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• 09/19 - "Parkman's family plays a huge role in the story behind the heroes," [Greg Grunberg] revealed. "My character for once plays an integral part in what's happening." Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide
• 09/17 - An upcoming episode will feature a 6-year-old girl being rescued from a burning house. Source: SpoilerFix.com
• 09/12 - Season 2 leaps ahead four months to find Peter presumed dead. "We're going to drop viewers into a whole scenario and let them slowly piece together what transpired since that day in New York," says creator Tim Kring. Fans will get the final details in Episode 8 -- a flashback hour called "Four Months Ago." We'll also learn that the Company -- the mysterious group Noah "H.R.G." Bennet worked for in Season 1 -- is deeply ingrained in the neuro-degrading virus that killed Mohinder's sister Shanti and infected Molly Walker, the little girl with the power to locate anybody. Also big this season is the backstory of the old-guard heroes -- led by Kaito Nakamura, Angela Petrelli and the late Mr. Linderman -- who were once determined to heal the world but splintered due to infighting. "We'll reveal what split them up," Kring says. "This group has secrets -- things they tried to budy -- and it's all gonna start coming out." Joining the show's "power" elite are Kristen Bell as Elle, a sexy criminal with ties to Peter's "death," and Dania Ramirez as Maya, an on-the-lam heroine from Central America. Dominic Keating kicks off a new plot arc set in County Cork, Ireland, that's all about "smalltime hoodlums and crooks -- they're lovable but dangerous," says Kring, who hints that "someone viewers already know will be embroiled in this story." A fictional California beach town, Costa Verde, will also be added -- that's the new home of cheerleader Claire Bennet and her family. "We go into hiding and try to have some sort of a normal life, but how normal can you be when you have so much to hide?" says [Hayden] Panettiere, noting that Claire, who will cut off her own toe, is still experimenting with her regenerative powers. "She's pushing her limits and testing her pain tolerance and wondering, 'Can I be killed?'" Claire will become attracted to fellow high schooler West and have her first real romance. But their first kiss ends on a stunner: Claire spots the Comapny's "bag and tag" mark on West's neck and he tells her of a traumatic encounter he once had with a man in horned-rimmed glasses. Source: TV Guide
• 09/11 - I'm hearing that around episode eight or nine, we meet past Hiro (at the tender age of a single digit, most likely)! Source: Kristin on E!Online
• 09/10 - Creator Tim Kring drops crucial intel: "As season 2 begins, many of our characters are back in their old worlds. Claire and her family are starting over in Southern California, in hiding. Parkman has returned to his domestic situation. And Jessica/Niki and her family - their story really reached a conclusion at the end of season 1, so they're rebuilding anew. So what we will find is that time has passed, and everyone is at a new starting place." Speaking of new places, Hiro will be in feudal Japan discovering his family history and falling in love with a princess. There'll also be plenty of new faces, including Alias' David Anders as the mythical Kensei and, in the best casting news of the year, Veronica Mars' Kristen Bell joins in episode 5 as Elle, a mysterious figure with ties to the Petrelli and Bennet families. But there's plenty of action before then, including a good-ol'-fashioned murder mystery. It seems as if someone is hunting the older generation of Heroes, and one familiar face won't make it past the first episode. Source: Entertainment Weekly
• 09/04 - The Slug reveals that Maya will run into Sylar at some point in the upcoming season. Source: SpoilerFix BuddyTV Spoilers Chat
• 09/03 - Ricky Gervais has revealed he will appear in the second series of Heroes, not surprising since the first season has recieved a huge positive response from veiwers. It is not yet known which character he will play, as the series has only recently started filming. Christopher Eccleston appears in the first season as a guest star, after quitting Doctor Who so as not to be type cast he enters a role not dissimilar to that of The Doctor. Christopher also joins the cast as a main character in the second season. Source: StarkGossip [Note: No official sources confirmed these spoilers so far.]
• 09/01 - A "major city" in Canada will be part of the story line in the new season of Heroes. "Actually, the story line is going to take us to a certain part of Canada," [Tim] Kring said. "Obviously, we're going to shoot it here in L.A. But the story line will take us to a major city in Canada." Source: Canoe
• 09/01 - To avoid death-by-Sylar in the finale, [Hiro] teleported 400 years into the past to feudal Japan, which he may have to save. There, he meets a potential love interest, Yaeko, and his Samurai hero, Takezo Kensei - who isn't exactly what the idealistic young man expected, in behavior or physical appearance. Kensei is "English, a bit of a drunk, a bit of a lout, a bit of a rake," says the armor-clad [David] Anders during a break from a scene in which Hiro, Kensei and Yaeko try to flee an enemy's camp. (Tamura says that the location could double for Kyoto in winter and that the set "looks like a Japanese historical piece.") Source: USA Today
• 09/01 - [Zachary] Quinto admitted that Sylar, who was stabbed in the season finale but of course didn't die, will be "in a radically different and radically challenging landscape, both literally and figuratively," come season 2. [...] "A bunch of new characters" will also be introduced, said Loeb, including Maya Herrera, a troubled young woman plagued by a threatening ability in the Dominican Republic. "I can tell you that Maya feels too much," said Dania Ramirez. [...] "And you don't want to make her cry," added Loeb in the interview at a posh hotel. "It would be a really bad thing to happen." Source: Canoe
• 08/28 - There is a series regular from last season who is no longer a part of the cast and as far as I know is not coming back. There is a series regular from last season who is presumed dead, but is not. There are two popular and important recurring characters who appear to be totally and completely doomed, and at least one of them will die within the first two episodes. Kristen [Bell]'s power is electricity. I'm also hearing that Kristen might be doing some kind of scene with Masi/Hiro in the past, but honestly, that makes no sense whatsoever to me based on everything else I've heard. Source: Kristin on E!Online
• 08/17 - As part of the previously reported on teen angst Claire will be contending with during Season 2, Heroes' world-saving cheerleader will face a new adversary in the form of May, the cheer squad captain at the new school she has landed at. Per the Reporter, May will be played by Janel Parrish, who currently can be seen in the big-screen Bratz flop film. Source: TV Guide Online
• 08/14 - Niki leaves her family troubles behind and connects up with the show's larger mythological mysteries. Claire and Niki finally cross paths. Source: Kristin on E!Online
• 08/13 - Hayden Panettiere, who plays indestructible cheerleader Claire Bennet on NBC's Heroes, told journalists that the upcoming second season will find her character's pushing the limits of her ability to heal herself. [...] But as Claire becomes more used to her powers, she will start to use them unconsciously, which leads to more of the kind of gore that was seen in early episodes of season one. Source: Sci Fi Wire
• 08/06 - He hasn't even debuted yet, but David Anders is already making an impression with his Heroes bosses. The ex- Alias fave has been promoted to a full-fledged series regular. [...] A little birdie also tells me that Deadwood 's Stephen Tobolowsky will appear in at least six episodes this season. Source: The Ausiello Report
• 08/03 - The latest actor to join the show for its second season is [The Nine's] Jessica Collins, who will take on a recurring role. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Collins will play Sophie, "a mysterious woman with powers who works at the organization that is tracking all heroes." Source: Zap2it
• 08/01 - We'll be seeing less of Ali Larter this fall as Niki takes off early in the season to, as Larter herself teases, "fix something. And once it's fixed, it will be very shocking and exciting." Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide
• 08/01 - You can watch a rough version of the previews they showed at Comic-Con on YouTube. SpoilerTV wrote up a summary of what the preview reveals: [A character who seems to be] Hiro has longer hair like an ancient Samurai and he wears hakama (traditional Japanese clothes). Micah is scolding or looking sad, where Nikki just embrace him, crying. D.L's funeral? Mo is at the market? India, perhaps? Matt is shooting an ill-looking-dude. Probably the dude got infected by a plague/virus? Ando is yelling, "Kaicho!" (meaning Grandmaster), and Hiro's dad walks by. Is Ando being taught by Hiro's father now? Mo is cornering a guy (played by Stephen Tobolowsky from Groundhog Day?) Angela is yelling to a scruffy looking Nathan. Hiro is riding a horse with a samurai. Stephen Tobolowsky is being dip into water? Claire is almost hit by a car. Japanese army and a princess are having sword practising and shooting some arrows. Maya and her brother are being chased by cops. Molly is screaming in fear, Matt is trying to console her. She whispers, "He's here...." Claire confronts Noah, "No more secrets." She cuts her toe. A samurai opens his mask, and David Anders is behind the mask. Close up of Sylar. A cell door is open, and Peter shields himself from the light. Source: SpoilerFix BuddyTV Spoilers Chat [Note: One of SpoilerFix.com's visitors emailed us the following corrections about the SpoilerTV summary: It's not Claire comforting Noah... it's Sandra and she's scolding him about No More Secrets. And Claire isn't cutting her toe, she's cutting her pinky toe off completely.]
• 07/30 - There will be an upcoming storyline set in County Cork, Ireland. Separately, look for a dangerous new Francophone character named Sophie. She's the employee of a powerful, mysterious group, and she's "not afraid to use lethal force to accomplish her mission." Source: Kristin on E!Online
• 07/29 - The [Comic-Con Heroes] panel [...] featured a teaser trailer for the second season. Here are some of the scenes and shots they showed: Samurai knights in Japan. Nathan sporting a massive beard. Claire cutting off her pinky toe. Peter locked in a cage. Matt Parkman shooting someone. It's not clear when this footage takes place, but it can definitely reassure fans that the Petrelli brothers and Officer Parkman will return, despite having their fates left in doubt during the first season finale. Source: BuddyTV
• 07/29 - Tim Sale, who creates the art pieces for fictional painter Isaac Mendez on NBC's Heroes, told SCI FI Wire that Isaac is dead on the show, but that Sale will continue to produce pieces-possibly on behalf of a character who appeared to have died. "If only there had been someone else in season one that did some art work," Sale hinted in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego, Calif. "Somebody who absorbs powers, maybe." [...] Although Sylar absorbed Isaac's power, he is not the only character with that ability. "Actually there were two people," Sale said. "There was the bad guy who had a very different style, and we didn't see much of the other's art work. But all I know is they tell me I have a job." The "other" could be Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia), who was last seen about to explode in mid-air at the end of the season finale. Source: Sci Fi Wire
• 07/29 - Despite executive producer Jeph Loeb's plea to attendees not to spill the beans on the exclusive second season clip, here's what we saw: Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), in a full-grown beard, digging through some box as his mother tells him something along the lines of "You're brother's dead because of you. If you had just done what you we're told, he might be alive by now." Hiro is still stuck in the past. We see him training with the Asian Warriors, though one warrior ends up taking his mask off to reveal a blond guy underneath. Molly Walker (Adair Tishler) wakes from disturbing dreams in fear of the "boogie man" who haunts her sleep. We get no glimpse of said villain. Peter appears, freaked out when someone opens a door to the room he's apparently locked in. There are also plans for new female characters, including Maya (Dania Ramirez), who's on the run from the cops in Central America, and a character named Monica (unnamed actress) who "will come from the hurricane-ravaged area of New Orleans," according to Loeb. Source: Cinema ParaDso!
• 07/25 - Ali Larter's character, Niki, will move away from the split-personality thing. There's a new cast member, Dania Ramirez, whose character will be on the run in Central America and will get to habla español. Press notes describe her character as "a young woman plagued by a threatening ability that has driven both her and her twin brother Alejandro (Shalim Ortiz) from their home in the Dominican Republic to make the dangerous crossing to the United States in search of help." Ukraine, Haiti, Egypt, Mexico are among the season's destinations. And of course Japan. Plus the United States. But still no Canada! The Bennets (Claire's family) have a new house, seeing as the last one went radioactive, which is murder on their premiums. Nathan and Peter aren't dead. There will continue to be paintings of the future, even though Isaac is dead. Source: National Post
• 07/19 - Ali Larter, who plays the dual-personality Jessica/Niki on NBC's hit Heroes, told SCI FI Wire to expect her character to channel another popular kickass female hero in the coming second season. "I've heard a little bit," Larter said about the upcoming arc for her character. "A little La Femme Nikita... I'm happy about most things they give me on the show." Source: Sci Fi Wire
• 07/18 - SpoilerTV gives us snippets found in the July 23 edition of TV Guide: When Hiro meets Kensei, he discover that "the storybooks have exaggerated" and "Kensei isn't the kind of man Hiro idolized." According to Masi, "This will put Japan's future at stake, so Hiro has to make Kensei into the one of legend." The producers told Masi that while Hiro is in the past, "something terrible will be happening in the present, maybe because Hiro wasn't there. When he returns to modern day, he's in for the shock of his life." The Japanese princess that Eriko Tamura is playing is supposed to fall in love with Kensei, but falls for Hiro instead, which will be "a disaster." Alejandro is Maya's twin, and the two are on the run. They will make their way "through Central America and Mexico to try to enter the U.S. illeagally," an will "find border trouble along the way." According to Dania Ramirez, "Maya is a very good person, but her abilities have made her extremely dangerous. This has caused a lot of havoc in her life." Source: TV Guide
• 07/18 - Masi Oka, who plays time-traveling hero Hiro Nakamura on NBC's Heroes , told SCI FI Wire that his character will remain in Japan for a while and will have a parallel story separate from the rest of the show when the second season kicks off in the fall. "Season two is going to begin with two parallel timelines going on," Oka said in an interview at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 17. "One starting four months after the explosion and another-mainly Hiro's storyline-starting 400 years in the past. And we'll see how they kind of affect each other." At the end of the hit show's first season, Oka's character found himself transported back in time to 16th-century Japan. According to Oka, Hiro will spend at least eight episodes there before returning to the present. There, he will encounter some of the characters from the stories of his childhood, including the legendary samurai Takezo Kensei, who will be played by David Anders (Sark from ABC's Alias ). The show is currently finishing the third episode of the upcoming season. "There's a princess," Oka said. "Princess Iako, played by [Japanese pop star] Eriko Tamura, who's going to be in that world, as well as David Anders, who plays Takezo Kensei. That was Hiro's childhood hero that he's always heard about these stories. But David Anders, last time we checked, he was Caucasian. So there's a mystery there." Source: Sci Fi Wire
• 07/02 - From what I hear, Zach won't be back on Heroes. Source: Kristin on E!Online [Note: It's Claire's friend she is talking about.]
• 06/22 - Hiro will remain in the past for at least a few episodes. Source: Kristin on E!Online
• 06/20 - [David] Anders [Sark on Alias] has been given the much coveted series-regular role of Kensei, a Sark-ish character who just so happens to be 1,000 years old, for the upcoming second season of Heroes. Source: Kristin on E!Online
• 06/19 - Nick D'Agosto has been cast in the recurring role of Claire's boyfriend, West, who has a "very cool superpower." Source: The Hollywood Reporter
• 06/18 - Two new Heroes are already familiar faces: Nick D'Agosto played Jan's Bluetooth-enabled assistant, Hunter, on The Office, and Dania Ramirez was Blanca, A.J.'s erstwhile fiancée on The Sopranos. Source: Kristin on E!Online
• 06/11 - In recounting the assorted opportunities which have come her way since being named Miss Universe last month, the Japan-born Riyo Mori says one "super" job lead might find her on no less than NBC's Heroes, playing Yaeko, a new character whom she describes as a love interest for one of the main characters. "I went to the casting audition and read a script in English and Japanese, and they said it was really good," the 20-year-old dancer tells the Associated Press. "So I hope I can be in the show." Source: TV Guide Online [Note: Our guess is that she auditioned for the role of Princess Keriyama, which will more than likely end up being Hiro's love interest.]
• 06/10 - So there he was at Global's fall TV launch: Adrian Pasdar, Nathan Petrelli on Heroes. In a hurried dressing room conversation he said "Apparently not!" when asked if he died in the season finale, after blasting into the stratosphere. Source: The Star
• 06/06 - There's no telling [if Jayma Mays will return to Heroes], since her pilot didn't "go," but don't give up all hope on Hiro Nakamura's love life yet. Masi Oka tells me, "In season two, though, there'll definitely be something romantic." And on the subject of Hiro's love life, I can tell you that the possibilities are opening up as we speak! Last week I was told the producers have written in a new recurring character they're calling Princess Keriyama. She first appears in the season premiere and I'm hearing she's a sexy little Japanese thing. Source: Kristin on E!Online
• 06/05 - One of the heroes that was left in jeopardy at the end of the season will not be back as a regular next season. Source: Kristin on E!Online
• 06/03 - Dania Ramirez has been added as a regular on the [...] series, which is returning for a second season in the fall. Ramirez will play Maya, a new hero whose powers are being kept under wraps. Source: The Hollywood Reporter
• 05/31 - I tried to get an answer out of Greg [about whether he will return next season to the show], but he's not budging. All he'll say is the audience shouldn't "assume anything" about Matt's fate. He then added, "This will be the hardest secret I have ever had to keep during a hiatus." Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide