The real reason Heroes was canceled

[TMC]

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In 2006, it looked like NBC's Heroes would enjoy a long, bright future. Its pilot episode, "Genesis," earned multiple Emmy nominations, attracted 14.3 million viewers, and broke a five-year ratings record in a key adult demographic. The MCU had yet to be born and the DCEU wasn't even close. It would be six years before Netflix premiered its first original series, much less became the home for street-level Marvel vigilantes like Daredevil and the Punisher. Audiences were enthralled by the story of ordinary people who inexplicably sprouted superhuman abilities and coped with the changes without the benefit of masks.

Unfortunately, Heroes proved it could only fly so far. By its second season, viewership dropped by 15 percent, and things only got worse from there. Its fourth season premiered in 2009 to an audience of 5.9 million — a drop of 8.4 million from the 2006 airing of "Genesis" — and by the following May, the end of Heroes was official.

So what happened? Was Heroes a series that simply wasn't meant to survive its first couple of seasons? Was it an issue of acting, directing, or writing? In a parallel timeline — because its Heroes creative team made better decisions — is your alternate reality doppelgänger currently reading a feature titled "The real reason Heroes' 13th season is its best ever"?

Until we can sneak a peek into parallel universes and see what our alternates are doing, here's the real reason Heroes was canceled (in this timeline, anyway).

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[dee2364]

Heroes was canceled because Tim Kring is a hack whose only talent lay in pitching TV shows that ripped off other IPs and shooting ambitious pilots designed to impress the networks, when the reality is that he himself lacked the writing talent and creative vision to carry any series successfully. This problem is why every single one of his shows ended the same way in spite of a promising first season.

[visaman666]

I thought we were talking about Hogan's Heroes?