Heroes Gets The Cover Of TV Guide!! Look for it Oct. 19
Some very exciting news - only a few weeks into its run, 9thWonders has learned that Heroes has made the cover of TV Guide magazine!!! Look for the October 23-29 issue, featuring Adrian Pasdar (Nathan), Ali Larter (Niki), and Milo Ventimiglia (Peter) on the cover, as it hits newsstands on October 19. The magazine also will offer hints on a new character that will soon be coming to the show... plus, there will be some exclusive comic art inside! Oh, and I guess you all would like a VERY special treat while I'm at it. Click on the link below and you can see the cover of the issue! http://www.9thwonders.com/boards/index.php?s=147940197cc88e306de950f4e13174f3&act=Attach&type=post&id=1741

Whatdayaknow? I got home and this week's issue of tv guide was in my mailbox! There's a two-page picture of Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy), Niki (Ali Larter), Claire (Hayden Panettiere), Hiro (Masi Oka), Matt (Greg Grunberg), and Peter (Milo Ventimiglia). Here are the articles. "Save the cheerleader, save the world" may be cryptic words to live by, but this phrase is getting heavy play these days on the Hollywood soundstages where NBC's new hit series Heroes shoots. On a bright October day the motto adorns sweatshirts worn by crew members while inside, on one stage, Adrian Pasdar plays out a scene in which his character, unscrupulous politician Nathan Petrelli, scoffs at the idealism the motto inspires in his younger brother, Peter (Milo Ventimiglia). "Where does he get these delusions of grandeur?" snaps Nathan, who'd prefer that his brother's attitude-and superpowers-didn't complicate the upcoming congressional election. "He thinks if he saves the cheerleader, he'll save the world". That cheerleader is Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere), and what the world needs to be saved from is a nuclear holocaust that begins in New York City. The saviors are a small group of genetic mutants who wield-some reluctantly and others with relish-a variety of superpowers that complicate their daily lives. In the show's first three weeks, Heroes averaged a muscular 13.5 million viewers, and NBC has already ordered a full season of 22 episodes. Appropriately, a crew member suggests an alternate tagline for the show: "Save a network, save the world". With its mysterious serialized storytelling, Heroes captured the comic-book audience right off the bat. But it's quickly crossed over from niche-hit status into the mainstream. "That audience is very vocal and very powerful, but they alone cannot make you a real hit," creator Tim Kring says. "We were very mindful of that, and we always aimed to be much broader than a cult show'" Kring spent the last five years working on Crossing Jordan, a show he also created, but he's long been interested in telling a story that doesn't have to be wrapped up in 60 minutes. "I was thinking about how crazy the world is right now, and how everybody has a collective feeling that something's got to give," he says. "And that steered me toward the idea of superheroes. But I was interested in their actual lives-how, if you actually woke up and could fly or something, you wouldn't suddenly don a spandex suit and go around fighting crime." There are no caped crusaders on Heroes-much to the delight of Pasdar, who, after shooting the pilot, lost 25 pounds for a simple reason: "Fear of spandex." Pasdar's character can fly but doesn't want to, because no politician can survive being seen as a freak. His brother Peter, a sensitive hospice care nurse, wants to embrace his own power, which appears to be the ability to take on the superpowers of anyone he comes into contact with. "I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys," says Gilmore Girls alum Ventimiglia. "It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected." The other heroes include cheerleader Claire, who heals instantly from any injury; single mom and Internet stripper Niki (Ali Larter), with a split personality she can't always control; Japanese office worker and comic fanboy Hiro (Masi Oka), who can teleport himself across time and space; LAPD officer Matt (Greg Grunberg), who reads minds; heroin-addicted artist Isaac (Santiago Cabrera), whose paintings predict the future; and skeptical genetics professor Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy), who has no superpower, but finds himself in the thick of the story while investigating his father's murder. In the first few episodes the characters crossed paths only occasionally, but each week a few more get together. On October 16, Nathan and Niki had a steamy rendezvous in Las Vegas. "After reading the pilot, I told them that the politican has to get together with the stripper," Pasdar says. "That's Drama 101: Put the politician with their biggest liability, the stripper." He laughs, thinking of the current congressional scandal. "That, or a page, and we didn't have any pages on the show." Grunberg, whose character has been struggling both personally and professionally, says he has no idea where the story line is heading, but figures his character would use his newfound power to change his life. (To help the character shed some pounds, Grunberg has joined Weight Watchers.) And he's confident the audience will stick around to watch the transformation: "It provides an escape, it gives you hope, and it's got big questions to keep you coming back—questions like, Is New York going to be destroyed?" And if it is destroyed, will it stay destroyed? After all, this is a show where one character can get up and walk away from the autopsy table and another can reverse time. Kring and his writing staff have even freakier ideas lurking in the wings. "Tim has got something in his head; and I can't purport to understand it," Pasdar laughs. "You open that door and it's scary in there." Burning Questions Does the solar eclipse we saw in the pilot have something to do with the characters' discovering that they have special powers? "In the pilot, the eclipse was really meant mainly to be a single global event that could connect all these characters visually and in time," says Tim Kring. "But that's not to say that we won't discover that it maybe had some other effects, as well. We will, but it will not be explained for a while." Claire's adoptive father — "Horn-Rimmed Glasses," in the parlance of the show, played by Dynasty vet Jack Coleman — is obviously very sinister. What's up with this guy? "He knows something, he's tracking these people, and he may be up to no good," Kring says, "but he also loves his daughter and tries to be a good father. It makes for a fascinating character." Who is Sylar, and why does he remove the brains from his victims' heads? He's very bad and very powerful, and Kring says it's "reasonable" to assume, based on his brief initial appearance, that he has more than just a single superpower. "He will be our main villain for Season 1," the producer says. As for his amateur surgery, "Clearly, the brain is something he's interested in. And the reason for that will be explained." Look for Sylar to make his next move in November. Threats are everywhere — the serial killer Sylar, the coming nuclear bomb in New York, the people who killed Mohinder's father.... Are they somehow connected? Of course they are; this is the world of serial drama, where everything's a far-ranging conspiracy. "All of them will start to connect up," promises Kring. "It might take a while, but they connect." What's up with that mysterious "S" symbol that's been appearing in various places lately? "I would just say that part of the fun of watching the show is seeing how certain things crop up," says Kring. "And if you look at that symbol carefully, you might be able to figure it out." By the way, the symbol also shows up in places viewers can't see: On the door of a room in the soundstage where Heroes shoots, the sign reads "PROPS" — with that special S as the symbol. What exactly is Niki's power, anyway? Wouldn't you-and she-like to know what's really going on with Niki and her split personality? "The other characters' powers are fairly clear," creator Tim Kring says. "We wanted to keep one mysterious for a little while, and for the audience to discover the ability along with her. But her power will be explained fairly quickly." Niki's son, Micah, has powers of his own, right? He doesn't seem like an average kid. "Well, no one on this show is exactly average," laughs Kring. "And both of his parents have special powers, so..." Speaking of special powers, the actor who plays Micah, 10-year-old Noah Gray-Cabey, is a musical prodigy who has already played piano with orchestras around the world. In the October 2 episode, Hiro traveled through time to November 8, when he saw New York City destroyed in a nuclear explosion. Does that mean the heroes only have until the real November 8 to prevent the bomb? TV dates and real-world dates may coincide once in a while, but don't read too much into this particular concurrence. "The truth is that the show takes place in a much different time frame," Kring says. "When we have cliff-hanger endings, you're not coming back a week later; you're coming back instantly. So I would not get too locked into thinking something will happen by November 8. November 8 might not come until the end of the season." The Newest Mutant He's been mentioned in whispers for a couple of weeks, but Niki's husband and Micah's father, escaped convict D.L. Hawkins, finally makes his debut in the October 23 episode. Now a full-time cast member, Leonard Roberts (best known as Buffy the Vampire Slayer's undercover military operative Forrest Gates) plays the character as "someone you're gonna root for in spite of the fact that he's just broken out of jail," creator Tim Kring says. "There is a reason why they were not able to keep him in jail," adds Kring, who won’t reveal the exact nature of D.L.'s special ability, but hints that authorities literally can't confine or touch him. D.L. appears only briefly this week, but October 30 brings fireworks with Niki, who’s clearly terrified of his return. "It becomes Mr. and Mrs. Smith," says Ali Larter, likening the episode to the Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie movie about murderous spouses battling each other. Only with superpowers.

Man oh man....I'm loving this. Thanks Pika. See Matt....told ya so :razz: :lol: :lol: :lol: Niki's son, Micah, has powers of his own, right? He doesn't seem like an average kid. "Well, no one on this show is exactly average," laughs Kring. "And both of his parents have special powers, so..." Speaking of special powers, the actor who plays Micah, 10-year-old Noah Gray-Cabey, is a musical prodigy who has already played piano with orchestras around the world.