Watching Heroes

*Heroes is nominated for 3 TV Guide 2007 Online Video Awards. The Online Video Awards honor the best professional online content. Heroes is recognized in 3 categories: Web Extras (for Heroes Character Profiles), TV Drama Webisodes (for the Yamagto Fellowship’s “Takezo Kensei: Sword Saint”), and TV Show Site (for Heroes Evolutions). Winners will be chosen by fans. You can vote at TV Guide’s Online Video Awards site. Awards will be handed out on December 1.

*TV Guide has an interview with Zachary Quinto (Sylar) in the issue that is on newstands now. He talks Sylar, Spock and about how his life has changed in the last year. You can also catch the interview at TVGuide.com.

*George Comics pays homage (sort of) to Heroes in today’s comic strip. Check it out!

*Greg Beeman’s weekly blog is posted. He discusses “The Kindness of Strangers” and how they managed to pull off the Hollywood sign scene. He has great pictures up as usual, too.

*Chapter 55 of the graphic novel is up at NBC.com. It features Takezo Kensei and a little cat (or I think that’s what it is) named Hiro in an adventure called “The Trial of the Black Bear.”

*Speaking of graphic novels…do you want to know what happened to Claire’s Nissan Rogue? Check out this link for an exclusive downloadable edition of the graphic novel to find out. (Thanks to Heroes-TV.com for the heads up on this one.)

*Buddy TV has interviewed Kristen Bell (Elle) and Heroes creator Tim Kring. Some of the topics they discussed include Kristen’s character, the structure of season 2 and the possibility of seeing more of the Group of 12, and Bell’s offer to be on LOST.

*Heroes ratings improved a little over last week, bringing in a 6.8/10. Dancing with the Stars continues its domination of Monday night and the CBS comedies are still going strong. Heroes is still capturing the coveted 18-49 demo though.

Well the Emmy’s are now history, and Heroes came home with nothing. They had too much going against them: Sci-Fi, Fan Favorite, The Sopranos ending. They lost to The Sopranos in both the directing category and the best drama category. Masi Oka, who was up for Best Supporting Actor, was beaten by Terry O’Quinn of LOST. I must admit, though, if Masi couldn’t win, I’m glad Terry O’Quinn took the trophy. He is fantastic on LOST.

Even if they didn’t come home with the statues, the cast still looked great. Here are a few photos from last night:

Zachary Quinto (L) & Sendhil Ramamurthy (R) arrive on the red carpet. (more…)

A Pre-Emmy Cast Party was held last night at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. It was sponsored by Perry Ellis and Vanity Fair. All of our cast favorites were there, including a few we thought were “dead.” Could this mean there’s a chance they aren’t as dead as we thought they were? Eh, probably not. They all look like they’re having a blast though, dead or not.

First, we have the Lovely Ladies of Heroes. On the left, Kristen Bell (Elle) and Hayden Panettiere (Claire) and on the right, Ali Larter (Niki/Jessica).

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Greg Grunberg & Kristen Bell at the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, September 8

As reported earlier, Heroes received 8 Emmy nominations this year. Six of those nominations were in Creative Arts categories and those awards were handed out last night. Heroes was shut out in all six categories:

• Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series (won by Rome)
• Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series (won by Dexter)
• Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy or Drama Series (One-Hour) (won by CSI)
• Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series (won by Battlestar Galactica)
• Outstanding Stunt Coordination (won by CSI: Miami)

The major Emmy awards ceremony will be September 16. Heroes still has a chance to pick up awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor (Masi Oka), Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series (David Semel for Genesis) and Outstanding Drama Series.

For a list of all the Creative Arts categories and winners, visit Emmys.tv.

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Well, it’s not the Emmys or the Golden Globes, but Hereos has been honored with 2 Teen Choice Awards. The show as nominated for 6 awards but only took home 2. Hayden Panettiere took the honor of Choice TV Actress: Drama and the show was named Choice TV: Breakout Show. Other nominations were for: Choice TV Show: Drama (won by Grey’s Anatomy); Milo Ventimiglia for Choice TV Actor: Drama (won by House’s Hugh Laurie); Hayden Panettiere for Choice TV: Breakout (won by America Ferrera of Ugly Betty); and Zachary Quinto for Choice TV: Villain (won by Ugly Betty’s Vanessa Williams).

A complete list of winners can be found at the Teen Choice Awards official site.

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It seems the Television Critics Association know thier stuff. Last Saturday they presented Heroes with Outstanding Program of the Year award.

NBC received four awards Saturday from the Television Critics Assn., including outstanding program of the year for “Heroes,” while HBO and The Discovery Channel followed with two trophies each. Showtime and ABC Family earned one apiece.

A few other people won stuff, but that’s not really important…

The peeps at Heroes have racked up 8 Emmy nominations, to include Outstanding Drama Series. This is a reel testament to the quality of the show and it’s impact this season. Heroes was one of the few serials to launch this season and not get canned right out of the gate. Hopefully this will motivate Kring and Co. to keep with the serial formula and keep us coming back with the same high standard of writing and production. Congrats!

to get a look at all eight categories that Heroes got tapped for, visit Emmys.com.

The excellent folks over at TV Land gave us this little heads up about of favorite show, Heroes. It seems that Heroes is being awarded the TV Land Future Classics Award, which is tremedously Awesome. they hooked us up with a little linkage for you to check out. The awards will air tonight (Apr 22) at 9/8c on TV Land.

For those of you with teen/tween children, you may find yourself watching Nickelodeon’s Kid Choice Awards 2007 on Saturday, March 31st. Why is this important and/or relevant to a ‘watching Heroes’ site, you ask? Well, Masi Oka and Hayden Panettiere will be (Hiro Nakamura and Claire Bennet, respectively) presenters for this auspicious event, so be sure to tune in, at least for a few minutes, and show our Heroes some love.

We were robbed! Ok, now that I’ve gotten that out of the way. It may
have been a too much to hope for, but I was seriously optimistic in
Masi Oka’s shot at the Golden Globe. His portrayal of Hiro in the
Heroes series has been important to the success of the show. He is
probably the most identifiable member of the cast to those even
remotely familiar with the show. While Heroes did well at the Peoples
Choice, but I suspected it would fall short with the critics. I
suspect it will still be some time before we see a sci-fi/fantasy
drama actor nab the award.

Well, at least if you gonna lose, lose to Jeremy
Irons.

Days Remaining until next Episode: 6

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While all the news surrounding the 33rd annual People’s Choice Awards, Heroes managed to pick up the award for Favorite New Drama. Heroes was up against ABC’s Brothers & Sisters and ABC’s Ugly Betty.

This is awesome in that it is a vindication for Fantasy/sci-fi type drama shows. Hopefully this type of success will inspire other creators to produce content outside of the normal formula dramas.

Days Remaining until next Episode: 10

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Heroes has been nominated for the 2006 Golden Globes in the category of Best Television Series - Drama, with Masi Oka grabbing a nomination in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television category. This is great news for Heroes fans and the genre in general. It shows that you can mix science fiction and drama and creat some really compeeling TV. Congratulations to the Heroes crew!

Vist the HFPA to see all the nominees.