When the series premiered in the United States, it was the night\'s most-watched program among adults aged 18-49, attracting 14.3 million viewers overall and receiving the highest rating for any NBC drama premiere in five years.[3] On October 6, 2006, NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly announced Heroes had been picked up for a full season.[4] On January 17, 2007, Reilly announced Heroes had been picked up for a second season.[5]. The second season of Heroes will consist of 24 episodes,[6] and the first season of new spinoff Heroes: Origins will include 6 episodes.[7]

\'Heroes\' Expands Universe with \'Origins\'
Stand-alone episodes will help NBC cut down on repeats
By Rick Porter
May 14, 2007

NEW YORK -- You want more "Heroes"? NBC is going to give you more "Heroes" next season.

The network has hit upon a way to keep the show repeat free for nearly the entire season, ordering more episodes of the show and embarking on a quasi-spinoff called "Heroes: Origins." Combined, the shows will account for 30 original episodes next season.

"We\'ve got something I call the \'bulk-up challenge\' for next year, which is trying to stay more consistent in our scheduling for the audience," NBC chief Kevin Reilly told reporters Monday at a press conference announcing the network\'s 2007-08 schedule. "We asked [\'Heroes\' creator] Tim Kring to come up with an idea, and what I love is not only did we bulk up with 30 hours next season, but also a whole new idea which I think is going to take the show to the next level."

The "Origins" series will consist of six stand-alone episodes, with each one introducing a new character and telling his or her back story. They\'ll take place within the "Heroes" universe but won\'t be tied into the main arc of the series, although one or two regular characters may pop up.

It will also carry an interactive element: After all six "Origins" episodes air, viewers will be able to vote on which character joins the main show the following season.

The idea for "Origins" springs from positive fan reaction to several side characters introduced this season -- Reilly cites Charlie (Jayma Mays), the waitress with the perfect memory, as an example -- and a desire to avoid momentum-draining breaks like the one the show took earlier this spring.

"I don\'t think the audience minds taking a week off, particularly during the holidays," Reilly says. "It\'s just the long hiatuses or weeks worth of repeats where we get in trouble."

Just how the "Origins" episodes will be scheduled along with the main "Heroes" storyline has yet to be worked out. The most likely scenario, Reilly says, will be to have "Heroes" start its second season in the fall and run more or less straight through its 24 episodes, with perhaps a short break during the holidays. "Origins" would then follow at the end of the season. Another option would be to run "Origins" "as a chunk" in the spring, before the concluding episodes of "Heroes."

"I\'ll tell you one thing you won\'t see is \'Origins\' peppered throughout," he says. "I think that would be difficult for the audience to navigate."

I was left wanting with the finale.
 It seemed fairly anti-climatic as the final battle was pretty weak and you could predict the ending by just paying attention.
It was good and had some OMG! moments yes but it could have been better I think. I did enjoy how it left things to continue right into the next season and this whole Origins idea is straight from Comics. It should help to flesh out the Heroes Universe more.

I was left wanting with the finale.

Isn\'t that kinda the point though, to leave you with a desire for the next season?  I know what you mean though it wasn\'t quite action packed enough, but I think they can\'t blow it all out right outta the gates. I can see this show going for quite awhile, so they gotta have somewhere to go and build to, and remember that Peter is not the Peter he was in the future episodes, with the control over his powers and what not.  I don\'t know to each their own but I thought it was great.

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what?! chris you\'re a great guy and all, but that was the suckiest bunch of suck to ever waste my time! they spent time showing peter learning to use all the various powers he\'d gathered, but the one power he\'s been closest to his entire life, flying, and he what? forgot he knew how to do that?!! bullshit! why didn\'t he just fly off and not kill his own brother?! why didn\'t anyone think of that episodes ago when they knew there would be a show down with peter blowing up at the end? \'hey guys, you know what? when i start to go nuclear, i\'ll just fly up into the atmosphere to a safe level and let it out. problem solved."

and then with all those heroes around, knowing that sylar is a hard-to-kill bad guy and they just forgot to keep an eye on him? nobody bothered to look over to where he\'d been and saw the huge trail of blood?! why would all those people trying to kill sylar, you know, NOT go into the sewer and grab him? he\'s obivously not getting that far, what with the massive blood loss and all.

so weak, so lame. there\'s no way i\'m watching this show next season, as it made me feel dumber just watching this episode. not that the rest of the season was particularly engrossing, more like cotton candy for the mind. like lost\'s retarded cousin. that being said, i can only hope that lost won\'t cheese out as **** as heroes did, but this whole season has been borderline mind-numbing and this finale just sealed it. it was a pleasant, thoughtless way to kill an hour, but then to wank it off so insipidly was damn near insulting!! like no one is going to notice the gigantic gaping plot holes and logical inconsistancies presented in the finale... i like shows that make me think or that don\'t require any thought at all. but don\'t give me something that is only going to make me think about how crappy it was!!