Aankomende nacht zal in Amerika de dertiendelige miniserie Heroes Reborn van start gaan, en zien we hoe nieuwe en oude karakters hun ding gaan doen. De bedenker van deze franchise Tim Kring (spier) had een exclusief interview met de website Collider waar hij uitgebreid sprak over zijn keuze om toch nog verder te gaan met Heroes. Dus goed leesvoer voor de fans van de serie.

Collider: How did Heroes Reborn come about? Did you just feel like this story was never fully finished, or did someone bring this idea to you?

TIM KRING: We aired our last episode of the series without knowing that we weren't coming back, so it's a very valid feeling that I had that I wasn't done because I really was not done. That being said, I think we left off in a really interesting place. As fate would have it, we left off in an absolutely perfect place. We left the audience with a big, giant question mark about what happens when the world finally finds out about these people, and that brings up a whole new set of questions and problems about how the world deals with that. But clearly, what we also found out from the show was that, at the time, our audience had migrated in a very, very big way to non-traditional ways of watching the show. Our last full calendar year that we were on the air was 2009. That was the last year we were fully on the air, all year long. We were the #1 most downloaded show in the world, at that time. And then, in March of 2010, three months later, we were cancelled. We were also one of the most DVRed shows on TV, we were one of the most streamed shows, and we sold millions of DVDs that year, alone, which is huge. There was this audience that had decided that they were going to watch it in other ways, and the network really struggled with what to do with a show like that. The network really only was a single source of revenue business with advertising, so what do you do with a show where it doesn't matter if all of these people are watching it. It only matters if they're watching it on the air. There was always a drumbeat internally that knew that and remembered that, so when the new regime explored that idea, they realized that there was this very large audience that had been unable to be counted, at the time.