Report: Microsoft looking to bring 'Heroes' to Xbox as original content
Microsoft has been pushing to get the next Xbox into the TV space, but a new report out of Hollywood suggests the company is looking at bringing...
Microsoft has been pushing to get the next Xbox into the TV space. It has been increasing the amount of TV apps it adds to the console, and recently sold Mediaroom to focus its entertainment efforts on the Xbox. But a new report out of Hollywood suggests the company is looking at bringing back an old TV show as original programming.
TVLine (via Polygon) cites sources that say Microsoft is in talks with NBC Universal to bring the defunct superhero show Heroes to the Xbox as an original show "with new stories and heroes, while mixing in cameos from the original series' cast (schedules and interest permitting)." It characterizes the talks as being "in the preliminary stages."
This comes on the heels of Microsoft's creation in February of Xbox Entertainment Studios in Los Angeles, headed by former CBS Entertainment boss Nancy Tellem. She recently said that the studio plans to invest in premium content, hoping to bring some of it to users before the end of 2013.
More content providers are entering original programing. Both Netflix and Hulu have recently crossed into producing original shows. Microsoft's Xbox TV has been among the consoles helping push those services onto television screens, so Microsoft pushing its own original content would put it in competition with some of its strategic partners.
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The first season was really good and the second was decent but after that yea that series went down hill fast.
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The show was a casualty of the writer's strike. When the show came back the drop in quality was almost immediate.
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Well, it's likely they can't get the actors back so either they have to reboot which could have good potential with new people behind the wheel or they have to totally disregard what came before and run their own stories, which could have potential.
That said, it's not like Heroes is original stuff. They could have just created their own franchise.
Original content is a huge deal now because of all the options to license out. I would expect a lot more of this stuff from Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft and all the others. But it's also probably a bubble that will inevitably burst. -
Eh, if they do like is reported and bring in a new cast and writers, it could be good. The first season was fantastic, imo. Second was ok. I thought the third season actually had a good premise but was executed like a train wreck. The fourth season was LOLbad in just about every respect.
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it would have to be without joss whedon so...
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So my Xbox might finally have something worse than Kinnect Syar Wars on it.
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Just pretend that whole last part was typed correctly. Save the typo, save the post.
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Yeah, if they had changed the characters out every season it may have been much better. I was tired of seeing Claire bitch and moan after the first season, much less the fourth. Peter was artificially nerfed for who the fuck knows what reason, since Sylar could still do whatever the hell he wanted. The other people were mostly just dumb.
The only new characters I liked were the Ice lady in S3 and 4, and the deaf lady in the 4th season. I liked Ice lady because she was sexy (Ali Larter, UNF), and the deaf lady just had a really cool ability. The story sucked nuts after S2.
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The most interesting part of Heroes, imo, was seeing Hiro (sp?) in the past (/present) being a shy guy, and seeing the future version of him being all badass, then slowly seeing him get there. After the first season, they revisited that arc every now and then, but nothing really happened. Just a bunch of random sitcom-style non-events.
Luckily, Continuum seems to be sort of along those lines in many ways, involving time travel, knowing snippets of the future, and seeing how the present evolves to get there. Hopefully its second season is as good as the first. -
No more heroes, please.
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save the plot
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If this happens, please do this:
Start the show at the end of Season 1 with the Sylar/Peter fight..I figure Quinto doesn't wanna return to Heroes, so there's the perfect chance to have Sylar die right there in Kirby Plaza. Then go right into "Season 2a" and keep moving forward.
Keep Season 1, treat the NBC seasons 2-4 as alternate continuity (which was shit), and run with it however they want (personally I like the idea of going back to the "a different cast each season with occasional returning characters rather than The Amazing Petrelli Family).
Let NBC season 2-4 be like the "Snake's Revenge" to Xbox Season 2a's "Metal Gear 2"; an alternate continuation that ultimately is discarded for something better. And then we can never talk about Peter's amazing vanishing Irish girlfriend ever again.
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