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New episode tonight


One Giant Leap
Claire attempts to live a normal social life when her romance with the football quarterback takes a tragic turn. Hiro convinces his friend that it's their destiny to travel to America to save the world. Niki's scared but follows instructions from a mysterious, unknown source that sends her to the middle of the desert.

Meanwhile, Nathan uses Peter's accident for his own politcal gain. The FBI and Matt are on Sylar's trail, as is Suresh, whose father's journal contains potential clues.

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By Colin Mahan - TV.com

Superhero drama is first of the freshman shows to earn award; NBC sued by garbage-disposal maker for scene in pilot.



Heroes NBC's new superhero drama Heroes has been given a full-season pickup from the network.

In week one, Heroes won the time period in adults 18-49 and came in second in overall viewers. Week two saw ratings hold steady for the story of ordinary people who discover they possess superpowers.

"Heroes has delivered exceptional ratings since its premiere, and we're even more impressed with the quality of the upcoming episodes," said NBC TV president Kevin Reilly. "The best is yet to come over the course of a full season with this newest drama sensation."

NBC has received a lot of positive feedback from critics this season, but not so much from TV viewers. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip premiered underwhelmingly, Friday Night Lights struck out, and production on Kidnapped will stop once the show's 13-episode commitment is finished.

One gray cloud for Heroes: Appliance maker Emerson Electrics is suing NBC for using its product without authorization in a scene from the show's pilot. The scene depicts teen cheerleader Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet) accidentally sticking her hand into the In-Sink-Erator, only to find the mangled appendage quickly repairing itself.

Emerson wants NBC to stop airing the scene in repeats and in syndication

Oh good lord. :shake:

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"Heroes" Lawsuit Down the Drain
Thursday October 5 2:07 AM ET

By Natalie Finn



Hopefully you got a good glimpse last week of the teenage girl's hand being mangled by a garbage disposal, because you might not get to see it again.

Disposal maker Emerson filed a federal lawsuit Monday against NBC to prevent the network from re-airing the pilot episode of the new drama Heroes, which featured one of the title characters demonstrating her superhuman healing prowess by sticking her hand down the drain.

Emerson, obviously concerned that the series' 14.1 million viewers last week were busy looking at the disposal brand instead of Claire the cheerleader's bloody hand, claimed in its petition that NBC Universal Television Studios didn't have the right to show the St. Louis-area company's In-Sink-Erator product and is looking to prohibit any further use by the network of the Emerson trademark.


The lawsuit further stated that the scene "casts the disposer in an unsavory light, irreparably tarnishing the product" by suggesting that the appliance "will cause debilitating and severe injuries, including the loss of fingers, in the event consumers were to accidentally insert their hand into one."

Not that Emerson is saying you should try this at home or anything. And neither is Heroes, for that matter.

My sink says In-sink-erator too but it has a Kenmore underneath. Not that it matters. They should not win this frivolous lawsuit.

This is TV. You don't see everyone running around screaming Damnit llike Jack Bauer do you?

Another good showing tonight. Great ending too.

Wax Lion. Heee!!!!

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Ok, I don't watch the show, but what's up with the "Schtupp the Cheerleader, Schtupp the World" ads?

The geeky Asian who can bend time and space comes back from the future looking all Ultra Peanut's avatar-ey, to tell another hero that he needs to get that message to him [the Geeky Asian of the present], ASAP.

Oh, and there's a cheerleader who regenerates a la Wolverine, whose foster dad appears to be one of the bad guys.

Anyone know where I could watch tonight's episode online? I missed the first 30 minutes. :banghead:

Well as long as you seen the girl die at the end of episode you did not miss too much... :)

She better not be dead...

:eek: .......:hmmm:

It might be worth while to go dig the first few episodes up and check this out. I've heard some of the other plotlines, and a few sound intriguing. Damn, it's been a long time since I followed 4 shows in a TV season. I may end up picking up a fifth here. Thanks.

You can see the episode tomorrow at www.cbs.com (as well as the other episodes).

Well, that is interesting. Considering the show airs on NBC. :rolleyes: