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20080610 Tuesday June 10, 2008

Heroes Season Three in the UK

According to a speech given at the Banff World Television Festival by Jana Bennett, director of BBC Vision, the BBC will be airing the third season of Heroes simultaneously with it broadcast on NBC in the States.

We don't think she means literally simultaneously, as Heroes is shown at 9pm in the US which would be the early hours of the morning here - presumably episodes will be broadcast on BBC within a week of the US broadcast. Which is simultaneous enough for us.

Heroes season three begins airing on NBC with a two-hour season premiere on 22 September. And we're crossing our fingers it'll get back on form (certainly things perked up again at the end of season two...)


UPDATE: Following in the footsteps of Kristen Bell, another actor from Veronica Mars is set to join Heroes. Francis Capra - who played biker bad boy Weevil - will be joining Heroes as a character called Jesse.









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It was only a matter of time before this started happening. Apart from marketing for different regions there's never been a good technical reason for regional delays.

And on the plus side the UK version will actually be better. It might not be in HD but at least you won't get permanent ads for other shows branded on the screen and characters from other shows walking on screen while Heroes is in progress to advertise another NBC show.

Posted by Impossibilium (127.0.0.1) on June 11, 2008 at 02:09 AM BST #

Hurrah! Thank Sylar the Beeb haven't done a Channel 4 and lost the rights in a pointless bid war with Sky (although I'm admittedly not loving the current season with the same gusto I did the first). All is well with the world. Now all we need are heroes to save it.

Posted by Miles I. Hamer (127.0.0.1) on June 11, 2008 at 09:29 AM BST #

"It might not be in HD"

It will be on BBC HD.

Posted by Mentalist (127.0.0.1) on June 11, 2008 at 02:38 PM BST #

"It will be on BBC HD"

Not if you can't get BBC HD on Freeview or don't have satellite or cable. Hence the use of the word "might."

Posted by Impossibilium (127.0.0.1) on June 12, 2008 at 01:57 AM BST #

I lost interset after the mundane naff finale to Season 1 and the appalling season 2. No thanks. A show should be well into it's stride by season 3 but this has yet to make a start.

I leave for those that like it!!!

Posted by Taz (127.0.0.1) on June 12, 2008 at 12:32 PM BST #

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