If you were holding out for a hero in the struggling NBC series, look again.
Entertainment Weekly has reported that Bryan Fuller, who many saw as the potential savior of the series upon his return to the show late last year, has confirmed that he is leaving Heroes once more.
The writer of the critically acclaimed Season One episode “Company Man” had initially left to pursue his series Pushing Daisies, which was cancelled at the end of last season.
“I’m crafting two pilots right now and it’s a lot of work,” Fuller told EW. “It was just too hard to [juggle] Heroes and my development; something had to give.”
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:47 am
The question becomes: will Heroes be cancelled during next season, or will NBC allow it to limp along until next May before they pull the trigger?
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:56 am
Bryan Fuller is my hero for giving the world Wonderfalls.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:07 am
I couldn’t even finish last season, after the episode with Clair and Nathan in the bar in Mexico i realized they had no idea how to tell a story anymore. Such a shame from what was such an amazing season 1 to utter garbage this past season.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:15 am
This is great news. Fuller’s talents would be wasted on Heroes.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:23 am
I’ve given up on the series. I have the 1st Season on DVD, and as far as I am concerned, it ended there, leaving it as a story with a beginning, middle, and an end. Anything thereafter, much the sequels which followed ‘Aliens’, does not exist.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 am
Fuller’s influence on HEROES was immediately noticeable upon his return at the end of Season 3. While the established plots were already in place, the scripting, dialogue, and overall energy picked up dramatically with his first episode. Unless they plan on bringing in some new blood who can do a similar thing for the new season, I won’t be watching this show for much longer.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:33 am
This series jumped the shark so long ago it can’t even see it in the rearview mirror anymore! That said, I admit I’m a sucker who will still go down with the ship as long as they continue to give screen time to Sylar and Hiro, but nonetheless it’s not a high priority on my DVR recordings list nowadays.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:43 am
It felt like last season took 13 months to finish. At some point there needs to be a new villain, at the end of the day it’s still pretty much the same group of people vs. Sylar.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 am
I’m with Spacedog. While I don’t agree with the Aliens bit (I like Alien3), but I do feel that Heroes ended with season 1. You look at it like that it was a great show. I’m not sure what it is anymore, I just know that I don’t watch it.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 am
Fuller brought life to Heroes. His episode “Cold Snap” was the most human episode all season. I truly thought and hoped this was a return to greatness for the show. Nope.
I will give any show he brings out a try, based solely on past performance.
Greg Grunberg just tweetted that he was going in to “Beat up on Sylar”, and talked about how good it is to work with Zachary Quinto, so it looks like that that little plot twist doesn’t hold too long.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:55 am
You know if everyone that always talked about how bad this show is would just stop watching they would probably yank it off the air a little sooner, instead of contuning to reproduce the same regergated crap season after, after, season. I stopped watching halfway through season 2 when it became pretty obvious they had no clue what to do with the charcters. My roomate watches it still and I have to listen to him bitch about how crappy the show it. All it seems like it has done is repeat everyones problems over and over. Ohh… look Hiro lost his powers again, wait know he’s learning how to use them, wait gone again… Syler found his dad, nope not his real dad, he’s going to find his dad now..
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
So he left Pushing Daisies and didn’t really seem to put up much of a fight for the show when the plug was pulled to go to Heros….only to leave after a season? Grrrr…..
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Heroes has fallen off and I lost interest. Its too bad!!
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June 23rd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
DavidF – I think it’s unfair to assume he didn’t put up much of a fight just because he didn’t go out begging for fans to send daisies or something to the studio. I’m looking forward to seeing the comic and reviewing the season 2 DVD.
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Oh, give it to Joss Whedon. It’ll be rubbish, the actresses will get even thinner and even worse at acting, but at least someone will give a shit when it’s canceled.
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Heroes is only on NBC’s fall schedule next year and has been bumped down to 8:00 PM (but that has more to do with Jay Leno’s move than anything.) Things are looking grim for this show, which has been in a downward slope in quality for a long time.
I’ve managed to put up with the decline because this is a weekly event between my friends and I. Whether the show is doing good or bad, it’s still fun to have a chance to hang with people.
However, this latest Sylar-is-Nathan-is-Sylar plot is definitely making me think twice about how I spend my Monday nights.
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Heroes doesn’t need Fuller. It was great with him and without him. I’ve never beena believer in the theory that only the creator can write for characters-otherwise most comics would eb in a lot of trouble…
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
I must be one of the few people who still likes this show.
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
God, why did Fuller even bother to come back if he was just going to leave again?
This does not bode well for the future of Heroes.
Maybe they’ll bring back Loeb.
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
damn…that’s a shame. the one small silver lining i could find in the travesty of Pushing Daisies’ cancellation was the hope that Heroes might get good again (and not just “good enough” like the second half of this past season, but GENUINELY good). looking forward to Fuller’s new pilots though!
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Yea right, cause Joss only casts thin women who can’t act…? Wait, what? Put the pipe down and actually do some research you tool.
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Aw shite.
Well, that’s heroes boned, unless Mr Fuller left behind his ‘notebook of awesome ideas’ or some such thing.
I just hope he gets a fair run on his new projects.
Wonderfalls was mentioned above.
Now that was a series that deserved more time.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
So I take this show hasn’t improved? I stopped watching two episodes into the second season and I never went back. It’s fun to read people’s moaning about how bad it is though. Why stay with it then?
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