Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
05-07-09, 02:46 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
You should re-read what most of us are discussing - shows that have running story-arcs throughout the season. Idol, Dancing etc are just reality crap.
05-07-09, 04:08 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
You should re-read what most of us are discussing - shows that have running story-arcs throughout the season. Idol, Dancing etc are just reality crap.
The fact is, a lot of shows of different types, both on network and off, have had a continuous season (at least one episode shown every 7 days). 24 is currently the only scripted network drama with multiple 20+ episode seasons that has been mentioned though. So yay for them.
Back on topic, maybe Tim Kring was referring to the "Lost" model in specificity, meaning that he plans Heroes to have a mostly continuous run, but not one that's completely uninterrupted.
05-07-09, 04:50 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
I'm going to alert the mods to change the thread title to:
"Heroes S4 pulling a Andy Barker P.I./The Winner - Running Episodes straight through, no breaks"
And Kring wants Heroes to do what Lost had planned on doing before The Writers Strike and ABC mucked up their schedule. You clearly just want to argue and play a little semantics game so I'll end it there.
"Heroes S4 pulling a Andy Barker P.I./The Winner - Running Episodes straight through, no breaks"
And Kring wants Heroes to do what Lost had planned on doing before The Writers Strike and ABC mucked up their schedule. You clearly just want to argue and play a little semantics game so I'll end it there.
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05-07-09, 04:52 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
05-07-09, 04:56 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
Again:
Lost had 3 years under its belt before it tried to do the straight through thing. NBC is trying to adopt a 'cable-like' approach where they can run multiple shows all year long because of Leno. But please, you got me good with Andy Barker P.I. and The Winner. Forgot all about the continuous 6 episode series run 
You are discussing shows that only had 6 episode runs (because they got canceled) compared to other shows which had (minimum) 20+ episode seasons for several years.
05-07-09, 05:02 PM
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BTW, I though you might've caught it before with my "(?)", but writing "(minimum) 20+" is redundant. You don't need the "minimum," even parenthetical, since 20+ by itself means that 20 is the minimum, while allowing for higher numbers.
05-07-09, 05:36 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
But Lost's straight through run attempts are under your 20 episode minimum, so do they even count?
BTW, I though you might've caught it before with my "(?)", but writing "(minimum) 20+" is redundant. You don't need the "minimum," even parenthetical, since 20+ by itself means that 20 is the minimum, while allowing for higher numbers.
BTW, I though you might've caught it before with my "(?)", but writing "(minimum) 20+" is redundant. You don't need the "minimum," even parenthetical, since 20+ by itself means that 20 is the minimum, while allowing for higher numbers.
Lost had 3 years under its belt before it tried to do the straight through thing
05-07-09, 06:02 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
Once more:
It was an established show before the decision to go straight through was made (along with shorter seasons). Neither Barker or The Winner were. On top of that those show were 30 minute comedies while Heroes, Lost are 1 hour dramas. But hey, we'll just say you were right if it makes you feel any better with your picks of Andy Barker P.I. and The Winner.
It was an established show before the decision to go straight through was made (along with shorter seasons). Neither Barker or The Winner were. On top of that those show were 30 minute comedies while Heroes, Lost are 1 hour dramas. But hey, we'll just say you were right if it makes you feel any better with your picks of Andy Barker P.I. and The Winner.
05-07-09, 06:13 PM
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On top of that those show were 30 minute comedies while Heroes, Lost are 1 hour dramas.
But hey, we'll just say you were right if it makes you feel any better with your picks of Andy Barker P.I. and The Winner.
Again, I've already written that "24 is currently the only scripted network drama with multiple 20+ episode seasons" that has been mentioned that has had an uninterrupted season.
05-07-09, 07:39 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
I haven't watched since about episode 5 of the current season. I'll buy the DVD and try to catch up, hopefully it'll come out well before S4 begins. Seasons 1 and 2 had me riveted, this one, not so much...
05-08-09, 07:54 AM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
No Heroes shows in late Feb, March, and April sucks.
Football season will kill half of the audience from Sept-Dec.
I will have nothing to watch in those months except 30 rock and parks and recreation.
Football season will kill half of the audience from Sept-Dec.
I will have nothing to watch in those months except 30 rock and parks and recreation.
06-04-09, 08:59 AM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
Some casting news, which gets big thumbs up from me:
Spoiler:
06-09-09, 07:31 AM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
Other casting news:
I've made it this far in the show and was willing to drop it this fall(depending on the premier), but the producers are making it hard with these casting developments(including the one Deftones posted).
Spoiler:
I've made it this far in the show and was willing to drop it this fall(depending on the premier), but the producers are making it hard with these casting developments(including the one Deftones posted).
06-22-09, 02:29 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
Ummm...Fuller quit.
http://nickctv.wordpress.com/2009/06...-quits-heroes/
http://nickctv.wordpress.com/2009/06...-quits-heroes/
If all of you were wondering why earlier this week I stated it would be the last season of HEROES… this is now official so this would be why I’m stating that. Can Tim Kring save the show?
No.
Update 1: NBC is trying to salvage this by solving the problems that caused Fuller to resign (in order to keep him). I’m not sure if they’ll fire Kring (which is about what it would take). So this is a situation that is still evolving. I suggest checking out Aint It Cool News for info as it happens. Because Fuller is more likely to talk to Herc than anyone else right now. He hasn’t posted yet, but he will be soon.
He quit the show for the same reason any sane person would: You don’t want to be known as the show runner of a once hit series’ last horrible season. As long as Kring is making him write absurd crap, he doesn’t want to be involved is my guess.
No.
Update 1: NBC is trying to salvage this by solving the problems that caused Fuller to resign (in order to keep him). I’m not sure if they’ll fire Kring (which is about what it would take). So this is a situation that is still evolving. I suggest checking out Aint It Cool News for info as it happens. Because Fuller is more likely to talk to Herc than anyone else right now. He hasn’t posted yet, but he will be soon.
He quit the show for the same reason any sane person would: You don’t want to be known as the show runner of a once hit series’ last horrible season. As long as Kring is making him write absurd crap, he doesn’t want to be involved is my guess.
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06-22-09, 03:21 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
Damn. Talk about a flash-in-the-pan series. Too bad if that's the case. This show had huge potential too...
06-22-09, 05:00 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
Game over man. Game over!
06-22-09, 05:14 PM
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Big deal. He wrote 1 fricking episode last season. The whole deal with him returning to the show and becoming it's "Savior" was so overrated.
Good for Fuller. At least now he won't have to deal with Kring and can focus on developing his own show. I never thought he was going to stay with the show fulltime anyways since he signed a 2-year development deal with NBC/Universal which brought him back in the 1st place.
Good for Fuller. At least now he won't have to deal with Kring and can focus on developing his own show. I never thought he was going to stay with the show fulltime anyways since he signed a 2-year development deal with NBC/Universal which brought him back in the 1st place.
06-22-09, 05:16 PM
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Its official...his excuse is developing two other shows but in reality its to many disagreements with Kring over his stupid plotlines he insists be on the show.
06-22-09, 06:05 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
Big deal. He wrote 1 fricking episode last season. The whole deal with him returning to the show and becoming it's "Savior" was so overrated.
Good for Fuller. At least now he won't have to deal with Kring and can focus on developing his own show. I never thought he was going to stay with the show fulltime anyways since he signed a 2-year development deal with NBC/Universal which brought him back in the 1st place.
Good for Fuller. At least now he won't have to deal with Kring and can focus on developing his own show. I never thought he was going to stay with the show fulltime anyways since he signed a 2-year development deal with NBC/Universal which brought him back in the 1st place.
06-22-09, 07:09 PM
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Re: Heroes S4 pulling a Lost - All episodes run straight through, no breaks
But, he wasn't in charge though. Tim Kring is the showrunner. He's was only a Consulting Producer. The final say for storylines all go through Kring.
06-22-09, 07:15 PM
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