Heroes Television Program

Wendy MELVOIN and Lisa Coleman score the music for the NBC series "Heroes." The show's soundtrack goes into wide release Aug. 19, and a Wendy and Lisa score album arrives this fall. They've just finished their first album in a decade -- it's being previewed at wendyandlisa.com. They live and work in L.A. How fast do you have to work? Don't they push the episodes pretty tight to air date? Lisa: We do probably an average of about 35 minutes per show.

Are DVRs killing serialized shows? Or are producers just looking for scapegoats? In case you haven't heard, Tim Kring, executive producer of NBC's onetime hit drama "Heroes," got himself in hot water with recent comments about viewers and DVRs. Kring said DVRs were making it tougher for serialized shows like "Heroes." At a screenwriting conference earlier this month, Kring said of the serialized trend: "It's a very flawed way of telling stories on network television right now, because of the advent of the DVR and online streaming.

Not once but twice, NBC flashed a Web address for Primatechpaper.com during Episode 12 of "Heroes," the show's first episode after a winter break. The address was conspicuously printed on the business card for Mr. Bennet's front operation, a paper supply company. Mr. Bennet, a.k.a. "Horn-Rimmed Glasses," is the possibly evil dude who searches out the superhuman "heroes" and employs a mind-wiper.

Seven weeks! That's how long viewers have to wait for the next chapter of the addictive super-powered serial "Heroes." When the series returns on April 23, there will be a lot to answer for after Monday night's heavy on setup, low on follow-through episode. The entire ensemble was back in action after last week's "Lost"-esque detour that focused on a handful of characters and made plenty of time for flashbacks.

All talk and almost no action made the return of "Heroes" a very dull hour. At least until prophetic painter/consistently boring minor character Isaac (Santiago Cabrera) died, falling victim to superhero serial killer Sylar (Zachary Quinto). Or did he? (Here's a hint to solving the mystery: Be on the lookout for any post-"death" TV or print interviews with Cabrera. If the actor talks to the press, then the character's a goner, a la Eko on "Lost."

"HEROES" creator Tim Kring grew up in the "other" California -- where "they drive by at 70 miles an hour on the 101." Now, he works on "Heroes" -- its season finale airs Monday -- at the Sunset Gower Studios. He was also the creator and executive producer of "Crossing Jordan," whose series finale aired Wednesday. Tell me about your early TV experiences. I don't remember a lot of early TV watching. We had black-and-white TV till I was in high school.

Those horn-rimmed glasses. The creepy, lurking quality. The unconditional love for a teenage daughter. What more could you ask for in a TV character? There may be a lot of spectacular flying, teleporting and mind reading on NBC's "Heroes," but one of the show's most potent superpowers has proved to be a character viewers were not even supposed to get to know very well. The morally challenged and now somewhat sympathetic Mr. Bennet, a.k.a.

THIS was the week they did it, though we knew they would pretty much all along. On Monday night, "Heroes" saved the world. Or, more precisely, a politician -- a politician! -- swept down from the sky and prevented, finally, 9/11. An act we as a culture have been trying to achieve for almost six years now.

NBC's "Heroes" was this season's breakthrough hit. But can it break the Emmys' science-fiction hex? The network's studio arm naturally wants a clutch of nominations for writer-producer Tim Kring's series about a group of ordinary people who discover they have superpowers.

IN A television season that largely saw shows with unlikely premises ("Knights of Prosperity," "The Nine") fail to deliver on their promise of originality, that saw Aaron Sorkin's highly touted "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" turn out to be a big buzz kill, a few gleaming gems emerged.