May 26th, 2006
Can “Heroes” Make It?
Ran across this article in the Miami Herald, which talks about how last year the networks, in a mad rush to duplicate the success of ABC’s “Lost”, put their own expensive sci-fi shows on TV, only to see them all fail. One notable example was the Carla Gugino show “Threshold”, which only lasted 9 episodes. Others was ABC’s own “Invasion” and NBC’s “Surface”.
Despite those setbacks for sci-fi fans, two sci-fi shows did make it to the networks for 2006.
Still, a couple of sci-fi serials made it onto the fall schedules. Jericho, on CBS, is a saga about what happens after a nuclear terrorist attack. Heroes, on NBC, is about ordinary people who discover they have super powers. Its cast includes Milo Ventimiglia and Adrian Pasdar.
You can read the full article here.
It won’t be easy, but I think that with a good cast, solid stories, and cool enoughe pisodes, “Heroes” can make it. Let’s hope, anyway. “Jericho” sounds pretty cool too, huh?
