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UPDATED: Trouble for our Heroes: Bryan Fuller quits the NBC superhero show

UPDATED: Trouble for our \<i\>Heroes\<\/i\>: Bryan Fuller quits the NBC superhero show

[Updated: Entertainment Weekly quotes Bryan Fuller confirming his departure from Heroes and saying that he left to focus on developing new projects for NBC and not because of creative differences with series creator Tim Kring: "I'm crafting two pilots right now, and it's a lot of work. It was just too hard to [juggle] Heroes and my development; something had to give."]

We love TV writer Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls) and were eagerly looking forward to his reviving NBC's Heroes, which we have stopped watching because it seems to have lost its way.

Well, imagine our shock when we heard a rumor, first reported on Ain't It Cool News, that Fuller has abruptly left the series before the fourth season even begins.

Here's what AICN reported, via their TV guy Hercules (can't these guys just use their names? What, are they Cold War spies?):

I haven't been able to confirm this with Bryan Fuller, but a convincing anonymous source tells me Fuller has again left Heroes.

"I believe Tuesday [of last week] was his last day," says our source.

Take it as rumor for now, but I wanted to get this on site before Mike Ausiello and Wanda Two Saints jumped on it.

(That's Ausiello, the TV columnist for Entertainment Weekly, and Kristin Dos Santos of E! Online.)

We've put in a call to NBC to see if this is true. If so, sad news indeed for Heroes and for us.

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By mykl at 4:40 PM ON 06/22/09

Good… that show needs to end. NBC couldn't keep “Life” on yet they find a way for this lame show and all their reality crap too.

Fuller just needs to find a home for “Pushing Daisies” again and make sure it is a home that will believe in letting the show pick up an audience.

By Reaper2K at 5:03 PM ON 06/22/09

Speaking of code names and Cold War spies... What's this about "We've put a call into NBC"? Isn't SyFy owned by NBC Universal? Don't you have offices in 30 Rockefeller Plaza? Shouldn't this be a simple matter of asking someone in an adjoining office?

By SCI FI Wire at 5:10 PM ON 06/22/09

Reaper2K: I know it seems like we all know each other, but what you're saying is like asking a letter carrier: You work for the federal government. Can't you just walk into the West Wing and talk to the press secretary? The answer is, no.

By Methos at 5:20 PM ON 06/22/09

Damn it! You could really tell when he was writing it. Sylar was Sylar again. Everybody was them self again. It was finally getting rid of that bad taste in it's mouth left behind by Jeph Loeb. THE SHOW WAS GOOD AGAIN! WHY! WHY DID HE LEAVE!

By a different tim at 5:39 PM ON 06/22/09

Is it bad how I liked the way Sci fi Wire wise cracked Reaper2k? It'd be funny to see more of that, but it would probably go over as well as a fart in church.

By DryedMangoez at 5:50 PM ON 06/22/09

Good for him. His talents will be better served on anything other than Heroes which honestly is a sinking ship. I am so sad that the show has sunk so low since it's amazing start. I don't remember a show in recent memory that's fallen as far as Heroes.

By nate9111 at 5:54 PM ON 06/22/09

season 1 amazing then nose dive awful nothing makes sense its like TNA urrrrrr

By rafe at 7:57 PM ON 06/22/09

I miss Simone and the painter. I miss Nicki, D.L., and Michah. Season 1!!!

Do you remember when Hiro was cool instead of a creepy, whiny guy? Poor Ando!

By Yokozuka at 8:49 PM ON 06/22/09

Fuller was the show´s last chance to straighten up, and now they LOST that too, but it´s about time they SHUT it down, it´s not doing well since season 2, it turned into a huge waste of TIME and MONEY, hope it just ENDS here and NOW, so that the CAST and the CREATORS get a chance to cleanse themselves of that mess that HEROES has become, seriously.

By Snarly at 11:14 PM ON 06/22/09

some of us still like the show, but it seems everyone else would rather watch reruns of the first season. If thats the case, go buy the first season on dvd, but dont go crying for the cancellation just because its not four seasons of repeats.

By Scott at 11:45 PM ON 06/22/09

Personally,I've never understood what people were objecting to in Seasons 2 and 3-the show's been great all three seasons.It's like it somehow became fashionable to call for Heroes's cancellation and nobody wants to go against fashion...

By Al at 2:49 AM ON 06/23/09

Farewell, Heroes. I own the first two seasons on DVD and downloaded the first season on iTunes just to have my fave eps wherever I go. Once I toss the second season, I'll have a great season worth sharing.

Bryan Fuller helped make a great show. It's a shame he won't be able to bring it back from the brink.

By stevyboy at 5:47 AM ON 06/23/09

I really believe that heroes has lost it's way because it's not surprising anymore. The fight against the government is not really interesting as such.
But there's a way to save the show taking inspiration from a series of books from Ane McCaffrey: Pegasus rising series (free translation from the french title, don't hesitate to correct if I'm wrong):
-The gov stops the fight and recruts the heroes (good and bad) into a special agency.
-More than spying and war affairs on earth (like kill the iranian leader ;-)), the goal of this agency is to promote the space program.
-Imagine these people teleporting huge shipments directly into orbit or to the moon, etc... use your imagination.
-Then surprise anybody and go ahead 50 years in the future.
-Man has colonized space using the powers these people have.
-Then they meet aliens (bad ones) and these heroes are the last hope for manking to survive.
This could really renew the show. But if they stick to what we have seen so far, I agree with you and I say the show is dead

By suprememango at 10:20 AM ON 06/23/09

Fuller's loss is a real blow. But for the die hard fans we will stay with it. I definitely think Heroes' plots improved from the final episodes of Villains to Fugitives.

Fourth season is supposed to go back to ordinary people with extraordinary abilities in a moderately real life. I have pretty high hopes for it.

And yes, Heroes bashing has been vogue for a while now. season one is gone. Get over it already. But Heroes bashers still hang around like the last guests at a party that you have to move around while cleaning. I taunted them when we got a fourth season and it wasn't canceled. Delicious.

And six million people are still watching the show so there is something there. I will continue to watch it until they stop making it.

I have been watching Smallville for nine years now and it is below the quality of Heroes even on a bad episode. I'm just addicted at this point lol

By _Maltheus_ at 10:57 AM ON 06/23/09

What sweet and sour news! He should be doing something better than Heroes, but I miss the fun of Heroes S1. It's like hearing that yet another one of my shows has just been canceled.

As for what the guy above me said, "Fourth season is supposed to go back to ordinary people with extraordinary abilities in a moderately real life." That was precisely the biggest problem of this whole last season. Everyone hated their superpowers and wanted to live an ordinary life, and that's just totally absurd. I don't want to see a show about people who have extraordinary powers but don't want to use them. That's like watching a porno with people who don't want to have sex. This show should be impossible to screw up, but somehow Kring finds a way.

By Marky at 2:42 AM ON 07/18/09

Wow, people sentimentalise season one way too much. Did nobody else notice how it occasionally seemed they were making up the Sylar storyline from episode to episode, sometimes with very little reference to the previous one and rarely beyond that?

It's sad to see Bryan go, especially given the apparent glimmer in his eyes - does he really think he's going to go and create some more pilots that don't bomb? He's a talented writer, but too smart for mainstream success.


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