Heroes

[Raph's Girl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070618/tv_nm/heroes_dc_1

Nick D'Agosto has landed a major recurring role on NBC's hit sci-fi drama "Heroes" for next season.

The actor will play Claire's (Hayden Panettiere) boyfriend, West, who is said to have "a very cool superpower."

D'Agosto is the second addition to the cast of "Heroes" for next season, joining recently appointed new regular Dania Ramirez.

This past development season, D'Agosto co-starred opposite
Marisa Tomei in CBS' comedy pilot "The Rich Inner Life of Penelope Cloud." Last year, he played the male lead opposite
Mena Suvari in another CBS pilot, the drama "Orpheus."

D'Agosto will next be seen in the indie comedy-drama "Rocket Science," which premiered to strong reviews at the
Sundance Film Festival in January.

Raph's Girl note: "a very cool superpower."?! Is that supposed to hint that he's Iceman???

[Sunshine]

I just recently sat down and watched all the episodes on NBC.com and I love the show. I can't wait to see more of it. I like that it can be serious and still randomly throw in a bit of humor without completely ruining the scene.

[Lady Venus]

I can't wait until it comes back on the air. I miss that show.

[Raph's Girl]

More casting news (via Comic-scans.net/wp) :

Aishwarya Rai will play Mohinder Suresh’s sister Shanti
Holt McCallany will be a ringleader of Irish thugs.
Eriko Tamura will appear as a Japanese Princess.
David Anders is Takezo Kensei, Hiro’s idol and the previous owner of Hiro’s sword.
Barry Shabaka Henley will portray NYPD Detective Fuller.
Lyndsy Fonseca will play a character named April, described as a sweet girl. She’s a cheerleader in California.
Dianna Agron on the other hand will play Debbie, a mean girl. She’s a cheerleader in California.

[Chase]

more cheerleaders?!
Why? Why? Why?
can't they just drop the whole cheerleader thing?
well i can only hope that they get killed off too.

[Avatar Yuffie]

Y'know, I make it a point to avoid mainstream series (House, Desperate Housewives, 24, Lost). But when my brother forced me to watch Heroes, I got hooked. Immediately.

I actually like how the other characters' stories tied up to that moment in the season finale. And how Claire did somehow save the world by acting as the moral push for one of the main characters.

And again, I'll also add that Hiro is cool. I was so afraid for Ando throughout his character arc, though.

[Anarky]

Claire didn't save the world by encouraging anyone, she saved the world by simply not dying at the hands of Sylar. If he'd killed her, he'd have been unstoppable.

[Sunshine]

I don't have a TV (at least one that works) so watching the episodes on the website is the only way for me to see them. I can't wait for the next season I didn't watch it for a long time but now that I have I really like it. I'm interested to see what they do with it next season.

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33110

“Heroes” will not air during May sweeps next year. It will conclude its second season in mid-April, series mastermind Tim Kring said at a Thursday-morning press conference in Hollywood.

The six-episode miniseries spinoff “Heroes: Origins” will air over six consecutive weeks in late April and May - after “Heroes” airs its second-season finale, explained Kring.

Kring also confirmed that “Origins” – which will be set in the "Heroes" universe and deal with a new superpowered individual every week - will be an anthology series, a rarity in modern broadcast network television.

Kring said scripting on "Origins" had not yet begun, and that he did not yet know which, if any, of the "Heroes" regulars would appear in the spinoff.

NBC last month ordered 24 second-season episodes of “Heroes.” Kring said the series would not air a new episode every week this season, but its breaks would be far shorter than the big break that split season one down the middle.

“Heroes” started shooting its second season two days ago, but Kring claimed the presence at the press conference of Santiago Cabrera (Isaac Mendez), Leonard Roberts (D.L. Hawkins), Zachary Quinto (Gabriel “Sylar” Grey), Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli), Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman) and Milo Ventimiglia (Peter Petrelli) did not mean any of their characters would necessarily survive into season two.

Grunberg did, however, let slip that he was already back at work on the show.

The Thursday press conference was designed to announce a series of late-summer promotional events being billed as “The Heroes World Tour.”

“The Heroes World Tour,” underwritten by Nissan (which also sponsored NBC’s original airing of the series’ pilot and provided a memorable piece of product placement in season one), will take members of the cast to at least seven cities in seven countries – Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Munich, Paris, London and New York – to promote the release of the series’ first season on DVD and HD-DVD. The week-long tour will kick off Aug. 28, the day the season-one sets hit shelves.

During the conference’s Q&A, Kring said Hiro Nakamura will remain in ancient Japan for “a handful of episodes.”

Not everyone has yet shot scenes for season two, but the actors who play the Petrelli brothers sported at the conference different looks than fans will remember from season one.

Ventimiglia’s hair is now extremely short, shorn of Peter’s trademark bangs, and Pasdar has grown a full beard. Hayden Panettiere, who plays cheerleader Claire Bennet, looks skinnier than she did last season.

Kring said every installment after episode nine on the season-one set will feature an audio commentary.

Not every cast member is expected to travel to every city on the whirlwind tour. Fans will be able to follow the tour’s progress via photos, videos and blogs linked to NBC.com.

[Avatar Yuffie]

Claire didn't save the world by encouraging anyone, she saved the world by simply not dying at the hands of Sylar. If he'd killed her, he'd have been unstoppable.

Well, that. And her telling Nathan that the "future isn't set on stone". If Nathan didn't intervene and help Peter in the end, New York would have exploded.

I'm not sure about the "choose your hero" thing going on. But, I'll watch it, if it throws hints what happened to the other characters.

[Raph's Girl]

Some casting news occured while I was on vacation:

Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed on Enterprise) has joined the cast as an Irish Mobster. This continues the apperant theme of casting people from star trek. Would be cool if he had a scene with Sulu.

Dianna Agron, who has made appearances on Veronica Mars and Shark, will be playing a cheerleader. Whether she is the gay one named April, no idea.

Shalim Ortiz will be playing the brother of the character played by Dania Ramirez (Maya). He'll play "an immigrant trying to escape his country."

Mike Ausiello has an interview with Nick D'Agosto (warning: spoilers)
http://www.tvguide.com/news/heroes-sneak-peek/070618-04

[Raph's Girl]

TOS's Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) will be appearing in aproximatly 6 eps of the upcoming season of Heroes joining Enterprise's Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed) and George Takei (Sulu).

Heroes: The new Gargoyles

http://trekmovie.com/2007/08/10/nich...ear-in-heroes/

[raphael_is_cool]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Ventimiglia’s hair is now extremely short, shorn of Peter’s trademark bangs

Haha. He was complaining about always brushing his hair out of his face (I think when Sylar 'trimmed' his hair that was an injoke as well).

[Raph's Girl]

Found info on Nichelle's character:

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-en...Star/800020349

Nichols, an NBC rep tells TVGuide.com, will be playing Nana, the New Orleans-based grandmother of Monica (the new hero being played by The Nine's Dana Davis).

[Raph's Girl]

Heroes season 2 sneak peak now on youtube courtasy of NBC

http://www.herosite.net/

[Anarky]

Oh yes! Yes! Yes! YES! It's her! One of the hottest women ever is on Heroes. Everything's better with her. I wish she was added to the series' regular cast.

The second season of "Heroes" is not only exciting because our favourite characters from the first season return, no, now the visual incentive to watch the show has risen considerably. The newest casting report is more than promising.

Source

[Barkworm]

Some decent actors, please?

[Anarky]

She is decent. She is more than decent. She should be naked... uh, I mean, a recurring character.

[Raph's Girl]

Some Heroes news:
Clair's new love interest this season is indeed a mutant....

Spoiler:

and he can fly....So will Claire be all like "Hey neat... my dad can fly too..." ??

Meanwhile there's an online fakeumentary on the life of Kensei. The first part of it is up now and it's narrated by John Rhys Davies! This fakeumentary gives an interesting history lesson on Japan during the Edo period/Tokugawa Shogunate (17th century)

http://www.yamagatofellowship.org/videoEvents.shtml

[Raph's Girl]

First pic is up of Nichelle Nicols on the set of Heroes. She's apperantly Micah's grandmother!