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Old 05-24-2007, 12:20 AM   #1
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Default BBC Buys Heroes Season 2 for £400,000 an Episode

UK citizens rejoice! In a first, the BBC has paid £400,000 pounds an episode for the second season of Heroes. (£400,000 pounds = roughly $789,040 dollars) This is about five times what the BBC paid per episode for the first season of Heroes, outbidding everyone, including the Sci Fi Channel. And apparently (and those over [...]

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Sci-Fi is still investing in Battlestar Galactica, Painkiller Jane, and Dresden Files. I don't know what else they may have planned for the near future; there was going to be a second season of Who Wants to be a Superhero? but I rather doubt it now.
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I thought Superhero was already in its second season? Hmm, I don't pay attention to the Sci Fi Channel that much, as you can tell. I do watch GhostHunters when it comes on, though. Love that show.
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I haven't seen it advertised, so I suppose I need to drop by the Sci-Fi website and check out program listings. hrm....what was my username there?
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Which British station owns the rights for Season1 ?
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I think its the BBC but i don't know, i'm just so happy that its coming to the UK! I had to watch the last series online and the episode were broken up to reduce buffering time!
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Which British station owns the rights for Season1 ?
The BBC has it, but apparently hasn't shown it yet for some reason.
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YAY! Heroes is going British!!! Wow now every British person will be able to see it, not just the ones that have sci-fi!!!
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yeh now my friends will actually believe me when i said there a show about people with super powers. when i told them they all thought it was Hardcore Fishermen on a channel near Sci Fi
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yeh now my friends will actually believe me when i said there a show about people with super powers. when i told them they all thought it was Hardcore Fishermen on a channel near Sci Fi
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