About HeroesFrom creator/writer Tim Kring (Crossing Jordan) comes the award-winning Heroes, an epic drama that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. After many dangers, our heroes are trying to put their lives back together -- but they are finding nothing is ever that easy.
Claire Benet's (Hayden Panettiere) biggest challenges are forgetting her old life and starting college. How does someone who has led such an extraordinary life assimilate back into everyday college life? Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka) goes back to his old life in Japan, but discovers that he has a terminal illness. He sets out to fulfill his own personal bucket-list -- righting the mistakes of his past. But will Hiro be able to correct the errors of his ways without severely altering the past and present? Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) returns to work as an ordinary New York City EMT, but he uses his abilities to save lives. Peter has become obsessed, looking for redemption and shutting out the rest of the world he once knew. How can he forget the past and begin anew? H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) is adjusting to life as a single man. Charged with creating a new company, he is rapidly discovering that he needs more from his life. But how does a company man become ordinary? And, when Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) returns and offers H.R.G. compelling evidence of a new danger, it makes H.R.G. wonder if he should get back in the game.
Tracy Strauss (Ali Larter), having risen from the dead, is consumed with seeking vengeance, but soon realizes that she has a real opportunity to reinvent herself. The question is: who should she be? Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), returns to the Senate and begins to notice strange changes in himself. Most alarming, Nathan discovers that he has new abilities. These changes are not lost on his mother, Angela Petrelli (Cristine Rose), who recognizes them for what they truly are -- the emergence of Sylar (Zachary Quinto), who was forced to shapeshift into Nathan after he murdered the senator.
Meanwhile, racked by the guilt of what he did to Sylar and Nathan, Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg) returns to life as an ordinary family man. All he wants to do is to raise his son, love his wife and return to a fulfilling career as an LAPD detective. But what Matt doesn't know is that something unfamiliar is buried deep within his psyche -- Matt can see and hear Sylar. And this specter will haunt him until Sylar is returned to his body.
The biggest challenge for our heroes is a strange and dangerous carnival comprised of a traveling band of outsiders with powerful abilities, led by a charismatic and powerful leader, Samuel (Robert Knepper). Samuel leads his flock to intersect with the lives of all of our heroes. He will find them, and he will entice them to join him. And together, they will ask the same basic questions: Who are we? What does having powers mean to the world? How should we live our lives -- shameful or proud? Should we hide or live out in the open? And if the world of powers is revealed, how will the world ever recover?
In 2009, Heroes has been honored with: a People's Choice Award for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show, a Teen Choice Award for Choice Action-Adventure Television Show, and a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series. Among its honors in past seasons, Heroes has garnered a Peoples Choice Award, an AFI Award, a Multicultural Prism Award, a TV Land Future Classic Award, the Television Critics Association Awards' Outstanding Program of the Year, the International Prize at the BAFTA Television Awards, and Choice TV Show Action Adventure at the Teen Choice Awards. It has also garnered nominations at the Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, NAACP Image, WGA and Satellite Awards.
Heroes is produced by Universal Media Studios in association with Tailwind Productions. Kring, Dennis Hammer, Adam Armus, Kay Foster and Jim Chory serve as executive producers.