of the most DVR’d shows, we were certainly one of the most streamed shows in the world. I think that year we sold two million units of DVDs, which is a lot. I remember reading that article at the end of 2009, in December when they do those kind of year-end wrap ups of things. I think it was March of 2010, a few months later, we were cancelled. So reconciling this idea that a show that had sold two million units of DVDs and was one of the most downloaded shows in the world, one of the most streamed shows in the word, one of the most DVR’d shows, was also cancelled, was something that was talked a lot about internally.
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