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Television:

'HEROES' LIVES ON, 'HEROES: ORIGINS' DOESN'T

With Kevin Smith and Eli Roth geared up to do 'ORIGINS,' what happened?

By JAY FRASCO, News Editor
Published 4/3/2008

LOCATION: On the lot

THE SKINNY: NBC is bringing back HEROES on Sept. 15 with an expanded third-season started, reported Sci Fi Wire. But HEROES: ORIGINS, the show set up to help eliminate HEROES repeats, bit the dust.

Co-chairman of NBC Ben Silverman said, "We consciously chose to rest [HEROES] this spring so that [creator] Tim Kring and his team could get ahead of the creative and build up to a massive event--a three-hour Heroes night. On Monday, Sept. 15, we'll kick off with a HEROES clip show to try to bring back the audience and [then air] a massive two-hour Heroes film."

That's a lot of HEROES.  So why was ORIGINS --which had commitments from Kevin Smith and Eli Roth-- deep-sixed?

"We were taxing our creative team to do too much around that," Silverman said. "We wanted 35 HEROES [episodes] and 12 HEROES: ORIGINS, each of which was supposed to be a mini-movie and backdoor pilot. We reached far and challenged our people, and we decided it was better to focus on keeping the HEROES mothership as strong as possible."

The show will air on NBC Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Source: Sci Fi Wire

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