you're my HERO!. . .'Heroes' Season 4 trailer & new cast member and USA announces fate of 'Burn Notice' & 'Royal Pains'.

[NewtonMP2100]

. . .the guy from 'Prison Break' was only supposed to do a 6 episode arc but now is a series regular. . .


Heroes Season 4 Trailer & Robert Knepper Becomes a Regular

. . .We have two great Heroes items today, including news that Robert Knepper has been signed on for the remainder of season 4 as a series regular, and also the season 4 trailer which is very similar to the one shown at Comic Con.

First, Robert Knepper was originally signed for only six episodes, has been cast as a regular, giving Heroes a new baddie to fear. Zachary Quinto (Sylar) also started out on Heroes in a recurring role and was eventually upgraded to series regular. Based on the footage shown so far this was definitely a good decision as Knepper is awesome and the scenes they've shown with him so far are incredible. He has a villaneous presence that can only be rivaled by Sylar himself.

Knepper's character on the show, Samual, is a very charismatic but evil man who recruits people with powers for unknown and mysterious reasons. He is the ringleader of a traveling carnival that features a sort of family for people with abilities.

Also released today was the preview for season 4, the Road to Redemption. This teaser trailer is very similar to what was shown last week at comic con, with a few key scenes being removed, including the lesbian kissing scene we've heard so much about with Clair (Hayden Panettiere). . .


preview of things to come. . .


both USA shows renewed. . .

July 29, 2009
USA renews 'Burn Notice,' 'Royal Pains'

The summer's hottest cable series will be back.

USA Network has renewed its flagship action drama "Burn Notice" and breakout freshman hit "Royal Pains." Both series have been picked up for 16 more episodes.

The pickups come amid another sizzling summer for the basic cable network, which is wrapping up July as cable's most-watched network after finishing first during the second-quarter ratings race.

The Thursday combo of "Burn" and "Pains" has been the main driver of USA's ratings surge, with all fresh episodes of the series landing in the top 20 programs on ad-supported cable for the month.

On July 9, the original runs of the Fox TV Studios-produced "Burn" and Universal Cable Prods.' "Pains" drew 7.1 million and 7.3 million viewers, respectively.

"Burn," starring Jeffrey Donovan, is being picked up for a fourth season. The show it helped launch, the Mark Feuerstein-starring medical soap "Pains," is being renewed for a second turn. . .

[iaJim]

When's it going to begin the new season?

[AllGold]

(Heroes) Knepper's character on the show, Samual, is a very charismatic but evil man who recruits people with powers for unknown and mysterious reasons. He is the ringleader of a traveling carnival that features a sort of family for people with abilities.

I must be getting senile because I don't remember anything like that.

[RAMd®d]

I don't remember Samuel either.

Here's hoping that Heroes gets some focus. This feels like being jerked around by X-Files all over again.

Love Burn Notice and really like Royal Pains. It's nice to have shows that aren't angst driven.

[Blankity Blank]

iaJim wrote:
When's it going to begin the new season?

The first episode is two hours and airs at 8 p.m., September 21st, a Monday. YES!

AllGold wrote:
(Heroes) Knepper's character on the show, Samual, is a very charismatic but evil man who recruits people with powers for unknown and mysterious reasons. He is the ringleader of a traveling carnival that features a sort of family for people with abilities.

I must be getting senile because I don't remember anything like that.

No senility yet, just slightly confusing writing. Samual hasn't appeared in the show yet.

NewtonMP2100 wrote:
Heroes Season 4 Trailer & Robert Knepper Becomes a Regular

. . .We have two great Heroes items today, including news that Robert Knepper has been signed on for the remainder of season 4 as a series regular, and also the season 4 trailer which is very similar to the one shown at Comic Con.

First, Robert Knepper was originally signed for only six episodes, has been cast as a regular, giving Heroes a new baddie to fear. Zachary Quinto (Sylar) also started out on Heroes in a recurring role and was eventually upgraded to series regular. Based on the footage shown so far this was definitely a good decision as Knepper is awesome and the scenes they've shown with him so far are incredible. He has a villaneous presence that can only be rivaled by Sylar himself.

Knepper's character on the show, Samual, is a very charismatic but evil man who recruits people with powers for unknown and mysterious reasons. He is the ringleader of a traveling carnival that features a sort of family for people with abilities.

Season four is the upcoming season (Fourth season, fifth "chapter" ), but the way they write about Knepper's change in status makes it sound like he's appeared in the show already. They're just saying that he was originally signed for the upcoming season as a recurring character, but that status has been upgraded to that of a regular ongoing character.

Heroes always has and continues to do a fine job entertaining me. With "Heroes" and "House", and then "24" joining the party in January, Monday has become my favorite TV day of the week.

The X-Files was great, but to a degree disappointing because they really fumbled very badly, not just a key element of the show, not just the main point of the core plot, they mishandled what was the very soul of the show's tentpole character. Still a great show, maybe my favorite show so far, but they were flirting with TV perfection and let the test tube with the critical ingredient slip through their fingers and go crashing to the floor.

[RAMd®d]

Nicely done, BB.

Thanks for the edification.

[ka jowct]

I don't see the point of Royal Pains, or what's to like about it. I think I managed to watch all of the first episode, and haven't been able to get through more than portions of any of the others. The brother-of-the-doc character is incredibly slappable: what a whiny little twit.