Good News : Bryan Fuller is Back?!

A few weeks back, I've posted here that Bryan Fuller will not be part of Heroes Season 4 anymore. But as I browse my twitter account, I stumble upon @wendyandlisa tweet. It says "Good News! http://twitpic.com/9mk2t "

As I clicked on the link, I can't believe what I saw.


Is this for real? Does this mean Bryan Fuller will still be part of Heroes Team? If this is true then definitely it will be a very good news.

What do you think?

Bryan Fuller Quits Heroes Again

Shocking news from BuddyTV.com. Bryan Fuller, the man who was supposed to save the troubled series, has decided to leave the NBC show once again, consequently vacating his post as consulting producer.

His departure has to do with time constraints and his upcoming projects and not because of creative differences with Heroes creator Tim Kring.

Based on past interviews, Fuller seemed very excited about the upcoming fourth season of Heroes. "Development was really starting to heat up, and it appears like I may be writing multiple pilots for NBC so that wasn't leaving a ton of room for Heroes, unfortunately," In an interwiew with Ain't It Cool News, he said "We crafted some really great arcs for the season that I'm excited to see come to fruition. I love that cast dearly and am sad to go, but the plate -- she was over-flowing."

Fuller left the show towards the end of its first season to create Pushing Daisies. Then returned to Heroes as a consulting producer near the end of last season after ABC canceled Pushing Daisies.

He has worked on some of the best Heroes episodes, including "Company Man" and "Cold Snap." Also, he is credited for Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

This is once again a huge loss for Heroes. But I hope this won't affect next season's show ratings. What do you think?

Bryan Fuller : Heroes is Back!

Bryan Fuller believes there's going to be "a new spirit" in the fourth season on NBC's sci-fi series Heroes when it comes to Volume Five: Redemption. Fuller told SCI FI Wire that Heroes will be back to basics of the characters. Ordinary people with extraordinary abilities.

Here's the Brian Fuller interview with SciFi Wire.

Warning Spoilers Ahead!

The season-three finale left Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar) dead and the shape-shifting Sylar (Zachary Quinto) believing he was Nathan. The final moments of the finale finished with the opening of "Volume Five: Redemption," which hinted that the Sylar/Nathan situation might offer some challenges in the future for our heroes.

"That's going to prove really interesting for a lot of the characters," Fuller said. "I'm just excited about getting back to the basics and getting back to the real world and seeing what it's like for HRG (Jack Coleman) to try to re-create a company when every version of it has failed in the past. And not only doing that, but going through a divorce and trying to hold his family together. And for every plot conceit that we have for a character, we have even more conceits for what's going on in their personal lives that makes their plot story so much more complicated, because their emotional, personal story is so intrinsically tied with what's happening with them. I like the balance of the personal lives that we're telling this season."

The cast will return, including Pasdar and Quinto. "We love the cast. That's the thing. ... We just sort of have to find better uses for them," Fuller said. They will also be adding some new characters who will be introduced later in the season.

Fuller wrote and co-executive-produced Heroes in its first year, and then left to work on his own creation, ABC's Pushing Daisies. When that show was canceled last season, he returned to Heroes as a writer and consulting producer.

He believes every volume of the superhero series "has been valid, and every one has been a slightly different style, which I think is interesting. I love how the show is continuing to grow. It is evolving, and I do think there is a lot of good stuff in 'Fugitives' and 'Redemption,'" Fuller said.

In "Fugitives," "we saw the characters in situations we hadn't seen them in before and got to find out interesting things about those characters," Fuller added. "So what I'm excited about with season four is getting everybody back to the basic principle of ordinary people in an extraordinary world and how these characters are relatable to us and what we would do if we were in their situations, and really grounding it in that conceit."

This fall Heroes moves to Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT. While the number of total episodes ordered for Heroes has changed, it looks like NBC has settled on 19 episodes, which will run consecutively with the season ending just before the Winter Olympics in February. After the Olympics in March, NBC's Chuck will take over the Monday-night timeslot.

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I hope Heroes can really redeem itself next season! What do you think?

Bryan Fuller is honest about why Heroes sucked and why it won't

That seemed to be the general consensus when Fuller's colorful fantasy opus, ABC's Pushing Daisies, was canceled and he moved back to NBC's superhero series, on which he had previously worked on season one (he was credited with one of the season's best episodes, "Company Man").

NBC quickly snatched him up. Now, in an exclusive interview, the creative producer/writer speaks to SCI FI Wire about returning to the fold, why he thought the show lost its way and where Heroes is heading. The following Q&A features edited excerpts of our interview. Heroes airs Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

When it was announced you were returning to Heroes, a lot of headlines boasted you would be saving the series. Did you feel that pressure? And how's that going for you?

Fuller: I didn't really feel any pressure, because I love this show, cast and crew. As an audience member, I could see the issues and why people were frustrated with it. At least I felt I was jumping on the pendulum when it was back on the upswing. To be honest, I was absolutely "I'll be right over," and they sent me the episodes that completed the "Villains" arc. After I finished watching them, I wasn't sure I could do this. I didn't recognize the show anymore. It had become something else entirely. My favorite characters had become my least favorite, and there was a second I thought I had to get out of this. Then I started reading the "Fugitives" scripts, and I thought it was picking up again. There were some stumbles along the way, where it started to get muddy, but I was more inspired.

So coming back in, what did you want to accomplish?

Fuller: I just really wanted to get everything back to a character base. I think character was shoved aside for plot. The second year with the virus was interesting, but then it got complicated and techno-babbly. With "Villains," it started out interesting and then became about formula. When they started talking about how we were injected with our powers and it became sci-fi ghetto storytelling, I became disconnected. Mohinder went from a noble scientist to being a mad scientist with Jeff Goldblum hair and wardrobe. Claire became so strident and unlikable because she was just whining, bitching and holding a gun. I was just concerned the wheel had been jerked so sharply in the wrong direction with what had worked about the first season, which was ordinary people with extraordinary powers. Everything ordinary about their lives went out the window, and everything was extraordinary. That was my frustration.

In season one, you really found Claire and HRG's voices, but recently, in "Cold Snap," Tracy Strauss seemed to be your new muse, except you shattered her into little fragments. Is that the last we've seen of her?

Fuller: Oh, no. There was a lot of debate over whether she's winking, but no, she's not winking. She's blinking, and a tear comes down. There was miscommunication with the visual effects, where you were only supposed to see one of her eyes. It was definitely a blink and a shedding of a tear. Tracy comes back in a really big way later on in the season. That was one of the things where it was like, "Is she going to come back as Barbara now?" I was thinking "Can we please not do Barabara, because that's another sci-fi ghetto storytelling element with clones. How many Ali Larters are there?" I wish there were dozens, because I'm a fan of hers, but watching Ali in the first season, you know what she's really capable of.

Where would you like to see Tracy go in the future then?

Fuller: The journey is about getting Tracy's humanity back. What she learned from her encounter with Micah/Rebel made a huge impact on her. She is going to be following that through-line the next season. There is that realization she has been approaching politics from the wrong angle. In the fourth year, Tracy will have a new perspective that may not be right, but it's more understandable than before.

Can you tease viewers about the remaining episodes this season?

Fuller: There's actually a lot of really fun character work happening in the last four episodes that the writing staff is proud of. We'll see Matt retaliate against Danko in a very interesting way. We'll also see Sylar strike at the heart of HRG's life in a way that causes things for him to unravel. The episode after that is essentially "Company Man" for Angela Petrelli, where we'll be doing a flashback to her life in 1961 and the events that happened there, which really motivates who she is now. In episode 24, we get to the heart of Sylar's identity crisis, and we clearly understand what his agenda is, what he's after and who the people in his life are that made the biggest impact. Episode 25 is our big finale.

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---I'm really excited on how things will turn out in the next episodes!

Bryan Fuller will be back!

Two interesting things happened in Heroes's heroic struggle for viewers last week.

The episode, Cold Snap, in which the identity of the mysterious Rebel was revealed, was wonderful from start to finish. Brisk, witty, fast, with emotional highs and lows and enough twists for an entire season. It was a return to the Heroes of old.

The second thing that happened was that the ratings tumbled. Again.

Around 500,000 viewers in Canada witnessed Heroes's bid for renewal -- respectable, but far off the pace of Global's other shows on the night: 24, with a million viewers, give or take, and a rerun of House, with 1.7 million.

Numbers only tell part of the story, of course. What matters to a show's survival is not how many people are watching, but who. And the fact is Heroes appeals to busy, hard-to-reach younger viewers, who often watch online or by PVR.

The more interesting story is why Heroes was so good last week. It marked the return of original head writer Bryan Fuller, whose own show, Pushing Daisies, was recently cancelled.

Heroes proved last week that the script is indeed everything in TV: The characters were suddenly smarter, more articulate, funnier and more involved in their fates. The scenes were short and snappy and yet, despite the sudden urgency, it all came together in the end. Heroes made sense for once, and this bodes well for the series' future.

Heroes is confirmed to return in the fall, and by then Fuller will have had a chance to remake the show from scratch.

In tonight's episode, which Fuller had only a marginal hand in, reformed cheerleader Claire (Hayden Panettiere) and an on-the-run Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar) shack up in Mexico, while evil baddie Emile Danko (Zeljko Ivanek) goes on a murderous tear.

Fuller's future involvement means Heroes will be a very different show when it returns in the fall, and likely a better one.

For now, enjoy the early signs of a creative turnaround. It's not often that a TV series promises to get better, especially a complex, sci-fi tinged drama like Heroes. It happens once in a blue moon, you might say. 9 p.m. Global, NBC

From the article "Viewers turn away from Heroes despite new zip" written by Alex Strachan.

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---This is a great news for heroes fans. I hope Bryan Fuller can do great in fixing some plot holes in the next season and I hope that this could improve Heroes ratings.