Our friend Nick C is reporting that Bryan Fuller has quit Heroes, and Nick doubts Tim Kring can save the show.
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Our friend Nick C is reporting that Bryan Fuller has quit Heroes, and Nick doubts Tim Kring can save the show.
Tim Kring is the reason the show was doomed in the first place. And this was my nice comment.
Since when did Nick C start a blog? Anyway I’m so glad he left… although he is still tied into that Universal contract right? Now we can all sit back relax and watch Heroes take a nose dive.
Also its Bryan not Brian.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41490
AICN EXCLUSIVE!!
Bryan Fuller Has
Again Left HEROES!!
Bryan Fuller has again exited “Heroes.”
“Development was really starting to heat up, And it appears like I may be writing multiple pilots for NBC so that wasn’t leaving a ton of room for ‘Heroes,’ unfortunately,” the star writer-producer tells AICN exclusively. “We crafted some really great arcs for the season that I’m excited to see come to fruition. I love that cast dearly and am sad to go, but the plate — she was over-flowing.”
Fuller, of course, is the “Dead Like Me”/”Wonderfalls”/”Pushing Daisies” creator who wrote the best “Heroes” episodes, including “Company Man” and “Cold Snap.” He left “Heroes” near the end of its first season to create “Daisies,” then returned to “Heroes” near the end of last season.
Fuller is under contract with “Heroes” producer NBC Universal for another year and a half, and has been preparing new series pitches for the media giant since he left Warner Bros.’ “Daisies.” He’s also expressed an ambition to eventually create, or help create, a new Paramount TV series set in J.J. Abrams’ new “Star Trek” universe.
This will send the ratings spiraling downward now for sure (eye roll emoticon).
Jarreth, I posted mine about an hour and half before AICN. I like how both Herc and Ausiello claimed “exclusive,” rights to Bryan’s quotes though.
What does this mean? One more season of Heroes at most?
Jodie, D’oh! Nonstandard spellings are my bane. Good catch, fixed.
Good job Nick C., on beating Ausiello and Herc to the punch.
LMAO. It seems everyone is jumping off the NBC Titanic. Will J. Leeeno go down with the ship? Here’s hoping.
Fuller was Heroes’ last chance to regain some of that first-season quality.
Of course, I’ll probably still watch, partly to see how low the show will go now, and partly because I’m an idiot.
Yeah thats pretty solid Nick C., I’m impressed.
As disappointing as Heroes has been it remained one of NBC more profitable shows. I think the ratings might have bottomed out and the show will continue limping along until NBC has some new hits or decides to move it to another night.
Fuller is better than Heroes writing. I say writing because Heroes does have a lot of great actors (Jack Coleman and Hayden Panettiere come to mind). He deserves his own show where he doesn’t have to deal with Tim Kring.
Well, Fuller left because he has 2 pilots in the work for NBC. He can’t juggle with all 3 things (well not anymore
he’s just human after all I guess).
I think they still can right the ship and I don’t agree that “Fuller was the only chance”. There is talent among the writer, but they seriously nead someone to filter the great ideas from the horrible ones. It’s like throwing a ball at 5 years-old kids and expect them to do passes. That’s where Fuller would have been an undeniable plus, on top of being incredible for writing stories. Of course, that should be Kring’s job but seeing what happened to S3, I have no idea what he is paid for. I still think both volumes had a promising start, but he LET them sank by the end of both. Maybe he’ll have an epiphany and start doing his job.
My guess as of what’s to come, is that this will be the last season for Heroes (and I already thought that when Fuller was still on board). If it sucks, it will dive. If it’s good, it will keep it’s premiere audience (which was leaked by NBC as 21/09, against a 2 hours House premiere) or maybe slightly go up, but it can’t get as good ratings as it’s first season. It’s simply impossible. Fuller quitting doesn’t change anything fundamentally, rating-wise.
Of course that means I’m looking forward to his next work. I’d love it if he can get some old Heroes cast and crew and do a succesful series, just to proove how many wrong decisions Kring took. ^^
Well, semi good news. Fuller is only stepping down as a writer, so he’ll still be around as producer. Or at least we’re told so.
Anyone who hasn’t watched Wonderfalls should try it out on DVD. Very funny show with a great cast.
I’ve been saying it since Season 2, Heroes has been slowly sinking. I was excited when Kring said he “heard” the fans cry out and was going to bring it back to it’s S1 form…but, *sigh* it just keeps getting worse. Heck, there’s not even a solid cliff hanger at the ending of the 1-hour slots anymore to get ppl excited for the following weeks episode. I say cancel Heroes and brink Chuck back early…j/k
“I’ve been saying it since Season 2, Heroes has been slowly sinking.”
Ummm what?
EVERYONE has been saying that since the very end of season 1! it wasn’t slow either, it’s like a rock off a cliff.
The show is dead, if NBC cared they would have made Byran Fuller the show runner and fire everyone else.
Oh dear just about sums this one up. Its a shame really because I was looking forward to seeing what if anything Fuller was going to be able to do with the disaster that the show has become. Oh well at least there’s only one painful season left to go…